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Herbert-Faulkner, Ho Named Eno Fellows

May 1, 2024
ITS Berkeley doctoral students Rowland Herbert-Faulkner and Phoebe Ho are amongst the top 16 transportation graduate students across the country who will come together at the Eno Future Leaders Development Conference June 2-6, 2024 in Washington DC

Rowland Herbert-Faulkner and Pheobe Ho headshotsCongratulations to City and Regional Planning Rowland Herbert-Faulkner and...

Fu Receives Dean's Award for Inclusive Excellence

April 29, 2024

Zhe Fu receives AwardZhe Fu and Chancellor Carol ChristCongratulations to Civil and Environmental Engineering Doctoral Candidate Zhe Fu on receiving the UC Berkeley Dean's Award for Inclusive...

Senior Fellow Zmud Earns Zephyr Award

March 24, 2022

Johanna ZmudCongratulations to ITS Senior Fellow Johanna Zmud on earning the 2022 Outstanding Industry Contributor Award from the Zephyr Foundation!

Dr. Zmud is a travel behavior researcher, who has been at the forefront of applying survey science to the gathering of data on past, current, and future...

Alexandre Bayen named CITRIS director

January 22, 2024

See the story on the CITRIS site: https://citris-uc.org/alexandre-bayen-named-citris-director/

Alexandre BayenAlexandre M. Bayen, Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair and professor of electrical engineering and...

TRANSOC Students Set World Record

March 19, 2024

Transportation Graduate Students Organizing Committee (TRANSOC) members Ameen DaCosta (MS/MCP), Winnie Zhuang (MS/MCP), Paul Liu (MCP), and Jacob Champlin (MS), and friend Chance Wen who documented the feat, set off to complete a Guinness World Record: The fastest Time to Visit all BART Stations on March 9, 2024. TRANSOC members Melody Tsao (MS/MCP) and Mike Santos (MEng) helped organize, plan and serve as key witnesses, as well as drive the team to Antioch in the morning, and pick them up from San Jose in the evening. ITS Library Director Kendra K. Levine also served as a...

Fu Wins Winner Award at INFORMS

January 17, 2024

CEE Ph.D. candidate Zhe Fu received an award for her poster on automated vehicle control at the INFORMS annual meeting from October 15 to October 18Zhe Fu, Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. candidate, has received the winning award for her poster titled “...

Airport Design Students Get Hands On Lesson

January 10, 2024

Brian Gaul directs students on the different pieces used to design the private jets expansion at Las Vegas (LAS) Harry Reid International Airport During a lab on Nov. 7, 2023, students in CE153: Airport Design had the opportunity to meet with HNTB’s aviation group....

ITS strengthens links with Chile, engages with universities and governments

December 1, 2023

The Insitute of Transportation Studies Berkeley is excited to lay the foundation for new research and partnership opportunities in Chile with a recent visit from a delegation from the Ministerio de Transportes y Telecomunicaciones (MTT), Region del Biobio, and the Universidad del Biobío (UBB) Chile on Monday, Nov. 27 and Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023.

Prior to the visit, UC Berkeley alumnus Juan Carlos Muñoz, Chile'sMinister of Transportation and Telecommunications, provided a fireside chat on campus on Nov. 15, 2023, co-sponsored with Civil and Environmental...

Shladover Appointed to Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee

January 16, 2024
Steven ShaldoverShladover Joins New DOT New Advisory Committee to Help Shape Federal Approach to Transportation Innovation

Congratulations to California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) Research Engineer Steven Shladover on his recent appointment to the newly formed Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee (TTAC) to provide advice to DOT and the Secretary of...

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Adolf D. May

September 1, 2023

Dolf MayDr. Adolf D. May, Professor Emeritus of Civil & Environmental Engineering, passed away on August 16, 2023. He was 96 years old.

Professor May pioneered the science of Highway Transportation in Civil Engineering, creating and receiving the first Ph.D. in the field in 1952 at Purdue University. May was passionate about his work as a researcher and educator,...