Site last updated September 16, 2008
 
 
   
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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.

Yuwei Li, an assistant research engineer at PATH and an instructor and researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named Deputy Director in April 2006. Li received his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from UC Berkeley in 2004. His recent research concentrates on transit operations. More about Li can be found below, along with infomation about the Center's other participants. They are drawn from:

 
 
  • faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, and
  • partners at other institutions in the U.S. and overseas.
 
  The Berkeley Center hosted the 2008 VREF Summer Workshop.  
     
 

Research findings are discussed at workshops.
Go to the Workshop Schedule.

 
 
Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley who are researchers at the Center
 
 
 

Alexandre Bayen is assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and has research interests in modelling and control of distributed parameters systems and large scale infrastructure systems.
He is associated with the Center's Wireless Infrastructure research area.

Email: bayen@ce.berkeley.edu
Home page for Alexandre Bayen.


Michael Cassidy is professor of civil and environmental engineering and is an expert in transport operations. He has pioneered techniques for collecting vehicular traffic data from roadside operations, and has devised and tested real-time control strategies for reducing commuter delay and improving highway safety.
He is associated with the Center's Congestion Mitigation through Control Strategies and Wireless Infrastructure research areas.

Email: cassidy@ce.berkeley.edu
Home page for Michael Cassidy.

 
 
 
 

Robert Cervero is professor of city and regional planning. He has authored more than 150 articles on the subject of transportation and land use policy and planning, suburban mobility, infrastructure finance, and comparative international development. He has worked as a consultant at the local, state and national levels on projects related to transportation and urban development.
He is associated with the Center's Balancing Mobility and Accessibility research area.

Email: robertc@berkeley.edu
Home page for Robert Cervero.

 
 
 
 

Carlos F. Daganzo is the Robert Horonjeff professor of civil and environmental engineering. He is best known for his contributions to econometrics, network theory, logistics, port operations and traffic flow.
He is Director of the Center and associated with the Center's Congestion Mitigation through Control Strategies, and Adapting to Urban Form research areas.

Email: daganzo@ce.berkeley.edu
Home page for Carlos Daganzo.

 
 
 
 

Elizabeth Deakin is professor of city and regional planning. She is Director of the University of California Transportation Center, a multi-campus unit that supports research, education and outreach. She is also co-Director of the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies. Her research and teaching are focused on transportation and land use planning and policy, institutions, and law and environment issues.
She is associated with the Center's Balancing Mobility and Accessibility research area.

Email: edeakin@ix.netcom.com
Home page for Elizabeth Deakin.

 
 
 
 

Arpad Horvath is associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. He is also Director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing. His research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of civil infrastructure systems.
He is associated with the Center's Telework Solutions research area.

Email: horvath@ce.berkeley.edu
Home page for Arpad Horvath.

 
 
 
 

Yuwei Li is an assistant research engineer at PATH (Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways) and an instructor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from UC Berkeley in 2004. His recent research concentrates on transit operations.
In April 2006, he was named the Center's Deputy Director.

Email: yuwei@path.berkeley.edu
Home page for Yuwei Li.

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Samer Madanat is professor of civil and environmental engineering and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. His research has concentrated on the analysis of transportation infrastructure deterioration, maintenance and replacement.
He is associated with the Center's Telework Solutions and Adapting to Urban Form research areas.

Email: madanat@ce.berkeley.edu
Home page for Samer Madanat.

 
 
 
 

Raja Sengupta is assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. He pioneered the use of dynamic programming and discrete time optimal control in dynamic traffic assignment, and has shown that distributed adaptive traffic signal control based on rolling horizon dynamic programming could optimize traffic signals on arterials.
He is associated with the Center's Wireless Infrastructure research area.

Email: sengupta@ce.berkeley.edu
Home page for Raja Sengupta.

 
 
 
 

Alexander Skabardonis is adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering, research engineer at the Institute of Transportation Studies and Director of the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH). His areas of expertise include traffic flow theory, traffic management and control systems, transportation modeling and analysis, design and operation of transportation facilities, intelligent transportation systems, energy and the environment.
He is associated with the Center's Congestion Mitigation through Control Strategies and Wireless Infrastructure research areas.

Email: skabardonis@ce.berkeley.edu
Home page for Alexander Skabardonis.

 
 
 
 
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  Partners at other Institutions in the U.S. and Overseas
     
 

Braden Allenby is the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T, a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering, and a visiting lecturer in ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Email: ballenby@att.com

 
 
 
 

Bassam A. Anani’s research is concentrated in the area of pavement design and road maintenance. He works for the United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, and has assisted United Nations member states with infrastructure financing.
Email: anani@un.org

 
 
 
 

Ronaldo Balassiano teaches in the areas of urban public transportation, mobility management, informal transport and energy conservation in Brazil.
Email: ronaldo@pet.coppe.ufrj.br

 
 
 
 

Yaakov Garb specializes in the interdisciplinary analysis of environmental and transport issues, drawing on training in environmental studies and in the social and cultural analysis of science and technologies.
Email: ygarb@cc.hjui.ac.il

 
 
 
 

Masao Kuwahara is Professor of Traffic and transportation Engineering at the University of Tokyo where he is affiliated with the Institute of Industrial Science. He is an expert in the field of transport network analysis and simulation, dynamic traffic assignment and traffic signal control.
Email: kuwahara@nishi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

 
 
 
 

Risto Laukkanen is Director of Infrastructure and Environment Business Group at Jaako Poyry Infra in Finland. His company offers sustainable solutions to infrastructure and environmental problems, particularly in the area of transportation systems, water, environment and building services.
Email: infra@poyry.com

 
 
 
 

Jean-Baptiste Lesort is professor of traffic engineering at the Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat in Bron, France, as well as head of its traffic engineering laboratory, which collaborates closely with the French National Institute for Transportation and Safety.
Email: lesort@inrets.fr

 
 
 
 

Juan de Dios Ortuzar is an expert in travel demand modeling, econometrics, educational gaming simulation. He is co-author of the game MicroGUTS, currently used in graduate and undergraduate programs in more than 40 universities around the world. He lives in Santiago, Chile.
Email: jos@ing.puc.cl

 
 
 
 

Francesc Robuste Anton is Professor of Transportation at the Technical University of Catalonia in Spain and Deputy Director of Research, Development an Innovation of the Center of Innovation in Transport. He is an expert in the design of logistics systems, urban public transport services, traffic management solutions and airport management.
Email: f.robuste@upc.es

 
 
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