Research

Center for Air Transportation Resilience Holds Kickoff

November 29, 2024

With so many moving parts and players involved when air travel is disputed, researchers can only imagine so far. With the help of a university-industry-NASA partnership, the Center for Air Transportation Resilience (CATRes), a NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI), aims to improve the resilience of the US National Airspace System (NAS) in order to reduce the disruptive impact of major storms, facility outages, and other shocks.

To do this, the Center held a kick-off meeting Oct. 18, 2024 at ATAC headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, in person and online, with...

PATH Awarded USDOT SMART Grant for I-40 Corridor Project

December 19, 2024

PATH LogoCongratualtions to California PATH, who has been awarded a U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) SMART grant for their innovative “I-40 TradePort Corridor Intelligent Data Platform”...

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...

Lu Participates In DOE Driving Automation Demo

November 18, 2024

As part of a team from the Berkeley Lab, Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology Researcher Xiao-Yun Lu participated in a demonstration to the US Department of Energy, US Department of Transportation and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration on Oct. 23, 2024 at American Center for Mobility (ACM) in Michigan

This project, led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), also includes Argonne National Lab and National Recyclable Energy Lab (NREL.)

The project’s objective is to use Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs) with V2X...

UC ITS Awards 4-Campus Proposal

November 7, 2024

UC ITS LogoThe University of California Institute of Transportation Studies has awarded a four-campus proposal “Restorative and Racial Justice in Reconnecting Communities" in the amount of $400,000.


The project will be led by overall Principal Investigator UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge Director Paul M. Ong, and Principal Investigators UC Irvine Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy...

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...

CEE Community Highlights Event

October 29, 2024

On Friday Oct. 25, 2024, Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted their inaugural CEE Highlights Event, which attracted over 250 attendees from the CEE community and provided an opportunity to celebrate the department's achievements and ongoing research.

Attendees enjoyed four talks from distinguished speakers who shared their expertise and perspectives on cutting-edge civil and environmental engineering topicsincluding ITS Affiliates Dimitrios Zekkos, Vice Chair for Strategic Planning and Implementation — Building Our CEE Community Initiative; Joan Walker, Department Chair and T....

Gonzalez Receives 2024 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize

November 4, 2024

Marta GonzalezCongratulations to ITS affiliate Marta Gonzalez, professor of Civil and Envrionmental Engineering and City and Regional Planning, on receiving the Lagrange Prize - CRT Foundation, the highest international award for Complex Systems and Data Science!

The award was established and...

Hosbey Receives Berkeley Climate and Equity Seed Grant

November 1, 2024

Justin HosebyCongratulations to ITS affiliate Justin Hosbey, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning, who received a seed grant from a new program sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.

The grants were awarded to interdisciplinary teams working on...

ITS Berkeley Awards 7 STRP Projects

August 23, 2024

In August 2024, ITS awarded the first of 7 projects through the Statewide Transportation Research Program (STRP), funded by the Road Repair and Accountability Act (Senate Bill 1) for a total amount of $595,000.

Michael Cassidy: Congestion Pricing to Support Transit

We will explore cordon placements that, for any toll amount, maximize desirable impacts of tolling, including the revenues generated, to subsidize transit. We will determine how these optimal placements are affected by local conditions and quantify benefits.

Our preliminary research shows that a cordon’s favorable...