Journal Articles

Black and Latinx workers reap lower rewards than White workers from years spent working in big cities

April 14, 2025

Max BuchholzNew research from Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning Max Buchholz suggests that large cities, with their high cost of living and large populations, may create strong barriers to Black and Latinx workers accessing good jobs with high levels of upward mobility, as compared to white workers. This...

Designing a Time-Driven Simulation Framework for Large-Scale Traffic Networks

July 12, 2024
Author: Xuan Jiang Source: Proceedings of the 38th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation Description: In the field of traffic simulation, the shift towards large-scale, time-driven models marks a significant departure from traditional event-driven mechanisms, necessitating robust traffic dynamics that accurately capture the complexities of urban mobility. This study introduces a time-driven simulation framework designed to rigorously evaluate the performance of multi-GPU parallel computing systems across extensive traffic networks. Incorporating a traffic...

Simulating Integration of Urban Air Mobility into Existing Transportation Systems: Survey

July 12, 2024
Authors: Xuan Jiang, Yuhan Tang, Junzhe Cao (UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering), Vishwanath Bulusu (Crown Consulting), Hao Yang (John Hopkin University), Xin Peng (UC Berkeley Civil and Environemntal Engineering), Yunhan Zheng, Jinhua Zhao (MIT), Raja Sengupta (UC Berkeley Civil and Environemntal Engineering) Source: Journal of Air Transportation Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Description: URBANIZATION projects indicate that by 2050 more than 70% Europeans...

Neighborhood Greenness Associated with Decreased Depressive Symptoms in Mexican Cities

March 21, 2024

A tree lined gravel path in a Mexico City parkA recent SALURBAL study published in Applied Geography sheds light on the relationship between neighborhood greenness and mental health and depression in cities across Mexico. The study, “Associations between urban...

Rise of the Robotaxis: How Autonomous Vehicles Could Reshape Transportation in San Francisco

August 1, 2023

Driverless taxi on the roadITS affiiate Dan Chatman, associate professor and chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley joins the conversation on KQED Forum about driverless vehicles from autonomous ride services Cruise and Waymo can already be found all over San Francisco, and they may soon become much more common if a state commission grants them permission to expand...

ACSP Distinguished Educator, 2019: Elizabeth Deakin

July 17, 2023

Article on Betty Deakin websiteDepartment of City and Regional PLanning Professor Karen Trapenberg Frick recently authored the article ACSP Distinguished Educator, 2019: Elizabeth Deakin in Journal of Planning Education and Research

Excerpt:

This essay is the twenty-eighth in a series on the...

Urban dynamics through the lens of human mobility

July 10, 2023

Research graphsNew research from ITS affiliate Civil and Environmental Engineering and City and Regional Planning professor Marta C. Gonzalez and Postdoctoral Associate Yanyan Xu and colleagues on Urban dynamics through the lens of human mobility using a mobility centrality index to delineate urban dynamics in quasi-real time with mobile phone data. ...

Massive CAV Experiment in Nashville Pits Machine Learning against Traffic Jams

April 26, 2023

INFORMS MagazineCivil and Environmental Engineering doctoral candidate Zhe Fu, UC Berkeley science writer Kara Manke, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sceince professor Alexandre Bayen recently published the article Massive CAV Experiment in Nashville Pits Machine Learning against Traffic Jams in I...

Highway 1 Rat Creek Embankment Failure: 2021 Reconnaissance and Analysis

April 3, 2023
ASCE BookThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently published Highway 1 Rat Creek Embankment Failure: 2021 Reconnaissance and Analysis. ITS affiliate and Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Professor Dimitrios Zekkos led the team and co-edited the volume . UC Berkeley CEE Professor Nick Sitar contributed to the book, in...