The New Mobility program considers the intersection of travel behavior, economics, engineering, regulation, and infrastructure as technology and business forces lead to new mobility options. These options include ridehailing, automated and connected vehicles, and micromobility. New mobility can strain existing infrastructure and regulations, and researching empirical questions can inform a response.
Lead Scholars
Other Scholars
Brian D. Taylor
Director of ITS / Professor of Urban Planning
Jason Karpman
Researcher for Global Public Affairs at Luskin
Asad Madni
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael Manville
Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Gregory Pierce
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Mason Porter
Professor of Mathematics
Deepak Rajagopal
Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability
Mohja Rhoads
Lecturer in Transportation Geography
Izhak Rubin
Distinguished Professor and Area Director for Signals and Systems
Paulo Tabuada
Professor of Electrical Engineering
John Villasenor
Professor of electrical engineering
Briefs, News, and Opinion
Lyft Will Transition to 100% Electric Vehicles by 2030
Spectrum News — June 2020
Riding While Drunk and Other Dangers of the Electric Scooter Craze
The New York Times — 2019
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Is Coming to Las Vegas
Bloomberg — 2019
How Cities Are Trying to Reinvent the Bus
The Wall Street Journal — 2019
Starting in Los Angeles, Body Scanners Come to Subways and Buses
The New York Times — 2018
Google’s Waze Introduces New Carpool Matchmaking Feature
NBC News — 2018
Electric Scooters’ Sudden Invasion of American Cities, Explained
Vox — 2018
LA’s Taxi Industry Discriminates Against Black Riders. If We Don’t Force Them to Change, They Won’t
Los Angeles Times — 2018
The Good and Bad of Ride-Sharing When It Comes to Race
Wired — 2018
Lyft is Reaching LA Neighborhoods Where Taxis Wouldn’t
CityLab — 2018
Why the Rise of Electric Scooters Has Been a Bumpy Ride
PBS News Hour — 2018
When Elon Musk Tunnels Under Your Home
The Atlantic — 2018
Selected Research Publications
Sharing Mobility Data for Planning and Policy Research
Juan Matute, Mollie Cohen-D’Agostino, Austin Brown — 2020
Why can’t abuela take Lyft to her doctor? A mixed methods study of older adult mobility in inner-city Los Angeles
Madeline Brozen, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Lia W Marshall, Miriam Pinski, Martin Wachs — 2019
Ridehail Revolution: Ridehail Travel and Equity in Los Angeles
Anne E. Brown – 2018
Incentivizing Zero-Emission Vehicle Ride-Hail/Public Transit Commutes in Los Angeles
Juan Matute, Herbie Huff, Riley O’Brien, Brian D. Taylor – 2018
Fault-y Reasoning: Navigating the Liability Terrain in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Jaimee Lederman, Mark Garrett, Brian D. Taylor – 2015
Between Public and Private Mobility: Examining the Rise of Technology-Enabled Transportation Services
Brian D. Taylor, et. al. – 2015
Transit Applications of Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Technology
Herbie Huff, Juan Matute, Doreen Zhao, and Agustin Garcia – 2015
Recent Projects
PI: Forest Barnes Team:
Land Use in a World of New Transportation Technologies
PI: Monique Ho Team:
Using TNCs to Inform and Support Transit Planning and Disadvantaged Community Mobility
PI: JR DeShazo Team: Mohja Rhoads, James Di Filippo
Pluralizing transportation epistemologies: Culture, environment and mobile materialities in French Polynesia
PI: Teo (Timothy) Wickland Team:
Advancing a Mobility as a Service: Lessons Learned from Leading-Edge Public Agencies
PI: Tomoko Kanda Team:
Wheels for All: Ensuring Equitable Access to Dockless Mobility in Los Angeles
PI: Karina Schneider Team:
Infrastructure-to-vehicle communications for autonomous vehicle systems
PI: Itzhak Rubin Team:
A New Model for Transit: Transit/TNC Partnerships in Western Riverside County
PI: Melissa Sather Team:
Pushed from the Curb: Optimizing the Use of Curb Space by Ride-Sourcing Vehicles
PI: Ryland Lu Team:
Real-Time Precision LiDAR Transportation Density Mapping in the UCLA-Westwood Vicinity
PI: Chee Wei Wong Team: