RSS FeedUpcoming EventsFrom There To Here: 50 Years of BART and UC Berkeley, April 12https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/241939-from-there-to-here-50-years-of-bart-and-uc

Join us Friday, April 12, 2024, at 5:30 pm in Bauer Wurster Auditorium to reflect on UC Berkeley’s contributions to the planning and implementation of BART, alongside a panel of distinguished practitioners and academics.

5:30-7:00 Panel
Moderator: 
Rebecca Saltzman
BART Board Director (District 3)
Panelists: 
Robert Cervero
City and Regional Planning Professor Emeritus
Joan Walker
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Chair, Professor
John King
San Francisco Chronicle Urban Design Critic
Val Menotti
BART Chief Planning & Development Officer
7:00-8:00 Reception

In conjunction with UC Berkeley’s Environmental Design Archives Exhibit: Along the Line: Design and Planning of BART, 1965-1975

Roundtable Discussion: From There to Here: 50 years of BART and UC Berkeley

Friday April 12, 2025; 5:30 - 7 pm, Reception following

Bauer Wurster Auditorium (112 Bauer Wurster Hall)

 

Moderator:

Rebecca Saltzman, BART Board Director (District 3)

Rebecca Saltzman is the BART Director representing District 3, which includes parts of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, and she has served twice as BART Board President. Saltzman is a Director on and former Chair of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority and serves on the Alameda Transportation Commission. Outside of her BART service, Rebecca has spent the past two decades as a policy advocate, coalition builder, grassroots organizer, and manager with local, state, and national issue-based organizations.

Panelists:

Robert Cervero, DCRP Professor Emeritus

Robert Cervero has long focused on sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has consulted on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide, most recently advising long-range planning in Dubai and Singapore. His most recent book, Beyond Mobility, won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award. Dr. Cervero was a member of Berkeley’s city and regional planning faculty from 1980 to 2016, where he twice served as Department Chair, held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies, and directed both the University of California Transportation Center and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. More recently he has held visiting faculty appointments at Tongji University in Shanghai and NYU-Abu Dhabi.

John King, SF Chronicle Urban Design Critic

John King is the San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic, a post that has allowed him to write on such topics as transit villages and, last year, the impact of BART on the Bay Area’s development patterns since the 1960s. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, his book “Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities,” was published in 2023 by W.W. Norton. He grew up a short bicycle ride from the Pleasant Hill BART station and lives within walking distance of the North Berkeley BART station.

Val Menotti, BART Chief Planning & Development Officer

Val Joseph Menotti is Chief Planning & Development Officer at BART, and oversees station area planning, strategic planning, transit-oriented development, real estate and sustainability. He has been with BART for over 20 years. Val has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Masters of City & Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. As a graduate student at Berkeley, he worked on several UCTC studies related to transit and land use.

Joan Walker, CEE Department chair/professor

Joan Walker is Department Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Walker’s research focuses on behavioral modeling, with expertise in discrete choice analysis and travel behavior. She works to improve the models that are used for transportation planning, policy, and operations. Walker has served as the Chair of the Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting (ADB40) for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Vice Chair of DEIB for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Co-Director of the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, and as Acting Director of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies. She co-founded the nonprofit Zephyr Foundation working to advance travel analysis to improve society.

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Planning for Equitable Micromobility, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/229871-planning-for-equitable-micromobility

Anne Brown, Assistant Professor, Planning, Public Policy, and Management, University of Oregon, will present Planning for Equitable Micromobility at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Friday April 19, 2024 at 3 pm in 212 O’Brien Hall. Join us for cookies and beverages in the ITS Library (412) McLaughlin Hall at 2:30 pm.

Abstract: Shared micromobility programs, including shared e-scooters and bikeshare, have spread rapidly across the US. Cities are grappling with how these modes may fill gaps in the existing transportation system and how to better reach marginalized and underserved communities. This presentation considers the different dimensions required to plan and implement equitable micromobility, from goal-setting to program design and evaluation, and presents data on how successful equity programs have been to date at extending access to historically underserved groups. It concludes with lessons for how planners and policymakers can manage and design micromobility programs to offer more equitable access and outcomes.

Bio: Anne Brown is an Assistant Professor of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon. She researches issues around transportation equity, shared mobility, and travel behavior. Dr. Brown holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning and PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA.

https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/229871-planning-for-equitable-micromobility
Transportation Seminar: PhD Student Talks, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/229910-transportation-seminar-phd-student-talks

Graduating and recently graduated doctoral candidates will present their research at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Friday April 26, 2024 at 3 pm in 212 O’Brien Hall. Join us for cookies and beverages in the ITS Library (412) McLaughlin Hall at 2:30 pm.

Alex Pan, CEE

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Separation of Learning and Control in Emerging Mobility Systems, May 3https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/229911-separation-of-learning-and-control-in-emerging-mobili

Andreas A. Malikopoulos, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, will present Separation of Learning and Control in Emerging Mobility Systems at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Friday May 3, 2024 at 3 pm in 212 O’Brien Hall. Join us for cookies and beverages in the ITS Library (412) McLaughlin Hall at 2:30 pm.

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the challenges of supervised learning and model-based control approaches in transportation-related applications. Then, I will present a theoretical framework founded at the intersection of control theory and learning that circumvents these challenges in deriving optimal strategies. In this framework, we aim to identify a sufficient information state for the system that takes values in a time-invariant space and use this information state to derive separated control strategies. Separated control strategies are related to the concept of separation between the estimation of the information state and control of the system. By establishing separated control strategies, we can derive offline the optimal control strategy of the system with respect to the information state, which might not be precisely known, and then use learning methods to learn the information state online while data are added gradually to the system in real time.

Bio: Andreas Malikopoulos is a Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University. Prior to these appointments, he was the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2017-2023) and the founding Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (2019-2023) at the University of Delaware (UD). Before he joined UD, he was the Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow (2010-2017) in the Energy & Transportation Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Deputy Director of the Urban Dynamics Institute (2014-2017) at ORNL, and a Senior Researcher in General Motors Global Research & Development (2008-2010).

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CED Commencement, May 13https://events.berkeley.edu/its/event/243370-ced-commencement

Monday | May 13, 2024
9:00AM - 12:00PM
Hearst Greek Theatre

The 2024 College of Environmental Design Commencement takes place on May 13 at the Greek Theatre. It is always a joyful event, a time for us to honor our graduates and celebrate their achievements in the company of families and friends.

More information here

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Class of 2024 Engineering Master’s Degree Commencement, May 14https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/229317-class-of-2024-engineering-masters-degree

The College of Engineering will host a commencement ceremony for Master’s degree graduates of the Class of 2024, their family and friends on Tuesday, May 14.

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Class of 2024 Engineering Baccalaureate Degree Commencement, May 14https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/242509-class-of-2024-engineering-baccalaureate-degree-commen

The College of Engineering will host a commencement ceremony for Baccalaureate degree graduates of the Class of 2024, their family and friends on Tuesday, May 14.

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Class of 2024 Engineering Doctoral Degree Commencement, May 18https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/242512-class-of-2024-engineering-doctoral-degree-commencemen

The College of Engineering will host a commencement ceremony for Doctoral degree graduates of the Class of 2024, their family and friends on Saturday, May 18.

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