Transportation research program gets $6.25 million UCOP grant

A new sustainable transportation research program co-directed by Stephen Ritchie, director of the UCI Institute of Transportation Studies, has been awarded $6.25 million over five years from the UC Office of the President. The program is one of 37 Multicampus Research Programs & Initiatives sharing $68 million in competitive grant funding. "Transportation is central to economic and social life in California," said Ritchie, who will lead the research program with Samer Madanat, director of the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies, and Daniel Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. More

TRB Pyke Johnson Award A team of ITS-Irvine researchers has won the prestigious Pyke Johnson Outstanding Paper Award from the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB). This award may be given annually for the best paper presented at the TRB Annual Meeting in the area of planning and environment, and subsequently published in the TRB Transportation Research Record. The 2009 winning paper is: "Environmental Impacts of a Major Freight Corridor: A Study of I-710 in California," co-authored by Gunwoo Lee, Soyoung (Iris) You, Stephen Ritchie, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Mana Sangkapichai and R. Jayakrishnan. For more detailed information, click here. For a copy of the paper, click here