Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley faculty and student affiliates travelled to the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting at the Georgia World Congress Center and the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park in Atlanta, Georgia, joining more than 6,000 INFORMS members, students, prospective employers and employees, and academic and industry experts to share ways O.R.
The Institute of Transportation Studies held a DRIVE AI Workshop and Demo Day on Oct. 23 and 24, 2025 to discuss how Artificial Intelligence fits into transportation lanscape, and to kick off a new initiative, the DRIVE AI Consortiim. See Demo Day photos here.
On Oct. 24, ITS Berkeley held the DRIVE AI Demo Day at the Richmond FIeld Station, featuring guided tours, live demonstrations, and technology showcases across AV, V2X, and electrification testbeds. UC Berkeley student clubs and research centers, RFS tennants, and indusrty and start up partners and freinds showcased their work and products. See DRIVE AI Workshop photos here.
Thank you to Nicole Adler, Professor at Hebrew University Business School, who presented Regulating Automated Vehicle Markets at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, October 24, 2025.
Congratulations to Jasenka Rakas, NEXTOR III Deputy Director and a faculty member in Civil and Environmental Engineering, on being selected to the MAIA External Experts Advisory Board, supported by EUROCONTROL
Safe Transportation Research Center researcher Matt Raifman took a break from his research to take a 'Surreal' albino deer photograph in the Bay Area, as detailed at SF Gate:
Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment and ITS affiliate, talked about Newsom signs SB 79 to increase housing near public transit to KPBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeCud6SBpn0
Thank you to Alan Jenn, Associate Professor at UC Davis and affiliate at ITS UC Davis Electric Vehicle group, who presented Electric Vehicle Grid Integration: Policy Challenges and Opportunities for a Decarbonized Future at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, October 10, 2025.
In a Bay Area field trial, a small fleet of vehicles used seconds‑ahead information to reduce hard braking and time spent stopped—building on lessons from CIRCLES and the 2022 “MegaVanderTest.”
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