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ITS Berkeley hosted the 2021 in 2022 Awards Ceremony on May 6, 2022. Congratulations to all the award recipients, and thank you to all who came out to the awards ceremony in support! Read about the Awards and watch the video.

California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) would like to welcome Dr. James Fishelson as the new Executive Director. Most recently, Fishelson worked at Ford as the Mobility Research Manager, where he led a team of researchers and scientists with a variety of backgrounds. Read more about James.

ITS Berkeley is proud of our recent graduates! We were honored to have you while you studied, worked hard, and played at UC Berkeley. A special thank you to our GSRs and GSIs, and all the students who helped make ITS a stronger research unit! See our grads and celebration photos!

Congratulations to NEXTOR Deputy DirectorJasenka Rakas and ITS affiliate Marta Gonzalez, and their student team on winning the Professor Joseph M Sussman Best Paper Prize 2021. Gonzalez also won Best Paper Award on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Congratulations to doctoral student Ang Li, who is this year's recipient of the Robert P. Wadell Endowed Fellowship for Civil Engineering Innovation; doctoral candidate Anu Kuncheria on earning the Soroptimist Founder Region Fellowship; and PhD student Joy Carpio, who has received the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowship for the third year.

Congratulations to ITS affiliated doctoral students Irene Farah Rivadeneyra, Marcel Moran, Madeleine Parker, Juan Caicedo, Zhe Fu, Emma Lucken, Alexandra Pan, and Joy Carpio who were chosen for the UC Berkeley's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. Read more about the awardees.

ITS Berkeley welcomed a delegation from Governor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to talk Transportation Policy on Friday, April 29, 2022 in the ITS Library. The delegation included new OPR Director Sam Assefa. Read more about the visit.

• Watch: Miss the the Smart Infrastructure Webinars and/or the the live ITS seminars this semester? See them here. Also, check out the Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Displacement Panel Discussion.
• Publications: SafeTREC's Nichols and Cooper's new research brief explores the impacts of pluralistic ignorance on traffic safety perceptions.
• Media appearances: ITS affiliate Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment comments on the SMART Train ridership at the Marin Independent Journal and on the SB 1-funded rail transit report at Construction Dive. SafeTREC Researcher Julia Griswold commented on the steady rise of hit-and-run deaths in the last 15 years as a share of traffic deaths in an article, Traffic safety crisis marked by spike in hit-and-run deaths at CNN Business. PATH Research Scientist Steven Shladover talks about Look closely at those white Jaguars in San Francisco — no drivers! at NPR.
• Government hearings/presentations: SafeTREC Co-Director Offer Grembek Provides Expert Testimony on AB 1909 Bicycle Omnibus Bill and presented on the Safe System Approach in two recent events, one for the CA DMV and one for ITE San Diego Chapter.
• Committees: Congratulations to ITS affiliate and CEE Assistant Professor Maria Laura Delle Monache who was named to the Standing Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics -- ACP50 by the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
• Kudos to the April Work at Wednesday organizers and to PRC researcher Michael Bowman who brought marvelous homemade muffins and to everyone who helped set up and clean up at the Awards ceremony, especially Lisa Peterson and Angie Abbatecola!
• Congratulations to alumni Eugene Vinitsky on his faculty appointment to NYU and Bambang Susantono on his recent appointment to head the planning authority for the new capital city of Indonesia. 

MONDAY-THURSDAY, JUNE 6-9, 2022

Introduction to Pavement Engineering and Management

Course | June 6-9 | 1-3:30 p.m. | Online

This class has four two and a half hour sessions, held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday between June 6-9, 2022 from 1:00-3:30pm. For everything you need to know about this course, click here.

TUESDAY, AUG 2, 2022

Advanced Air Mobility 101

Conference | Aug. 2 | half day | San Francisco International Airport

Community Air Mobility Initiative’s AAM 101 is a half day workshop specifically designed to provide state and local decision-makers and agency staff as well as urban and transportation planners with a solid introduction to advanced air mobility. Through a series of expert presentations, paired with ample time for questions and discussions, participants will receive key information as they begin to consider integrating advanced air mobility into their communities’ transportation landscape. Register for the 2022 AAM 101 here.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, AUG 3-4, 2022

Future of Aviation Conference: Advancing Aerial Mobility through Technology, Sustainability, and On-Demand Flight

Conference | Aug. 3-4 | all day | San Francisco International Airport

The Future of Aviation Conference will facilitate a lively dialogue among public-sector organizations, private companies, non-governmental organizations, and educational institutions. This conference will provide attendees with an opportunity to participate in an exciting scientific program and a venue to network with colleagues and friends who are also passionate about the future of advanced air mobility policy and research. The conference will foster a thoughtful discussion about the opportunities and challenges of planning, integrating, scaling, and governing advanced air mobility. More information and registration.