Journal Articles

Response of Concrete Pavements to Ambient Environment Actions

August 23, 2020

Response of Concrete Pavements to Ambient Environment Actions

Measuring and modeling the effects of the ambient-environment on concrete pavements constitutes a research priority of the UCPRC. The ambient-environmental actions produce changes in concrete temperature and/or pore water content and the...

Development of Concrete Overlay on Asphalt Pavement Design Method

August 23, 2020

Development of concrete overlay on asphalt pavement design methodThe concrete overlay on asphalt (COA) is a rehabilitation alternative consisting of a 100 to 175 mm (4 to 7 in.) thick portland cement concrete overlay of an existing flexible or composite pavement. When designed and built properly, the COA...

Epistemic Communities in Unlikely Regions: The Role of Multi-level Governance in Fostering Regionalism

July 22, 2020

Figure 1. Improvement of relationshipsFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Elizabeth Mattiuzzi and ITS afflitate, CIty and Regional Planning Professor Karen Chapple recently published Epistemic Communities in Unlikely Regions: The Role of Multi-level...

On-Demand Automotive Fleet Electrification Can Catalyze Global Transportation Decarbonization and Smart Urban Mobility

June 26, 2020

ESTpubUC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) researcher and Energy Resources Group (ERG) doctoral student Gordon Bauer, Aspiring Citizens Cleantech’s Cheng Zheng, Emerging Futures’ Jeffery B. Greenblatt, TSRC Co-Director and Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Susan Shaheen, and ERG professor Daniel M. Kammen recently published...

Can Sharing Economy Platforms Increase Social Equity for Vulnerable Populations in Disaster Response and Relief? A Case Study of the 2017 and 2018 California Wildfires

June 12, 2020

GraphCivil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) doctoral candidate and Transportation Sustaianbility Research Center (TSRC) researcher Stephen D.Wong, TSRC Researcher Jacquelyn C. Broader, and TSRC Co-Director and CEE professor Susan A. Shaheen recently published ...

A data science framework for planning the growth of bicycle infrastructures

June 11, 2020

Cyclists in BogataITS affiliate, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and City and Regional Planning (CRP) professor, Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Marta C.González, with CRP grad student Luis E.Olmos and Maria Sol Tadeo, CEE grad student...

Research Synthesis for the California Zero Traffic Fatalities Task Force

May 13, 2020

Zero traffic fatalities report coverUC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center Co-Director Offer Grembek and researcher Katherine Chen, UCLA’s Brian Taylor and Yu Hong Hwang, and UC Davis’ Dillon Fitch, Sonia Anthoine, Bingchu Chen, and Salvador Grover recently published the report: Research...

Block Simplex Signal Recovery: Methods, Trade-Offs, and an Application to Routing

May 1, 2020

Wu Bayen figureInstitute of Transportation Studies (ITS) Berkeley and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) doctoral graduate Cathy Wu, ITS affliate and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Alexei Pozdnukhov and EECS Professor Alexandre M. Bayen recently published Block Simplex Signal Recovery: Methods,...

Micromobility evolution and expansion: Understanding how docked and dockless bikesharing models complement and compete – A case study of San Francisco

April 30, 2020

Bikeshare mapBerkeley ITS and Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) doctoral student Jessica Lazarus, CEE masters students Jean Carpentier Pourquier and Frank Feng, CEE Undergraduate student Henry Hammel, and CEE Professor and Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen recently published a new journal article...

A Simple Contagion Process Describes Spreading of Traffic Jams in Urban Networks

April 8, 2020

Spatial distribution of congestion in the Melbourne networkUC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Marta Gonzalez recently published the article A Simple Contagion Process Describes Spreading of Traffic Jams in Urban Networks at...