UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

A Celebration of the Life and Work of Donald Shoup
2025-10-03 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join the Department of Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies as we celebrate and remember the life and work of distinguished professor of urban planning, trailblazing advocate for parking reform, gifted teacher, and friend to generations of UCLA students, faculty and staff, Donald Shoup.
Friday, October 3, 2025
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center
Centennial Ballroom AB
UCLA Campus
2:00 – 3:30 pm: The Shoup Doctrine Book Talk and Launch of the UCLA Center for Parking Policy
4:00 – 6:00 pm: Celebration of Donald Shoup’s life and work (light refreshments)
Learn more about Don’s vast accomplishments, read some of his writings, view tributes from far and wide, and share your own memories on the UCLA Luskin tribute page for Don.

Lecture Series: The Story of Peter Gallegos with Peter Chesney
2025-10-07 | Live Stream
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
The Story of Peter Gallegos with Peter Chesney
Join us for a lecture based on original research documenting the experiences of Peter Gallegos, a blind Native American. Peter moved to Los Angeles from a Great Plains reservation with his seeing-eye dog. This talk will explore his mobility challenges and what happened after his dog was tragically killed by a hit-and-run driver.

DR. PETER CHESNEY is a graduate of UCLA’s Ph.D. program in history. Now he is a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt. At UCLA, he received a certificate in Urban Humanities alongside students in architecture and urban and regional planning. Later he participated in two Luskin Center for History & Policy research teams, which co-authored policy papers entitled “People Are Simply Unable to Pay the Rent” and “A Century of Fighting Traffic Congestion in Los Angeles (1920-2020).”

Lecture Series: The Making of Modern Los Angeles with Nick Patsaouras
2025-10-21 | Live Stream
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
The Making of Modern Los Angeles with Nick Patsaouras
Nick Patsaouras will chronicle his role in modernizing Los Angeles’s transportation infrastructure, particularly his efforts in spearheading the development of the region’s subway and light rail lines and advocating for bus services. As an insider, he navigated the complex landscape of clashing egos, political maneuvering, and compromise to significantly shape the city’s transit systems.
Nick Patsaouras is the author of The Making of Modern Los Angeles. He is a former Board Member of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where he was instrumental in advancing bus transportation. The Patsaouras Transit Plaza at the MTA Gateway Center/Union Station East is named in his honor.

NICK PATSAOURAS received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Northridge. He established an electrical engineering company in Los Angeles and designed a wide range of projects, including commercial, industrial, educational, residential, medical, institutional, religious, and entertainment. Nick has been actively involved in civic life for over 40 years. He ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1993 envisioning “Transportation as a Catalyst in Rebuilding LA” after the devastating 1992 LA riots. He served on the Board of Zoning Appeals, the Board of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), and the Board of the LA Department of Water and Power, helping guide infrastructure and planning policy in Los Angeles. As president of the Southern California Rapid Transit District, he helped plan the transportation network for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He is the author of “The Making of Modern Los Angeles.”

Lecture Series: Indigenous Transportation Knowledge with Adonia Lugo
2025-10-28 | Live Stream
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Indigenous Transportation Knowledge with Adonia Lugo
Local Indigenous groups have shaped the Los Angeles region’s landscape and mobility for over 10,000 years, a stark contrast to the brief, yet transformative, period of colonial settlement marked by intensive resource extraction and sprawling road networks. To envision alternative transportation futures, Adonia Lugo has collaborated with stewards of traditional Indigenous knowledge. This talk highlights their knowledge of the past and perspectives on how indigenous knowledge can shape the future of LA’s transportation systems.
Cultural anthropologist ADONIA E. LUGO was born and raised in traditional and unceded Acjachemen territory and now lives and works in traditional and unceded Tongva territory in Los Angeles. Adonia began investigating transportation, race, and space during her graduate studies at UC Irvine, when she co-created the Los Angeles open street event CicLAvia and the organization today known as People for Mobility Justice. Since receiving her doctorate in 2013, Adonia has applied her research on “human infrastructure” in sustainable mobility advocacy and helped to define the concept of “mobility justice.” Adonia is Equity Research Manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, a core organizer of The Untokening, and a recent appointee to the California Transportation Commission.

Lecture Series: Fighting Traffic Congestion a Century Ago with Brian Taylor
2025-11-04 | CA
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Fighting Traffic Congestion 100 Years Ago with Brian Taylor
Professor Brian Taylor delivers a talk and presentation on proposals between 1920 and 1940 to fundamentally redesign the street system, transit system, and highway system in LA to cope with burgeoning traffic — why they mostly failed, and why LA is the worse for it today. These stories are excerpted from Taylor’s book, The Drive for Dollars, the story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the 20th century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the 21st.
Additional reading: A Century of Fighting Traffic Congestion in Los Angeles: 1920 – 2020
BRIAN D. TAYLOR, PhD, FAICP is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He is the Director Emeritus of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. He studies travel behavior and transportation equity, finance, politics, and history. He has recently studied falling public transit ridership; public sector responses to new mobility services; the travel of Millennials, high-school students, and same-sex households; the rise of local sales taxes for transportation; and the economic effects of traffic congestion. He was recently named one of the Top 10 Academic Thought Leaders in Transportation by the Council of University Transportation Centers, and honored as a National Associate by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. And perhaps most importantly, Professor Taylor is a former staff member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements: Stories from Cities Across the Country
2025-11-18 | CA
A Mini-Symposium from UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025
In 2005, UCLA Professor Donald Shoup published “The High Cost of Free Parking,” revealing the shaky foundations of minimum parking requirements and explaining how these mandates cause problems far worse than the one they were intended to solve. Since then, more than 100 U.S. cities have eliminated any requirements to provide a minimum number of parking spaces from their zoning code, with hundreds more lifting their parking requirements in key areas like commercial corridors and historic downtowns. In this online event, planners, public officials, researchers, and advocates whose cities were among the first to eliminate parking requirements will share their experiences. Speakers will share why their cities chose to end parking minimums, the new development and opportunities these changes have made possible, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. After the speaker sessions, attendees are invited to participate in breakout room discussions to share their experiences and consider the effects of parking policies in their own communities.
Session 1: Sharing City Experiences
In this session, we’ll hear from local leaders about why their cities eliminated minimum parking requirements and see examples of new housing and small businesses that resulted from the policy change.

Sara Bronin, former Planning Commission Chair, Hartford, Connecticut
Daniel Volland, City Council Member, Anchorage, Alaska
Aaron Qualls, former Planning and Community Development Director, Sandpoint, Idaho

Session 2: Sharing Knowledge and Resources
In this session, we’ll continue exploring local success stories. We’ll also learn about research and resources that can help planners and community leaders understand what to expect after eliminating minimum parking requirements and navigate what Professor Shoup and others have identified as next steps.

Daniel Hess, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo
Evan Manvel, former Land Use, Transportation, and Climate Mitigation Planner, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development
Tony Jordan, President, Parking Reform Network

Session 3: Learning Together
The last portion of the mini-symposium allows attendees to connect with speakers and other attendees in small-group facilitated discussions.
Claim Your Credits
Attendees who are members of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) can claim up to 2.25 CM credits from the American Planning Association’s website.

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Speakers

Sara BroninFounder & Ceo of National Zoning Atlas

Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She wrote Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World (W.W. Norton), and she founded and directs the National Zoning Atlas, which aims to digitize, demystify, and democratize information about zoning in the United States. She also served as Chair of Hartford’s Planning Commission.

Daniel B. HessProfessor

Daniel Hess is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Buffalo. Hess served as chairperson of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning from 2017 through 2022. Central to Hess’s research is addressing interactions between housing, transportation, land use, and other public concerns. He develops new pathways for understanding the complex socio-economic and ethnic landscape of cities and spatial inequalities. He also explores equal access to resources from urban neighborhoods, focusing especially on the changes in gay neighborhoods and the LGBTQ+ population diffuses to other metropolitan locations. Hess has authored papers studying the effects of parking reform.

Tony JordanPresident of Parking Reform Network

Tony Jordan is a nationally recognized champion for rethinking parking policies. Inspired by reading The High Cost of Free Parking, he founded Portlanders for Parking Reform in 2015 and went on to co-found the Parking Reform Network (PRN) in 2019. As PRN’s president, Tony leads a dedicated team and frequently presents at public meetings and conferences, including SXSW and YIMBYtown. He lives car-free in Portland, Oregon, with his family, enjoying multi-day bike trips and strategy board games when he’s not advocating for smarter parking policies.

Evan Manvelformer Land Use, Transportation, and Climate Mitigation Planner

Evan Manvel has spent three decades working on programs and policies to cut climate pollution. At the State of Oregon, he led the creation and adoption of Oregon’s revolutionary parking reforms, led several publications including Oregon’s Parking Management Jump Start Guide and “Lizard Brains on Planning,” and worked with several cities to reform parking management. He previously worked for some of the northwest’s leading conservation organizations and serves on the Parking Reform Network board.

Daniel VollandAnchorage Assembly Member

Daniel Volland represents District 1, which includes the urban core of Anchorage, on the Anchorage Assembly. He is passionate about housing abundance, active transportation, and public health. He is also an optometrist, small business owner, and dog dad.

Aaron QuallsSenior Project Manager

Aaron Qualls, AICP, is a senior project manager with SCJ Alliance Consulting Services, working out of SCJ’s downtown office in Sandpoint, Idaho — located within a historically remodeled building made possible by off-street parking reform. Aaron is a Strong Towns contributor, former president of APA ID, and the former Planning and Community Development Director for the City of Sandpoint. Aaron enjoys collaborating with diverse stakeholders, community members, and decision-makers to find common ground on even the most complex issues. Serving for over 14 years as a city official in both the private and public sectors, he has developed and implemented a wide variety of data-driven and community-focused plans within the Inland Northwest.

100 Lecture Series: L.A.’s transportation and infrastructure is broken. We can fix it. with Michael Schneider
2026-01-28 10:30 - 11:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Live Stream
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
L.A.’s transportation and infrastructure is broken. We can fix it.
Michael Schneider, a Los Angeles native, traded his car for a bicycle over a decade ago. Since then, Michael has become politically active; as the founder of Streets For All, his organization has had a dramatic impact on L.A. — from passing Measure HLA in 2024 to flipping the L.A. City Council to making and changing laws in Sacramento. In this talk Michael will go over a brief history of L.A. from a transportation point of view, talk about Measure HLA, the current state of street safety and multimodal transportation in the city, and discuss what needs to change to make L.A. functional, safe, and multimodal for all.
MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, a lifelong Angeleno and car enthusiast, gave up his car a decade ago and started using a bicycle to get around the car capital of the country. This radical change opened his eyes to the impacts that car dominated cities have on our happiness, our freedom, and our kids. A tech entrepreneur turned political activist, Michael has raised millions to get the right people elected in Los Angeles and California, and in 2024 led the campaign to pass a ballot measure that will forever change LA.

100 Lecture Series: Strategic Innovation for L.A. Transportation with Seleta Reynolds
2026-02-04 10:30 - 11:45 | Live Stream
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Strategic Innovation for L.A. Transportation
Seleta Reynolds has over a decade of experience as a transportation executive in Los Angeles. From her time as the General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation to her current role as Metro’s Chief Innovation Officer, overseeing the Office of Strategic Innovation, Reynolds has developed a comprehensive perspective on transportation in Los Angeles. This perspective and approach to innovation are invaluable as Los Angeles prepares its transportation system to host global mega events.
SELETA REYNOLDS has 25 years of experience in transportation in both the public and private sector. As CIO of LA Metro, her responsibilities include delivering the mobility program for the 28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as a mobility wallet and a strategy for transitioning the agency to a Zero Emission Bus fleet. Formerly, she was the General Manager for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation where she launched Vision Zero, a goal to get to zero traffic deaths, in Los Angeles after leading a similar effort in San Francisco. She is the founding chair of the Open Mobility Foundation, an open-source project to build digital infrastructure for the public realm and serves on the Executive Committee of the ITS America Board of Directors.

Paving Over How Much Paradise? With Professors Lewis Lehe and Michael Manville
2026-02-10 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
An Event from the UCLA Center for Parking Policy
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Paving Over How Much Paradise?
With Professors Lewis Lehe and Michael Manville
Join us for a virtual event to hear Professors Lewis Lehe of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Michael Manville of UCLA discuss how parking shapes our cities — how much land is devoted to parking, how researchers measure its footprint, and what we give up in exchange for so much parking.
Following their presentations, Ellen Schwartz, manager of the UCLA Center for Parking Policy, will introduce a new synthesis summarizing research on the impacts of parking infrastructure, the effects of minimum parking requirements, and what happens when cities repeal them.
After the presentations, Adam Millard-Ball will moderate a speaker Q&A and audience discussion.
RegisterClaim Your Credits
Attendees who are members of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) can claim up to 1.00 CM credits from the American Planning Association’s website. (Link forthcoming)
Speakers

Lewis LeheAssistant Professor

Lewis Lehe is an Assistant Professor in the Transportation Systems group of the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research areas include transportation pricing, urban traffic, traffic theory, and transportation economics. His work has been published in journals spanning planning, economics, and transportation research methodology.

Dr. Lehe earned his B.Phil. in Mathematics-Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. in Transport Economics from the University of Leeds (UK), and both an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Michael ManvilleProfessor and Co-Director of UCLA Center for Parking Policy

Michael Manville is a Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Parking Policy. His research areas are transportation, land use, and housing, and the interrelationships between those. He has particular interests in road and parking pricing; the determinants of driving and transit use; and the influence of land use regulations on the supply and price of housing. His work has appeared in journals of planning, economics, urban studies, and sociology.

Dr. Manville holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA Luskin. Before joining UCLA, he was an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University.

Ellen SchwartzManager, UCLA Center for Parking Policy

Ellen Schwartz manages the UCLA Center for Parking Policy. Before joining ITS, Ellen worked as a Curb, Mobility, and Parking Planner at Walker Consultants, where she advised public sector clients on transportation and land use plans, including parking management frameworks and development review policies. She also brings public sector experience, having worked on various policy and planning initiatives with the City Manager’s Office in Mountain View, California, and the Planning Division in Fremont, California.

Ellen holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, with a concentration in Transportation Policy and Planning, and a Bachelor of Science in Spanish from Wisconsin Lutheran College.

100 Lecture Series: L.A. From the Viewpoint of A Walker with Alissa Walker
2026-02-11 10:30 - 11:45 | Live Stream
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
L.A. From the Viewpoint of A Walker
Alissa Walker has been observing Los Angeles as a pedestrian and journalist since before Twitter existed. How people learn about their community has changed, and Alissa now works on a newsletter and podcast to inform Angelenos about transportation, housing, urban design, and governance. Her project Torched.LA covers the civic investments and policy decisions that Los Angeles is making in preparation for its megaevent-hosting era.
ALISSA WALKER is a writer based in Los Angeles where she has covered transportation, housing, urban design, public space, and environmental policy for two decades. She edits the newsletter Torched, which tracks the legacy improvements that LA is making for the 2028 Summer Olympics. Alissa is the 2021 recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary for her writing on design and urbanism, and played herself on the traffic safety episode of Adam Conover’s show Adam Ruins Everything, “Adam Ruins a Murder.” She lives in L.A.’s Historic Filipinotown neighborhood, where she is the co-host of LA Podcast, an avid ice cream consumer, and a mom to the city’s two most enthusiastic public transit riders.

100 Lecture Series: Investing in Sidewalks and Streets with Jessica Meaney
2026-02-18 10:30 - 11:45 | Live Stream
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Investing in Sidewalks and Streets
Jessica Meaney is the Executive Director of Investing in Place. Investing in Place imagines a Los Angeles that cares for its sidewalks, streets, and parks as everyday expressions of dignity, equity, and belonging. Public spaces are planned and maintained as the foundation of community life, where investment and care reach every neighborhood.
Jessica has professional experience in Los Angeles, spanning transportation planning for safe streets, administration of philanthropic grants, and management of mission-driven organizations.
JESSICA MEANEY is the founder and executive director of Investing in Place, a leading voice for reimagining Los Angeles’ public realm—sidewalks, streets, and infrastructure. For two decades, Jessica has led efforts in LA to promote inclusive decision-making and equitable resource allocation in public works and transportation funding to create accessible and well maintained public spaces that enhance quality of life.

Pacific Coast Transportation Workshop
2026-02-20 - 2026-02-21 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 337 Charles E Young Drive E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is delighted to announce the inaugural Pacific Coast Transportation Workshop on policy and planning.
Join us in Los Angeles from Friday February 20 to Saturday February 21, 2026. We look forward to discussing research and exchanging ideas in a small, relaxed setting.
RegisterDraft ProgramDraft ScheduleQuestions and Answers
Why are you holding this workshop? We aim to provide a low-cost forum that fosters deeper connections between transportation scholars and that stimulates new ideas. The program will focus on a smaller number of thought-provoking papers and reserve ample time for discussion. We will have a mix of full-length presentations with discussants, and brief “egg timer” talks.
Who can attend? The workshop is aimed at faculty, postdocs, PhD students, and other researchers working in the broad areas of transportation policy and planning. We particularly encourage scholars in western North America to attend.
How can I register? Registration will open in December for presenters and others on a first-come, first-served basis. A registration fee of $75 ($40 for students) will cover lunches on Friday and Saturday and other light refreshments.
Where can I stay? We have reserved a block of rooms at the Inn at UCLA, which is across the street from the workshop location in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The cost is $229/night, including tax and breakfast. This rate is highly competitive for the area.
How could I have submitted a paper? We requested an extended abstract of up to 1,000 words by 5pm Pacific Time on Friday November 14, 2025. Abstracts should follow a three-part structure: questions, methods, results. We invite unpublished empirical and theoretical papers on any topic, using any research method, related to transportation policy and planning. There is a maximum of one submission per presenting author.
What are the criteria for review? Abstracts will be reviewed against the following criteria:

Question: Is the research question important and interesting, and within the broad scope of transportation policy and planning?
Methods: Do the authors have a way to answer that question?
Results: Do results exist already, or is there a credible plan to have results by the workshop date?

When will I find out about my paper? We aim to make decisions by mid-December.
Who is organizing the workshop? The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, with support from a steering committee: Jesus Barajas (UC Davis), Marlon Boarnet (USC), Anne Brown (University of Oregon), Michael Manville (UCLA), Juan Matute (UCLA), Adam Millard-Ball (UCLA), and Deborah Salon (ASU).
Where will the workshop be held? We will be hosted by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
How can I find out more? Email the team at uclaits@ucla.edu.

The Road to Repair: Transforming Infrastructure to Advance Environmental Justice
2026-03-02 10:00 - 12:30 | Virtual Event
A mini-symposium from the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies The automobile-dominated transportation system has historically and disproportionately harmed low-income communities and communities of color, dividing neighborhoods, increasing exposure to traffic and noise pollution, and contributing to long-term health and economic disparities. This virtual mini-symposium explores how innovative, justice-focused approaches to freeway removal can repair these harms, reconnect communities, and create more equitable and sustainable urban environments, issues highly relevant to transportation planning, policy, and engineering. The mini-symposium features two panels:
Panel 1: Impacts and Inequities of Freeway Construction
This panel examines the social, environmental, and health impacts of freeway construction, with a focus on racial-ethnic disparities in exposure to traffic-related air pollution, displacement, and community severance. Panelists will discuss how transportation planning and infrastructure policies have marginalized communities of color and created persistent inequities.

Adam Paul Susaneck, AECOM/Segregation By Design
Demetria Murphy, Estolano Advisors
Amy Castaneda, Environmental Health Coalition
Dilia Ortega, Communities for a Better Environment

Panel 2: Solutions and Opportunities in Freeway Removal
The second panel explores innovative strategies to reimagine urban transportation. Panelists will discuss freeway removal, boulevard replacement, and investments in public transit and active transportation as tools to reconnect communities, reduce environmental harm, and promote transportation equity. Case studies, including California examples, will highlight planning, policy, and design strategies to advance environmental justice.

Dr. Ben Crowther, America Walks
Randolph Belle, Outreach Lead for Vision 980
Yesenia Perez, Senior Program Manager for Climate Equity, The Greenlining Institute

Why Attend
Attendees will gain insights into both the systemic challenges posed by freeway construction and the transformative potential of equity-driven transportation planning that prioritizes equity, environmental justice, and community well-being. The mini-symposium is designed to foster dialogue between researchers, students, and policymakers on practical and innovative solutions for more just and sustainable transportation systems.
REGISTER HERESpeakers

Dilia OrtegaSouthern California Programs Co-Director

Dilia Ortega is the Southern California Programs Co-Director at Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), where she advances environmental justice and equitable transportation outcomes. Raised in Southeast Los Angeles, she brings a lived understanding of industrial pollution shaped by her family’s work and proximity to the City of Vernon. She spent seven years at CBE as a Community Organizer, leading park equity efforts and the campaign to stop the I-710 South freeway widening. She holds a BA in History from Williams College and a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA.

Yesenia PerezClimate Equity Senior Program Manager at The Greenlining Institute

Yesenia Perez is a policy advocate and Senior Program Manager for Climate Equity focused on systems change in climate resilience and clean mobility. She works with public agencies and community partners to shift how climate and infrastructure policies are designed, funded, and implemented to better serve communities of color. Her background spans strategic consulting, environmental education, and climate equity research. She holds a B.S. in Global Environmental Policy from UC Berkeley.

100 Lecture Series: Improving L.A.'s Transportation Policy Outcomes with Joshua Schank
2026-03-11 10:30 - 11:45 | Live Stream
Perloff Lecture Series on 100 Years of Transportation Research
Presented by UCLA Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Improving L.A.’s Transportation Policy Outcomes
Joshua Schank speaks from his book, “New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies,” which tells the inside story of how a small team at LA Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation turned big ideas into real change. It is part playbook, part survival guide, and part reality check for anyone trying to make progress inside public institutions.
JOSHUA SCHANK is a Partner at InfraStrategies LLC, where he leads a practice focused on innovation, strategic planning, and technology. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Transportation Studies at UCLA, and a Research Associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute. Prior to joining InfraStrategies and UCLA, Dr. Schank was the first-ever Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at LA Metro. Dr. Schank previously served as President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, Director of Transportation Research for the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY). He is the co-author of All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding.

Celebration of 100 Years of Transportation Research and Education at UCLA
2026-05-04 | Covel Commons – Grand Horizon Room, 330 DeNeve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
UCLA has been a leader in transportation research and education for more than a century. Over the past 100 years, transportation research at UCLA has shaped the field, from the earliest traffic studies to the emerging mobility technologies of today. As our world and transportation systems continue to evolve, we look forward to another 100 years in motion.
Join us on May 4 to celebrate UCLA’s long history of transportation research and education. More details to come.
