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ITS Berkeley, with Global Metropolitan Studies and the Center for Smart Infrastructure hosted an in-person seminar on Friday April 1, 2022! It was so good to see over 50 faculty, staff and students come together for the seminar! Check out the seminar.

Congratulations to Our Outstanding GSIs

Congratulations to ITS affiliated Civil and Environmental Engineering doctoral students Juan Caicedo, Zhe Fu, Emma Lucken, and Alexandra Pan who were chosen for the UC Berkeley's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award! Read more abut the awards

Olivares, Cohen, Katsnelson Earn Spot Awards

Congratulations to TechTransfer’s Fredda Olivares, Transportation Sustainability Research Center's Adam Cohen, and California Partners for Transportation Technology's Zema Katsnelson who all earned VCRO Spot Awards! Read more!

A Resilient, Equitable, and Smart Infrastructure System for the Next Century

The announcement of the establishment of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Infrastructure (ARPA-I) opens extraordinary opportunities to support the transformation of transportation infrastructure for the next century. ARPA-I is a strategic initiative with the power to unleash technological innovations with global impact. Read the brief that outlines key opportunities to support a vision for ARPA-I

Work at Work on Wednesday

Thank you to everyone who came out for coffee and donuts on March 16 to gather and say hello as we begin to come back to campus! We are excited to co-host the next Work at Work Wednesday with PATH and UC PRC at the Richmond Field Station Wednesday April 20, 2022 9:30 -10:30 a.m. outside near Eunice Gourmet. Come and join us!

ITS Celebrates ITS Award Winners May 6

ITS Berkeley is excited to host an awards ceremony to honor the ITS award winners. In addition to the 2021 Award winners, we will be honoring former ITS Director Alexandre Bayen with the Distinguished Legacy Award! Join us May 6, 2022 at 3-4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. Reception to follow! See the awardees

KUDOS & NEWS BITS

The UC Institute of Transportation Studies is now accepting proposals for the FY 2022-23 Statewide Transportation Research Program (STRP) funded by the State of California through the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Senate Bill 1) and the Public Transportation Account. UC Berkeley will be awarding approximately $750,000 in total across research priorities.
Congratulations to ITS Senior Fellow Johanna Zmud on her recent Zephyr Award and thank you for hosting a career workshop for students!
Congratulations to ITS affiliate Professor Dan Kammen who brought U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry to NASA Ames
Opinion pieces: Transportation Sustainability Research Center Director Susan Shaheen published Envisioning a policy framework for the growth of AVs and SAVs and ITS affiliate Alexandre Bayen published Here are five policies to make transport more sustainable in cities
Publications: Recent alum Lily MacIver published an article based on masters thesis: West Oakland’s Experience in Building Community Power to Confront Environmental Injustice Through California’s Assembly Bill 617; DCRP doctoral student Marcel Moran published Treating COVID with Bike Lanes: Design, Spatial, and Network Analysis of ‘Pop-Up’ Bike Lanes in Paris; Daniel Rodriguez, Interim Director of ITS Berkeley and Mika R. Moran from the Institute of Urban and Regional Development recently published Associations of Urban Environment Features with Hypertension and Blood Pressure across 230 Latin American Cities; and Recent alum Stephen D. Wong, Transportation Sustainability Research Center researcher Jacquelyn C. Broader, and TSRC Co-Director Susan A. Shaheen published Power Trips: Early Understanding of Preparedness and Travel Behavior During California Public Safety Power Shutoff Events.
Media appearances: ITS affiliate Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment 's SB1-funded rail transit report was featured in the San Diego Union Tribune and on KGTV News and talks about President Biden's announcement about EV infrastructure spending at NPR marketplace and appeared on KTVU.
Kudos to the Work at Wednesday organizers and to the students who helped set up and clean up at the April 1 seminar!