Institute of Transportation Studies

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]