The UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation, Land Use, and Environment Connection

Sunday, October 18 - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Each fall since 1991 the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and the UCLA Extension Public Policy Program have organized a three-day invitation-only symposium on the Transportation - Land Use - Air Quality Connection.

This invitation-only symposium is attended by over 125 public, private, and academic leaders, and is sponsored by almost two-dozen public and private organizations, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Highway Administration, California Department of Transportation, California Air Resources Board, University of California Transportation Center, Southern California Association of Governments, the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Southern California Edison, Automobile Club of Southern California, and the Southern California Gas Company, among many others.

Each year, the program sponsor steering committee selects a topic to be covered in various dimensions by approximately 30 academic, government, and private sector speakers from around the globe. Recent scholarly speakers include: Alan Altshuler and Jose Gomez-Ibanez (Harvard), Robert Burchell and John Pucher (Rutgers), Robert Cervero and Martin Wachs (Berkeley), Anthony Downs (Brookings), Genevieve Giuliano and Randolf Hall (USC), David Godschalk and John Kasarda (North Carolina), and Michael Meyer (Georgia Tech), just to name a few.

The UCLA Lake Arrowhead symposium series was founded with the goal of creating a retreat where land use, transportation, and environmental scholars and activists can present their ideas to and interact closely with policy makers, senior practitioners, and private sector representatives in a relaxed resort setting over two and one-half days. The combination of sustained interaction among participants and the beauty of the UCLA Lake Arrowhead resort have combined to make invitations to the symposium highly sought after by policy makers and analysts from around the U.S.

The unique signature of this series is its balance, of both scholarly and practice-oriented presentations, and ideological points of view. Recent topics include: Transportation and the Economy (1997), Inter-regional Travel and Local Development (1999), Planning for Growth (2000), Reinventing Transit (2001), Tacking Traffic Congestion (2002), Finance: The Critical Link (2003), Healthy Regions, Healthy People (2005), Global Energy and Climate Change (2006), Planning for Growth (2007), The Future of Cities and Travel (2008), and soon Economic Crisis as Opportunity for Reform (2009).

Program for next or most recent Arrowhead Conference

View symposium program and presentations for last year's UCLA Lake Arrowhead Transportation – Land Use – Environment Symposium

View proceedings from past UCLA Lake Arrowhead Transportation – Land Use – Environment Symposia