Nathalie Saade, doctoral student in Transportation Engineering, and Jesus Barajas, doctoral student in City & Regional Planning, were selected as Eno Fellows for 2015. They are among the top 20 transportation graduate students in the country selected for this honor.
They will attend the Eno Future Leaders Development Conference May 31-June 4 in Washington DC.
The Eno Center for Transportation is a neutral, non-partisan think-tank that promotes policy innovation and provides professional development opportunities across the career span of transportation professionals. Each year, Eno’s student conference gives 20 Fellows a first-hand look at how national transportation policies are developed for a week of meetings with federal officials and leaders of business and non-profit organizations.
Barajas focuses his research on understanding what influences the way immigrants travel. He is studying how preferences and attitudes toward transit, bicycling, neighborhoods, and safety issues inform transportation choices of this population.
Saade is developing a computer-based model using network-wide relations between city-street traffic densities and flows to determine the conditions and designs for bus-lane conversions to improve travel for bus patrons and commuters.
See Barajas, Saade Named Eno Fellows (ITS Berkeley)