The UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transport

Robert Cervero speaks at a Volvo Transportation Center Symposium

City and Regional Planning Professor Robert Cervero presents at the Volvo Center Symposium.

Volvo Center logo

The UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transport was established in 2004 after the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations designated it as a Volvo Center of Excellence in a competition involving a large field of international candidates.  It focused on the “three-legged stool” of how cities work: technology, policy, and physics. The original funding cycle was five years. The center received funding renewals for three years, and, having fulfilled its mission, closed in 2012.

MISSION:

Study the mutual interdependence of urban transportation policy and technology and use the understanding of that concept to devise sustainable transportation strategies for the world's cities.

RESEARCH THRUSTS:

•    Policy
•    The physics, mechanics, and engineering of urban transportation
•     Sustainability and life-cycle analysis
•     Traffic engineering
•     Enabling technologies in electrical engineering and computer science

AN INCUBATOR’S FAR-REACHING INFLUENCE

Carlos DaganzoCarlos Daganzo talks about ITS’s Volvo Center for Excellence like a parent who raised a bright, capable child and then confidently released her into the world. After eight years partnering on public- and private-sector projects both domestically and internationally, the center, named the UC Berkeley Center for Future-Urban Transport, fulfilled its purpose, Daganzo says. “We seeded the ideas, and the professors continued the work on their own — we didn’t need the center anymore.” The center seeded faculty research on promising early-stage ideas. Concepts that incubated at Volvo include the Connected Corridors Project, which arose from Michael Cassidy’s research on the physics of traffic with special lanes; Alexandre Bayen’s mobile sensor–based work; Arpad Horvath and Samer Madanat’s collaborative life-cycle analyses on transit systems; and a behavior-tracking collaboration between Raja Sengupta and Joan Walker.

Other influential achievements include Robert Cervero’s policy contributions in Los Angeles and China, and Daganzo’s own work on the design of a bus rapid transit system now in use in Barcelona. The center also supported 10 to 20 Ph.D. students at any given time, many of whom went on to university faculty positions. One of the Volvo Center’s impacts was personal for Daganzo. “The center transformed me from a person who did logistics and traffic to a person who is interested in the whole of transportation,” he said. “I became passionate about public transportation — understanding what type of transit system is right for a particular ci

ty, and how to control it so it’s reliable.” He adds, “You can plan a system and draw beautiful pictures, but somebody has to make sure those buses run on time.

This section provides an annually-updated list of center¡¯s scientific production. For more recent research publications, visit relevant research pages. 

Cumulative list of scientific production 

All working papers published by the Center for Future Urban Transport are listed as UCB-ITS-VWP-20xx-xx. 

*: indicator for co-financed efforts

2012
Published Papers

        Gu, W., M.J. Cassidy, V.V. Gayah, and Y. Ouyang. (2012), Strategies for Mitigating Impacts of Near-Side Bus Stops on Cars, UCB-ITS-VWP-2012-1. link

        Daganzo, C.F. (2012), On the design of public infrastructure systems with elastic demand, UCB-ITS-VWP-2012-2. link

        Gu, W., M.J. Cassidy, and Y. Li. (2012), Models of Bus Queueing at Curbside Stops, UCB-ITS-VWP-2012-3. link

2011
Published Papers

        Gu, W., Y. Li, M.J. Cassidy, and J.B. Griswold. (2011), On the capacity of isolated, curbside bus stops, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Volume 45, Issue 4, 2011, pp 714-723. link

        Mazare, P.-E., C. G. Claudel and A. M. Bayen (2010), Analytical and grid-free solutions to the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards traffic flow model, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Volume 45, Issue 10, 2011, pp 1727-1748. link

        Claudel, C. and A. Bayen, Convex Formulations of Data Assimilation Problems for a Class of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, SIAM Journal on Optimization and Control, March 2011, Vol. 49(2), pp. 383-402, doi: 10.1137/090778754 link

        Gu, W., and Y. Li, Checkpoint congestion mitigation via tandem service booths: capacity and delay analysis, The 90th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., USA. link

        Xuan, Y., J. Argote, and C.F. Daganzo. (2011), A Dynamic Holding Strategy to Improve Bus Schedule Reliability and Commercial Speed, UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-1. link

        Gonzales, E.J., and C.F. Daganzo. (2011), Morning Commute with Competing Modes and Distributed Demand: User Equilibrium, System Optimum, and Pricing, UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-2. link

        Braughton, M., Brill, M., Lee, S., Binger, G., and Cervero, R. (2011), Advancing Bus Rapid Transit and Transit Oriented Corridors in California¡¯s Central Valley, UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-3. link

        Jang, K., and M.J. Cassidy. (2011), Dual Influences on Vehicle Speeds in Special-Use Lanes and Policy Implications, UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-4. link

        Guerra, E., R. Cervero, and D. Tischler. (2011), The Half-Mile Circle: Does It Best Represent Transit Station Catchments? UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-5. link

        Cervero, R., and E. Guerra. (2011), Urban Densities and Transit: A Multi-dimensional Perspective, UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-6. link

        Daganzo, C.F., E.J. Gonzales, and V.V. Gayah. (2011), Traffic Congestion in Networks, and Alleviating it with Public Transportation and Pricing, UCB-ITS-VWP-2011-7. link

Thesis

        Xuan, Y. (2011), Increasing the Flow Capacity of Signalized Intersections with Pre-signals: Theory and Case Study, Doctoral Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. link

2010
Published Papers

        Ban, X., R. Herring, P. Hao, and A. Bayen (2010), Delay pattern estimation for signalized intersections using sampled travel times, Transportation Research Record, No. 2130, pp. 109. link

        Blandin, S., D. Work, P. Goatin, B. Piccoli and A. Bayen (2010), A class of perturbed cell transmission models to account for traffic variability, Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. link

        Cervero, R. and Sullivan, K. (2010). Toward Green TODs. Berkeley: Institute of Transportation Studies, UCB-ITS-VWP-2010-04. link

        Cervero, R. and Kang, C. (2010), Bus Rapid Transit Impacts on Land Uses and Land Values in Seoul, Korea, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-4. Also in: Transport Policy, 2010 (forthcoming) link

        Cervero, R. and Murakami, J. (2010). Effects of Built Environments on Vehicle Miles Traveled: Evidence from 370 U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 42, 2010, pp. 400-418. link

        Chester, M.V. and Horvath, A., (2010), Life-cycle assessment of high-speed rail: the case of California, Environ. Res. Lett. 5 014003 link

        Chester, M.V., Horvath, A. and Madanat, S. (2010), Parking infrastructure: energy, emissions, and automobile life-cycle environmental accounting, Environ. Res. Lett. 5 034001 link

        Chester, M.V., Horvath, A. and Madanat, S. (2010), Comparison of life-cycle energy and emissions footprints of passenger transportation in metropolitan regions, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 44, Issue 8, March 2010, Pages 1071-1079 link

        Christofa, E. (2010). Traffic Signal Control Optimization with Transit Priority for Conflicting Transit Routes, 16th UCTC Student Conference, April 2010, Irvine, CA, April 2010.

        Christofa, E.M., and Skabardonis, A. (2010). Traffic Signal Optimization with Conditional Transit Signal Priority for Conflicting Transit Routes, 12th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), 11-15 July, Lisbon, Portugal.

        Claudel, C. and A. Bayen (2010). Lax-Hopf based incorporation of internal boundary conditions into Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Part I: Theory, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 55(5), pp. 1142-1157, May 2010. doi:10.1109/TAC.2010.2041976 link

        Claudel, C. and A. Bayen (2010). Lax-Hopf based incorporation of internal boundary conditions into Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Part II: Computational methods, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 55(5), pp. 1158-1174, May 2010. doi:10.1109/TAC.2010.2045439 link

        Claudel, C. and A. Bayen (2010), Linear and quadratic programming formulations of data assimilation or data reconciliation problems for a class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, June 30-July 02, 2010, Baltimore, MD link

        Daganzo, C.F., (2010), Structure of competitive transit networks,Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 44(4), 434-446 link

        Daganzo, C.F., M. J. Cassidy and K. Jang (2010), The smoothing effect of carpool lanes on freeway bottlenecks,Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice, 44(2) 65-75 link

        Daganzo, C.F., V. V. Gayah and E. J. Gonzales (2010), Macroscopic Relations of Urban Traffic Variables: An Analysis of Instability, UCB-ITS-VWP-2010-4 link

        Daganzo, C.F. and J. Pilachowski (2010), Reducing bunching with bus-to-bus cooperation, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, in press w/ page proofs 7/14/2010. link

        Daganzo, C.F. and Y. Ouyang (2010), Robust stability analysis of decentralized supply chains, in Planning in the Extended Enterprise: A State of the Art Handbook, Handbooks of OR; Kluwer (Karl Kempf and Reha Uzsoy); submitted 4/11/06 last we heard was on January 2007; then March 2009 (all manuscripts in); Sep 1 2009; copyright transfer. link

        Daganzo, C.F., V. Gayah and E. Gonzales (2010), Macroscopic Relations of Urban Traffic Variables: Bifurcations, Multivaluedness and Instability, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, May 18, 2010; in revised form June 29, 2010; in press w/ page proofs 7/15/2010. link

        Day, J. and Cervero, R. (2010). Effects of Residential Relocation on Household and Commuting Expenditures in Shanghai, China, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (in press)

        Gaker D, Zheng Y, Walker JL (2010), Experimental economics in transportation: a focus on social influences and the provision of information. Transportation Research Record, forthcoming link

        Gayah V. and Daganzo, C.F.(2010), Exploring the Effect of Turning Maneuvers and Route Choice on a Simple Network, UCB-ITS-VWP-2010-5 link

        Geroliminis, N., and Skabardonis, A. (2010), Queue Spillovers in City Street Networks with Signalized Intersections,paper 10-3498, 89th TRB Annual Meeting CD-ROM, Washington DC, January 2010.

        Grembek O. and Daganzo, C.F.(2010), On the perceptibility of safety systems, UCB-ITS-VWP-2010-3 link

        Guler, I. and Cassidy, M., (2010), Deploying Underutilized Bus Lanes at Key Nodes in a Road Network, UCB-ITS-VWP-2010-2 link

        Herrera, J.-C., D. Work, X. Ban, R. Herring, Q. Jacobson and A. Bayen (2010), Evaluation of traffic data obtained via GPS-enabled mobile phones: the Mobile Century field experiment, Transportation Research C, 18, pp. 568,83, 2010. link

        Herrera, J.-C. and A. Bayen (2010). Incorporation of Lagrangian measurements in freeway traffic state estimation, Transportation Research B, 44(4), pp. 160-481, May 2010. link

        Herring, R., A. Hofleitner, P. Abbeel, A. Bayen (2010), Estimating arterial traffic conditions using sparse probe data, 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sep. 19, 22, 2010, Madeira Island, Portuga link

        Herring, R. A. Hofleitner, S. Amin, T. Nasr, A. Khalek, P. Abbeel, A. Bayen (2010), Using Mobile Phones to Forecast Arterial Traffic Through Statistical Learning, Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 10-14, 2010 link

        Jariyasunant, J., D. Work, B. Kerkez, R. Sengupta, S. Glaser, and A. Bayen (2010). Mobile Transit Trip Planning with Real¨CTime Data, Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 10--14, 2010. link

        Patire, Anthony D., and Michael J. Cassidy (2010), A congestion mechanism for uphill expressways, Part I: the shoulder lane release valve. UCB-ITS-VWP-2010-1 link

        Sathaye, N., Horvath, A. and Madanat, S. (2010), Unintended impacts of increased truck loads on pavement supply-chain emissions, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 1-15 link

        Sathaye, N., Harley, R. and Madanat, S. (2010), Unintended environmental impacts of nighttime freight logistics activities£¬Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 44, Issue 8, October 2010, Pages 642-659 link

        Skabardonis, A., N. Geroliminis, and E. Christofa (2010), Improved Analysis Framework for Emissions Estimation Under Oversaturated Conditions along Signalized Arterials,5th ICTR Conference, Volos, Greece, Sept 2010

        Skabardonis, A., and G. Gomes (2010), Effectiveness of Adaptive Control for Arterial Signal Management: Modeling Results,PATH Research Report, UCB-ITS-PRR-2010-36,July 2010. link

        So, Stella and Daganzo, C.F. (2010), Managing Evacuation Routes,Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 44(4), 514-520 link

        Xuan, Y., Daganzo, C.F., and M. J. Cassidy (2010), Increasing the Capacity of Signalized Intersections with Separate Left Turn Phases, UCB-ITS-VWP-2010-6 link

        Work, D., S. Blandin, O.-P. Tossavainen, B. Piccoli and A. Bayen (2010), A traffic model for velocity data assimilation, Applied Mathematics Research eXpress (AMRX), 2010(1), pp. 1-35, April 2010. link

        Christofa, E., and A. Skabardonis (2010), Traffic Signal Optimization with Transit Priority: Application to an Isolated Intersection,paper 11-3092, submitted to the 90th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 2011. link

        Christofa, E. and A. Skabardonis (2010), Impact of Transit Signal Priority on Level of Service at Signalized Intersections,6th International Symposium on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2011 (abstract accepted, paper due 10/17/2010). link

        Daganzo, C.F. and So. S., (2010), Managing Evacuation Routes, submitted on 8/09 to Transportation Research Board, for presentation only, January (2010).

        Daganzo, C.F., Estrada, M. M. Roca-Riu, H. Badia, and F. Robust(2010), Design and Implementation of Efficient Transit Networks: Procedure, Case Study and Validity Test, 19th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory. link

        Daganzo, C.F. and S. So(2010), Managing Evacuation Networks,International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, 19th link

        Daganzo, C.F., V. Gayah. and E. Gonzales (2010), Macroscopic Relations of Urban Traffic Variables: Bifurcations, Multivaluedness and Instability, Submitted to Transportation Research Part B: Methodological May 18, 2010. link

        Daganzo, C.F. and V. Gayah (2010), Exploring the Effect of Turning Maneuvers and Route Choice on a Simple Network, JTRB Traffic Flow Theory Committee, July 22, 2010. link

        Daganzo, C.F., Xuan, Y., and Cassidy, M.J. (2010), Increasing the Capacity of Signalized Intersections with Separate Left Turn Phases, TRB for presentation only, in Jan 2011

        Daganzo, C.F., Xuan, Y., and Cassidy, M.J. (2010), Increasing the Capacity of Signalized Intersections with Separate Left Turn Phases, submitted to Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 7/7/10. link

        Daganzo, C.F., Cassidy, M.J., and Jang, K. (2010), Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams for Freeway networks: Theory and Observation, JTRB, 7/2010. link

        Gaker D, Vautin D, Vij A, Walker JL (2010), The power and value of green in promoting sustainable transportation behavior, the 90th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 2011. link

        Gonzales, E. J., Chavis, C., Li, Y. and Daganzo, C.F. (2010), Multimodal Transport Modeling for Nairobi, Kenya: Insights and Recommendations with an Evidence-Based Model, JTRB (Developing Countries Committee). August 2010. link

Submitted Papers

        Blandin, S., S. Samaranayake and A. Bayen (2010), Optimal Bayesian network structure for traffic forecast, Submitted, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 2010.

        Hofleitner, A., R. Herring, A. Bayen (2010), Arterial travel time forecast with streaming data: a hybrid flow model - machine learning approach, Submitted, 19th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), Berkeley, CA, July 2011

        Hoh, B., T.Iwuchukwu, Q. Jacobson, M. Gruteser, A. Bayen, J-.C. Herrera, R. Herring, D. Work, M. Annavaram, J. Ban (2010), Enhancing Privacy and Accuracy in Probe Vehicle Based Traffic Monitoring via Virtual Trip Lines, in review, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, April 2010 link

        Samaranayake, S., S. Blandin, and A. Bayen (2010), Optimal routing in transportation network with variable travel times, Submitted, 19th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), Berkeley, CA, July 2011S

        Vautin D, Walker JL (2010), Impact of smartphones on transportation and land use, submitted to the 90th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 2011.

Thesis

        So, S. (2010), Managing City Evacuations, Doctoral Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley (2010). link

Software

        Gayah, V. and Daganzo, C.F. (2010), Instability of traffic networks, interactive web animation, http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~daganzo/Simulations/two_ring_sim.html, June, 2010.

        Pilachowski, J. and Daganzo, C.F. (2010), Preventing buses from coming in bunches, web animation, http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~daganzo/Simulations/Bus_Bunching.html, February, 2010.

2009
Published Papers

        Aubin, J.-P., A. Bayen, P. Saint-Pierre, dirichlet problems for some Hamilton-Jacobi equations with inequality constraints, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009 link

        Ban, X., R. Herring, J.D. Margulici, A. Bayen (2009), Optimal sensor placement for freeway travel time estimation, 18th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), July 2009 link

        Blandin, S., D. Work, P. Goatin, B. Piccoli and A. Bayen (2009), A general phase transition model for vehicular traffic, 2009 IFAC workshop on Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, Toulouse, France, July 20-24 2009 link

        Blandin, S., L. El Ghaoui and A. Bayen (2009), Kernel regression for travel-time estimation via convex optimization, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009 link

        Cassidy, M.J., C.F. Daganzo, K. Jang, and K. Chung (2009), Spatiotemporal effects of segregating different vehicle classes on separate lanes, in Transportation and Traffic Theory: Golden Jubilee, Proc. 18th ISTTT, Hong Kong, W. Lam, S.C. Wong and H. Lo editors, pp. 57-74, Springer, July 2009.

        Cervero, R. (2009a). Transport Infrastructure and Global Competitiveness: Balancing Mobility and Livability, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,Vol. 626, pp. 210-225. link

        Cervero, R. (2009b). Public Transport and Sustainable Urbanism: Global Lesson, Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen, eds., C. Curtis, J. Renne, L. Bertolini. Surrey: Ashgate, Chapter 3, pp. 23-35.

        Cervero, R. (2009c), Urban Development on Railway-Served Land: Lessons and Opportunities for the Developing World, Berkeley: Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transportation, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-13. link

        Cervero, R. and Chang Deok Kang (2009), Bus Rapid Transit Impacts on Land Uses and Land Values in Seoul, Korea. UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-4 link

        Cervero, R. and J. Murakami (2009), Rail + Property Development in Hong Kong: Experiences and Extensions, Urban Studies, Vol. 46, No. 10, pp. 2019-2043, 2009. link

        Cervero, R., Murakami, J., and Miller, M. (2009). Direct Ridership Model of Bus Rapid Transit in Los Angeles County, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-3. Also in: Transportation Research Record, No. 2145, 2010, pp. 1-7 link

        Cervero, R., O. Sarmiento, E. Jacoby , L. Gomez, and A. Neiman (2009), Influences of Built Environments on Walking and Cycling: Lessons from Bogot, International Journal of Sustainable Transport, Vol. 3, 2009, pp. 203-226.

        Chester, M. and Arpad Horvath (2009a), Environmental Assessment of Passenger Transportation Should Include Infrastructure and Supply Chains, Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 4, pp.1-8. link

        Chester, M. and Arpad Horvath (2009c), Life-cycle Energy and Emissions Inventories for Motorcycles, Diesel Automobiles, School Buses, Electric Buses, Chicago Rail, and New York City Rail, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-2 link

        Christofa, E., and A. Skabardonis, System-wide Signal Timing Optimization with Transit Priority for Conflicting Bus Routes,INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 2009.

        Christofa, E., and A. Skabardonis, C. and A. Bayen (2009). Minimal error certificates for detection of faulty sensors using convex optimization? 2009 Allerton Conference on Communication and Control, Allerton, IL, Sep. 2009

        Daganzo, C.F. (2009a), Structure of competitive transit networks, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-6 link

        Daganzo, C. (2009b), A headway-based approach to eliminate bus bunching: systematic analysis and comparisons, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 43(10) 913-921 (2009). link

        Daganzo, C. and Pilachowski, J., (2009), Reducing bunching with bus-to-bus cooperation, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-12 link

        Gonzales, E. J., Chavis, C., Li, Y. and Daganzo, C.F. (2009), Multimodal Transport Modeling for Nairobi, Kenya: Insights and Recommendations with an Evidence-Based Model, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-5 link

        Herrera, Juan C., Daniel B. Work, Ryan Herring, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban, and Alexandre M. Bayen (2009), Evaluation of Traffic Data Obtained via GPS-Enabled Mobile Phones: the Mobile Century Field Experiment, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-8 link

        Hoh, B., M. Gruteser, R. Herring, J. Ban, D. Work, J.C. Herrera, A. Bayen, M. Annavaram, Q. Jacobson (2009), Virtual trip lines for distributed privacy preserving traffic monitoring, Mobile Systems and Applications (MOBISYS), June 17-18 2008, Brekenridge, CO.

        Hunter, T., R. Herring, P. Abbeel (2009), A. Bayen, Path and travel time inference from GPS probe vehicle data, Neural Information Processing Systems foundation (NIPS), Vancouver, Canada, December 2009 link

        Sathaye, N., A. Horvath and S. Madanat (2009), Unintended Impacts of Increased Truck Loads on Pavement Supply chain Emissions, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-7 link

        Sathaye, N., Robert Harley and Samer Madanat (2009), Unintended Environmental Impacts of Nighttime Freight Logistics Activities; UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-11 link

        So, Stella K., and Carlos F. Daganzo (2009), Managing Evacuation Routes, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-9 link

        Xuan, Y., Gayah, V., Daganzo, C. and Cassidy, M. (2009), Multimodal Traffic at Isolated Signalized Intersections: new Management Strategies to Increase Capacity, UCB-ITS-VWP-2009-10. link

        Work, D., O.P. Tossavainen, Q. Jacobson and A. Bayen (2009), Lagrangian Sensing: Traffic Estimation with Mobile Devices, 2009 American Control Conference, June 2009 link

        Wu Q., M. Rafiee, and A. Bayen (2009), Kalman filter based estimation of flow states in open channels using Lagrangian sensing, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009 link

Submitted Papers

        Blandin, S., D. Work, P. Goatin, B. Piccoli and A. Bayen (2009). A general phase transition model for vehicular traffic, In review, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Submitted 2009. link

Thesis

        Pilachowski, J. (2009), An Approach to Reduce Bus Bunching, Doctoral Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley (Fall 2009). link

        Sathaye, N. (2009), Unintended Environmental Impacts of Metropolitan Freight Logistics Policies, Doctoral Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley (May 2009). link

2008
Published Papers

        Cassidy, M.J., C.F. Daganzo and K. Jang (2008), Spatiotemporal effects of segregating different vehicle classes on separate lanes, UCB-ITS-VWP-2008-8 link

        Cassidy, M.J., Jang, K. and Daganzo, C.F. (2008), The Smoothing Effect on Freeway Bottlenecks, UCB-ITS-VWP-2008-9 link

        Cervero, R. (2008a), Transit-Oriented Development in America: Strategies, Issues, Policy Directions, New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future. New York: Rizzoli, T. Haas, ed., 2008, pp. 124-129

        Cervero, R. and Day, J. (2008b), Residential Relocation and Commuting Behavior in Shanghai, China: The Case for Transit Oriented Development, UCB-ITS-VWP-2008-4 link

        Cervero R. and J. Day. (2008), Suburbanization and Transit Oriented Development in China, Transport Policy, Vol. 15, 2008, pp. 315-323. link

        Cervero, R. and Murakami, J. (2008c), Rail + Property Development: A Model of Sustainable Transit Finance and Urbanism, Hong Kong: MTR Corporation, 2008; also UCB-ITS-VWP-2008-5 link

        Chester, M., Martin, E., and Sathaye, N. (2008), Energy, Greenhouse Gas and Cost Reductions for Municipal recycling Systems, Environmental Science & Technology, 42(6), pp. 2142-2149 link

        Chester, M. and Horvath A.,Life-cycle Assessment of Passenger Transportation: A Detailed Methodology for Energy, Greenhouse Gas and Criteria Pollutant Inventories of Automobiles, Buses, Light Rail, Heavy Rail and Air, UCB-ITS-VWP-2008-2 link

        Daganzo, C.F. (2008), How to improve bus service, UCB-ITS-VWP-2008-6 link

        Daganzo, C.F. and Cassidy, M.J.(2008), Effects of High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes on Freeway Congestion, Transportation Research Part B 42 (10), 861-872. link

        Daganzo, C.F. and Geroliminis, N. (2008), An analytical approximation for the macroscopic fundamental diagram of urban traffic, Transportation Research Part B 42(9), 771-781. link

        Geroliminis, N. and Daganzo, C.F. (2008), Existence of urban-scale macroscopic fundamental diagrams: some experimental findings, Transportation Research Part B 42(9), 759-770, November, 2008. link

        Gonzales, E. J., Geroliminis, N., and Daganzo, C.F. (2008), Allocating City Space to Multiple Transportation Modes: A New Modeling Approach Consistent with the Physics of Transport, UCB-ITS-VWP-2008-1 link

        Herrera, J. and Bayen, A. (2008a), Traffic flow reconstruction using mobile sensors and loop detector data, in 87th TRB Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD, Transportation Research Board. Washington D.C., January 13-17, 2008.

        Kang, C. D. and Cervero, R. (2008), From Elevated Freeway to Linear Park:Land Price Impacts of Seoul, Korea¡¯s CGC Project, UCB-ITS-VWP-2008-7. link

        Skabardonis A., and Geroliminis, N. (2008), Real-Time Monitoring and Control on Signalized Arterials,Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 12 (2), pp. 64-74, June 2008. link

        Vlahogianni, E., Geroliminis, N. and Skabardonis, A. (2008), Empirical and Analytical Investigations of Traffic Flow Regimes and Transitions on Signalized Arterials,accepted by the Journal of Transportation Engineering ASCE link

Submitted Papers

        Chester, M. and Horvath, A. (2008), Life-cycle Inventories for Automobiles, Buses, Trains and Aircraft,Accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.

        Herrera, J. and Bayen, A. (2008c),Eulerian versus Lagrangian sensing in traffic state estimation, submitted to ISTTT 18.

Thesis

        Chester, M. (2008), Life-cycle Environmental Inventory of Passenger Transportation Modes in the United States, Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. link

        Zennaro, M. (2008), A framework for the development of adaptive traffic control systems, Doctoral Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.

2007
Published Papers

        Cherry, C. and Cervero R. (2007b), Use Characteristics and Mode Choice Behavior of Electric Bike Users in China. Transport Policy, Vol. 14, pp. 247-257. link

        Cherry, C., Weinert, J. and Ma, C. (2007c), The Environmental Impacts of Electric Bikes in Chinese Cities. UCB-ITS-VWP-2007-2 link

        Cervero, R. (2007a), Transit Oriented Development's Ridership Bonus: A Product of Self Selection and Public Policies. Environment and Planning A 39(9), pp. 2068 link

        Cervero, R (2007b)., Informal- and Para-Transit: A Global Perspective. Proceedings on International Conference on Urban Transport, Today and Tomorrow, Indian Institute of Technology, Agra India.

        Cervero, R. (2007c), Transit-Oriented Corridors, sidebar in The Transportation Land Use Connection, T. Moore, P. Thorsnes, B. Appleyard, Planning Advisory Service Report Number 546/547, pp. 136-137.

        Cervero, R. and Golub A. (2007d), Informal Transport: A Global Perspective, Transport Policy Vol. 14, pp. 445-457 link

        Daganzo, C. F. (2007a), Urban gridlock: macroscopic modeling and mitigation approaches, Transportation Research part B 41, 49-62 link

        Daganzo, C. F. and Cassidy, M. J. (2007b), Deploying lanes for high occupancy vehicles in urban areas, UCB-ITS-VWP-2007-1 link

        Daganzo, C. F., Li, Y., Gonzales, E.J. and Geroliminis, N. (2007c), City-scale transport modeling: an approach for Nairobi, Kenya, UCB-ITS-VWP-2007-4 link

        Geroliminis, N. (2007a), Existence of Urban-Scale Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams: Some Experimental Findings, UCB-ITS-VWP-2007-5 link

        Geroliminis, N. and Daganzo, C. F. (2007b), Macroscopic modeling of traffic in cities, TRB 86th Annual Meeting, Paper #: 07-0413, 2007 link

        Menendez, M. and Daganzo, C.F. (2007), Effects of HOV lanes on freeway bottlenecks, Transportation Research part B 41(8), 809-822. link

        Sengupta, R. and Zennaro M., (2007a), Embedded Computing: Enabling Control in Surface Transportation, Proceeding of the VREF Workshop, IIT Delhi, Agra, India.

        Sengupta, R. and Zennaro M., (2007b), CHAL - Control logic / Hardware Abstraction layer, UCB-ITS-VWP-2007-6 link

        Skabardonis, A. and Geroliminis, N. (2007), Development of an Arterial Performance Measurement System,11th World Congress on Transport Research (WCTR), Berkeley, CA, June 24-28.

        Vlahogianni, E., Geroliminis N., and Skabardonis A. (2007a), On Traffic Flow Regimes and Transitions on Signalized Arterials, 86th TRB Annual Meeting, paper 07-2321, Jan. link

        Vlahogianni, E., Webber, C.L., Geroliminis, N., and Skabardonis, A. (2007b), Statistical Characteristics of Transitional Queue Conditions in Signalized Arterials,Transportation Research Part C, Vol. 15 (6), pp. 392-403, December 2007. link

Thesis

        Cherry, C. (2007a), Electric Bike Use in China and Their Impacts on Environment, Safety, Mobility and Accessibility, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2007, also UCB-ITS-VWP-2007-3 link

2006
Published Papers

        Cherry, C. and Cervero R.(2006), Use Characteristics and Mode Choice Behavior of Electric Bike Users in China, UCB-ITS-VWP-2006-5 link

        Daganzo, C. F. (2006a), In traffic flow, cellular automata = kinematic waves, Transportation Research Part B 40, 396-403. link

        Daganzo, C. F. (2006b), On the variational theory of traffic flow: well-posedness, duality and applications. UCB-ITS-VWP-2006-2 link

        Daganzo, C. F. (2006c), On the variational theory of traffic flow: well-posedness, duality and applications. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, Volume 1, 601-619 link

        Eichler, M. and Daganzo, C. F. (2006a), Bus Lanes with Intermittent Priority: Strategy, Formulae and an Evaluation.Transportation Research Part B 40, 731-744 link

        Geroliminis, N., and Skabardonis, A. (2006), Real-Time Identification and Performance Measures on Signalized Arterials, 9th International IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Toronto, CA, September 2006.

        Gomes, G. and Skabardonis, A., (2006), A Paramics Plug-In for Actuated Signal Control and First Generation UTCS, PATH Working Paper UCB-ITS-PWP-2006-8, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley link

        Menendez, M.(2006a), HOV lanes: Their Impact on Traffic. UCB-ITS-VWP-2006-3 link

        Sathaye, N., Li, Y., Horvath A. and Madanat, S. (2006), The Environmental Impacts of Logistics Systems and Options for Mitigation. UCB-ITS-VWP-2006-4 link

        Zennaro, M. and Sengupta, R. (2006a), Modular Composition of Synchronous Programs: Applications to Traffic Signal Control. UCB-ITS-VWP-2006-1 link

Thesis

        Eichler, M. (2006b), Bus lanes with intermittent priority: assessment and design.Master¡¯s Thesis, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley. link

        Menendez, M. (2006b), HOV lanes: Their Impact on Traffic. PhD Thesis, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

Software

        Wang, A, Ong, O. and Daganzo, C. F. (2006) The nature of urban traffic gridlock, interactive web animation: http://www.its.berkeley.edu/volvocenter/gridlock/

2005
Published Papers

        Cervero, R. (2005a), Accessible Cities and Regions: A Framework for Sustainable Transport and Urbanism in the 21st Century. UCB-ITS-VWP-2005-3 link

        Cervero, R. (2005b), Balanced Transport and Sustainable Urbanism: Enhancing Mobility and Accessibility Through Institutional, Demand Management, and Land-Use Initiatives Urban Planning Overseas, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 15-27 link

        Cherry, C. (2005), China's Urban Transportation System: Issues and Problems Facing Cities. UCB-ITS-VWP-2005-4 link

        Daganzo, C.F. (2005a) Improving city mobility through gridlock control: an approach and some ideas. UCB-ITS-VWP-2005-1 link

        Eichler, M. and Daganzo, C. F. (2005),Bus Lanes with Intermittent Priority: Screening Formulae and an Evaluation. UCB-ITS-VWP-2005-2 link

        Geroliminis, N. and Daganzo, C.F. (2005), A review of green logistics schemes used in cities around the world. UCB-ITS-VWP-2005-5 link

        Geroliminis, N., and Skabardonis, A. (2005), Prediction of Arrival Profiles and Queue Lengths Along Arterials by Using Markov Decision Process,Transportation Research Record No.1934 link

        Skabardonis, A., and N. Geroliminis (2005), Real-Time Estimation of Travel Times on Signalized Arterials,16th International Symposium in Transportation and Traffic Theory, University of Maryland, Elsevier.

        Zennaro, M. and Sengupta, R. (2005a), Distributing Synchronous Programs Using Bounded Queues, a coordinated traffic signal application, University of California at Berkeley, Intelligent Transportation Studies, UCB-ITS-RR-2005-4. link

        Zennaro, M. and Sengupta, R. (2005b), Distributing Synchronous Programs Using Bounded Queues, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Embedded software, pp. 325 - 334. link