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ITS Berkeley is excited to celebrate the success of all the Transportation-concentration masters and PhD student who graduated this year!

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Before graduation, many students presented their work.

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The public health and traffic safety world suffered a deep loss on Sunday, May 7, 2023 with the passing of visionary and beloved colleague, teacher, mentor and friend, Dr. David R. Ragland, founder and Co-Director of the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC).

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Congratulations to Transportation Sustainability Research Center researchers Dr. Elliot Martin and Adam Cohen on earning Spot Awards!

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ITS Berkeley gathered researchers together from research centers in May to give center and research updates and join in research discussions to explore topics, collaboration, and future research projects.

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To our friends and colleagues, it is with mixed emotions that we announce that UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) Co-director Jill Cooper will be retiring from UC Berkeley on June 29th after 23 years of service. 

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Welcome to our new feature, the ITS Staff Spotlight!

Our next spotlight is on Quijian Gan, Computational Data Science Research Specialist at Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH).

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PATH Faculty Director, Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Scott Moura's team is electrifying UC Berkeley’s RSF parking garage with the Smart Learning Research Pilot for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (SlrpEV), which aims to provide a blueprint for the future of electric vehicles. 

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News bits

• SafeTREC selected for new USDOT UTC Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety
• Now Hiring: UC Berkeley SafeTREC Director
• SafeTREC Spotlight: Iman Mahdinia and Simon Kao
• Stopping Traffic
• NSF Workshop on Cyber-enabled Infrastructure to Support Carbon-neutral Electricity and Mobility

New Research:

• PATH Receives Nine Caltrans Grants
• Urban dynamics through the lens of human mobility

Media appearances: 

• S.F. isn’t in a doom loop yet. We will be if California doesn’t save public transit
• New cost estimate for high-speed rail puts California bullet train $100 billion in the red
• Left to die: Sacramento hit-and-runs have killed 140 people since 2018
• California enacts first-in-the-nation crackdown on pollution from trains
• Myths about converting offices into housing—and what can really revitalize downtowns
• Musk says what's happening with Tesla shouldn't be called a recall
• Alaska Airlines surprises college student who flew to class three times a week so he could avoid paying rent
• In Transit: California Looks to Green Its Trucking Industry
• Opinion: L.A.’s half-empty, crime-ridden Metro trains don’t have to stay that way
• In Transit: Self-Driving Taxis and Trucks Take the Wheel
• Sustainable mining reform must be everything, everywhere, all at once
• In Transit: ‘Lithium Valley’ Could Meet Entire U.S. Demand for EV Batteries

Kudos

• Thank you to ITS Berkeley support staff John Li (ERSO) and Peter Gudlewski (SPO) who worked tirelessly to support ITS's EN-Vision Future Mobility Center application into USDOT (New Mobility and AV Center of Application NOFO). They both stuck with us through a very bumpy process over many weeks and into the evening hours to get the proposal submitted just 20 minutes before the deadline.
• Kudos to everyone who helped make commencement and commencement celebrations a success! A special thank you to BDD's Angie Abbatecola, Roxana Infante, and Ami Kataguri and ITS's Amanda Cairo.
• Kudos to our Spring Work@Work Wednesday support, Jacquelyn Broader and Michael Dysart of TSRC, Irwin Guada and Michael Bowman of PRC, Melissa Nelson of PATH, and Lisa Peterson from SafeTREC for their hard work and hosting.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2023

ITS Awards, Lunch, and Open House

Where : the UC Richmond Field Station

When: Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 11 am – 1:30 pm

Awards Program: 11 am – 11:45 pm, Bldg 445

Lunch: co-hosted by TechTransfer, 12 noon – 1 pm 

TechTransfer Open House to follow lunch in Bldg 196

RSVP to attend by August 1, 2023 

Click here to RSVP  

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23, 2023

First Day of Classes

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Online

 5 p.m.

California Traffic Engineering License Exam Review

This class has twelve two and half-hour sessions, held between Tuesdays and Thursdays September 5- October 12, 2023 from 5-7:30pm. For everything you need to know about this course, click here.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6-7, 2023

Online

 2 - 4 p.m. Daily

Pavement Life Cycle Cost Analysis: The Basics

This class has two two-hour sessions, held between September 6-7th 2023 from 2-4 pm. For everything you need to know about this course, click here.