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Bikeshare and share alike: Q & A with TSRC's Susan Shaheen 27 Aug 2013 | 04:32 am
Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, answers questions about the August 29 launch of Bay Area Bike Share. Shaheen has spent eight years studying bikesharing...
Robert Cervero Co-Authors "Transforming Cities with Transit" 1 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
A new book co-authored by UCTC Director Robert Cervero and published by the World Bank explores the opportunities offered by transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities. The authors foc...
Berkeley Scholars to Study Equity Issues Related to Transportation-Oriented Development 20 Jul 2013 | 12:16 am
The California Air Resources Board has awarded a team of UC Berkeley transportation and planning researchers nearly $700,000 to study the effects of transit-oriented development (TOD) on communities o...
The Evolution of Bikesharing 19 Jul 2013 | 11:31 pm
Some 60,000 people have used New York City's new bikesharing program since it began in May, and new programs are opening soon in San Francisco and San Diego. How did this phenomenon begin and where is...
How Green Is Your Commute? Ask the Quantified Traveler 27 Jun 2013 | 12:39 am
In a recent issue of California Magazine, ITS Professor Raja Sengupta and Ph.D. student André Carrel describe how a new app they developed changes traveler behavior. "We know that people can persuade ...
How Transportation Works -- Or Doesn't 12 Jun 2013 | 02:09 am
Twenty-three students worked in teams to examine eight transportation problems, find potential solutions and defend them to fellow students, teachers and transportation professionals.
Berkeley Transportation Student Honored by Global Transport Ministers 23 May 2013 | 11:53 pm
Laura Schewel, Ph.D.candidate and CEO of StreetLight Data, which she founded, has won the International Transport Forum's 2013 Young Researcher of the Year Award for her paper, "Shop 'Till We Drop: A ...
Professor Arpad Horvath Co-authors Winning ES&T Paper 7 May 2013 | 01:28 am
In an award-winning paper, Professor Arpad Horvath and his co-authors suggest that because low-level ethanol-gasoline blends have not consistenly performed better than ethanol-free gasoline, it would ...
SafeTREC GSR Wins SF Bay Area ITE Student Paper Grand Prize 3 May 2013 | 10:34 pm
Katie Leung has won the grand prize for her presentation and paper, "Connecting Vehicles and ITS Infrastructure," in the 2013 Institute of Transportation Engineers San Francisco Bay Area Section.
New Global Road Safety Training Program at UC Berkeley 3 May 2013 | 10:25 pm
SafeTREC has announced the formation of a Global Road Safety Training Program, a collaboration between the School of Public Health and ITS. On a global scale, road crashes are projected to be the numb...
