ITS News
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In an award-winning paper, Professor Arpad Horvath and his co-authors suggest that because low-level ethanol-gasoline blends have not consistently performed better than ethanol-free gasoline, it would be more efficient to to concentrate consumption of gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol closer to producers in order to minimize freight activity.
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Katie Leung has won the grand prize for her presentation and paper, "Connecting Vehicles and ITS Infrastructure," in the 2013 Institute of Transportation Engineers San Francisco Bay Area Section.
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SafeTREC has announced the formation of a Global Road Safety Training Program, a collaboration between the School of Public Health and ITS. On a global scale, road crashes are projected to be the number 5 cause of death by 2030.
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Forced to drastically cut staff after losing state funding in 2011, the Technology Transfer Program, which provides training to professionals in the transportation field, re-invented its public service program as self-supporting. The six-member team was honored by Chancellor Birgeneau on April 29.
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Oil company president and CEO Greg Goff got behind the wheel of TSRC's hydrogen fuel cell Mercedes and drove to AC Transit's Emeryville hydrogen station where TSRC co-director Tim Lipman showed him how fast and easy it is to fill 'er up.
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Michael Seelhorst and Julia Griswold are among nine Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate students selected to receive this year's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards.
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Due to delays in receiving supplemental funding from USDOT under the SAFETEA-LU program for University Transportation Centers, there will be no RfP for UCTC Dissertation Grants this semester, Spring 2013.
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Two UC Berkeley transportation students have received coveted Eno awards this year, which will allow them to spend several days in Washington, D.C. talking to legislators and professionals who shape transportation policies for the country. Twenty awards were given nationally.
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UC Berkeley Professor Alexandre Bayen will be the plenary speaker for this student-run, two-day symposium on infrastructure management to be held June 6-7 on the Berkeley campus. Topics will include design, facility performance modeling, resource allocation, and more. The submission deadline for abstracts is April 1.
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Researchers at the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC), a research consortium led by UC Berkeley that includes the UC and California State University systems, have received a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Caltrans has matched the federal award bringing the total to $6.8 million.