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December 3, 2025

City Planning Students Pave Way for Oxford Street Improvements

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

November 24, 2025

San Mateo’s Smart Corridor signals the future of traffic technology

Scotscoop newspaper article ITS 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...

Realizing Transportation Innovation: Learning from startups and government to scale mobility technology

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.

November 19, 2025

Trump's possible impact on EV sales How a second Trump administration could affect electric vehicle sales

Two people speaking ITS 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:

ITS Staff Spotlight: Matt Elke

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

November 18, 2025

ITS’ Pethani, Stern Take Home CPF Awards

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.

November 17, 2025

Learning for Traffic Control

Thank you to Ketan Savla, Associate Professor and John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, who presented Learning for Traffic Control at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, November 14, 2025.

November 14, 2025

New Wamyo Developments

Alex Bayen and ABC7 reporter CITRIS DIrector and ITS affiliate Alexandre Bayen was recently on ABC 7 to talk about new Waymo develpoments: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexan