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  • Travel Behavior and the Three Revolutions of Shared, Electric, and Autonomous Vehicles

    A select group of transportation policymakers, stakeholders, and experts convened for a session at the 2017 LA CoMotion Expo & Festival on the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program from the UC Institute of Transportation Studies. The program, led by researchers at ITS-Davis, hopes to guide public decision-making and private investments around new vehicle technology, and the discussion centered on the implications of shared, electric, and autonomous vehicles on mobility, pricing, greenhouse gas emissions, public transit, and much more.

  • Transportation is a Women’s Issue – Part I: Public transportation and #MeToo

    The #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault must influence public transportation procedures, designs, and policies. ITS associate director Madeline Brozen kicked off a new 2017-18 discussion series by speaking with Dr. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, a professor of urban planning at UCLA Luskin and ITS faculty fellow, about women’s transportation needs, how transit agencies are and are not meeting these needs, and the role of sexual harassment in public space and public transit.

  • Transportation is a Women’s Issue – Part II: A gendered planning mismatch

    Discussions and plans for the future of transportation and new innovative mobility services often fail to account for women’s travel patterns. What potential do new mobility options, bikesharing, ridesourcing, and microtransit hold for closing this gap? Naomi Iwasaki of Investing in Place hosted a conversation about women’s travel patterns with UCLA Luskin professor Dr. Evelyn Blumenberg, Seleta Reynolds of the LA Department of Transportation, and Stephanie Wiggins of LA Metro.

  • Smart Cities: The Future of Urban Infrastructure

    The 11th annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture, hosted at Berkeley, featured a panel of transportation and planning experts: Jeff Morales, Ryan Russo, Tom Maguire, Maria Mehranian, and Susan Shaheen. The talk addressed the fact that with increased capacity and greater mobility undergirding economic viability and quality of life comes congestion, increased energy consumption, air pollution, and urban sprawl. This current dilemma and hypermobility demands a transport agenda for this global era to be set.

  • 2018 Spring Speaker Series

    The 2018 Spring Speaker Series brought national experts to the UCLA Luskin School to discuss new research and best practices around public transit, transportation finance, innovative mobility, and much more. It took place during Professor Brian Taylor's Transportation Policy and Planning graduate course, but all events were open to the public.

  • UCLA ITS 25th Anniversary Celebration

    UCLA ITS celebrated its 25 years of scholarship, education, and public engagement--reconnecting classmates, friends, and professors. See photos from this event.

  • 2018 Fall Innovative Mobility Speaker Series

    2018 Fall Innovative Mobility Speaker Series Realistic Prospects for Vehicle Automation in the Years Ahead and their Implications for Mobility with Steven Shladover Extraordinary Innovation at Metro with Joshua Schank New Mobility: Lys Mendez and Marla Westervelt of Bird Robert Poole: Rethinking America's Highway Institutions Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future - Dan Sperling, UC Davis

  • Spring 2019 Lecture Series on Resilient, New Mobility

    Spring 2019 Lecture Series on Resilient, New Mobility Unintended Consequences of Autonomous Vehicles | Adam Millard-Ball, UC Santa Cruz Towards Resilient Infrastructure for a Changing Climate and Future | Mikhail Chester, Arizona State University Model Checking in a Time of Simulation | Timothy Brathwaite, Lyft Bringing Congestion Pricing to LA | Joshua Schank, Metro Building Traveler-Centric Methods to Design Safe and Functional Urban and Intercity Transportation Infrastructure | Megan Ryerson, University of Pennsylvania Representing the Underrepresented: Making the Case for Digital and Inclusive Data for Travel Activity Studies | Tierra Bills, University of Michigan Financing California's Transportation Infrastructure: A Capital Markets Perspective | Alex Zaman, Citi

  • Designing the 30-Minute City

    The 12th annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture, held at UCLA, was presented by David Levinson. The 30-minute isochrone has long defined people’s use of cities — from ancient times through the trams era to modern times. There are opportunities to use design to reduce the costs of travel and thus increase access for relatively little monetary outlay. This talk discussed both the measurement of accessibility, why it matters, and how it might affect traveler behavior, institutional behavior, and public policy.

  • TransportationCampLA @ UCLA

    TransportationCamp LA brought over a hundred transportation professionals, students and advocates to UCLA for an open mic conference. Attendees presented on topics ranging from transit planning to congestion pricing and data science. Many sessions looked into the advocacy and funding struggles of making sustained progress on effective and equitable transit and active transportation infrastructure.

  • The 29th Annual UCLA Arrowhead Symposium

    The annual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium hosted leaders and stakeholders from the public, private, non-profit, and academic sectors for thoughtful discussion around the connections and conflicts between transportation, land use, and the environment. For the past 28 years, attendees have tackled the local policies, influences, and consequences related to climate change. This year's theme was Routes to Opportunity: Connecting Equity and Transportation.

  • ITS Fall 2019 Lecture Series

    UCLA ITS held its annual Fall Lecture Series where researchers presented their work on transportation, land use, and urban planning policies. Topics include the future of rideshare and autonomous vehicles, a historical context on Los Angeles ports, and public policy associated with public transit.

  • Integrating for Social Justice

    Professor Emerita of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design, Elizabeth “Betty” Deakin presented the Martin Wachs Lecture, “Integrating Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning for Social Justice and Carbon Reduction: Finding a Way that Works.” Deakin’s research focuses on transportation and land use policy and the environmental impacts of transportation.

  • UCLA at TRB 2020

    UCLA ITS had 18 presentations from faculty, affiliated researchers and students at the TRB 99th Annual Meeting held in Washington D.C. UCLA faculty and students were awarded the Pyke Johnson Award for a paper on the mobility needs of aging adults, and several other students received recognition for their poster presentations and recent capstone projects.

  • InterActions LA: Uplifting Women’s Safety in Transportation

    InterActions LA discussed the opportunities to improve safety for women, girls, and other vulnerable populations as they travel throughout the Los Angeles region. Too often, people in these groups feel unsafe in public and this inhibits their freedom, independence and quality of life. This event presented new research by UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris on public transit safety from LA and around the world, along with real-world examples and thoughts for advancing safety for everyone. Participants had an opportunity to exchange their best ideas with each other and engage deeply on solutions to advance mobility justice for women, girls, and everyone.

  • MTI Research Snaps Presents COVID-19 and State-Generated Transportation Funds in California

    The COVID-19 public health emergency has drastically changed every aspect of California life, including reducing personal travel by as much as half in many regions. As a result, transportation revenues are plummeting because user fees produce a large share of resources needed to operate California’s transportation system. Research by the Mineta Transportation Institute used simple spreadsheet models to estimate the impact of different scenarios for economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic on state-generated transportation revenues.

  • Transit Past, Present and Future

    The role and usage of public transit in America has changed much over the past century, past decade, and even past few months in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. This session of the UCLA Luskin Virtual Summit series brought faculty affiliated with the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies to discuss the evolution of transit and its implications for the weeks, months, and years ahead.

  • 2020 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium

    The 2020 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium found that smart policy and planning choices made as part of COVID-19 response and recovery can lead to more just, equitable, and sustainable transportation systems. Over the course of nine sessions, transportation practitioners and advocates looked at the economic, social, and racial dimensions of transportation in the pandemic along with new political opportunities for environmental justice and climate action in transportation. 

  • New Routes to Equity

    Dr. Regan Patterson will present from her report for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which highlights ongoing challenges affecting African Americans in the transportation system and provides policy recommendations for how shared mobility, electric vehicles, and autonomous vehicles can equitably serve the Black community. She'll also discuss her research that focuses on the intersection of transportation, air quality engineering, and environmental justice.

  • Human-Powered Mobility and Just Transition

    What role can bicycling play in healing the intersecting harms of racial and climate injustice? Activists have learned that individual mode shift alone will not correct the extractive social effects of transportation governance and industries, but collective actions point toward regenerative possibilities. Professor Adonia Lugo will share ideas from her collaborations in mobility justice to argue for the significance of human-powered mobility in moving the transportation field toward a just transition.

  • Safe for Whom?

    While cyclists and pedestrians are vulnerable road users and face significant safety threats on roadways, environmental conditions in historically marginalized communities compound such vulnerability for people of color. Jesus Barajas takes a mobility justice perspective to contextualize street safety for cyclists and pedestrians. His research shows how identity shapes the way cyclists experience the streetscape, how safety has multiple meanings particularly for people of color, and how inequity in the distribution of infrastructure compounds police injustice in Black communities.

  • Emerging Scholars Transportation Research Symposium

    The Third Annual Emerging Scholars Transportation Research Symposium, hosted by the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center, will be taking place on March 2nd and 3rd online. This webinar will feature presentations by PSR students and researchers on their work. UCLA PhD candidates Hannah King and Teo Wickland will be presenting on their research as well as UCLA professor Dr. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. The event includes keynote presentations from Senator Fran Pavley and Dr. Susan Handy.

  • Policing the Open Road

    Columbia Law professor Sarah Seo's book "Policing the Open Road" is a thought-provoking look at how the automobile fundamentally changed the nature of police work, and thus the conception of freedom, in the United States. These themes are close to transportation studies, but too often ignored in transportation academia. These issues, moreover, will only become more salient as broader swaths of transportation academia seek to understand and study the role of race and ethnicity in freedom of mobility.

  • Compton Cowboys and California Love

    Multimedia artist Thompson-Hernández shares from his book, "The Compton Cowboys," and latest NPR podcast California Love. In Compton, California, 10 black riders on horseback cut an unusual profile, their cowboy hats tilted against the hot Los Angeles sun. They are the Compton Cowboys, their small ranch one of the very last in a formerly semirural area of the city that has been home to African American horse riders for decades. California Love is a new audio memoir about Walter's coming of age in Los Angeles.