While new plans are beginning to form at the University of California Richmond Field Station, the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies held a tour of activities on Friday, May 9, 2025.
The Richmond Field Station is a 170-acre plot seven miles north of the UC Berkeley campus and serves as research space, test bed operations, and offices for several UC Berkeley research centers, workspace for about 70 student clubs, and home to UC Berkeley-affiliated startups.
With so much activity already underway and more in the works, the UC Berkeley Innovation and Entrepreneurship group, the City of Richmond, Haas Business School MBA students, and other guests met with several professors, researchers, and students to gain a better understanding of the current research and activities, the potential, and a peek at what the Berkeley Mobility Hub Phase 1 will look like.
The group visited Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology’s Digital Twin software simulation, the old AV test track, the V2V signal intersection, and connected automated trucks; the Center for Smart Infrastructure's fiber optic network in road testing operation, robot dog capabilities for entering areas unsafe or too tight for humans, and the broken pipe testing area; student maker club space, including the electric formula one team; PEER's shaker table and hydraulic press; and startup Gamma Reality's radiation detection work.
Read more about the new Berkeley Mobility Hub plans for RFS here: https://its.berkeley.edu/news/its-launches-berkeley-mobility-hub-richmond-field-station