Reporters can:
- Drive a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle or ride a Segway Human Transporter
- See cars that communicate with the roadside via wireless radios
- Watch demonstrations of warning systems that use sensors to alert drivers when it is unsafe to make a left turn, automated precision bus docking using magnets embedded in the roadway and other pioneering transportation projects
- Preview the Parsons Traffic and Transit Laboratory, where traffic lab researchers have collected detailed, real-time traffic and transit data from a number of arterials and transit systems for research on driving and traffic behaviors.
A fuller description of the projects and the Parsons Lab is online at http://www.path.berkeley.edu/path-at-20/press.html.
WHEN: 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25
WHERE: Building 445 at the UC Richmond Field Station, 1301 South 46th St., Richmond.
Directions and a map are online at http://www.path.berkeley.edu/path-at-20/press.html.
WHO: PATH transportation researchers will be on hand to introduce their projects. They include Jim Misener, program leader for Transportation Safety Research, Susan Shaheen, program leader for Policy & Behavioral Research and Meng Li, director of the Parsons Traffic and Transit Laboratory.
DETAILS: The "PATH@Twenty" symposium celebrates the multi-disciplinary program that includes staff, faculty and students from universities statewide, and cooperative projects with private industry, state and local agencies, and non-profit institutions. Symposium information is online at http://www.path.berkeley.edu/path-at-20.
NOTE: For more information, contact Linda Novick, PATH research specialist, at (510) 665-3572, (510) 847-0038 or lnovick@path.berkeley.edu. Reporters should R.S.V.P. to Novick by 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24.