Matt Elke, Transportation Sustainability Research Center
What’s your hometown?
Palo Alto, CA
What is your role at ITS, describe your job in four words, and how long have you been here?
Research Engineer; Data analysis alternative fuels; 10 years over two stints
What is your favorite thing about working at ITS?
The interdisciplinary nature of the work, with its requirement to bring different skills, and the
need to continually learn.
Where’s your happy place, favorite bay area location?
Lake Merrit at sunrise
When you aren’t cheering the Bears on, who do you root for/what’s your alma mater?
The Williams Formula 1 Team
What is on the top of your travel experience/destination list?
Riding a motorcycle for three months across most of Europe, Russia, and Ukraine!
What’s the latest book you read/latest show you binged/movie you watched/podcast you
listened to?
Book: My Life Behind Bars
Show: Star Trek TNG
Movie: Downton Abbey
Podcast: The Journal
What is your favorite food?
Japanese
If you could become a mode of transportation, what would you be?
MotoTaxi
If you could meet anyone in the world, dead, alive, or fictional, who would it be?
Abraham Lincoln
What’s your most treasured possession?
My dad’s wedding ring