Author: UCLA ITS Staff
February 10, 2021
UCLA ITS will award urban planning graduate students for work that addresses inequities in the transportation field. The Excellence in a Transportation Equity and Justice Capstone Prize is the latest effort by UCLA ITS to build educational and research capacity around transportation injustices.
February 8, 2021
The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies launched a joint initiative — called Access to Opportunities — to examine how transportation connec […]
January 6, 2021
Samuel Speroni MURP ‘20, awarded the Neville A. Parker Award for best capstone on ride-hailing as school transportation option for vulnerable students.
December 4, 2020
Transfers Magazine, the biannual digital magazine of the Pacific Southwest Region UTC edited by a team of UCLA faculty, staff and students, released its latest issue last month. Our writers take on so […]
November 30, 2020
Fariba Siddiq is leveraging her cross-cultural knowledge to study gender differences in ride-hailing. Siddiq, who was born and raised in Bangladesh, is researching ride-hailing experiences across gend […]
November 23, 2020
Work from home significantly reduces the risk of contracting COVID-19, yet the ability to telecommute is starkly divided along lines of race, income, and educational attainment. Those unable to work r […]
November 18, 2020
In a new essay from the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, urban planning associate professor Michael Manville uses the gasoline shortage of the 1970s to explain what happens when goods are und […]
November 9, 2020
The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies recently held the virtual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium focused on transportation conditions before, during and after COVID-19. During the 10 sessions, spe […]
October 17, 2020
During the pandemic, traffic congestion lessened in Los Angeles. But if history is any indication, soon enough it will return. In a new report by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Politics, A Ce […]
July 2, 2020
A research project on Los Angeles’ parking minimums received the American Planning Association Los Angeles’ 2020 award for academic excellence for work conducted as part of master’s capstone project. […]