Category: Transportation
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UCLA at the 2015 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington DC boasts such a wide array of activities and gatherings that in this era of social media it is tempting to use tweets and photos to convey the considerable intellectual energy that permeates the week. We make no pretense of being any different at UCLA- you get…
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Exploration and Implications of Multimodal Street Performance Metrics: What’s a Passing Grade?
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Green City Transportation Architecture
Green City Transport Architecture:closing the loop between sensors, navigators, and routes, a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and involving researchers at UCLA, UC Riverside, and Rutgers University. The aim of this research project is to identify opportunities for sensors and vehicle routing instructions to work together to reduce mobile source pollution and…
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Reclaiming the Right-of-Way: Parklets for Los Angeles
Considering roads as public spaces presents an opportunity for decreasing the open space deficit in cities. For this reason, cities are turning to parklets—places that emerge from the low-cost conversion of small and underutilized residual spaces originally devoted to cars into places for the passive or active recreation of people. Because parklets are a relatively…
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Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs On A Very Brief History of Why Americans Hate Their Commutes
Recently, Lewis Center Faculty Fellow and UCLA Urban Planning Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs authored an article posted to The Atlantic Cities website. To view the article, A Very Brief History of Why Americans Hate Their Commutes, click here.
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Congestion-Priced Parking in California: Equity, Efficiency, and Implementation
This project, done in collaboration with UC Berkeley, is evaluating and analyzing two performance-based parking projects, SF Park and LA Express Park. Over the past two years, researchers at UCLA and UC Berkeley collected data about parking occupancy, rates of payment, reasons for non-payment and other variables that are not able to be collected by…
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CicLAvia Evaluation
CicLAvia is the Los Angeles -regional branding for open streets events. At open streets events, streets are closed to motor vehicle traffic and tempoarily transformed into appealing public spaces for people to to walk, bicycle, skate and enjoy. Since 2013, the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, along with partners in the Luskin Center, the Fielding School…
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Exploration and Implications of Multimodal Street Performance Metrics: What’s a Passing Grade?
Watch the webinar This project analyzes new multimodal street performance metrics for transportation projects. Scholars and practitioners have developed these new performance metrics in recent years in an attempt to replace traditional automobile-based level of service (LOS) indicators. Many scholars and practitioners feel traditional LOS overemphasizes the free flow of automobile traffic while neglecting other…