Research

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...

Athanasopoulos-Zekkos receives CSMIP Grant

September 5, 2024

Adda Athanasopoulos-ZekkosAdda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Civil and Environmental Engineering Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging and Associate Professor, recently received a grant from California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (CSMIP) to work on "Assessment of Critical Lifeline Structures: Seismic Response of California Earth Dams Using...

Berkeley Paper Wins Best Paper Award at ICRAT

July 22, 2024

ICRAT Award

Congratulations to Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) doctoral student Emin Burak Onat, CEE doctoral student Shangqing (Albert) Cao,E Electrical Engineering and Computer Science undergraduate student Raiyan Rizwan, CEE doctoral student Xuan Jiang, CEE Professor Mark Hansen, CEE Professor Raja Sengupta, and Lead Aerospace Research Engineer at Supernal Anjan Chakrabarty on...

7 MCP Capstone Projects Funded and Published

June 11, 2024

Congratulations to City and Regional Planning Master of City Planning students Jacquelyn Broader, Angie Chen, Mallika Gupta, Katie Heuser, Andre Soucy, Sandra Romero, and Winnie Zhuang (MS/MCP) on receiving fellowship funds from the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) Berkeley and the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR), the Regional University Transportation Center, to conduct research for their capstone project.

“ITS Berkeley is pleased to support these seven students with their...

Elkind Discusses Escalating Transit Costs

June 5, 2024

Ethan Elkind speaking on zoomDirector of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment Ethan Elkind was reently interviewed for a documentary The Explosion in Costs & Timelines for American Transit Projects, a 30-minute video on...

Shaheen Delivers Keynote at Disrupting Mobility Summit

June 10, 2024

Panel DiscussionTransportation Sustainaibility Research Cener Co-Director Susan Shaheen co-hosted and provided the opening keynote at the Disrupting Mobility Summit in Berlin – A Global Summit Innovative Sustainable Futures on May 16, 2024.

Transportation Sustainability Research Center Senior Research Manager Adam Cohen was also a preseter and moderator at the Summit....

Shaheen Presents at University of Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series

June 3, 2024

Lecture posterTSRC Co-Director Susan Shaheen presented Social and Environmental Impacts of Carsharing: Looking Back and Looking Forward at the University of Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series 2024 on May 29, 2024: ://www.institute-of-transport-studies.hku.hk/dtls

SafeTREC's Griswold awarded new contract for "Developing a Safe System Approach to Setting Speed Limits: Phase II"

June 10, 2024

Read more: https://safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/safetrecs-griswold-awarded-new-contra...

https://safetrec.berkeley.edu/news/safetrecs-griswold-awarded-new-contract-devel…

PATH Earns SMART Grant

June 10, 2024

Grant Flow chartCongratulations to Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology researchers Joshua Meng and Alex Kurzhanskiy on being awarded a $1,096,500 FY23 SMART grant with the Contra Costa Transportation Authority to develop and test an integrated, open standards-based platform for finding, booking, and using paratransit options across 26 public and private organizations.

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MCP Graduates Present Capstone Projects

May 14, 2024

Graduating Masters in City Planning students recently presented their capstone projects for their professors and peers on May 10, 2024. Tranportation concetration students Thomas Namara, Angie Chen, Kathryn Exon Smith, Petra Reyes, Rio Morales, Mallika Gupta, Franchesca Rodriguez, Katie Heuser, Aneesh Mugulur, Mary McGee, Rachel Strangeway, Yican Du, and Nathan Carlson showed off their work through powerpoint presentarions, posters, Q and A, and discussion.