The 15th Annual UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation – Land Use – Environment Connection: “Healthy Regions, Healthy People”
Held October 16-18 at UCLA’s Lake Arrowhead Conference Center
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Cities, regions, and their transportation systems are central determinants of public health. Transportation systems contribute to good health by giving mobile families access to shelter, food, recreation, education, medical care, employment, and civic participation. These same transportation systems also pollute the air with emissions, inundate adjacent properties with noise, and affect safety through crashes and spills. Finally, a new and active area of research suggests that the design of communities and their transportation systems importantly affects physical activity and health. Specifically, some argue that auto-oriented, suburban environments hurt public health by discouraging people from getting sufficient exercise; others have challenged such notions.
Accordingly, the 2005 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on the Transportation- Land Use-Environment Connection tackles the issue of public health in a Healthy Regions, Healthy People symposium. In it we examine public health trends related to transportation, land use, and air quality, as well as ways to measure the public health benefits of public policies. We also examine risks and safety, emissions and exposure, and physical activity and urban form. Along the way, we aim to balance diagnoses of problems with prescriptions for solutions: We ask, “What are the latest in transportation, land use, and environmental policies aimed at enhancing public health, and which are likely to be most effective?”
2005 Sponsors
LEAD SPONSORS
California Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Southern California Association of Governments
University of California Transportation Center
CO-SPONSORS
Automobile Club of Southern California
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
California Air Resources Board
Kaiser Permanente
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Orange County Transportation Authority
San Bernardino Associated Governments
San Diego Association of Governments
San Francisco County Transportation Authority
South Coast Air Quality Management District
Southern California Edison
Southern California Gas Company
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Western Riverside Council of Governments
For twenty-four years the Transportation–Land Use–Environment Connection symposium has been attended by over 100 public, private, and academic leaders annually.
The unique signature of this series is its balance, of both scholarly and practice-oriented presentations, and ideological perspectives. Recent topics include:
- Transportation and the Economy (1997),
- Inter-regional Travel and Local Development (1999),
- Planning for Growth (2000),
- Reinventing Transit (2001),
- Tacking Traffic Congestion (2002),
- Finance: The Critical Link (2003),
- Healthy Regions, Healthy People (2005),
- Global Energy and Climate Change (2006),
- Planning for Growth (2007),
- The Future of Cities and Travel (2008),
- Economic Crisis as Opportunity for Reform (2009)
- Infrastructure Investment for Sustainable Growth (2010)
- Energy Policy (2011)
- Financing the Future (2012)
- Smart Technologies: Smart Policies (2013)
- Resilient Cities and Regions (2014)
Each year, the program sponsor steering committee selects a topic to be covered in various dimensions by approximately 30 academic, government, and private sector speakers from around the globe. Recent scholarly speakers include:
- Alan Altshuler and Jose Gomez-Ibanez (Harvard),
- Robert Burchell and John Pucher (Rutgers),
- Robert Cervero and Martin Wachs (Berkeley),
- Anthony Downs (Brookings),
- Genevieve Giuliano and Randolf Hall (USC),
- David Godschalk and John Kasarda (North Carolina)
| Directions to the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center (see maps below) |
From Los Angeles: Take the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) East to the I-215 North. Travel on the I-215 for 6 miles. At Hwy 30/Mountain Resorts, bear right and exit the freeway at Waterman Avenue (Hwy 18). Turn left on Waterman Avenue and continue on Hwy 18 into the mountains for 22 miles. Turn left at Lake Arrowhead sign (Hwy 173). Follow road 2 miles down to the Lake Arrowhead Village four-way stop. Turn right at the stoplight and continue around the lake on Hwy 173 for 4-3/4 miles to Willow Creek Road. You will pass a gas station and a marina. Drive approximately 1.2 miles past the hospital turnoff and look for the Conference Center sign. Turn left onto Willow Creek Road and drive to the end of the road (about 1/2 mile). Make two right turns and you have arrived at the Lake Arrowhead Conference Center. The Main Lodge is the first building on the right as you enter the main parking lot. |
| Ground Transportation from Airports |
Ontario Airport is the nearest airport to the Conference Center. It is approximately one hour away from the Conference Center via freeway and mountain roads. Guests arriving by air may rent cars at the airport and should consider carpooling with other passengers attending the symposium. The Lewis Center will make available a limited number of shared ride vans to and from Lake Arrrowhead from select Metrolink stations and Ontario Airport. See the symposium registration site for more details. When making travel arrangements, please note that the symposium begins at 1:30 pm on Sunday, October 19th.Other AirportsBurbank (Bob Hope) – 87 miles Los Angeles International – 115 miles Orange County (John Wayne) – 80 miles Palm Springs – 80 miles San Diego International – 115 miles |
| Information | For additional information, please call the UCLA Lewis Center at (310) 562-7356 or email lewiscenter@luskin.ucla.edu. |
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If you are interesting in becoming a sponsor for the event, the following six sponsorship levels are offered:
– Diamond Sponsor $20,000 +
– Platinum Sponsor $10,000 +
– Gold Sponsor $7,500
– Silver Sponsor $5,000 +
– Sponsor $2,500 +
– Cooperating organizations
For additional information, please refer to the Sponsorship Information Sheet.
To become a sponsor please contact Todd Gauthier by phone at (310) 562-7356 or email at lewiscenter@luskin.ucla.edu.
Recent Sponsors and Cooperating Organizations
LEAD SPONSORS
California Department of Transportation
Southern California Association of Governments
CO-SPONSORS
Automobile Club of Southern California
California Air Resources Board
Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Majestic Realty Co.
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Mineta Transportation Institute, SJSU
Port of Long Beach
South Coast Air Quality Management District
University of California, Davis National Center for Sustainable Transportation
COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
California Energy Commission
California State University, Long Beach
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California Transportation Commission
Coalition for Clean Air
CSUSB Leonard Transportation Center
Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic
Federal Highway Administration
Federal Transit Administration
Los Angeles World Airports
METRANS Transportation Center, USC/CSULB
Orange County Transportation Authority
RAND Corporation
Sacramento Area Council of Governments
San Bernardino Associated Governments
San Diego Association of Governments
San Francisco County Transportation Authority
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Sierra Club
Southern California Edison
Southern California Gas Company
UC Davis, Environmental Science & Policy
UC Irvine, School of Social Ecology
UC Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering CE-CERT
Urban Land Use and Transportation Center, UC Davis
UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
UCLA School of Law
Union Pacific Railroad
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency