Journal Articles

A typology of the built environment around rail stops in the global transit-oriented city of Seoul, Korea

September 24, 2021

GraphITS Associate Director and UC Berkeley Department of City and Regional Planning Professor Daniel A. Rodríguez and Chang-Deok Kang, Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate, Chung-Ang University recently published A typology of the...

Integrating Traffic Network Analysis and Communication Network Analysis at a Regional Scale to Support More Efficient Evacuations in Response to a Wildfire Event

June 1, 2021

Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Kenichi Soga, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interist of Society Researcher Louise Comfort, Postdoctoral Researcher Bingyu Zhao, and Civil and Environmental Engineering Students Paola Lorusso and Sena Soysal recently published a paper documenting their findings on how to integrate traffic network analysis and communications to improve wildfire...

Evaluation of Coordinated Ramp Metering (CRM) Systems in California

April 30, 2021

UC Berkeley's California Partners in Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) researcher Michael Mauch and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor-in-Residence Alexander Skabardonis recently completed a report evaluating coordinated ramp metering systems in cooperation with the State of California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, Department of Transportation...

Double the Trouble: A Playbook for COVID-19 and Evacuations

April 30, 2021

Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Susan Shaheen and TSRC survey researchers Jacquelyn Broader, Adam Cohen and Stephen Wong recently published Double the Trouble: A Playbook for COVID-19 and Evacuations

Abstract: Evacuation and response plans require thoughtful strategies that build mandatory evacuation order compliance, reduce vehicular congestion, and increase social equity for disadvantaged populations. However, the novel coronavirus (...

Roundtrip Carsharing in New York City: An Evaluation of a Pilot Program and System Impacts

April 15, 2021

Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen, research engineers Elliot Martin and Adam Stocker and PhD student Aqshems Nichols recently completed an evaluation of a roundtrip carsharing pilot program in New York City. Their analysis is now available: Roundtrip Carsharing in New York City: An Evaluation of a Pilot...

Developing Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Tools for Connected Automated Vehicle Applications: A Case Study on SR 99

April 30, 2021

FHWA GraphUC Berkeley Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) researchers Hao Liu, Xiao-Yun Lu, Steven E. Shladover, and Zhitong Huang recently completed a case study for the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Adminstration regarding the development of effecttive analysis, modeling, and simulation tools for connected automated vehicles:...

Driving California's Transportation Emissions to Zero

April 30, 2021

Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Directors Timothy Lipman and Susan Shaheen and research engineer Elliot Martin partipated with a team of UC Institute of Transportation Studies researchers from around the state in a study looking at how California can achieve carbon-neutral transporation by 2025: Driving California's...