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August 15, 2025

What New CEQA Reforms Aimed at Streamlining Housing Production Mean for the Environment

Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment and ITS affiliate, talks about What New CEQA Reforms Aimed at Streamlining Housing Production

August 12, 2025

California strikes deal to temporarily protect $4B in bullet train funds, but project’s future still uncertain

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August 11, 2025

ITS Berkeley Awards 8 SB1 Grants

Congratulations to the eight UC Berkeley Principal Investigators who received a total $730,00 from the UC Institute of Transportation Studies (UC ITS) allocation of Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (SB 1) funds to support research, education, and outreach activities that address and inform transportation policy, planning, and engineering issues in California.

July 30, 2025

Are US political processes well set up to get California’s high-speed rail built quickly, efficiently?

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July 23, 2025

California Democrats propose relaxed emissions rules amid gas price crisis

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July 16, 2025

TRANSOC Tours Train Box at Salesforce Transit Center

If you ask a group of people if they want to see a giant concrete box, you’ll get mixed enthusiasm. But for self-professed transportation nerds affiliated with the UC Berkeley Transportation Graduate Students Organizing Committee (TRANSOC), it was a learning experience punctuated with enthusiastic exclamations during a recent tour of the Train Box under the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco.

PATH Researcher John Spring Retires

John Spring Retirement Congratulations to Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) Research and Development Engineer John Spring on his retirement! He worked at Berkeley for 26 years, with 19 years at PATH. Most recently, he worked on the Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CCAC) Truck Platooning Project.