During the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington DC Jan, 7-10, 2024, UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies leaders met with federal leaders.
ITS participants included Director Daniel Rodriguez, Assistant Director, Laura Melendy Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Chair Joan Walker, Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) Director Susan Shaheen, TSRC Director Tim Lipman, CA Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH)Faculty Director Scott Moura, PATH Executive Director James Fishelson, CEE Professor Maria Laura Dele Monache, Safe Transportation Research and Education Center Director Julia Griswold,Smart Cities Research CenterDirector Jane Macfarlane, NEXTOR Director Mark Hansen, PATH researcher Steven Shladover, transportation graduate student Jing Xu and UC Berkeley Government and Community relations Michelle Moskowitz.
They met with:
Office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA)
Office of Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA)
Office of Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Berkeley/Oakland)
Office of Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24, Santa Barbara)
Office of Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael)
Office of Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D- CA-26 )Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA)
Rukia Hassoun, Air Grant Fellow, US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Topics covered: Electric Vehicle Grid Integration, Hydrogen, alrernative fuels, infrastructure, ITS Berkeley research and potential roles and services, FAA topics,importance of University Transportation Centers, Urban Air Molbility, Workforce Training, smart cities, surveillance, data sorage standards, surface transportation congestion policies, emergency response models for evacuating during natural disastors, local projects, and much more.