The Directors of the four Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) branches serve as the UC ITS Council of Directors. The Chair of the Council of Directors is a one-year appointment and rotates among the four branches following the chronological order in which each branch was founded. The Council of Directors is responsible for all governance, financial, policy, and programmatic decisions concerning the UC ITS program. The Council of Directors is also responsible for appointing and maintaining a Board of Advisors.

Daniel A. Rodríguez
Chair, UC ITS Council of Directors (July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025)
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Berkeley
Chancellor’s Professor of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Adam Millard-Ball
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA
Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA

Stephen G. Ritchie
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Irvine
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine

Daniel Sperling
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at Davis
Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, UC Davis