NewsBITS Fall 2006 Newsletter of the Institute of Transportation Studies


The ITS Berkeley Online Magazine *Fall 2006: Volume 2, Number 3*
Traffic Safety Center Builds on Its First Five Years: Bridging research and practice, helping train new professionals and advising California agencies on key new federal safety requirements. Welcome New Students: A diverse group of incoming transportation students began classes last month following a day-long orientation. New ITS students come from as far away as Seoul, Korea and as close as San Mateo. First Wachs Lecture—Flybjerg on Megaprojects: Pop quiz. Which of the following five megaprojects DID NOT run over budget and DID NOT result in fewer benefits than forecast? China's Three Gorges Dam, Iraq reconstruction, The EuroTunnel, the Space Shuttle, or Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum. ITS Affiliates Program: ITS recently initiated a program that allows transportation firms and individuals to enjoy enhanced access to the institute's resources in exchange for a tax-deductible donation to support ITS activities. ITS welcomes The Transpo Group, Inc., of Kirkland, Washington to the program. NewsBITS, the magazine of the Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies, is published four times a year by the Berkeley ITS Publications Office. Your comments are welcome. Address them to the editors listed below. Subscribe. (It's free.) Index of Previous Issues Editor: Phyllis Orrick Associate Editor: Christine Cosgrove © 2006 UC Regents. Last Updated October 19, 2006 Logo design by Judith Greene-Janse		News Briefs PATH @ Twenty: Symposium and dinner mark the anniversary, October 26-27. More... ITS Named Transportation Organization of the Year: Honor Given to Multi-Campus Unit at California Transportation Foundation Yearly Awards Banquet. More... "Making Urban Transport Sustainable: Notes from 4 1/2 Years on the Street in Developing Cities in Asia and Latin America:" Lee Schipper, Director of Research, The World Resources Institute's Center for Sustainable Transport, presents a lecture as part of the new Global Metropolitan Studies Program. More... 1st Annual Park(ing) Day at UCB: Better uses for a parking space tested out by UCTC/ITS and undergrad transportation planning students at a September 21 event. More... Danish Parliamentary Delegation Visits ITS: Members of the Danish Parliament’s transportation committee visited ITS last month to learn more about the Institute’s current traffic safety research. Committee members and the Danish Minister of Transport spent a day touring the new PATH traffic research facilities and the Pavement Research Lab at the Richmond Field Station. Two Recent Ph.D.'s, Soyoung Ahn (Engineering) and Aaron Golub (Planning) Join Faculty at Arizona State: An unusually large share of alumni of UC Berkeley's graduate transportation programs have found careers in academia. See the entire list of alumni in academia... Recent Awards Karl Hedrick Wins American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2006 Rufus Oldenburger Medal. Samer Madanat Awarded Xenel Distinguished Professorship in Engineering. Pravin Varaiya Awarded the Berkeley Citation. Go to Awards page...