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 The UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transport was established in 2004 after the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations designated it as a Volvo Center of Excellence in a competition involving a large field of international candidates. It is housed at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and its Director is Carlos Daganzo, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The Center's mission is to study the mutual interdependence of urban transportation policy and technology and use the understanding of that concept to devise sustainable transportation strategies for the world's cities.

It addresses this undertaking on three levels:
  • strategic, so that the research is guided by a city's vision of its own future;
  • tactical, where policies are tailored for specific environments; and
  • operational, where technologies are developed and the results fed back into tactical-level decisions.

The Center's research is divided into five research areas, which you can visit by clicking on the buttons on the left side of your screen. Workshops where researchers report on their activities are also presented.

 
   
 
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NOW Online: Posters and Presentations from the Volvo Research and Education Foundation Workshop Berkeley's Center for Future Urban Transport hosted the Volvo Research and Education Foundation Workshop on May 18-21, 2008 at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley. Representatives from all seven Volvo-supported centers gathered to discuss each of their transportation projects, which are taking place in countries around the world. Local transportation experts also described transportation and land use challenges in the Bay Area. Workshop program in PDF format (300 K).

Volvo Session presenting recent research Thursday, June 28, 2007, at World Conference on Transportation Research at UC Berkeley. Download schedule.
Visit WCTR Web site.

City-Scale Transport Modeling: An Approach for Nairobi, Kenya. Daganzo, Carlos F.; Yuwei Li; Eric J. Gonzales; Nikolas Geroliminis. June 2007.

July 24-25, 2006 Summer Workshop For presentations and findings go here...

  
 
 
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Main Office: Institute of Transportation Studies
109 McLaughlin Hall, #1720 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1720
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