UCLA ITS Book Club

Starting in fall 2024, the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies will host a quarterly book club for alumni and students to participate. We will hold a virtual forum to discuss findings and lessons learned from the selected reading material, along with a virtual book talk with the author at the end of the quarter.

We will also have a handful of books available in the UCLA ITS suite for students to borrow.

If you’re interested in receiving information about upcoming book club events, fill out this form.

Please join our GoodReads group to view the discussion boards for the latest books we’re reading.

About the Book

In this book, Susan Handy takes a critical look at the way of thinking that, for the last century, has shaped our transportation system, especially the network of roadways on which we all depend. While many recent books have advocated for a new approach to transportation, Handy’s goal is to peel back the layers of these arguments to examine the ideas at the core of the traditional way of thinking about transportation and consider the ways in which these ideas are now shifting. She considers nine core ideas in turn, examining their roots, their implications, and the evolution of their influence in the transportation profession. She shows how these ideas are evolving in a way that could set our transportation system on a radically different course over the coming decades.

About the Author

Susan Handy is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Policy and Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California, Davis, where she also chaired the graduate program in Transportation Technology and Policy for many years. She is internationally known for her research on the relationships between transportation and land use, particularly the impact of neighborhood design on travel behavior. Her current research focuses on strategies for reducing automobile dependence, including bicycling as a mode of transportation.

Author Book Talk

Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024

If you’d like to recommend a book for the book club to consider, please email us at uclaits@g.ucla.edu.