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Beyond Copenhagen

Researchers from UCLA and Google conducted the most comprehensive global study of active transportation to date and found expanding city-level walking and cycling infrastructure globally could cut carbon emissions from personal vehicles by 6% and generate $435 billion in health benefits annually.

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CalMatters

Why California’s historic housing law gave activists a new reason to battle the bus

October 22, 2025

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Transportopia

Transportopia Episode 6 Transit Crime and Safety

October 22, 2025

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Streetsblog LA

Parking Titan Donald Shoup’s Legacy Continues

October 9, 2025

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Los Angeles Times

With solo drivers kicked out of California carpool lanes, how bad will traffic get for rest of us?

October 1, 2025

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Recent Posts

Daniel Hess speaks at a podium in UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center with a presentation slide behind him reading, “The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms.” The audience is seated in front of him.

Hundreds gathered at UCLA for the launch of a new book honoring Shoup’s lasting legacy on parking policy and urban planning.

The nation’s second largest source of consumer debt falls unevenly across communities. Women and communities of color carry a disproportionate burden — inequities that have worsened since the pandemic.

When four Florida undergraduate students arrived at UCLA in late June, they knew little about the field of transportation research. Eight weeks later, they are preparing to submit a paper on the spatial and demographic characteristics of low-emission vehicle users to a peer-reviewed journal.

Bright green parking spaces reserved for electric vehicles. Two EV chargers are located on the curb in front of the spaces. A black car is parked nearby.

Study maps nationwide EV charger access, exposing severe service gaps and reliability issues in disadvantaged communities, where residents face fewer, often broken, and poorly maintained chargers.

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Transfers Magazine is the biannual research publication of the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR), a federally-funded network of eight partner campuses in Arizona, California, and Hawaii.