Thank you to Murat Arcak, Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in UC Berkeley’s EECS department who presented Control Across Scales in Traffic Management at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, October 3, 2025.
We are sad to announce the passing of our former colleague, Juan Pestana, on the night of September 16, 2025 in Lexington, Massachusetts. His friends in the Geosystem Engineering Program were informed by his daughter Maria.
Juan was a professor at UC Berkeley for 23 years and led the UC Pavement Research Center from 2014-2017. He was a dear colleague, and we will miss him.
Safe Transportation Research Center researcher Matt Raifman talks about If a driverless Waymo commits a traffic violation, who gets the ticket? to the SF Chronicle:
Thank you to Kristin White, Transportation Industry Executive and Head of Transportation Strategy & Partnerships at Google, who presented All Hype or All In? The Future of Transportation with Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, September 26, 2025.
Acting ITS Director Scott Moura talks about CA ending clean air vehicle incentives starting next month: Here's what it means for drivers to ABC 7 news:
Civil and Environmenal Engineering Professor Mark Hansen talks about Map Shows Route Proposed For World’s Fastest Train to Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-ro
Thank you to Dr. Vincent Tang, Deputy Director at ARPA-I within the U.S. Department of Transportation, who presented The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Infrastructure at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, September 19, 2025.
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 Can California thread the needle on airline emissions?
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