Fall 2008: Stories This Issue

Director's Message

ITS Director Samer Madanat returns from sabbatical with a new ITS collaboration with the City of Amman, Jordan.

Joan Walker: Former undergrad joins ITS faculty

A new faculty member joins transportation faculty. Joan Walker remembers her undergraduate days at Berkeley, but teaches students how to look into the future.

Energy and Emissions in Transportation: How Mikhail Chester Makes it Easier to be Green

Think you know which transportation mode leaves the most environmentally-friendly FOOTPRINT? ITS graduate Mikhail Chester’s research may surprise you.

New Students: Welcome to ITS

ITS welcomed 34 new graduate transportation and planning students from eight countries during its orientation on August 25. The majority comes from around the United States, but 15 call China, India, Japan, Colombia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, or France home. They join 47 continuing transportation students.

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News from ITS

CCIT Wins 2008 Tranny Award for Traffic Operations

Adib Kanafani Honored by National Research Council The National Academies of Science name the former ITS Director a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council for his service.

"Greening GM," College of Engineering Profile of Lawrence D. Burns ITS Advisory Council member and Berkeley Engineering alumnus discusses the automaker's research in alternative fuel vehicles in the October 2008 issue of Innovations.

Dan Kammen New Director of TSRC; Tim Lipman and Susan Shaheen are co-directors.

PATH Researchers showcase bus that steers itself: The thought of a bus moving along city streets while its driver has both hands off the wheel is alarming. But a special bus introduced today (Friday, Sept. 5), steered not by a driver, but by a magnetic guidance system developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, performed with remarkable precision.

Meet the TransLiblog: Transportation information from the ITS Library.

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