Reports

Reduce Emissions and Improve Traffic Flow Through Collaborative Autonomy

April 30, 2024

Authors: Anthony D. Patire, Ph.D., Research and Development Engineer, PATH, University of California, Berkeley; Francois Dion, Ph.D., Research and Development Engineer, PATH, University of California, Berkeley; and Alexandre M. Bayen, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Moffett Field Program Development, University of California, Berkeley.

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This report explores opportunities for employing autonomous driving technology to dampen stopandgo waves on freeways. If successful, it could...

A Futures Market for Demand Responsive Travel Pricing

June 25, 2024

Authors: Nicholas Fournier, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, SafeTREC, PATH, University of California, Berkeley; Anthony Patire, Ph.D., Research & Development Engineer, PATH, University of California, Berkeley; and Alexander Skabardonis, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

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Dynamic toll pricing based on demand can increase transportation revenue while also incentivizing travelers to avoid peak traffic periods. However, given the unpredictable nature of...

Macfarlane Publishes New Book Chapter

November 14, 2024

Digital Twins Book coverCongratulations to Smart Cities Research Center Director Jane Macfarlane and recent Civil and Environmental Engineering alum Ismaeel Barbur (MS , ’24) on publishing the chapter, “Mobiliti: A Digital Twin for Regional Transportation Network Design and Evaluation, in the book “Digital...

Fueling & Financing: Addressing the Urgent Challenges Facing Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicle Deployment

November 8, 2024

report coverThe UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) and the UCLA Law Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment recently published a new report: Fueling & Financing: Addressing the Urgent Challenges Facing Electric Heavy-Duty...

Jiang, Sengupta present at ITSC 2025

September 9, 2024

Xuan Jiang and Raja SenguptaCivil and Environmental Engineering doctoral candidate Xuan Jiang and CEE professor Raja Senguta will be presenting at ITSC 2024, on the paper: DRBO - A Simulator Calibration Framework based on day-to-day Dynamic Routing and Bayesian Optimization at

The paper, co-authored...

Devastator: A Scalable Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Framework for Modern C++

July 26, 2024
Authors: John Bachan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jianlan Ye, Arizona State University, Xuan Jiang, UC Berkeley, Tan Nguyen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mahesh Natarajan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Maximilian Bremer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Cy Chan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Source: Proceedings of the 38th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation Description: Parallel discrete event simulation is a fundamental simulation...

Jiang Publishes GitHub repository

September 6, 2024
Xuan JiangWhile interning at Google over the summer, Civil and Enviromental Engineering doctoral candidate Xuan Jiang published a GitHub repository for GoogleCloudPlatform: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-alerting-notification-forwa...

Electric Vehicles May Be Using Less Electricity than Assumed by California Regulators and Utilities

August 20, 2024

Authors: Fiona Burlig, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; James Bushnell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis; David Rapson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis; and Catherine Wolfram, Ph.D., William F. Pounds Professor of Energy Economics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EV) is a centerpiece of California’s strategy to...

Low Energy: Estimating Electric Vehicle Electricity Use

August 22, 2024

Authors: Fiona Burlig, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; James Bushnell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis; David Rapson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis; and Catherine Wolfram, Ph.D., William F. Pounds Professor of Energy Economics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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We provide the first at-scale estimate of electric vehicle (EV) home charging. Previous estimates are...

Dashboard Cameras Combined with AI Provide an Affordable Method for Identifying Curb Usage

May 23, 2024

Authors: Murat Arcak, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; and Alexander A. Kurzhanskiy, Ph.D., Associate Research Engineer, PATH, University of California, Berkeley.

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The increasing reliance on transportation network companies (TNCs) and delivery services has transformed the use of curb space. The curb space is also an important interface for bikeways, bus lanes, street vendors, and paratransit stops for passengers with disabilities. These various demands...