Lannon Leiman retired in June as head of the ITS Systems Unit after 30 years at the University. She will return in the fall part-time to continue her work with ITS Emeritus Dolf May on the FREQ freeway corridor simulation program.

The ITS Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library has a new home—on the Web, that is.

William R. Reilly, long-time contributor to ITS's Fundamentals textbook, dies. Go to Institute of Traffic Engineers ITE Journal, June 2008 (requires registration).

Cutting-edge wireless traffic technology wins support from feds.

Transportation Sustainability Research Center Director Alex Farrell dies at 46.

Paul Brubaker, the Administrator of the US DOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), visits transportation programs at UC Berkeley,

Transportation Sustainability Research Center takes delivery of Toyota test vehicles.

Mobile Century: The California Center for Innovative Transportation, Caltrans, Nokia, and Civil and Environmental Engineering conduct an experiment in traffic monitoring using GPS-enabled cell phones.

UC Berkeley-Audi Pact places smart-engine research on Bay Area roads (PDF).

RECENT AWARDS:

UC Berkeley dual-degree grad Nicole Foletta wins Fulbright.

UC Berkeley students nab nine Eisenhowers.

UC Berkeley dual-degree master's student Laura Stonehill wins the top paper prize from the American Planning Association's Transportation Planning Division.

Transportation Ph.D. student Kitae Jang wins ITE "Sustainable Living in the Suburbs" student paper grand prize.

UC Berkeley Transportation Ph.D. Nikolaos Geroliminis named UCTC Student of the Year.