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April 5, 2019

Panel: What’s Driving the Research Agenda of the 21st Century?

2:00 pm

Shaheen, Pedersen, McMillan, Zhang, Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall

April 5, 2019

Lagrangian and Sparse Control for Multi-agents Dynamics and Traffic

4:00 pm

Benedetto Piccoli, Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall

Happening at the Institute

Kaminsky Named Sastry Chair for Leadership and Innovation

Congratulations to ITS affiliate Professor Phil Kaminsky, who has been named to the Sastry Chair for Leadership and Innovation.

ITS Berkeley at Davos for World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

ITS Director Alexandre Bayen was featured on a panel discussing the

Shaheen Joins TRB Exec Committee

Congratulations to Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co

Max Shen named to succeed Ken Goldberg as chair of IEOR

Professor Zuo-Jun "Max" Shen has just been named to be the next chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR).

An Interview with Susan Shaheen, the “Mother” of Shared Mobility

Lily Maxwell, smart cities content writer for iomob.net, interviews Susan Shaheen Ph.D., a pioneer in future mobility strategies. She was among the first to observe, research, and write about changing dynamics in shared mobility and the likely scenarios through which automated vehicles will gain prominence. She is an internationally recognized expert in mobility and the sharing economy.

Marta Gonzalez Featured on WCAI's Living Lab Radio

Marta Gonzalez has been using cell phone and credit card data to probe how different groups of people move around a city and talks about it on Living Lab Radio.

Waddell, Moura Co-Author New Assessment of Bay Area Climate Impacts

Last month, the state of California issued its latest assessment of the many challenges the state faces from climate change — including wildfires like those still raging throughout the state – and highlighted for the first time the regional impacts with nine deep-dive reports spearheaded by University of California scientists.

Trapenberg Frick Makes TranspotiCA's Sept. Book Club Selection

Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature by Dr. Karen Trapenberg Frick, as TransportiCA’s September Book Club selection.

Shaheen Appointed to TRB Exec Committee

Congratulations to TSRC Co-Director and CEE Adjunct Professor Susan Shaheen on her appointment to the TRB Executive Committee.

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Korea Herald

Experts from around the world call for standardization of advanced self-driving

Mar. 20, 2019

City Lab

MapLab: Invisible Trespassers

Mar. 20, 2019

Financial Times

Electric scooters battle to prove ‘green’ worth

Mar. 20, 2019

USA Today

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Mar. 20, 2019

KRCR News

Researchers from UC Berkeley asking for Carr Fire evacuation stories for new study

Mar. 13, 2019

The Information

Lyft CEO Juggles Growth Ambitions With Social Ideals

Mar. 7, 2019

California Magazine

The Green New Deal: The Good, the Bad, and the Eco-Friendly

Mar. 6, 2019

Streetsblog USA

Federal Railroad Administration threatens to pull back $3.5B awarded to California High-Speed Rail

Feb. 21, 2019

Marketplace

Electric scooter injuries are on the rise, Consumer Reports says

Feb. 21, 2019

Streetsblog

Transportation Sage Ratna Amin Reflects on Transit and Planning

Jan. 31, 2019

Truthout

Will Self-Driving Cars Take Us to Utopia or Urban Hell?

Jan. 29, 2019

Clean Technica

Why Excluding Nuclear, Fossils With Carbon Capture, & Biofuels From The Green New Deal Makes Financial & Climate Sense — #RealityCheck

Jan. 25, 2019