Executive Committee
Michael Cassidy
Director, UCCONNECT; Robert Horonjeff Professor, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley
- (510) 642-7702
Michael Cassidy is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received a doctorate in Civil Engineering (majoring in Transportation Engineering) from Berkeley. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, he served as an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He currently serves on the editorial advisory board for the journalTransportation Research Part B; he is a member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory; and is the Director of the University Transportation Center for federal region 9. His research interests focus primarily on transport planning and operations, particularly in the areas of highway traffic, public mass transit and systems that jointly serve multiple travel modes.
Matthew J. Barth
Yeager Families Professor of Engineering, University of California, Riverside
UC Riverside
- (951) 781-5782
Matthew Barth is the Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering, University of California-Riverside. He is part of the intelligent systems faculty in Electrical Engineering and is also serving as the Director for the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT). He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1984, and M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Barth joined the University of California-Riverside in 1991, conducting research in Intelligent Systems. Dr. Barth’s research focuses on applying engineering system concepts and automation technology to Transportation Systems, and in particular how it relates to energy and air quality issues. His current research interests include ITS and the Environment, Transportation/Emissions Modeling, Vehicle Activity Analysis, Advanced Navigation Techniques, Electric Vehicle Technology, and Advanced Sensing and Control.
Daniel Chatman
Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley
- (510) 642-2454
Dan Chatman studies travel behavior and the built environment; residential and workplace location choice; "smart growth" and municipal fiscal decision making; and the connections between public transportation, immigration and the economic growth of cities. His research relies heavily on original data collection, including surveys, focus groups and interviews. Ongoing and recently completed research projects include studies addressing which U.S. transit systems succeed and why; the implications of immigration trends for sustainable development and economic growth; the relationship of transit investments to agglomeration economies in U.S. cities; the effect of dynamic parking pricing on occupancy and use of on-street parking in San Francisco; and the relationship between residential location, commuting, and happiness.
Karen T. Frick
Assistant Adjunct Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley
Dr. Karen Trapenberg Frick is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She also is Assistant Director of the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) and the University of California Transportation Center on Economic Competitiveness in Transportation (UCCONNECT). She teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in transportation policy and planning, and she was the academic lead for CED's [IN]CITY summer program in sustainable city planning. She holds a Ph.D. in city planning from UC Berkeley and a master's in planning from UCLA.
Kostas Goulias
Professor, Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara
- (805) 284-1597
Kostas Goulias started his career as a research assistant in the Civil Engineering Department at UC Davis in 1987. After finishing his post-graduate research engineer work at Davis and UC Irvine, Goulias assumed the role of Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University in 1991. After thirteen years of teaching at PSU, Goulias came to UC Santa Barbara in 2004 where he has been a Professor in the Geography Department ever since.
Stephen Ritchie
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine
UC Irvine
- (949) 824-4214
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, Ritchie studies transportation systems engineering concentrating on advanced traffic management and control systems. He is primarily focused on the development and application of new information technologies to support more efficient transportation systems, traffic management and control systems.
Brian Taylor
Professor of Urban Planning; Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies; Director, Institute of Transportation Studies
UCLA
- (310) 903-3228
Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 1994, Professor Taylor taught planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and before that he was a planner with Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area. Professor Taylor is currently an Associate Director of the University of California Transportation Center, Chair of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies Federal Transit Administration Transit Economic Requirements Model review committee, and a Fellow in the American Institute of Certified Planners. Professor Taylor's research centers on transportation policy and planning, exploring how society pays for transportation systems and how these systems in turn serve the needs of people who – because of low income, disability, location, or age – have lower levels of mobility. Topically, his research examines travel behavior, transportation finance, and politics & planning.