UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies

It was so great to see our alum, Celeste Chavis, who is 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!

Berkeley Engineering CEE Berkeley PhD candidate Linda Lim Receives 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award! https://its.berkeley.edu/news/lim-receives-2026-outstanding-graduate-student-instructor-ogsi-award

Berkeley Engineering CEE Berkeley PhD candidate Zhe Fu Receives 2026 Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award! https://its.berkeley.edu/news/fu-receives-2026-outstanding-graduate-peer-mentor-award

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, 2026.

ITS Berkeley Acting Director Scott Moura, Berkeley Engineering CEE Berkeley Professor, talks to KQED's Forum about Car and Gas Prices Are Shooting Up. How Will Drivers Respond?:

Car and Gas Prices Are Shooting Up. How Will Drivers Respond? | KQED We’ll talk about how the current rise in car prices and fuel costs along with government policies are affecting the U.S. auto market.

Thank you to our Advanced Air Mobility and eVTOL: Navigating Vertical Mobility Innovation and the Public Good panel!

Berkeley Engineering CEE Berkeley Professor Mark Hansen
UC Berkeley alumnus Dr. Vishwanath Bulusu
Caltrans HQ Division of Aerospace Office of Airport Development Aviation System Planner Dr. Yicong Yang
MightyFly Chief Commercial Officer Steve Wollenberg
Joby Aviation Environmental Planning and Sustainability Lead Claire Boland
CITRIS Director Alexandre Bayen
ITS Acting Director Scott Moura
https://its.berkeley.edu/news/advanced-air-mobility-and-evtol-navigating-vertical-mobility-innovation-and-public-good

WUI-GO!, a startup from ITS Berkeley affiliate Berkeley Engineering CEE Berkeley prof Kenichi Soga’s lab just received $1.3M in NSF funding to help communities prepare for wildfire evacuations. https://its.berkeley.edu/news/citris-foundry-alum-wui-go-receives-12m-sbir-award

Congrats to Berkeley Engineering CEE Berkeley PhD candidates Zhe Fu and Yi Ju, who each received 2025 California Transportation Foundation Lipman Family Sustainable Transportation Graduate Fellowships!

Thank you to Berkeley Engineering 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! https://campaignlp.constantcontact.com/em/1135849528666/6524d743-7cc5-454e-80c3-3d65860d1aff

UC Berkeley Berkeley Engineering CEE Berkeley UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty and researchers were featured at the UC ITS Mobility 10x Summit: Accelerating Transportation Innovation Across California, the capstone event of the Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (RIMI). See photos and read more about RIMI projects in the Mobility 10X: Accelerating Transportation Innovation in California publication: https://its.berkeley.edu/news/its-berkeley-celebrates-uc-its-mobility-10x-summit

Thank you to Toyota Research Institute VP of Human Interactive Driving Avinash Balachandran for presenting Rethinking Mobility: Human-Centered AI for Safe, Confident and Fun Driving at the Institute of Transportation Studies Transportation Seminar on Friday, February 27, 2026.