Research

New Release: 2022 SafeTREC Traffic Safety Fact Sheets

September 30, 2022

2022 SafeTREC Traffic Safety Fact Sheets feature recent data on some of California's most pressing traffic safety issues to help inform future road safety efforts

UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to announce the release of the 2022 series of Traffic Safety Fact Sheets, which feature traffic safety data and trends at the national and state level on a variety of road safety topics. This series also highlights the Safe System approach to road safety, which the United States Department of...

SafeTREC Presents in RWJF Pioneering Ideas Monthly Forum

September 26, 2022

On Wednesday, September 21, 2022 SafeTREC Research & Development Engineer Afsaneh Yavari and Co-Director David Ragland presented, "Improving Transportation Infrastructure on Tribal Lands Using Crowdsourcing Data" as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Pioneering Ideas Monthly Forum. The Forum is part of the Pioneering Ideas Grantee Gathering Place.

Future of Aviation Symposium Captures Lively Discussion

August 9, 2022

receptionUniversity of California Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies in partnership with Caltrans Division of Aeronautics and Division of Research, Innovation, and System Information recently hosted the Future of Aviation: Advancing Aerial Mobility through Technology, Sustainability, and On-Demand Flight symposium on Aug. 3-4 at the San Francisco International Airport.

Hundreds of local, national...

SB1 Research Projects Funded

August 11, 2022

The Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley is excited to award 12 projects this year through funding from the UC Institute of Transportation Studies FY 2022-23 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.

This year, $705,916 was awarded to professors in three academic departments and six centers at ITS Berkeley and at UC Berkeley.

10 Research projects:...

Community Partnering Microgrants

July 12, 2022

Community Partnering Microgrants are now being offered by the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies.

Researchers conducting place-based research or research of vulnerable or disadvantaged populations are encouraged to partner with a relevant community-based organization (CBO) in designing, performing, and disseminating the research, and to compensate them for their work. The intent of these microgrants is to help researchers develop or strengthen relationships with CBOs in advance of specific research projects. This will improve...

Dai, Hansen Featured at the FAA Machine Learning Workshop

July 7, 2022

agenda On June 13, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the NEXTOR consortium held a Machine Learning Workshop to stimulate thoughts and discussions on how the fast-growing machine learning techniques can be used for...

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Displacement

May 18, 2022

Join ITS affiliate and Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning, director of UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project Karen Chapple as she faciliates a discussion on climate displacement with faculty members of UC Berkeley’s new cluster in climate equity and environmental justice (Maya Carrasquillo, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Daniel Aldana Cohen, Sociology; Zoe Hamstead, City & Regional Planning; Meg Mills-Novoa, Energy & Resources Group and Department of Environmental Science; Danielle Rivera, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning). ...

Grembek Presents at CA DMV and ITS San Diego

May 4, 2022

Safe Transportation Research and Education Center Co-Director Offer Grembek presented on the Safe System Approach in two recent events, one for the CA DMV and one for ITE San Diego Chapter.

On Thursday, April 28, 2022 the California...