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Marta Gonzalez Featured on WCAI's Living Lab Radio

September 26, 2018

Marta Gonzales featured on WCAIS living lab radioMarta Gonzalez has been using cell phone and credit card data to probe how different groups of people move around a city and talks about it on Living Lab Radio.

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Tomizuka will be awarded 2020 Nichols Medal

February 18, 2020

tomizuka masayoshITS affiliate Mechanical Engineering Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka will be awarded the prestigious 2020 Nichols Medal at the 21st International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress in Berlin, Germany on Sunday, July 12, 2020. Professor Tomizuka is being awarded for his pioneering contributions to the control of mechatronic systems.

Created in 1996, the...

UC ITS Meets with Caltrans

March 17, 2020

UC ITS Directors Meet with Caltrans Leaders

The University of California Institute of Transportation Studies (UC ITS) leadership, including ITS Berkeley Director Alexandre Bayen and UC ITS Innovative Mobility Initiative Director and UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen, met with the new California...

Electric Vehicles and Global Urban Adoption: Policy Solutions from France and California

November 21, 2019

Ethan ElkindUC Berkeley Law's Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) just released a symposium brief on the lessons learned for electric vehicle deployment in France and California, based on the discussion at our June 2019 international conference at UC...

Oliver Wyman Forum, Bayen Rank Which Cities Will Lead the Mobility Revolution

November 26, 2019
New Index ranks Singapore, Amsterdam, London, Shanghai, and New York as the top five cities Asian cities dominate the top 10 – occupying five of the top spots Global cities in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa ranked on mobility ecosystem development

PARIS Results from the Oliver Wyman Forum’s inaugural Urban Mobility Readiness Index: How Cities Rank on Mobility Ecosystem Development — a joint research effort with the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California, Berkeley — were...

Wolf Homburger, Former ITS Assistant Director, Lecturer and Author, Dies

July 22, 2010

Wolf Homburger, the former Assistant Director of ITS Berkeley and the author of a widely used textbook on traffic engineering, died June 9 after he was injured in a fall. He was 83.

Homburger joined ITS in 1955 as a junior research engineer. By the time he officially retired in 1990 he was the Institute’s assistant director, and his popular classes along with his textbook,...

2019 Commencement

May 21, 2019

Congratulations to all our Transportation Engineering, dual degree with City Planning, Master in Engineering and City Planning graduates!

As ITS and centers under ITS facuty and staff have watched students grow and their research blossom, it’s good to remember that commencement is the beginning, not the end. We are excited to see where this group of students will go and what they will accomplish. We...