Research

NEXTOR Selected to Conduct Urban Air Mobility Research in Paris

February 1, 2021

Jasenka RakasCongratulations to UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies and NEXTOR Research Center's Jasenka Rakas on being selected to conduct experiments beginning June 2021 in the test area at the Pontoise-Cormeilles-en-Vexin airfield to create an ecosystem around urban air mobility in the Paris region.

NEXTOR is one of some 30 winners out of 150 applications from 25 countries,...

Drawing the map: The creation and regulation of geographic constraints on shared bikes and e-scooters in San Francisco, CA

February 2, 2021
Scooter map of SFInstitute of Transportation Studies and Department of City and Regional PLanning doctoral sudent Marcel Moran recently published Drawing the map: The creation and regulation of geographic constraints on shared bikes and e-scooters in San Francisco, CA in the Journal of Transport and Land Use:...

ITS Schedule at TRB

December 22, 2020

TRB 2021

The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting is looking very different this as it moves online due to COVID 19 restrictions, but UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Lab are well represented. This year, 58 Faculty, Researchers, and Students will present or preside in four workshops, one lectern session, two meetings, one symposium and 43 posters in 27 poster sessions. Learn more about the meeting:...

PATH Paper Earns George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award for Outstanding Research

January 7, 2021

SardisAwardCongratulations to Partners in Advanced Transportation Technology researchers Steven Shladover and John Spring and former PATH affiliates Vicente Milanés, Hiroshi Kawazoe, Christopher Nowakowski, and Masahide Nakamura on earning the 2015 George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award for Outstanding Research for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise...

2020 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Series – Not ‘Back to Normal’: Mapping a Just Transportation Recovery from COVID-19

December 1, 2020

Lake Arrowhead conferenceWatch the 2020 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Series – Not ‘Back to Normal’: Mapping a Just Transportation Recovery from COVID-19 featuring key UC Berkeley faculty and researchers.

Mobility for Vulnerable Populations During COVID-19
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A Conversation on Angle Parking in Cities with Doctoral Student Marcel Moran

November 23, 2020

This article originally appeard on the Department of City and Regional Planning website

Marcel MoranEarly September, Marcel Moran, a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of City and Regional Planning, published his...

Arpad Horvath Named Founding Editor-in-Chief of New Multidisciplinary Journal

December 1, 2020

Arpad HorvathProfessor Arpad Horvath is founding Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (ERIS), a just-launched multidisciplinary journal devoted to addressing important challenges relevant to every aspect of infrastructure and associated systems at all scales and in all geographic...

Drop in pandemic CO2 emissions previews world of electric vehicles

November 24, 2020

Video Screenshot of SF Bay and Bay BridgeWhen the pandemic forced Bay Area residents to shelter in place in March, chemist Ron Cohen saw an opportunity to see how air quality was affected. He employed a unique CO2 network, BEACO2N, that he and his team had installed around the Bay Area to monitor...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/09/drop-in-pandemic-co2-emissions-previews-wor…

Lipman Earns CITRIS Seed Funding Award

December 3, 2020

EV charger

Tim LipmanUC Berkeley researcher, Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Timothy Lipman and UC Davis researcher, Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the...

Improving Urban Traffic Throughput with Vehicle Platooning

July 6, 2020

Before California sheltered in place, UC Berkeley and ITS researchers were out in traffic showing how forming vehicle platoons can dramatically improve urban traffic flow in Arcadia, CA. They recently published a paper and video on their research and demonstration.

Funded by the National Science Foundation and DOT, Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) Chair Roberto Horowitz leads the team of ME and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)...