Michael Mauch

Dr. Michael Mauch is a Senior Development Engineer at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) and California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH).  He supports all phases of research projects including project management, proposal writing, designing, performing technical analysis, and developing and delivering presentations, as well as being responsible for crafting complete reports of research findings.  His current research collaborator at California PATH is Professor Alexander Skabardonis.

Mike specializes in transportation data analysis, project and program performance evaluations, applications programming, mathematical model building, travel demand forecasting transportation, performance metrics, and statistical analysis.  In addition, Dr. Mauch has supervised and mentored junior researchers and graduate student researchers. 

Dr. Mauch earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Marquette University in 1982, a B.S in Computer Science from Chapman University in 1988, a M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA in 1996, a M.S in Civil Engineering from U.C.  Berkeley in 1999 and a PhD in Civil Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 2002.  His doctoral thesis focused on identifying and quantifying the properties of start-stop waves in congested freeway traffic. 

Recent and ongoing projects include:

• Meeting the SB-1 Transportation Systems Performance Goals
• Congestion-Responsive On-Ramp Metering: Recommendations toward a Statewide Policy
• Caltrans US-101 Corridor Performance Assessment, Phase I
• Caltrans Freeway Service Patrol (FSP) Model Development and Research Support
• Caltrans Weave Analysis (TID 1934) Project
• Caltrans Congestion-Responsive On-Ramp Metering: Before and after Studies
• Caltrans Adaptive Coordination Algorithm for Arterial Traffic Signals

From 2002 to 2007, Dr. Mauch served as a Senior Development Engineer with UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) and California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH).  He also has considerable consulting experience in transportation planning and modeling.  In addition, Dr. Mauch supervised and mentored junior researchers and graduate student researchers.  Relevant research projects included:

• Caltrans Freeway Service Patrol (FSP) Evaluations, Phase III, IV, and V
• Freeway Service Patrol (FSP) I-710 Big-Rig Demonstration Program Evaluation
• Highway Traffic Data Sensitivity Analysis
• Finding and Analyzing True Effects of Non-recurrent Congestion on Mobility and Safety
• Caltrans Bay Area Incident Response System (BAIRS) Cost Effectiveness Evaluation
• A Planning Analysis for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Deployment in Western Riverside County

Dr. Mauch earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Marquette University in 1982, a B.S in Computer Science from Chapman University in 1988, a M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA in 1996, a M.S in Civil Engineering from U.C.  Berkeley in 1999 and a PhD in Civil Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 2002.  His doctoral thesis focused on identifying and quantifying the properties of start-stop waves in congested freeway traffic.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

LECTURER

University of California at Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering:

• Engineering 07, Introduction to Computer Programming for Engineers (Summer 2012)
• Engineering 77, Introduction to Computer Programming for Engineers (Spring 2005)
• Civil Engineering 259, Public Transportation Systems (Spring 2004)

Sacramento State University, Department of Civil Engineering:

• Civil Engineering 101, Computer Applications in Civil Engineering (Fall 2014, Fall 2011 & Fall 2008)
• Civil Engineering 263, Traffic Flow Theory (Fall 2007 & Spring 2011)

University of California at Davis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering:

• Civil Engineering 161, Transportation System Operations (Fall 2003)

INSTRUCTOR

University of California at Berkeley, Technical Transfer Program:

• Multimodal Transportation Operations: Evaluation Methods & Performance Measures (May 2017)
• Traffic Operations and Highway Capacity Analysis (March 2014)
• Freeway Operational Elements and Basic Freeway Capacity Analysis (Sept & Oct 2005)
• Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering (June 1998, June 2000 & October 2000)
• Intelligent Transportation Systems Deployment Analysis System Pilot Program (March 2001)

GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR

University of California at Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering:

• Civil Engineering 153, Transportation Facilities Design (Spring 2001)
• Civil Engineering 150, Transportation Engineering (Spring 1999 & Spring 2000)
• Engineering 77, Introduction to Computer Programming (Spring/Fall 1997 & Spring 1998)

University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Urban Planning:

• Urban Planning 220A, Quantitative Analysis I (Fall Quarter 1995)
• Urban Planning 220B, Quantitative Analysis II (Winter Quarter 1996)

PUBLICATIONS

RESEARCH REPORTS (WITH UC BERKELEY ITS/PATH)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

EDUCATION

M.S. in Civil Engineering (1999)                                      B.S. in Computer Science (1988)
University of California at Berkeley                          Chapman University, Orange California              
Concentration: Transportation

M.A. in Urban Planning (1996)                                        B.S. in Civil Engineering (1982)
University of California at Los Angeles                    Marquette University, Milwaukee Wisconsin 
Concentration: Transportation                                     

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE