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UC ITS Briefings at the California Capitol

February 19, 2020

UC ITS

The UC Institute of Transportation Studies (UC ITS) and the Senate Office of Research invite you to a series of briefings at the California Capitol. The briefings will highlight the latest thinking and scientific insights on a range of transportation topics. See below for more information and links to register.

Integrating California's Vehicle Electrification and Clean Energy Goals Friday, February 28, 2020...

Darrell, Dragan, Goldberg, Katz and Russell to participate in Robotics + AI 2020 TC Session

February 18, 2020

TechCrunchITS and Berkeley DeepDrive affiliates and Electrical Engneering and Computer Science Professors Trevor Darrell, Anca Dragan, Ken Goldberg, Randy Katz and Stuart Russell are slated to participate in "TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020" on March 3rd on the UC Berkeley campus.

The single-day event will focus on "Minds and Machines: The Future of Robotics," and will featuret...

Shaheen Named Key Influencer

December 12, 2019

Congratulations to Transportation Sustainability Research Center Co-Director Susan Shaheen on being named one of 13 influential people in mobility at Tapkey.

Change is taking place through business, tech and mobility, and there are so many things going on and so many factors affecting mobility. To stay up to...

UCB SafeTREC Receives $3.94 Million in Grants from the California Office of Traffic Safety

January 10, 2020

7 separate projects address crucial traffic safety issues for the safety of road users in California.

By Lisa Peterson

The UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) announced today 7 grants for 2019-20 from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to support crucial traffic safety programs.

“Injuries from traffic crashes should not be an expected by-product of...

UC Institute of Transportation Studies to lead major study on a carbon-neutral transportation system for California

January 10, 2020

cloudsCalifornia is a global leader on policies to reduce the emissions causing climate change. But transportation has proven a particularly challenging sector to decarbonize. Today, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) released a draft scope of work for a major transportation study that will help steer the state towards its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. Authorized by AB 74—the...

Machine Learning Algorithms Help Predict Traffic Headaches

November 4, 2019
Berkeley Lab teams with PATH and Caltrans on real-time traffic analysis

This story originally appeared on Berkeley Lab website

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Berkeley Lab researcher Sherry Li (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Urban traffic...

Can cellphones help cities be more energy efficient?

October 1, 2019

San Francisco

This article originally appeared at Berkeley Engineering

by Linda Vu

Buildings...

Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable

September 24, 2019
The proliferation of apps like Waze, Apple Maps, and Google Maps is causing chaos




This article originally appeared at IEEE Spectrum

By Jane Macfarlane

Map illustration

Illustration: Chris Philpot

Miguel Street is a winding, narrow...

Multi-City Study Finds Traffic Congestion, Lack of Transit Access Associated with Depressive Symptoms

September 16, 2019

Transit tunnelShowing how traffic impacts the mental health of urban commuters, researchers from the National University of Singapore, UC Berkeley, and Universidad de los Andes recently published a new study in the latest issue of the Journal of Transport and Health indicating better access to...

Mobiliti: A Game Changer for Analyzing Traffic Congestion

March 7, 2019
New Software Tool Can Run Large-Scale Traffic Simulations in Seconds

By Keri Troutman, ...