Research

COVID-19 Impacts on Shared Mobility: On-Demand Rides Shifting to Delivery Services

April 30, 2020

Medium front page Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen talks about COVID-19 Impacts on Shared Mobility: On-Demand Rides Shifting to Delivery Services in a blog at Medium:...

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Documentary Highlights ITS Berkeley Research

April 17, 2020

ARTE Documentary team CIRCLES project ITS Director Alexandre Bayen and his doctoral students Jessica Lazarus (Civil and Environmental...

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Pandemic Underscores Difficulties Accessing Transportation for People with Disabilities

April 22, 2020

ITS Berkeley doctoral student from City and Regional Planning Abby Cochran writes about Pandemic Underscores Difficulties Accessing Transportation for People with Disabilities at StreetsblogCal:...

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Eight Viewpoints on Mobility Post Coronavirus

April 17, 2020

Fleet Forward Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) Co-Director Susan A. Shaheen blogs about First Mobility Recession and TSRC Research Associate Adam Cohen blogs about...

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A Simple Contagion Process Describes Spreading of Traffic Jams in Urban Networks

April 8, 2020

Spatial distribution of congestion in the Melbourne network UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Marta Gonzalez recently published the article A Simple Contagion Process Describes Spreading of Traffic Jams in Urban Networks at...

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Fleeing from Hurricane Irma: Empirical Analysis of Evacuation Behavior Using Discrete Choice Theory

March 26, 2020

Civil and Environemntal Engineering doctoral student Stephen D. Wong, Delft University of Technology Faculty Adam J. Pel, Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan A. Shaheen, and Delft University of Technology Faculty Caspar G. Chorus publish Fleeing from HurricaneIrma: Empirical...

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UC ITS Now Accepting Proposals

March 30, 2020

The UC Institute of Transportation Studies is now accepting proposals for the FY 2020-21 Statewide Transportation Research Program (STRP) funded by the State of California through the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Senate Bill 1) and the Public Transportation Account.

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UC Berkeley will be awarding approximately $780,000 in total across two components of our FY 2020-21 research program...

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Lipman Presents EV Research

March 3, 2020

Lipman EV research in Sacramento Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Dr. Timothy Lipman recently presented University of California Berkeley research in the area of "electric vehicle and utility grid integration" to a group of legislative staff at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Friday February 28, 2020.