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Betty Deakin Honored with Service Award

March 11, 2013

Betty Deakin, Professor of City and Regional Planning and former director of the University of California Transportation Research Center, was recently awarded the Berkeley Faculty Service Award for 2012.

Full article: https://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/awards/bfsa-2017

https://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/awards/bfsa-2017

Former ITS Library Director Dan Krummes Dies

October 30, 2012
Dan Krummes, treasured colleague and former director of the Institute of Transportation Studies Library, passed away on Thursday, October 18, at the age of 62 following a long illness. Dan joined the institute’s library in 1976. He was named Chief Cataloger in 1981, Library Co-Director in 1992,...

Second ITS Ph.D. Student Wins Eisenhower

January 29, 2013

ITS Ph.D. student Juan Argote, a Barcelona native, has received an Eisenhower award for research related to improving the reliability of multiple bus lines traveling on a particular transportation corridor.

Other students at the Institute have studied bus bunching—an irritating situation well-known to passengers whose bus is late, and then finally appears unusually crowded and with two or three much emptier buses...

Economist Michael Anderson Joins ITS Affiliated Faculty

September 17, 2017
Christine Cosgrove

The day after an Oakland fire closed the transbay tube and traffic congealed almost everywhere in the Bay Area, Michael Anderson, an assistant professor of economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, was pouring over PeMS data on his computer screen.

“This is westbound highway 24 just west of the Caldecott...

Professor Carlos Daganzo Honored in Barcelona

March 11, 2013
ITS Professor Carlos Daganzo has received an honorary doctorate in his native Barcelona for his contributions to transportation science, his mentorship of transportation students from Spain, and research that led to development of a plan for a bus rapid transit network in the Catalan city.

Tech Transfer Director Laura Melendy Receives National Award

April 9, 2012
Laura Melendy, Assistant Director of ITS, received an award for her leadership and effectiveness in promoting the goals of the national Local and Tribal Technical Assistance Programs at the recent annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board.

TRB Presents Carey Award to Adib Kanafani

January 26, 2012

Former ITS Director Adib Kanafani received the W.N. Carey, Jr., Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding service to both transportation research and the Transportation Research Board at a luncheon held in Washington, D.C. on January 25.

Full article: http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/news/...

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/news/91AM/12Carey.pdf

Alexandre Bayen Pens New Book on Viability Theory

April 9, 2012

Alexandre Bayen, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, has co-authored...

New ITS Students Arrive

January 17, 2012

ITS rolled out the welcome wagon for 23 incoming transportation graduate students and a visiting scholar from Chile Tuesday in the Transportation Library.

This year, 10 international students from Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Lebanon, and New Zealand, joined 13 domestic students from six states. Eight are Californians. They are pursuing a variety of degrees, including joint degrees in planning and...

Walker, Gaker and Zheng Win Inaugural TRB Award

January 21, 2011
Professor Joan Walker, along with students David Gaker and Yanding Zheng, were the first winners of the Transportation Research Board's Ryuichi Kitamura Award for the Best Paper by a Student Co-Authored with a Mentor.
https://www.ce.berkeley.edu/news/179