Category: Transportation

With California’s recent mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a growing interest in reducing reliance on private automobiles, Evelyn Blumenberg’s edited book comes at a critical time. Recent efforts to curb private vehicle use may help to clean the environment, but at the same time, for many segments of society a lack of automobility can…

Urban Planning faculty member and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies director Brian Taylor prepared a report for the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC on transportation finance equity as background for the upcoming reauthorization of the federal surface transportation legislation. The report was released in September 2010 at an event on Capitol Hill entitled “How…

Donald Shoup, UCLA professor of urban planning and perhaps best known for his extensive work on parking and land-use policies, has been named editor of Access magazine, a publication of the University of California Transportation Center. The magazine features research conducted across UC campuses on transportation policy, and is distributed to more than 50,000 readers…

A new report from the National Research Council examines major policies that could save energy and reduce emissions from the U.S. transportation sector over the next 20 to 50 years. It will take more than tougher fuel economy standards for U.S. transportation to significantly cut its oil use over the next half century.  It will…

Why has California seemingly become ungovernable? And what can and should be done about it? Those concerns were tackled in “The People’s Will: Reforming the Way We Govern California.” The UCLA Roundtable Discussion featured Andreas Kluth, U.S. West coast correspondent for The Economistmagazine, and a panel of California experts. Sparking the discussion was a special report…

The University of California’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) received a $6.25 million grant to create a new Program for Sustainable Transportation over five years beginning in 2010. The program is funded by the UC Office of the President and has brought together researchers from more than 30 disciplines on six UC campuses to seed…

Please join us in welcoming Professor Kenya Covington as a new Lewis Center Visiting Scholar.  Professor Covington’s work examines the impact of social and urban policies on low-income families, single parents, African Americans and other racial and ethnic populations, and urban and rural dwellers and their children. She has a multidisciplinary background in sociology, urban…

Urban Planning MA and PhD graduate, Lewis Center Post-Doctoral Scholar, Urban Planning Lecturer, and Access Magazine Associate Editor Michael Manville recently accepted an offer for a tenure track faculty position as a Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, one of the leading planning programs in North America, where he will teach…

The Lewis Center supports graduate education with small grants for capstone research projects. We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Graduate Student Grants: HOT or Cold: Analysis of Congestion Pricing Implementation in the United States, by Alex Beata, Department of Urban Planning RENEW Pacoima Complete Streets Project: Baseline Data and Policy Recommendations,…

Deadline is 5:00 PM, Friday, June 3, 2011. The Lewis Center sponsors an annual student GIS project contest to promote the use of spatial analysis and geographic techniques in the study of California planning and policy issues. Three winners will receive stipends in the following amounts: -1st Place – $500 -2nd Place – (2) awards,…