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Technology Transfer Program Notes

Doing More With Less

This issue of Tech Transfer covers a topic about which we are all painfully aware: how to continue to provide a high level of service during difficult economic times.

We include recommended resources that you can use to find new streams of funding, information about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (also known as the Federal Stimulus Package), and ways to make your project shovel-ready. Finally, we explain how Tech Transfer's free Traffic Safety Evaluation (TSE) Service helps cities or counties like yours identify solutions to traffic safety problems.

New Face at Tech Transfer

We are pleased to welcome Eduardo C. Serafin, PE, AICP as the new Research and Development Engineer at Tech Transfer. Eduardo is a nationally certified planner (specializing in urban and transportation planning) and a professional traffic engineer registered in the State of California. He has over 23 years of professional traffic and transportation experience covering planning, policy, environmental impact analysis, preliminary design, engineering operations and safety. He brings together his professional experience from California, the Northeastern United States, Texas, and his native Philippines.

As a transportation professional, Eduardo strives to champion multi-modal transportation planning, integrated land use-transportation planning, transit planning and transit oriented development (TOD) planning, comprehensive pedestrian and bicyclist planning, environmentally sensitive land development, context-sensitive transportation infrastructure planning and the ethical practice of professional traffic engineering.

Previously, Eduardo served as the first Senior Traffic Engineer for the City of Napa and an adjunct graduate lecturer at San Jose State University. In addition, he has more than 13 years of experience working at private consulting firms specializing in transportation engineering and planning, as well as five years in applied research and training in major universities.

At Tech Transfer, Eduardo will help in the management of ongoing training and technical assistance programs. He will also be key in the development of future training programs to address the dynamic needs of the professional community in transportation engineering and planning. Welcome, Eduardo!

Free Systems Engineering Training Returns

This free, two-day course is crucial for anyone who is involved in implementing systems engineering principles. The training session goes beyond lectures and discussions--it engages attendees to work on a series of class exercises based on real-world Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects, collectively reflecting the practical systems engineering process from beginning to end.

This course is free thanks to funding from Caltrans and the Federal Highway Administration.

Courses are scheduled statewide over the next year:

• San Jose
  November 2-3, 2009
• Fresno
  November 4-5, 2009
• Diamond Bar
  February 9-10, 2010
• Richmond
  March 10-11, 2010
• Costa Mesa
  June 7-8, 2010
• San Diego
  June 9-10, 2010

For more information or to register, visit www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/itstraining.

New in Going...Going...Gone

Going...Going...Gone offers free transportation-related material to public agency employees in California.

We are pleased to announce the availability of two new items from the Federal Highway Administration:

Vegetation Control for Safety: A Guide for Local Highway and Street Maintenance Personnel

This guide helps local road agency maintenance workers identify locations where vegetation control is needed to improve traffic and pedestrian safety, to provide guidance for maintenance crews, and to make them aware of safe ways to mow, cut brush and otherwise control roadside vegetation.

W-Beam Guardrail Repair: A Guide for Highway and Street Maintenance Personnel

This guide provides highway and maintenance personnel with up-to-date information on how to repair damaged W-Beam guardrail, the most frequently used barrier system.

Place your order at www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/freestuff.

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