ITS Directory-Alphabetical
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Adhvaryu, Bhargav Research interests: Professor Bhargav Adhvaryu is a Fulbright Scholar, under the Visiting Lecturer Fellowship program 2011-12, from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. During the Spring quarter of 2012, he will be co-teaching a course on Sustainable Cities in China and India with Professor Rui Wang.
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Altshuler, Alan Alan A. Altshuler is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning. His teaching and research focus on urban politics, planning, and public investment. His course, Urban Politics, Planning, and Development is jointly offered by the Design and Kennedy Schools. From time to time he also offers a course, What Planners Do, at the GSD.
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Barlow, Rowena |
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Blumenberg, Evelyn Research interests: Professor Blumenberg's research examines the effects of urban structure--the spatial location of residents, employment, and services--on economic outcomes for low-wage workers, and on the role of planning and policy in shaping the spatial structure of cities. Dr. Blumenberg has investigated the relationship between the spatial structure of urban areas and economic equality; gender and U.S. local economic development planning; neighborhood economies and welfare dynamics; the travel behavior of welfare recipients and immigrants; and interagency-collaboration. |
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Brozen, Madeline |
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Brumbaugh, Stephen |
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Clark, William A.V. Research interests: My research over the past two decades has been concerned with the internal changes in US cities, especially in the changes that occur in response to residential mobility and migration. I have conducted both micro scale and individual studies of tenure choice, and large scale studies of demographic change in the neighborhoods of large metropolitan areas. The latter studies examine the nature of the population flows between cities and suburbs, white flight and the impact of legal intervention on the urban mosaic.
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Craciun, Florentina |
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Crane, Randall Research interests: Randall Crane studies the housing, transportation, and economic development challenges of cities, such as rushed urbanization, urban design/behavior linkages, urban environmental problems, public finances, housing and transportation demographics, and the measure, meaning and governance of sprawl. |
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De Shazo, J.R. Research interests: Trained as an economist, Professor DeShazo's research focuses on an array of areas concerned with models of decision-making and choice, positive political economy, devolution, non-market valuation and public finance. His recent research in transportation examines the privatization of fixed route bus service and the travel patterns of domestic and international tourists in Central America. |
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Diaz, Yasmine |
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Drennan, Matthew Research interests: The central research interest of Matthew Drennan over the past decade, and indeed his professional career, has been the how an evolving structure of national economic activity is manifested in the transformation of metropolitan economies. He has argued that the relative decline in goods production and distribution activities and the relative rise in information intensive activities, producer services and advanced consumer services, has alterred the urban hierarchy. Large metropolitan areas specialized in producer services and advanced consumer services are surging ahead of middle and smaller places in the growth of real wages.
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Fink, Camille N.Y. |
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Gibson, Patrick |
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Grantham, Deborah |
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Higgins, Tim Lecturer in Urban Planning Associate Director Citylab, UCLA Department of Architecture/Urban Design. Urban designer and community planner. Former Director of Florida Planning and Development Lab at Florida State U |
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Kahn, Matt Research interests: His research focuses on the environmental consequences of urban growth and the related quality-of-life issues such as air pollution, traffic congestion, and suburban sprawl. |
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Liggett, Robin Research interests: Professor Liggett holds a joint appointment between the Department of Architecture and Urban Design in the School of the Arts and Architecture and the Department of Urban Planning in the School of Public Policy and Social Research. She teaches courses in quantitative methods and computer software development with applications in Architecture and Urban Planning.
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Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia Research interests: Professor Loukaitou-Sideris' current research focuses on the role of the built environment on transit security, specifically with respect to crime on and around light rail stations and bus stops. Recent and ongoing projects, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Haynes Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, include: an examination of the privatization of public open space in major American downtown areas to document the effects of redevelopment on their built form and social context; documentation of varying patterns of use of neighborhood parks among different ethnic groups; proposals for the physical and economic retrofit of blighted inner city commercial corridors in Los Angeles; examination of the impacts of a new rail transit line in Los Angeles and the creation of guidelines for the development of transit station neighborhoods; and studies of transit security. |
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Mathews, John |
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Matute, Juan |
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Mondschein, Andrew |
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Morris, Eric |
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Ong, Paul Research interests: Professor Ong has done research on the labor market status of minorities and immigrants, displaced high-tech workers, work and welfare and transportation access. His current research involves transportation and job access for welfare recipients. |
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Paul, Stan |
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Powe, VC |
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Ralph, Kelcie |
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Shoup, Donald Research interests: With a background in both economics and engineering, Professor Shoup's research focuses on public finance and transportation, in each case with an emphasis on links to the land market. Dr. Shoup has studied the issue of parking as a key link between transportation and land use. As a consultant to the U.S. Department of Transportation, he completed a report on "Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking," which explains how employer-paid parking increases solo driving to work. As a remedy, he proposed that employers who subsidize employee parking should also offer employees the option to take the cash value of the parking subsidy if they do not take the parking itself. This proposal has since been passed into law in California, and the Internal Revenue Code has been amended to encourage parking cashout. Dr. Shoup is currently working on research to evaluate how parking cash out encourages ridesharing to work. |
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Smart, Michael |
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Snyder, Ryan Research interests: Ryan Snyder, president of Ryan Snyder Associates, LLC (RSA), has managed the production of transportation plans for over twenty-two years. Additionally, he has been involved in lawmaking at the state level and ordinance drafting at the local level. Snyder teaches the national Pedestrian Safety Design course for the Federal Highway Administration. Ryan Snyder has a Bachelors Degree in Economics and a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from UCLA. Snyder is one of seven people certified by the California Department of Health Services to conduct Walk Audits for communities to develop pedestrian plans. He is also a Nationally Certified Safe Routes to School Instructor. He has lectured on transportation planning at the UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, in the UCLA Geography Department, and in the UCLA Extension. Mr. Snyder teaches sustainable transportation planning as a module in the National Sustainable Building Advisor Program. Snyder served as the Vice President of the Los Angeles Board of Transportation Commissioners. Snyder is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, the American Planning Association and the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Planners. |
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Taylor, Brian D. office hours: www.its.ucla.edu/hours Research interests: Professor Taylor's research centers transportation policy and planning most of it conducted in close collaboration with his terrific students. His work explores how society pays for transportation systems and how these systems in turn serve the needs of people who because of low income, disability, location, or age have lower levels of mobility. Topically, his research examines travel behavior, transportation finance, and politics & planning. His research on travel behavior has examined (1) the effect of travel experience on cognitive mapping, (2) how travel patterns vary by race/ethnicity, sex, age, and income, (3) the social, economic, and spatial factors explaining public transit use, (4) the role of walking, waiting, and transferring on travel choices, (5) the potential of bus rapid transit to cost-effectively increase transit use, and (6) alternative ways to evaluate the effects of traffic congestion on people and firms. A principal focus of his research is the politics of transportation finance, including (1) the history of freeway planning and finance, (2) emerging trends in pricing road use, (3) the equity of alternative forms of finance, (4) linking of subsidies to public transit performance, and (5) measuring equity in public transit finance. Related work has also examined the effect of political drivers on planning outcomes; such has how concerns over civil rights law, traffic congestion, terrorism, and climate change affect transportation policy and planning. |
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Wachs, Martin Research interests: Martin Wachs is Director of the Transportation, Space and Technology Program at the RAND Corporation. Until the end of 2005 he was Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Professor of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he most recently served a six-year term as Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. He earlier spent 25 years at UCLA, where he served three terms as Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning. Professor Wachs is the author of 160 articles and four books on subjects related to relationships between transportation, land use, and air quality, transportation needs of the elderly, techniques for the evaluation of transportation systems, and the use of performance measurement in transportation planning. His research also addresses issues of equity in transportation policy, problems of crime in public transit systems, the response of transportation systems to natural disasters including earthquakes. His most recent work focuses on transportation finance in relation to planning and policy. Professor Wachs has served on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board for nine years and was the TRB Chairman during the year 2000. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships, a UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award, the Pyke Johnson Award for the best paper presented at an annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, and the Carey Award for service to the TRB. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a Lifetime Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. See Martin Wachs's RAND Public Policy Experts Guide listing. |
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Wang, Rui Research interests: Environmental policy; urban economics; transportation policy; Chinese urbanization. |
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Winer, Arthur Research interests: Professor Winer's research program currently focuses on experimental and modeling studies concerned with air pollutant exposure assessment, with an emphasis on children's exposure to both criteria and non-criteria pollutants. Recent and current field studies conducted by Dr. Winer and his graduate students involve measurements in several critical microenvironments, including residential homes, portable classrooms and diesel school buses. |
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Wong, Norman |
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Yoh, Allison Research interests: Allison is interested in how planners, governing boards, and public officials shape debates and make decisions about transportation issues. She is also interested in how transit strikes are resolved, and is currently involved in research on increasing transit ridership and the costs of implementing bus rapid transit. She previously served on the governing board of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. |