Category: Transportation

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, a collaborative enterprise that brings researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders together each fall to discuss and debate the transportation – land use – environment connection. This year’s symposium will be held October 17-19, 2010, around the theme, “Infrastructure Investment for Sustainable Growth.” The symposium…

Responding to the state crisis in financing transportation systems in California, the Institute of Transportation Studies delivered three educational workshops in Sacramento to legislative staff and aides, to promote understanding and evaluation of transportation finance options for the state. Speakers included government leaders, experts in transportation and finance from academic and research institutions, and senior…

Social Welfare Professor Yeheskel “Zeke” Hasenfeld was recently selected by the Society for Social Work and Research to be the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Career and Achievement Award. The award recognizes Professor Hasenfeld’s social work over the years, his level of innovation and research, and impact towards those in the field. Dr. Hasenfeld’s research…

As California moves forward to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and secure a more sustainable future, research plays a key role in informing which policies should be implemented.  California’s SB 375, a regional planning and smart growth initiative, requires many of the state’s regions to meet a target for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions…

“I don’t think it will be a national precedent, but a worldwide precedent,” said Donald Shoup, an economist and professor of urban planning at UCLA and a guru of the parking-reform movement. Learn here what Shoup was describing.

With the November elections steadily approaching, Proposition 23 seeks to kill California’s cap-and-trade system set to take hold in 2011. The proposition will directly undo the cap-and-trade plans for environmental sustainability in California as a means of seeking economic growth. Known as Assembly Bill 32 (“AB 32”), the plan will now face tough opposition from…

Luskin Scholar Matthew Kahn’s study─ showing how energy conservation incentives can sometimes ironically lead to greater consumption─ caught the attention of a range of mainstream media outlets. “Nudges Gone Wrong” was a typical headline about it. Most recently, his study was featured on the American Public Media radio program Marketplace. The “Marketplace” story describes how Dr.…

As a professor of Asian American Studies, Urban Planning, and Social Welfare at UCLA, Lewis Center Faculty Fellow, Paul Ong is well-qualified to discuss the increase in political participation among Asian Americans. Chosun Ilbo, a newspaper based in Seoul, South Korea, conferred with Ong for a news story citing the effect that Indian Americans have…

Urban Planning Professor Randy Crane has been selected as the Editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA). The journal will be housed at UCLA for five years beginning October 1, 2010. As the flagship scholarly journal in urban studies it is the principal gatekeeper for advancing theoretical and empirical work in planning. For more than…