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Tool for Assessing Station Characteristics (TASC):  Identifying Service Quality Improvements at Transit Stops and Stations Researchers at UCLA have created a web-based analysis tool that is publicly available to transit agencies interested in identifying which service quality changes (e.g. amenities, information, lighting, etc.) to transit stops/stations are most important for improving levels of transit users’…

Intereseted in Street Standards and will attend the National APA Conference? You Should Attend: National Guidance on Street Standards: From AASHTO to NATCO and Beyond April 15, 2012 7:15 am – 8:30 am Current federal design guidance for bicycle and pedestrian facilities is over a decade old and does not reflect design practices that are currently…

The ideas and principles within the complete streets movement are consistently evolving and progressing.  Within the City of Los Angeles, for example, the Bicycle Master Plan was adopted in early 2011 and the Mobility Element of the City General Plan is currently being updated.  On a state level, 2011 is the first full year since…

Since its release in Oct, 2012, the “Model Design Manual for Living Streets” has generated visibility from national media outlets, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and municipalities across the country. Supported by a RENEW LA grant and the Luskin Center, this manual provides guidance for cities seeking to update their existing road standard manuals with…

Urban Planning Professor Brian D. Taylor has been named director of the Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, housed in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.  Taylor also serves as director of the School’s Institute of Transportation Studies.  Professor Taylor recently concluded a three-year term  as chair of the Department of…

Since “Carmageddon” became a household word in southern California, news outlets have been looking for traffic experts. Hear what some of the most knowledgeable have to say about this and other interesting traffic-related topics: Carmageddon brought out the ‘very best’ in people. What about next time? UCLA News|Week: How HOV lanes on the freeway work NBC…

The Lewis Center welcomes two new faculty fellows. Laura Abrams is associate professor of social welfare in the UCLA Luskin School, and is involved in several studies concerning juvenile justice and reentry in the Los Angeles area. Bridget Freisthler, assistant professor of social welfare in the UCLA Luskin School, focuses on the spatial ecology of…

Edited by Professor Emeritus Daniel J.B. Mitchell of the UCLA Luskin School, California Policy Options is published each year by the Lewis Center and focuses on the critical issues facing Californians and policymakers. The 2011 edition arrives at a time of economic uncertainty, fiscal crisis, and a gridlocked political system. Contributing authors in 2011 analyze…

Lené Levy-Storms was awarded a one-year non-residential fellowship in the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program, selected from a national pool, based on her commitment to health and aging issues, leadership potential, and interest in influencing policy. Levy-Storms is a Lewis Center faculty fellow and an associate professor in the UCLA Luskin School of Public…

Michael Stoll, professor and chair of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, finds that African Americans and Latinos continue to face racial segregation and a greater degree of jobs-housing mismatch. Stoll is a regularly cited expert on urban poverty and inequality, specifically the interplay among labor markets, race and ethnicity, geography,…