Executive Director Hamed Benouar cuts ribbon at CCIT opening ceremonies
Left to right: Marty Wachs, Director, UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation
Studies; Craig Gardner, President, Siemens ITS North America; Thom Niesen,
Caltrans Deputy Director for Maintenance, Operations and Research; Hamed
Benouar, CCIT Executive Director; Randy Iwasaki, Director, Caltrans District
4 (San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area);Professor Karl Hedrick, PATH Director
and Department Chair, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley; Akhtar Jameel,
President and CEO, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, North America;
Professor Adib Kanafani, Department Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UC Berkeley
Center for the Commercialization of ITS Technologies (CCIT) Opens
PATH, Caltrans, and the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies
formally opened the Center for the Commercialization of ITS Technologies
(CCIT) Thursday February 7, 2002.
CCIT is structured to optimize private sector participation in the future
of California's vast transportation network. The Center specializes
in traveler information, transportation management, and vehicle information
and control. Among the first industry participants are DaimlerChrysler
Research and Technology and Siemens ITS North America. At
the ribbon-cutting ceremony, CCIT Executive Director Hamed Benouar said:
"CCIT will facilitate the commercial deployment of advanced transportation
products and services to improve
transportation safety, security and efficiency -- necessary components
of a vibrant and growing economy. CCIT will create strong links between
the transportation industry, automobile manufacturers, University researchers,
government experts, and commercial developers of advanced information
technologies, in Silicon Valley and throughout California."
Physically located one block from the UC Berkeley campus, CCIT offers
facilities for research, development, testing, training, focus group
meetings, and technology transfer, to promote commercial deployment
of ITS products and services.
For more information,
and for directions to CCIT, please go to:
http://www.calccit.org