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We are excited to support @berkeleyengineer.sky.social Professor Marta Gonzalez's research on Mobility Science Framework for Integrating Automated Vehicles with Public Transit. Read more: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...

Thank you to Bryant Walker Smith, Associate Professor of Law and (by courtesy) Engineering at the @sc.edu, for joining the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on October 16!

Are you ready for the PATH@40 Symposium? 🚗💡 Excited to announce The Power to Run the Fleet Panel that will explore the changing energy needs as AI and automated fleets are integrated into the transportation landscape, and what that means. Register: lnkd.in/gsrGRgGh

We are excited to support Alexandre Bayen, Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and his research project, Transitioning from the Gas Tax: A Modeling Framework for Road User Charge Design in California. Read more: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...

Thank you to our moderator Egon Terplan, Susan Shaheen, Scott Moura, and Ken Alex, for an engaging conversation at our Roundtable on Transportation Opportunities and Priorities for a New California Governor! We also had a great Q&A session, thanks to a fantastic audience!

Are you ready for the PATH@40 Symposium? 🚗💡 We're excited to announce our Workforce and Adapting in a World of AI Panel! Register for California PATH Symposium and DRIVE AI Demo Day here: lnkd.in/gsrGRgGh Learn more about the event here: lnkd.in/gJ6ywAST

We are excited to support @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Manxi Wu's research project: BayPass++: Market Design for Incentive-Compatible, Integrated and Equitable Mobility: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...

On Sept. 25, ITS Berkeley welcomed Gene Oh, founder and CEO of Tranzito, for the Transportation Seminar, “The Smart Curb: How Cities Can Control Their Most Valuable Asset.” Thank you to Gene Oh and everyone who joined us for the conversation!

Are you ready for the PATH@40 Symposium? 🚗💡 Join us for a keynote conversation on California’s new autonomous vehicle regulations with Toks Omishakin, Secretary of the California State Transportation Agency. Learn more here: driveai.berkeley.edu/events

ITS Berkeley is excited to support Ben Metcalf, Managing Director of the @ternerhousing.bsky.social Housing Innovation, in his study on California’s housing future! 🏘️🏗️ Read more at: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...

Congratulations to recent UC Berkeley City and Regional Planning Ph.D. and ITS Berkeley alum Cheng-Kai Hsu on winning the 2026 GPEIG/ACSP Gill-Chin Lim Best Dissertation in International Planning Award! 🎉 Congratulations, Cheng-Kai, on this well-deserved recognition! 👏

Interested in what the most pressing mobility challenges facing California’s next governor? Come hear what our panelists have to say about what’s working, what needs fixing, and the policies required for the future of transportation on Oct. 2, 2026 3-4:30 pm in Bauer Wurster Hall Auditorium.

We're excited to fund @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social professor, TSRC director Susan Shaheen's $125,000 study on California's Transportation Funding Future! Read more at its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...: 🚝 🚙 ✈️

Congratulations to recent @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social CEE graduate Zhe Fu for winning first place in the 2026 H2H8 YouTube Research Presentation Competition and for being the recipient of the WTS San Francisco Chapter’s 2026 Bridgette Beato Leadership Legacy Graduate Scholarship!

Thank you to Vidhu Shekhar, Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer at @Caltrans for presenting an Overview of Artificial Intelligence at Caltrans: A Framework for Enterprise Governance and Adoption at the ITS Berkeley Transportation seminar!

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: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...

Curious about alcohol-involved crashes among young California drivers before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic? @ucberkeleysafetrec.bsky.social director Julia Griswold teamed up with researchers to find out. Learn more about the study: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Wonder how California's new autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations are being shaped? ITS Berkeley's @scottmoura.bsky.social shared his expertise with the Assembly Transportation Committee. Watch the hearing here: www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assemb.... Moura's comments start at 2:48:00.

Partners for Advanced Transportation is turning 40 and we are hosting a 2-day celebration with a packed symposium, DRIVE AI Demo day, and a party Nov. 5-6, 2026 in on UC Berkeley campus and the Richmond Field Station, Save the date, details to come!

New Class alert from TechTransfer: Geospatial Data Science and Simulation for Transportation Are you ready to level up your transportation decision-making without needing to learn how to code? Learn more and registration: registration.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/wconnect/Cou...

The Haas Mobility Club hosted Innovations in Transportation Safety, co-sponsored by ITS Berkeley on Thursday, June 4, 2026. Keynote by Emily Warren of CalSTA. Governing AVs in California: Regulatory Evolution and Emerging Trends Panel w/ @ucberkeleysafetrec.bsky.social's Matt Raifman

Watch as the CalSol, UC Berkeley Solar Car Racing team: Undergraduate students from the team showed and talked about the design, build, test, and race process of their fully solar-powered vehicle: youtube.com/shorts/u59wV...

Global Operations Manager for Robot.com talks about the kiwibot, which is used to deliver items and meals, and newer robotic platforms to move cargo, carry ads, and inspect infrastructure. youtube.com/shorts/7Me6u...

Wild Technologies CEO/co-founder Riley Rodenburg demonstrated his self-propelled electric trailer that pulls its own weight and provides power with an electric powertrain kit thatcan integrate directly into an existing trailer at our April DRIVE AI event! youtube.com/shorts/9TQsW...

ITS Berkeley/Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology researcher Hao Liu talks about his #Digital #Infrastructure and #Simulator work using #DigitalTwin software to replicate and demonstrate street and intersection safety.

Looks like we made it! Happy commencement to our @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social PhD graduates. The journey was long, but well worth it. We loved that you took us along for the ride at UC Berkeley, but now we're excited to see where you begin the adventure!

Congratulations to our @ced_berkeley Master in City and Regional Planning PhD students! As you leave UC Berkeley, we wish you the best of luck as your new chapter commences! Looking forward to seeing where you go nexr!

Advanced Mobility Group talks about work with Contra Costa Transportation Authority on #CAV: connected autonomous vehicle in a box that contains a traffic controller and roadside unit that collects #V2X messages for emergency vehicle scenarios at DRIVE AI Demo Day: www.youtube.com/shorts/d_ddx...

Congratulations to our UC Berkeley @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social and Civil and Environmental Engineering MS and MEng Transportation students! We hope you enjoyed your time here and we look forward to your next chapter. Congratulations on your commencement today!

Congratulations to ITS Outstanding Undergraduate Student of the Year @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social EECS Delbert Tran and Outstanding PhD Students of the Year DCRP Michael Montilla and CEE Zhe Fu! its.berkeley.edu/news/its-nam...

Upshift Product & Marketing Director Keith Reinbolt and CEO Ezra Goldman talk about their Personal Autonomous Vehicle Subscription Service at DRIVE AI Demo Day April 16, 2026!

UC Berkeley @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social and Berkeley CEE MS student Jaden Changyeob Lee and PhD candidate Gaofeng Su demonstrate their emergency medical supply drone delivery project at Drive AI demo day April 16. Watch it go!

UC Berkeley @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social CEE MS student Jaden Lee and PhD candidate Gaofeng Su talk about their EVTOL project for which they built a drone for emergency medical services at Drive AI demo day April 16.

Thank you to @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social CEE PhD candidates Zhe Fu Yi Ju Yati Liu & DCRP PhD candidate Michael Montilla for presenting their work at the ITS PhD Seminar. From traffic systems and EV infrastructure to aviation decarbonization, their research is shaping the future of transportation.

Roundabout Technologies CTO Sabeek Pradhan talks about Roundabout Technologies Real-Time Vision System and Intelligent Decision Making at DRIVE AI Demo Day on April 16, 2026.

We were excited to host SimForge at our DRIVE AI Demo Day on April 16, 2026! Listen to founding CEO Anuj Gupta talk about his simulation and digital twin technologies for autonomous driving.

We were excited to host Autolane at our DRIVE AI Demo Day April 16. Listen to CEO and Co-Founder Ben Seidl talk about Autolane's technology for AV cars to pick up curbside orders.

Thank you to Jumbi Edulbehram, Global Business Development, Smart Cities and Spaces at NVIDIA, for presenting Advancing Intelligent Transportation Systems with AI at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, April 24, 2026.

We were excited to host Float Cargo at our Drive AI demo day on April 16, 2026! Watch more about their large scale autonomous lighter than air vessel delivery plans at youtube.com/shorts/uib58...

It was so great to see our alum Celeste Chavis, now the Morgan State University Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Chair and Professor! Thank you for presenting Driving Change: Volunteer Management and Engagement in Food Recovery Operations at the Transportation Seminar on Friday, April 10!

@berkeleyengineer.bsky.social PhD candidate Zhe Fu Receives 2026 Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award! its.berkeley.edu/news/fu-rece...

@berkeleyengineer.bsky.social PhD candidate Linda Lim Receives 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award! its.berkeley.edu/news/lim-rec...

Thank you to San Jose State University Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies Assistant Professor Marcel Moran for presenting Drive-Thru USA - Spatial Analysis, Car-Centricity, and Sprawl Design in America at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, April 3.

ITS Berkeley Acting Director scottmoura.bsky.social, @BerkeleyEngineer.bsky.social Professor, talks to KQED's Forum about Car and Gas Prices Are Shooting Up. How Will Drivers Respond?: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Thank you to our Advanced Air Mobility and eVTOL: Navigating Vertical Mobility Innovation and the Public Good panel! its.berkeley.edu/news/advance...

WUI-GO!, a startup from ITS Berkeley affiliate, @berkeley.bsky.social prof Kenichi Soga’s lab just received $1.3M in NSF funding to help communities prepare for wildfire evacuations. its.berkeley.edu/news/citris-...

Congrats to @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD candidates Zhe Fu and Yi Ju, who each received 2025 CTF Lipman Family Sustainable Transportation Graduate Fellowships!

Thank you to @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social EECS Assistant Professor Serina Chang for her presentation Generative AI and Statistical Methods to Simulate Fine-Grained Mobility Patterns from Aggregated Data at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, March 6, 2026

Read our latest newsletter: Berkeley ITS at 10x Mobility Summit, MCP/MS Jon Atkins Named PSR UTC Masters Student of the Year, Eno Features PhD student Linda Lim, and more! campaignlp.constantcontact.com/em/113584952...

UC Berkeley @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social faculty and researchers were featured at the UC ITS Mobility 10x Summit, the capstone event of the Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (RIMI). See photos and read more about RIMI projects: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...