CCIT Takes "Best of ITSA" Award at the 15th World Congress

CCIT’s Mobile Century project was honored with the “Best Innovative Practices Award” by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America at the annual meeting of the national group in New York City in November, 2008.

The winning paper, whose full title is “Mobile Century: A Novel Approach to Traffic Data Collection from GPS-Equipped Mobile Phones,” was honored at an awards ceremony on November 20. The research was funded by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Larry Orcutt, Chief of the Division of Research and Innovation, accepted on behalf of Caltrans. Additional awards were presented to CCIT Senior Development Engineer Ali Mortazavi and CCIT Associate Director JD Margulici on behalf of CCIT, and to Alexandre Bayen, an assistant professor of systems engineering with the UC Berkeley College of Engineening and the principal investigator on the project.

Read more about the Best of ITSA Awards.

Read more about CCIT and the rest of the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies at the 15th Annual World Congress.


Photo Left to Right: JD Margulici, Ali Mortazavi, Larry Orcutt, and Greg Larson (Caltrans)