Transportation Sustainability Research Center's Brooke Wolfe talks about From Taxis to Ridehailing: Examining Differences for Drivers and Passengers on the National Institute for Congestion Reduction podcast series; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jzW
Transportation Sustainability Research Center's co-director Susan Shaheen shares insights in the San Francisco Chronicle article Could Bay Area’s traffic nightmares bring back casual carpool?
Thank you to Amy Epps Martin, Texas A&M A.P. & Florence Wiley Professor II and Senior Research Engineer, who presented Engineering Sustainable Asphalt Pavements at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, March. 7, 2025.
The Institute of Transportation Studies, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS), Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH), and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) hosted a panel, Robotaxis and AI: Navigating Mobility Innovation and the Public Good in conjunction with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Transportation Engineering masters program visit day on March 14, 2025.
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Congratulations to ITS Berkeley alum Kristi McKenney (’89), who was recently appointed as the first female Executive Director of the Port of Oakland!
Thank you to José Carpio-Pinedo, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at ITS Berkeley, who presented Urban Form, Land Use Mix, and Transport Networks: Towards a Synthetic Indicator For the 3 D’s in Multimodal Metropolis at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar Co-sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies) on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.
Thank you to Manxi Wu, Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at University of California, Berkeley, who presented Atomic Proximal Policy Optimization for Electric Robo-Taxi Dispatch and Charger Allocation at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025.
Taking note of headline news as wildfires scorch communities across the West and evacuation safety concerns surrounding the University of California, Berkeley, three Master of City Planning took their classroom to the streets of the Berkeley Hills.
On February 11th, ITS Senior Fellow Arielle Fleisher, a transportation strategist at Waymo, gave a PATH presentation from a policy perspective and spotlighted Waymo's transit integration efforts.
Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law talks about What the Trump Administration Could Mean for Our Climate at KQED Forum: https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907787/what-the-
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