Fall 2026 Transportation Seminars

August 20, 2026

Welcome to the Fall 2026 ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar Series.

The Transportation Seminar is organized by the Institute of Transportation Studies and the Transportation Students Organizing Committee (TRANSOC)

ITS Berkeley-sponsored seminars will be in 410 McLaughlin Hall at 3 pm. Join us for Cookie Hour at 2:30 in the Transportation Library, 412 McLaughlin Hall, unless otherwise noted.

You may take the Seminar as a one credit course: CEE 298-005, Class #17142 or CYPLAN 298-005, Class #15119

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Sept. 11, 2026

Vidhu Shekhar, Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer at Caltrans, will present Overview of Artificial Intelligence at Caltrans: A Framework for Enterprise Governance and Adoption at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Sept. 11, 2026

Sept. 25, 2026

Gene Oh, CEO of Tranzito, will present The Smart Curb: How Cities Can Control Their Most Valuable Asset at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Sept. 25, 2026

Oct. 2, 2026

ITS Berkeley will present Transportation Opportunities and Priorities for California Roundtable at 3 p.m. in the Bauer Wurster Hall Auditorium on Oct. 2, 2026

Oct. 16, 2026

Bryant Walker Smith, Associate Professor of Law and (by courtesy) Engineering at University of South Carolina, will present Toward Trustworthy (Automated Driving) Companies at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Oct. 16, 2026

Oct. 23, 2026

Yi Liu, Distinguished AI Scientist at Expedia, will present AI Agentic Travel at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Oct. 23, 2026

Nov. 5-6, 2026

Celebrate 40 years of California PATH as we look ahead to the next 40, with a day of panels and demonstrations

Dec. 4, 2026

Maryam Hosseini, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley, will present Data, Decisions, and the City at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Dec. 4, 2026

Dec. 11, 2026

Join us in celebrating the profound contributions of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor and ITS and PATH director Emeritus Adib Kanafani at Kanafani-thon on Dec. 11, 2026