Spring Transportation Seminar Series

December 3, 2024

Seminar PosterWelcome to the Spring 2025 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: CIVENG 298 005, Class #17169; CYPLAN 298-005, Class #15331.

Friday, January 24, 2025

Compositional Design of Complex Systems: From Autonomy to Future Mobility

Gioele Zardini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Assistant Professor

Friday, February 7, 2025

Conception and Development of the Alameda Corridor

Robert Leachman, UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Professor Emeritus

Friday, February 21, 2025

Atomic Proximal Policy Optimization for Electric Robo-Taxi Dispatch and Charger Allocation

Manxi Wu is, Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at University of California, Berkeley

Friday, February 28, 2025

Urban Form, Land Use Mix, and Transport Networks: Towards a Synthetic Indicator For the 3 D’s in Multimodal Metropolis

José Carpio-Pinedo, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at ITS Berkeley

Friday, March 7, 2025

Engineering Sustainable Asphalt Pavements

Amy Epps Martin, Texas A&M A.P. & Florence Wiley Professor II and Senior Research Engineer

Friday, March 14, 2025

Robotaxis and AI: Navigating Mobility Innovation and the Public Good

Distinguished Panel in Academia & Industry

Friday, April 4, 2025

Scaling Up Shared Rides: Pricing and Matching Policies

Chiwei Yan, UC Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Assistant Professor

Friday, April 11, 2025

Can Usage-Based Pricing Reduce Congestion: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Shoshana Vasserman, Assistant Professor, Economics, Center Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Friday, April 18, 2025

A Multi-Agent Future of Mobility with Cooperative Vehicles and Infrastructure

Jiaqi Ma, Associate Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and Associate Director of UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Friday, April 25, 2025

Planning Evacuations of Communities with High Adoption of EVs

Ricardo de Castro, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Merced, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Friday, May 2, 2025

ITS Affiliated Student PhD Talks

ITS Affiliated Graduating Doctoral Candidates