Research

Several ITS Students Earn Fellowships

May 26, 2020
BERKELEY-UPPSALA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Marcel MoranCongratulations to City and Regional Planning doctoral student Marcel Moran who was awarded the Berkeley-Uppsala University Research Fellowship. The fellowship was intended to study cycling in Stockholm, Sweden and build on his study of mircomobility in Vienna, Austria last...

ITS Berkeley COVID-19 Efforts

May 22, 2020

COVID 19Smart Pandemic Management

Professors Raja Sengupta and Joan Walker

A growing number of epidemiologists are advocating for smarter pandemic management, which would move the frontier of quarantine out into communities with monitoring and proactive testing. Smart pandemic management (SPM) requires a data infrastructure that obtains the right data...

UC’s CITRIS launches COVID-19 response with 25 awards for innovative technologies

May 18, 2020

CITRIS Seed award

Initial round includes potential “game-changing” innovation for diagnostics, therapeutics, and mitigation

Congratulations to ITS Berkeley affiliates and Civil and Environmental Engineering professors Scott Moura and Raja Sengupta and City and Regional Planning professor Daniel Chatman, Civil and Environmental...

RFP and grant opportunities available

April 15, 2020

With many new requests for proposals in this new era of COVID-19, ITS Berkeley is collating a list of funding and research opportunities. To submit proposals for inclusion on this list, please email acairo@berkeley.edu

View a living repository for global resources for ongoing work for COVID 19: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JWeD1AaIGKMPry_EN8GjIqwX4J4KLQIAqP09exZ-ENI/preview...

New Resource: Injury Crashes During COVID-19

May 4, 2020

New resource: SafeTREC releases Injury Crashes During COVID-19 dashboard provides provisional weekly police-reported injury crashes on state highways in California, including bike and pedestrian crashes.

https://tims.berkeley.edu/covid19.php

Could Telecommuting Provide The Best Long-Term Environmental Benefit Of COVID-19?

May 4, 2020

Elkind BlogITS Berkeley affiliate Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley Law blogs about Could Telecommuting Provide The Best Long-Term Environmental Benefit Of COVID-19?...

Legal Grounds: Law and Policy Options to Facilitate a Phase-out of Fossil Fuel Production in California

May 1, 2020

Legal grounds coverThis article originally appeared at Berkeley Law

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Block Simplex Signal Recovery: Methods, Trade-Offs, and an Application to Routing

May 1, 2020

Wu Bayen figureInstitute of Transportation Studies (ITS) Berkeley and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) doctoral graduate Cathy Wu, ITS affliate and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Alexei Pozdnukhov and EECS Professor Alexandre M. Bayen recently published Block Simplex Signal Recovery: Methods,...

Micromobility evolution and expansion: Understanding how docked and dockless bikesharing models complement and compete – A case study of San Francisco

April 30, 2020

Bikeshare mapBerkeley ITS and Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) doctoral student Jessica Lazarus, CEE masters students Jean Carpentier Pourquier and Frank Feng, CEE Undergraduate student Henry Hammel, and CEE Professor and Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen recently published a new journal article...

COVID-19: Shifting Gears in Mobility

April 30, 2020
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Shifting Gears in MobilityUniversity of California Institute of Transportation Studies Resilient and Innovative Mobility Center Director, UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director, Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Susan Shaheen shares her presentation focusing on the COVID-19 crisis and opportunities, highlighting social equity, public...