ITS Activities at TRB

January 16, 2025

ITS Berkeley students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends were all over the Transportation Research Board Jan, 8-12, 2025! See where we were.

ITS Berkeley Lectern Sessions

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Berkeley Lab's Cristian Poliziani talks about research on Air Quality, Health Impacts, and Equity Assessment for Transport Interventions Using a Regional-Scale, Agent-Based Transportation System Model

TSRC researcher Adam Cohen speaks at the #TRBAM. Enhancing Suburban, Rural, Tribal, and Island Mobility: The Role of Microtransit, Mobility Hubs, Placemaking, and Emerging Innovations workshop genesis

TSRC's Adam Cohen presides over the #TRBAM Innovative Public Transportation Services and Technologies Committee. Great to see Susan Shaheen in the meeting too!

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design alum, Arup's Byron Thurber presents Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment for the Cook Islands

Fehr and Peers Grace Chen presents Emergency Vehicle Travel Time and Speed Study in San Francisco: Using Data to Support Sustainability and Emergency Response in Cities. UC Berkeley MCP student Drew Levitt participated in the study with SFTMA

PATH researcher Hao Liu moderates the conversation on Moving Automated Vehicle Research into Practice

TSRC's Adam Cohen leads the conversation as presider of Enhancing Mobility for All: Updates on U.S. Department of Transportation Accessibility Initiatives and Innovative Mobility Strategies session

Doctoral candidate Jaewon Saw presents Exploring Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Pedestrian Monitoring: Signal Characteristics and Identification Using Fiber Optic Cables Embedded in Roadways systems at #TRBAM from the Soga Lab

Fabian Paniagua, CTS Cement Manufacturing Company, presents Engineering Interlayers for Rigid Bases Under Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement Slabs, which UC Pavement Research Center Berkeley director Angel Mateos was a part of.

PATH Director James Fishelson talks Perspectives on Ontologies in Transportation Planning & Automated Vehicles. Led by ITS Library Director Kendra Levine

Transportation Sustainability Research Center researcher Adam Cohen presents Innovation, the Future, and Next Steps at the Innovation, Equity, and Accessibility in Air Travel: Oh, the Places We Will Go workshop

Doctoral candidate Jing Xu talks about Estimating Values of Slot Substitutions in the Gross Domestic Product

ITS Library director Kendra Levine leads the Information and Knowledge Management Committee

Krista Nordback, UNC Highway Safety Research Center and SafeTREC researcher, presides over Human Mobility: Estimating Non-Motorized Volumes and Missing Network Links

UPenn's Megan Ryerson presents the outline of University-Industry-NASA Center for Air Transportation Resilience. Research is led by UC Berkeley, UPenn, UMich, UMD, and ECSU

Doctoral student Phoebe Ho talks about Equity Considerations for Emerging Technologies in Transportation: A Comparative Study of Planning Practices in the United States and South Korea

Doctoral student Phoebe Ho talks about her research: Evaluating Accessibility and Equity Impacts of Pandemic Transit Service Adjustments: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area

SafeTREC and ITS Berkeley Scholars at the Quantitative evaluation: safety data and benchmarking panel. Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation Workshop

MCP alumni Stephanie Dock, Washington, DC, DOT talks about Safety measures from a city perspective at the Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation workshop

Our researcher Steven Shaldover talks about What Do We Learn from SGO Data at the Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation workshop!

Masuma Mollika Miti, Jean Doig, Julia Griswold, Steven Shladover, Peggy Wang, alums Tilly Chang, Stephanie Dock at the Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation workshop

Julia Griswold and others at the Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation workshop

PATH's Steven Shladover and Tilly Chang at the Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation workshop

Peggy Wang and others at the Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation workshop

Stephanie Dock and others at Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation workshop

Jean Doig and others at Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation workshop

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ITS Berkeley Around TRB

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Steven Shladover, James Fishelson, Hao Liu, and Justin Wiley pose at the exhibit hall reception

PATH Researcher Steven Shladover, Director James Fishelson, Researcher Hao Liu, and PATH/ITS Strategy and Development Director Justin Wiley met up at the TRBAM exhibit hall reception

EECS alum Fangyu Wu receive the Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award–Ph.D Award at the CUTC award banquet for his outstanding dissertation, “Planning and Control for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems."

Jacob Champlain and Jackson Mills hanging out in hallway

MCP students Jacob Champlain and Jackson Mills posing for a picture in the hallway at TRBAM

PhD students Joyce Jiayu Chen and Jing Xu and City and Regional Planning PhD student Yage Liu catch up at the afternoon poster session

Siqi Feng and Phoebe Ho posing in poster hall

Siqi Feng and Phoebe Ho catching up in the poster hall at TRBAM

Cristian Poliziani, Thomas Wenzell, James Butler, and Lin Jing hanging out in the hallway

Berkeley Lab's Cristian Poliziani, Thomas Wenzell, and Ling Jing as well as Berkeley Engineering PhD student James Butler debrief after a presentation

Spotted ITS Berkeley Fellow Randy Iwasaki conversing with others in the TRBAM hallway

Megan Ryerson, Seth Young and Geoff Gosling catching up during a break

Berkeley alums Megan Ryerson, Seth Young and Geoff Gosling catch up during the break at the Airport Slot Allocation and Capacity Management workshop

Susan Shaheen, Adam Cohen, and Chris Cherry catching up on a couch at TRBAM

TSRC Berkeley's Susan Shaheen, Adam Cohen and alum Chris Cherry catch up on a couch

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ITS Berkeley Poster Presentations

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Professor Emeritus Alexander Skabardonis posing next to a poster

Professor Emeritus Alexander Skabardonis takes his victory lap. After 40 TRBs, his poster on A Machine Learning Approach for Network Equilibrium Estimation marks his last TRB session.

City and Regional Planning PhD Candidate Alexander Ramiller talks about his research on Location Affordability and Auto Loan Debt Consumption in California at the #TRBAM Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship session.

MPP student Calvin Jordan's poster on Mapping Racial Transit Equity in the Bay Area: Projecting Impacts of Failing to Address BART’s Fiscal Cliff at the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program poster session

PhD student Carlos Guirado presents Berkeley Lab research Cordon Pricing in San Francisco: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach for Informed Policy Making

Cheng-Kai Hsu presents poster to Julia Griswold and Robert Schneider

City and Regional Planning doctoral candidate Cheng-Kai Hsu presents Context-Sensitive Roadway Classification Framework for Speed Limit Setting in the United States with Director Julia Griswold and alum UW Milwaukee Professor Robert Schneider

Mladen Čičić and Maria Laura Delle Monache discussing poster

Postdoc Mladen Čičić and Professor Maria Laura Delle Monache talk about their research on Macroscopic Traffic State Reconstruction Using LiDAR-Based Lagrangian Sensing

Jean Doig and Masuma Mollika Miti discuss poster

Postdoc Jean Doig and PhD student Masuma Mollika Miti talk about research with SafeTREC researcher Ipstia Banjaree, PhD student Nikou Khoshnevis Asl on Bicycle Crash Incidents in San Francisco Before, During, and After COVID-19

Haitam Laarabi presents Understanding Regional Freight-Related Air Pollution Using Agent-Based Models: A Case Study Across Nine Counties of the San Francisco Bay Area

Postdoc Iman Mahdinia talks about Understanding Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Trends in the Post-Pandemic Era

Hao Liu presents his PATH poster on Aerial Traffic State Estimation Based on Sparse Connected Automated Vehicle Data

Doctoral candidate Jing Xu talks about Benefits of Slot Substitutions for Airlines During Ground Delay Programs

Recent alum and Berkeley Lab researcher Jessica Lazarus presents Shifting Dynamics: A Multi-Factor Analysis of the Impacts of Shared Automated Electric Vehicle Expansion on Urban Mobility

PhD student Linda Lim talks about her research on Investigating Factors Contributing to Autonomous Vehicle Crash Severity Using Machine Learning and Recursive Feature Elimination with PATH's Anthony Patire and Peggy Wang

Berkeley Lab's Margaret Taylor presents Assessing the Benefits to Disadvantaged Communities of the Federally Funded Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Rollout: Learning from the Three Research Lenses of the JUST Lab Consortium

CRP PhD student Michael Montilla presents his work on Locating Public Charging Infrastructure and Electric Vehicle Adoption in Urban Neighborhoods with Limited At-Home Parking to MCPs Alyssa Hurtado, Michelle Baverman, Esteban Villasenor

Berkeley Lab's Margaret Taylor presents False Dichotomies and Shifting Archetypes in the Market for Electric Vehicles

Recent alum Siqi Feng talks about his work on Adding Deep Neural Networks for Choice Analysis: Enhancing Behavioral Regularity with Gradient Regularization done with Professor Joan Walker and alumni Timithy Braithwaite

Susan Shaheen talks about her research w/ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology and Volpe Center: Electric Vehicle Carsharing in Underserved Communities

Berkeley Lab's Xiaodan Xu talks about Improving Commercial Truck Fleet Composition in Emission Modeling Using 2021 U.S. Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey Data

Department of City and Regional Planning doctoral student Yage Liu talks about Does Commuting Really Make You Unhappy?: The Causal Relationship Between Commuting and Depression: Evidence from China