 Transportation Secretary Anthony Fox visited San Francisco this week to meet with city officials and UC Berkeley scientists to discuss the government's smart city challenge. The San Francisco UC Berkeley proposal is one of seven finalists to vie for the $40 million grant to develop the nation's first smart transportation network. At UC Berkeley we are going to bring in experts from all of our schools, business school, law school, engineering school, policy school, planning school to do this work. We have designed metrics to test every hypothesis and we have assembled a massive set of data sources including sensor data, transit data, focus group data, survey data that will all be warehoused and managed. And our vision is to make that a common data platform. Secretary Fox and Mayor Ed Lee both noted UC Berkeley's important role in the proposal. What UC Berkeley is bringing to the table is something that is sorely needed in transportation which is a very rigorous set of eyes on and research and data and analytics and rigor around how various proposed solutions to mobility challenges actually work. The ability to have a center, a research center that documents everything, that tests hypothesis, that measures things is incredibly important to the outcome that the federal government wants which is let's get something out that works for everybody that can cause other cities across the country to improve their entire systems for the right reasons for the right principles. If the San Francisco proposal is chosen, Bay Area companies have committed to contributing matching funds or more to the project.