News from ITS

Cal Day 2009 Saturday April 18: ITS Berkeley invites the University community, the general public, the transportation community, and prospective students to visit our Cal Day events and exhibits from across the Institute’s nine centers.

Longtime ITS Associate Edward Sullivan Dies: A UC Berkeley transportation engineering PhD ('71) whose association with ITS dates back four decades and included a stint as Assistant Director, he died last month from complications related to cancer. He was 64.

TSC Graduate Student Researcher Kitae Jang wins "Excellence in Applied HOV Research" award from the High-Occupancy Vehicle, High-Occupancy Toll, and Managed Lanes Committee of the Transportation Research Board.

Two Tech Transfer Publications Win Industry Awards

February 2: Alexandre Bayen wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

February 2: Arpad Horvath wins ASCE Walter L. Huber Prize.

Seminar March 13: "The Continuous Risk Profile Approach for the Identification of High Collision Concentration Locations on Congested Highways."

Seminar March 6: "Improving the Performance of Transit Systems Taking Advantage of Automatic Data Collection Systems."

March 1: Robert Cervero officially succeeds Elizabeth Deakin as director of the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC).

Seminar February 27: "Congestion Pricing Initiatives in San Francisco: Forging the Path from Theory to Reality."

Seminar February 20: "The 21st Century Comes to California Transportation."

Seminar February 13: "Taxiing for Takeoff: Incidences of Airport Taxes."

Seminar February 6: "Connecting the Roadside, Car and Traveler: Research in Technologies and Services."

Seminar January 30: "Assessment of mobile probe data and its use in traffic state estimation for highways."

Seminar January 23: "Recommendations for Federal Transportation Funding from the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Finance Commission."