ITS Seminar Series

During the academic year, ITS sponsors seminars on a variety of current transportation research issues.  Invited speakers include faculty members, professional researchers, visiting scholars and other guests from the U.S. and abroad.  These interdisciplinary sessions provide an opportunity for lively intellectual debate and are an important adjunct to formal graduate study.


8 May 2009 Edna M. Bonacich
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California
GETTING THE GOODS- Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution . [abstract]
17 July 2008

Brian L. Smith
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Harnessing Wireless Communications to Improve Surface Transportation. [abstract]
9 May 2008 Matthew Barth
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California
Traffic Congestion and its Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Can ITS Help? [abstract]
6 November 2007 Joseph M. Sussman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
Some Perspectives on Engineering Systems: Initiatives in Undergraduate and Graduate Education [abstract]
2 November 2007 Majid Sarvi
Monash University
Victoria, Australia
Development of a Framework for Roadspace Reallocation in Relation to Transit Priority [abstract]
25 October 2007 Randall Crane
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California USA
Is There a Quiet Revolution in Women's Travel? Revisiting Sex and Commuting, 1985-2005 [abstract]
27 August 2007 Jan Owen Jansson
Linkoping University
Sweden
Public Transport Pricing Policy Towards Central City Travel in the Light of Recent Experiences of Congestion Charging
6 December 2006 Jean-Daniel Saphores
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA
Understanding Californians’ Interest For Hybrid Cars [abstract]
2 October 2006 Yibing Wang
Technical University of Crete,
Crete, Greece
A Generic Approach to Real-Time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance [abstract]
25 April 2006

Nicholas G. Rupp
East Carolina University
Greenvile, North Carolina, USA

Retracting a Gift: How Does Employee Effort Respond to a Wage Reduction? [abstract]
12 January 2006 Joseph M. Sussman
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
ITS Technologies and Institutional Issues: Some Ideas for Accelerating Deployment of Effective Systems [abstract] [bio]
10 January 2006 Wen-Long Jin
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA
Modeling Instantaneous Multihop Connectivity of Inter-Vehicle Communication [abstract]
9 December 2005 Yossi Berechman
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia, Canada
Port Inland Distribution Network: A Transportation-Economic Study of Proposed Container Barge Operation [abstract]

27 May 2005

Martin Wachs
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

A Quiet Revolution in Transportation Finance [abstract]

13 May 2005

Jan K. Brueckner
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA

Internalization of Airport Congestion: A Network Analysis [abstract]

15 April 2005

David Brownstone
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA

The Impact of Residential Density on Vehicle Usage and Energy Consumption [abstract]

15 April 2005

Kenneth A. Small
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA

Road Pricing and Public Transport:: Lessons from London  [abstract]

4 March 2005

Richard Funderburg
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA

Location, Concentration and Performance of Economic Activity in Brazil [abstract]

18 February  2005

Wen-Long Jin
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA

Instantaneous Information Propagation in a Traffic Stream through Inter-Vehicle Communication [abstract]

28 January 2005

David Boyce
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, USA

Convergence of Traffic Assignment and Integrated Travel Forecasting Models [abstract]