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December 17, 2025

CBS News pageITS Berkeley Acting Director Scott Moura talks about Ford announces its ending production of its full-size electric pickup at CBS News Bay Area: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ford-announces-its-ending-prod...

December 16, 2025

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Orion V, DRIVE AI/ITS Berkeley, Richmond Field Station 

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Cincinnati, Ohio

December 12, 2025

DRIVE AI Day 1 - Future ITS Berkeley is excited to welcome Kristin White as a new ITS Senior Fellow!

December 11, 2025

When Alexander Skabardonis arrived at the University of California Berkeley as a newly-minted post-doctoral researcher in 1982 for a 6-month appointment, little did he know he would spend the next four decades at UC Berkeley transforming the fields of traffic flow theory, traffic operations modeling, and intelligent transportation systems and inspiring generations of fellow researchers, faculty, and students. 

December 3, 2025

The City of Berkeley greenlights a street redesign based on the work of Master of City Planning students, continuing the College of Environmental Design’s tradition of making tangible impacts in our community Jerome Baker, Rachel Strangeway, Nathan Carlson, Katie Heuser.

November 24, 2025

Thank you to Madeline Zhu, Head of EV Fleet Partnerships at Presto, who presented Realizing Transportation Innovation: Learning from startups and government to scale mobility technology at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, November 21, 2025.

Scotscoop newspaper articleITS Berkeley affiliate ALexandre Bayen, CITRIS Director, talks about San Mateo’s Smart Corridor signals the future of traffic technology to ScotScoop: https://scotscoop.com/san-mateos-smart-corridor-signals-the-future-of-tr...

November 19, 2025

Matt Elke

Matt Elke, Transportation Sustainability Research Center

What’s your hometown?
Palo Alto, CA

What is your role at ITS, describe your job in four words, and how long have you been here?
Research Engineer; Data analysis alternative fuels; 10 years over two stints

Two people speakingITS Berkeley affiliate Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, talks about Trump's possible impact on EV sales: How a second Trump administration could affect electric vehicle sales at CBS News: 

November 18, 2025

Reetu Pethani, Alex Stern and Nishtha Kashyap posed

From left, Reetu Pethani, Alex Stern and Nishtha Kashyap

Congratulations to the five City and Regional Planning and Civil and Environmental Engineering students who received awards from the California Planning Foundation at the California Planning Association Conference.

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