Welcome to the Spring 2024 ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar Series.
Welcome to the Fall 2023 ITS Berkeley Seminar Series.
ITS Davis postdoctoral researcher Prashanth S. Venkataram presented Disability, Transportation, and Accessibility: New Trends and Longstanding Challenges in the US at the ITS Transportation Seminar on Feb. 24, 2023. 
UC Irvine Postdoctoral Researcher Kévin Garanger, PhD, presented Reconfigurable Aerial Robots: Reconciling performance and versatility October 28, 2022 i.
University of California Berkeley Postdoctoral Researcher Abi Lawal, PhD, presented Quantifying the Impacts of Anthropogenic Emissions and Specific Infrastructures on Urban Air Quality October 21, 2022.
Resource Systems Group, Inc. Senior Consultant Ted Mansfield, PhD, presented Incorporating Health Into the Transportation Planning Toolkit October 7, 2022.
Trent Victor, PhD, Director of Safety Research & Best Practices at 
Maxime Gariel, Chief Technology Officer, Xwing presented The Future of Urban Air Mobility and the Role of Xwing at the ITS Transportation Seminar on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 at 3 pm in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Mauro Salazar, Assistant Professor, Control Systems Technology, Eindehoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands presented Optimization Models and Methods for Mobility Systems: From Electric Racing to Sustainable Urban Mobility at the ITS Transportation Seminar on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022.
The Transportation Seminar is organized by the Insttute of Transportation Studies and the Transportation Students Organizing Committee (TRANSOC)
April 22, 2022 
Arnold Barnett, Sloan School of Management at MIT, presented Covid-19 Transmission Risk on US Domestic Airlines on April 15, 2022.
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February 25, 2022 
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) presented 
The Smart Infrastructure Seminar Series explores the ideas around Engineering Resilient, Sustainable and Equitable Infrastructure. Sponsored by the Center for Smart Infrastructure, College of Engineering and the Institute of Transportation Studies.
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Laryssa Parker, Siemens ITS Digital Lab Americas VP presented Trust in Transportation Technology, reflecting The Big Company Perspective April 30, 2021 at the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies Zoom seminar series on "Applications of Data Science and AI to Equity, Race, and Inclusion in Mobility and Transportation" with the College of Engineering and The Center for
Georgia Tech University Assistant Professor Judy Hoffman presented The Perils of Learning from Biased Data at the Applications of Data Science and AI to Equity, Race, and Inclusion in Mobility and Transportation Seminar on April 23, 2021, co-sponsored by ITS Berkeley, the College of Engineering, and CITRIS. This topic brings a unique and innovative perspective to existing discussions around
World Economic Forum's Automotive and Autonomous Mobility Project Lead Mouchka Heller talked about Designing the Inclusivity Quotient: Making core services and economic opportunities more accessible to underserved populations through transportation technologies and policies during the Applications of Data Science and AI to Equity, Race, and Inclusion in Mobility and Transportation Seminar
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Applications of Data Science and AI to Equity, Race, and Inclusion in Mobility and Transportation: The Urban Diverse City Perspective March 5, 2021
Brian Glynn, Director of Business Development at Trōv, and Susan Shaheen Ph.D., Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley (...
Bill Howe, University of Washington Associate Professor in the Information School, Adjunct Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, and Associate Director and Senior Data Science Fellow at the UW eScience Institute, presented EquiTensors: Learning Fair Integrations of Urban Mobility Data at the Applications of Data Science and AI to Equity, Race, and Inclusion in
On Thursday, December 10th, 2020, NABSA and project partners discussed some of the vital information in the
Thursday, December 10, 2020 | 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Seminar Abstract
Watch the 2020 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Series – Not ‘Back to Normal’: Mapping a Just Transportation Recovery from COVID-19 featuring key UC Berkeley faculty and researchers.
Presented by the Department of City and Regional Planning, the Center for African Studies, Global Metropolitan Studies, and the Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California Institute of Transportation Studies Resilient and Innovative Mobility Center Director, UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director, Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Susan Shaheen shares her p
Ryan Qi Wang, from Northeastern University, presented Human Mobility and Urban Resilience in America’s Cities on Friday, April 17, 2020 at 4 p.m. 
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, Mark Hansen presented the 
Christian Claudel, Assistant Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at UT-Austin, presented Data Assimilation and Optimal Control in theContext of UAV-based Flash Flood Monitoring at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar April 10, 2020.
Frédéric Mazzella, Founder & Chairman, BlaBlaCar, a European rideshare platform, presented BlaBlaCar: On the road... With a purpose at the ITS Transportation Seminar Thursday, Feb 27, 2020 from 1-2 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. 
UC Berkeley/UCLA Center for Law, Energy & the Environment Climate Program Director Ethan Elkind presented Driving the Wrong Way: Transportation Emissions and Climate Change at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar Feb. 21, 2020.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Naira Hovakimyan presented Aerial Co-robots of the Future: Safety, Intelligence, Certification at the ITS Transportation Seminar Feb. 7.
Vanderbilt University's Abhishek Dubey will present Building Principled Decision Procedures for Urban Transit and Emergency Response Services at the ITS Transportation Seminar Jan. 31, 2020.
Lyft's Kumar Chellapilla twill present Lyft’s Approach to Developing Self-Driving Technology at the ITS Transportation Seminar Jan. 24 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at 4 p.m. See the video.
His Excellency Philippe Étienne Ambassador of France in the US will present Tech for Good: A French vision for the 4th industrial revolution on January 14, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building for a Distinguished ITS Seminar. Hosted by the Institute of Transportation Studies. 
University of Illinois' Katherine Driggs-Campbell presented Trustworthy Autonomy: Behavior Prediction and Validation at 4 p.m. Nov. 22 at the ITS Transportation Seminar in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
University of Connecticut's Fei Mao presented Learning for Robust Control and Optimization: Efficiency and Safety of Autonomous Transportation Systems at 4 p.m. Nov. 1 at the ITS Transportation Seminar in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
UC Berkeley's Ruzena Bajcsy will present Modeling Human Distraction in the Car Due to Acoustic Annoyances at 4 p.m. Oct. 25 at the ITS Transportation Seminar in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Juan Argote (CEE MS '10; PhD '14) gave the CEE Fall Distinguished Lecture on Monday, Oct. 21. As the Transportation Research Lead at Uber Advanced Technologies Group, Dr.. Argote leads a team of data scientists with backgrounds in Transportation Engineering and Econometrics to inform Uber's self-driving vehicle strategies.
Juan Argote (CEE MS '10; PhD '14) will give the fall CEE Distinguished Lecture on Monday, Oct. 21. Argote is the Transportation Research Lead within the Uber Advanced Technologies Group.
UC Berkeley's Rob Leachman presented Strategic Initiatives for Inland Movement of Containerized Imports at San Pedro Bay at 4 p.m. Oct. 18 at the ITS Transportation Seminar in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Nanyeng Technological University's Justin Dauwels presented Towards Robust Machine Learning for Transportation Systems on Oct. 4, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the ITS Transportation Seminar.
UC Riverside's Jay Farrell presented Reliably Accurate State Estimation for Connected and Autonomous Highway Vehicles on Sept. 27, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the ITS Transportation Seminar.
Reason Foundation's Robert Poole will present Rethinking America's Highway Institutions on Sept. 13, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the ITS Transportation Seminar.
Uber's Feras El Zarwi presented Pricing Data Science for Uber Eats on Sept. 6, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the ITS Transportation Seminar.
Mexico's Undersecretary of Infrastructure Ing. Cedric Iván Escalante Sauri presented Diagnosis and prospects for transport infrastructure in Mexico at the ITS Transportation Seminar May 3 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. 
Asha Weinstein Agrawal, of San Jose State University, presented Is That Hoverboard Whizzing By Supposed to be on the Sidewalk? Regulating All Types of Personal Transportation Devices to Balance Transportation and Safety Concerns at the ITS Transportation Seminar April 26, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. 
Gabriel Gomes, of UC Berkeley PATH, presented Open Traffic Models: A Platform for Large-scale Hybrid Traffic Simulation at the ITS Seminar April 19, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Mark Rosekind, of Zoox, presented Transforming Transportation: The AV Opportunity at the ITS Transportation Seminar on Aprl 12, 2019 in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at 4 p.m.
Benedetto Piccoli, of Rutgers University - Camden, presented Lagrangian and Sparse Control for Multi-agents Dynamics and Traffic at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar April 5 at 4 p.m. in Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall.
Eric Mai, Former Uber Engineer, presented Balancing Riders and Drivers in Real- time around the World at Uber, at the ITS Transportation Seminar March 22 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. 
Ketan Savla, of University of Southern California, presented Horizontal Traffic Queues at the ITS Transportation Seminar March 15, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
University of Illinois at Chicago's Bo Zou presented Modeling Crowdsourced Urban Delivery: System Design, Solicitation Mechanisms, and Algorithmic Development at the Transportation Seminar on March 8, 2019 at 4-5 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. 
Verizon Labs' Aude Marzuoli presented Improving Decision Making and System Performance in Transportation with Mobile Phone Data at the ITS Transportation Seminar on March 1, 2019 at 4-5 p.m. in Hearst Memorial Mining Building. 
Carlos Daganzo, Chancellor's Professor of the Graduate School, delivered the CEE Faculty Distinguished Lecture. He spoke on Four Physics Stories and their Effect on China's Future Mobility on Thursday, Feb. 28 in Sutardja Dai's Banatao Auditorium, 5-6pm.
DKS Associates' Josh Pilachowski presented Transportation Safety: Project Identification, Prioritization, and Funding at the ITS Transportation Seminar Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. Join us for beverages and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
Uber's Chiwei Yan presented Transportation Optimization: Data-enabled Advances in a Sharing Economy on Monday, February 11, 2019 in 1174 Etcheverry Hall from 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
MIT's Sébastien Martin presented "From School Buses to Start Times: Driving Policy With Optimization" on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 in 1174 Etcheverry Hall, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Cornell University's Raga Gopalakrishnan presented Integrating Behavior, Economics, and Operations in Urban Mobility: Ridesharing and Multi-Modal Travel on Friday, February 1 in 1174 Etcheverry Hall, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Dengfeng Sun, of Purdue University, presented A Computational Optimization Method in Networked Dynamical Systems under Uncertainties on Feb. 1, 2019 t 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Minng Building.
Chris Harrelson, of Google, presented GTFS and Public-Business Partnerships in the Information Age Jan. 25, 2019 in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building from 4-5 p.m.
University of Washington's Xuegang (Jeff) Ban presented Modeling Dynamic Transportation Networks Using Differential Complementarity Systems on November 30, 2018 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
UC Berkeley's James Sallee presented Are New Vehicle Emissions Standards Effective and Efficient? on November 2, 2018 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
MIT's Saurabh Amin presented Highway Traffic Operations under Reliability and Security Failures on October 26, 2018 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. 
Northwestern University's Hani S. Mahmassani presented Integrating Shared Autonomous Fleet Services in Urban Mobility: Dynamic on October 19, 2018 at 4 p.m. in SPECIAL LOCATION 502 Davis Hall. 
UC Berkeley's Karen Trapenberg Frick presented Unlikely Alliances and Transpartisanship: Finding Common Ground Across Difference on Transportation and Infrastructure Oct. 12, 2018 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
University of California San Diego's Linda Hill presented Early results from the LongROAD study: A five-city observational study of 2990 older drivers on October 5, 2018 in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at 4 p.m. 
Webinar focuses on many imperative critical analyses for infrastructure megaprojects, provides a timely and fundamental overview / integration of the “Third Crossing” project.
European Commissioner for Mobility and Transport Violeta Bulc presented The Future of European Mobility: Safe, clean and connected Sept. 25, 2018 in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at 4 p.m. 
Stanford University's Erin MacDonald presented Designing for Customer Consideration of Alternative Fuel Vehicles, Instead of Final Purchase on September 21, 2018 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. 
San Jose State University's Hilary Nixon presented Financing the Future of Mobility: What Does the Public Think? on Sept. 14, 2018 in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at 4 p.m.
UCLA's Ankur Mehta presented Collaborative control and autonomy for traffic optimization at 4 p.m. Sept. 7, 2018 in SPECIAL LOCATION 502 Davis Hall.
Sudatta Mohanty presented "A Deep Learning, Model-Predictive Approach To Neighborhood Congestion Prediction And Control" on Aug. 29 at 11 a.m. in 212 O'Brien Hall.
Join us for our student symposium, where five doctoral students presented their work from 1-4 p.m., reception to follow, in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, May 11, 2018.
Don MacKenzie, of University of Washington, presented Environment, Economy, and Equity: New mobility services and sustainability from 4-5 pm in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building on Sept. 22. 
Arnaud de La Fortelle, of MINES ParisTech, Center for Robotics, presented Cooperation for Autonomous Cars: Why and How? from 4-5 pm in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building on Sept. 15, 2017.
Steve Heminger, of MTC, presented Future of the Interstate Highway System on Friday, September 8 at 4 pm in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. See our previous seminar posters, click on a poster to view full size
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