PowerPoint Presentation I15 Devore Project Construction

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The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC
Berkeley
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ITS Facts and Figures

• Founded in 1948
• Average annual research awards around 20 million
• Over 100 faculty and staff researchers
• Over 100 graduate students
• Houses the largest university transportation
  library in the United States

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Centers and Partners

• The University of California Transportation Center

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Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways

• Established in 1986 in collaboration with
  California State DOT (Caltrans) to develop
  solutions to the problems of Californias surface
  transportation system
• A multi-disciplinary statewide program including
  cooperative projects with private industry,
  federal, state and local agencies, as well as
  non-profit institutions

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Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways
PATH research is divided into four program areas

• Traffic Operations
• Transit Operations
• Transportation Safety
• Behavioral Research

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Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways
Some examples of PATH research

• Next Generation Traffic Simulation
• Bus Rapid Transit
• Intersection Decision Support
• Smart Parking Systems

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National Center of Excellence for Aviation
Operations Research

• Established in 1996 as a consortium of four
  universities
• UC Berkeley
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of Maryland at College Park
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute
• George Mason University added in 2003

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National Center of Excellence for Aviation
Operations Research

• NEXTORs research mission is to drive
  improvements in the National Air Space and
  advance aviation technology
• Focus areas include the following
• Aviation system economics
• Performance metrics development and evaluation
• Aviation safety
• Aviation security

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The Volvo Research Foundation has awarded a
5-year 2.4 million grant to a team of ITS
faculty to establish a Center of Excellence in
the area of Future Urban Transport.
The Center focuses on the interaction
between technology and policy to improve the
sustainability of urban transportation systems.
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• Current projects include
• Balancing mobility and accessibility in Chinese
  cities
• Bus lanes with intermittent priority
• Improving urban mobility through gridlock control
• Green city logistics
• Adaptive signal control for urban arterials
• Wireless infrastructure for urban traffic control

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California Center for Innovative Technology

• Established in 2001 in collaboration with
  Caltrans to facilitate the development,
  commercialization and deployment of promising
  transportation technologies and systems

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California Center for Innovative Technology

• Berkeley Highway Lab is a roadway detection
  research and development site on a 2.7 mile
  segment of I-80 just north of Oakland. It
  includes 8 paired loop detectors and an automated
  video surveillance system mounted on the 30-story
  Emeryville tower, enabling automated vehicle
  tracking over an extremely congested area.

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California Center for Innovative Technology

• PeMS, a joint effort between ITS researchers and
  Caltrans, collects real-time flow and occupancy
  data from loop detectors embedded in the states
  freeways and makes it available to transportation
  managers, researchers and the private sector, for
  reducing congestion, improving trip reliability,
  enhancing customer safety and more fully
  utilizing existing system capacity.

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Pavement Research Center
PRC conducts research in partnership with other
academic institutions, private industry and
government to research questions pertaining to
the design, construction, rehabilitation and
maintenance of the highway infrastructure
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Pavement Research Center
Research has extended beyond pavement
design to problems of optimization of maintenance
of highway pavements
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Pavement Research Center
The CA4PRS project integrates design, materials,
construction and traffic analyses for freeway
rehabilitation and reconstruction projects in
order to lengthen pavement life, speed
construction and minimize traffic disruptions
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Traffic Safety Center

• Started in 2001 as a joint venture between ITS
  and the School of Public Health
• The mission of the TSC is to reduce traffic
  fatalities and injuries through
  multi-disciplinary collaboration in education,
  research, and outreach.

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Traffic Safety Center
Some current areas of TSC research
Older Drivers
Intersection Crashes
Child Passenger Safety
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The University of California Transportation
Center (UCTC)

• Funds fellowships for transportation students.
• Holds an annual competition for research
  project funding.
• Publishes ACCESS magazine.
• Sponsors an annual student transportation
  research conference.
• Not a part of the Institute of Transportation
  Studies, but important vehicle for policy
  research.

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Technology Transfer Program

• A sponsored project providing Californias public
  transportation agencies and transportation
  professionals with
• Easy access to information and research
• Low cost, high quality training at locations
  throughout California
• One-on-one technical assistance
• Serving 4000 professionals annually

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Technology Transfer Program
150 days of subsidized technical training
annually in

• Pavement maintenance construction,
• Transportation planning policy
• Traffic engineering
• Safety project development

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Joint Center for Transportation Sustainability
Research

• Collaboration of ITS, ERG, UCEI, UCTC, GMS BIE
• Initial projects include
• LCCA of ethanol as a fuel for the transportation
  industry
• Field-test of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as
  part of Controlled Hydrogen Fleet
  Infrastructure Demonstration Validation
  Project, in collaboration with DCX BP

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For More Information

• Check out the ITS Web Site at
• http//www.its.berkeley.edu
• or contact Steve Campbell
• Assistant Director
• [phone]
• spcampbe_at_berkeley.edu