Student Capstone Projects

UCLA Luskin master’s students are required to complete a capstone project to earn their degree. Master or Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) projects can take the form of an applied planning project (client project), a comprehensive group project or a thesis. Master of Public Policy students complete an applied policy project. 

  • The Client Project is applied planning research on a real-world problem conducted by MURP students. ITS-supported client projects have taken national honors in recent years, including 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.
  • The Comprehensive Projects are similar, in many respects, to the client project, but larger in scope and scale. These projects simulate real world planning practice in that they incorporate students from various areas of concentration working together to research a problem from multiple planning angles.
  • Master’s theses focus on posing and answering a research question in planning that has not previously been answered. Research is conducted by a MURP student in conjunction with a faculty committee.

Do you have a student research project idea? Let us know by July 18, 2025

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Total Results: 177

2025 | Student Applied Policy Project

Accessibility to Transportation and Decision Making: Addressing Inequities During the Development of Public Transit in San Francisco
Mara Lam, Jasmine Till, Dania Abou Zanaid, Lauren Eldib, Joaquin Escalante

Client: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Access to Opportunities, Public Transit

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2025 | Student Client Project

Aligning Social Service Benefits and Transportation Access in Los Angeles County
Veronica De Santos Quezada

Client: UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

Access to Opportunities

REPORT

2025 | Student Client Project

Broxton Plaza: A Strategy for Community Revitalization in Westwood
Eisha Shakeel

Client: Westwood Village Improvement Association

Transportation & Communities

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2025 | Student Client Project

EV Public Fast Charging for Urban Renters
Quentin Grellier

Client: AECOM

New Mobility

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2025 | Student Client Project

Los Angeles County Joint Development Policy
Luis R Garcia Chavez

Client: Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 3

Access to Opportunities, Transportation & Communities

REPORT

2025 | Student Client Project

Mapping Equity: A Geospatial Evaluation of the Accessibility and Quality of Transportation Infrastructure in Oakland, CA
Laura Yau

Client: Oakland Department of Transportation

Access to Opportunities

REPORT

2025 | Student Client Project

Pathway to a Greener LA: Prioritizing the Mobility Plan 2035 Green Network
Madilynn Hamilton

Client: Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT)

Environment, Transportation & Communities

REPORT

2025 | Student Client Project

Restorative Justice in Transportation Planning: Evaluating Equity and Freeway Redress Across Reconnecting Communities Projects in Pasadena and San Diego
Casey Chung

Client: UCLA Center of Neighborhood Knowledge

Transportation & Communities

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2025 | Student Client Project

Sawtelle Mobility Study
Gema Martinez Castillo

Client: West Los Angeles Sawtelle Mobility Environmental Committee

Transportation & Communities

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2025 | Student Applied Policy Project

Strategic Scoring and Selection: Balancing Tradeoffs in the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program
Laila Delgado, Ian Higgins, Jerusha Rainy Kannula, Yohei Kumon, Alexandra Seidel

Client: Strategic Growth Council

Environment, Transportation & Communities

REPORT

2025 | Student Client Project

Stress-Free Connections: A Best Practices Analysis
Annie Chan

Client: Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT)

New Mobility, Transportation & Communities

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2025 | Student Client Project

The Concrete Solution: Rethinking Parking Garages for Urban Vehicle Residency
Simon Han

Client: National Vehicle Residency Collective

Parking

REPORT

2025 | Student Client Project

Traffic Calming Intersection Treatments: A Comparative Analysis
Nick Giorgio

Client: Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT)

Traffic

POLICY BRIEF

2025 | Student Client Project

Unlocking the Potential of the LA Riverway: TOD and Land Value Capture Strategies for Corridor Completion
Kaitlyn Fu

Client: City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering

Public Transit, Transportation & Communities

REPORT

2024 | Student Client Project

Bridging the Gap: Gender Equity in Transportation for Unhoused Women
DaYoung Lee

Client: Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT)

Transportation & Communities, Transportation Finance

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2024 | Master's Thesis

Creatively Transforming Transportation: Collaborating with Artists as a Model Towards Reparative Planning in Transportation
Lilith Winkler-Schor

Transportation & Communities

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2024 | Student Client Project

Enhancing Mobility and Access for Carless & Car-Deficit Households in Los Angeles
Alyssa Suzukawa

Client: Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT)

Public Transit, Transportation & Communities

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2024 | Student Client Project

Lost Hours, Lost Opportunities: The Toll of Extreme Travel on Lower Income Communities in the San Fernando Valley
Alejandra Rios Gutierrez

Client: Pacoima Beautiful

Public Transit

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2024 | Student Client Project

Next Stop: Transit Oriented Communities
Adria Stauber

Client: Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT)

Public Transit, Transportation & Communities

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF

2024 | Student Client Project

Piloting the Future: Strategies for Short-Term Transportation Projects
Josephine Dine

Client: Southern California Association of Governments

Public Transit, Transportation & Communities

REPORT | POLICY BRIEF