UC Berkeley student Alexis Eskenazi has won second place in the Airport Environmental Interactions category of the 2025–2026 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs.
Vidhu Shekar, Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer at Caltrans, presented Overview of Artificial Intelligence at Caltrans: A Framework for Enterprise Governance and Adoption at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Sept. 11, 2026.
Congratulations to recent City and Regional Planning alum Cheng-Kai Hsu on winning the 2026 GPEIG/ACSP Gill-Chin Lim Best Dissertation in International Planning Award for Extreme Heat and Road Safety in the Era of a Changing Climate and the Precariousness of the Gig Economy—Evid
Transporation Sustainability Research Center Director Susan Shaheen, and researchers Brooke Wolfe and Adam Cohen talk to Curbivore about Let Them Linger?
The Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley is excited to announce that 14 projects, totaling $1.8 million in funding, have been awarded this year under SB1 and AB104 funds. ITS Berkeley has now awarded over $10M in UC ITS funding.
Of the 14 projects, 10 were funded under SB1 and four under AB104.
SB1 Projects:
Convening UC ITS Expertise to Inform California’s Transportation Funding Future
$125,000
PI: Susan Shaheen, Director of Transportation Sustainability Research Center
ITS Senior Fellow Arielle Fleisher, policy development and research manager at Waymo, references Tranposrtation Sustainability Research Center's Waymo study in the article, Waymo Speaks: We Have More In Common With Urbanists Than You Might Think, at Streetsblog:
Partnership between AAR, MIT, UC Berkeley, Rutgers University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign establish a new platform for collaborative research on the economic, policy and technological issues shaping the future of freight transportation
Congratulations to recent UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D.
Welcome to the Fall 2026 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: CEE 298-005, Class #17142 or CYPLAN 298-005, Class #15119
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