Spring 2007: Stories This Issue

HOV Lanes Work Better Than Motorists Think

A new study disputes earlier findings that examined six freeway sites in the Bay Area and concluded that HOV lanes were responsible for increasing congestion and should be eliminated.

Software that Speeds Up Pavement Rehabilitation

The Pavement Research Center's Construction Analysis for Pavement Rehabilitation Strategies (CA4PRS) software program saves time and money and cuts congestion on complex freeway paving projects. It is being adopted by other states with support from the FHWA.

Lost in Translation: an Award-Winning, Provocative Paper on Traffic Safety in Hanoi.

Wendy Tao, a student in the concurrent Master of Science/Master of City and Regional Planning transportation program, won the top prize in the 2007 American Planning Association Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition for her analysis of traffic safety in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Getting Aviation on the Bus

The massive weather-related disruptions this winter that led to profuse apologies (and refund offers) from airline CEOs might have been avoided. All the airlines had to do was cancel some flights into the socked-in airports and put their passengers on a bus, using "real-time intermodal substitution" (RTIMS) as developed by ITS NEXTOR.

News from ITS

Laurent El Ghaoui joins ITS faculty: Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

ITS Student leads winning team in $50,000 Urban Land Institute Competition TE Master's student Christopher Lollini heads a five-person UC Berkeley Team to the top prize in the 2007 Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Their proposal, titled " Tectonics," includes an "urban-scale swath of green space" on a park created on a decked-over portion of the Los Angeles River as part of a 16.5-acre parcel in downtown Los Angeles.

BP Selects UC Berkeley to lead $500-Million Energy Research Consortium. The funding will create the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), which initially will focus its research on biotechnology to produce biofuels.

Vision Science and Society Symposium honoring the work of Theodore Cohn in Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. Cohn died on May 25, 2006.

Order now: the NEW, 16th Edition of The Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering, by ITS's Wolfgang Homburger, et al.

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