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.
Volvo Session presenting recent research Thursday, June 28, 2007, at World Conference on Transportation Research at UC
Berkeley. Download schedule.
Visit WCTR Web site.
Main Office: Institute of Transportation
Studies
109 McLaughlin Hall, #1720 University of California, Berkeley,
CA 94720-1720
Phone: 510-642-3585 Fax: 510-643-3955 Email: its@its.berkeley.edu