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Jonathan Bray appointed to the Caltrans and CHSRA Seismic Advisory Board

February 1, 2021

Jonathon Bray Professor Jonathan D. Bray, Ph.D., P.E., NAE has been appointed as a member of the Seismic Advisory Board for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA). The Seismic Advisory Board was created as a recommendation of the Governor’s Board of Inquiry following the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Caltrans established the Caltrans Seismic...

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Alumna Tierra Bills Featured in Coloring Book

January 11, 2021

Coloring book cover ColorMePhD, a free coloring book series created by UC Berkeley alumna Julie Rorrer, showcases the work of ITS Berkeley alumna in Volume 2: Women in STEM. Professor Bills is celebrated for her...

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Self-eSTEM Earns Athena Award

February 5, 2021

Self-estem Bonding over Brunch Congratulations to Self e-STEM for being a 2021 Women in Tech Initiative Athena Award Winner in the Next Generation Engagement.

The Women in...

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12 Students Awarded Eisenhower Fellowships

October 23, 2020

Congratulations to the 12 UC Berkeley ITS students who received Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) fellowships for the coming year.

“ITS Berkeley has a long tradition of producing strong fellowship award winners who have greatly contributed to the transportation and planning fields,” says ITS Berkeley Director Alexandre Bayen. “It is exciting to see the broadness of topics our awardees are covering, and especially heartening...

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Bayen Elected to IEEE ITSS Board of Governors

January 7, 2021

Congratulations to Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley Director Alexandre Bayen on his election to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (IEEE ITSS).

Bayen was elected as part of the 2021 cohort of the IEEE ITSS board. He joins UC Berkeley academics on the...

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Doctoral Student Badoual Meets withFrench Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs

November 13, 2020

When the French Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of Foreign Trade and Attractiveness, Franck Riester went on a virtual trip to the United States on Oct. 22, 2020, UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering doctoral student Mathilde Badoual was on his agenda.

“It was really a surprise and an honor to be selected to meet with Mr....

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A Conversation on Angle Parking in Cities with Doctoral Student Marcel Moran

November 23, 2020

This article originally appeard on the Department of City and Regional Planning website

Early September, Marcel Moran, a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of City and Regional Planning, published his...

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Arpad Horvath Named Founding Editor-in-Chief of New Multidisciplinary Journal

December 1, 2020

Professor Arpad Horvath is founding Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (ERIS), a just-launched multidisciplinary journal devoted to addressing important challenges relevant to every aspect of infrastructure and associated systems at all scales and in all geographic...

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ITS Berkeley Awards

December 3, 2020

Zoom Award ceremony

ITS Berkeley hosted the annual Award Ceremony by Zoom Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. We are excited to bring together the ITS and alumni community virtually to present awards to our exceptional community and partners, and to recognize Professsor Alexander Skabardonis with the ITS Distinguished Legacy Award and Sen. Jim Beall with the ITS Distinguished Award for Advancement of Research and...