Category: Transportation

The UCLA Complete Streets Initiative, led by the Lewis Center with support from the Luskin Center, recently hosted its annual Complete Streets Conference. Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, gave a keynote lecture that culminated the day with inspiring stories from NYC.  This year’s conference focused on Pathways to Implementation, in…

The California Transportation Foundation released its annual awards on Wednesday, naming ACCESS Magazine, housed inside the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, as its Organization of the Year. The magazine reports on research funded by the University of California Transportation Center. “The Transportation Awards jury, made up of public and private sector transportation professionals, reviewed…

If city leaders clearly articulate a vision and pursue it in ways that rely on constant public engagement, transformational change is possible. That was the message delivered by New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan Feb. 28, as part of the UCLA Luskin Lecture Series. Sadik-Khan spoke to an audience of more than 200 transportation…

Lewis Center and Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) students took part in the ninth annual UCLA Luskin Day at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, February 8 to meet with and interview a panel of experts (including Lewis Center Advisory Board Members L.A. Deputy Mayor Borja Leon and Santa Monica Mayor Pam O’Connor) on the topic of  Full…

In a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, two “parklets,” or micro urban parks, were officially opened in downtown Los Angeles and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs had a hand in creating the new spaces. “This parklet is the first in the nation that is an active recreation parklet,” said Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, associate dean of…

UCLA Master of Urban and Regional Planning program student Drew Baldwin was recently quoted in a Daily Bruin story about ridesharing company Uber Technologies’ California operations. Baldwin explains that at first state officials were opposed to the company’s operations. Officials thought that Uber Technologies was not following the same standards as taxi and limousine companies. Ultimately, state officials…

Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs; then-MURP student Shira Bergstein; Dan Chatman, Berkeley Assistant Professor; and Berkeley graduate student April Mo, recently completed a study to examine whether the process of environmental reviews and approvals for infrastructure projects has proven to be quicker where Habitat Conservation Plans exist than has been the case where they do not. Habitat Conservation Plans set aside areas of…

The UCLA Complete Streets Initiative recently was selected by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) to create a bicycle data clearinghouse in a partnered effort with Ryan Snyder Associates, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC), and Kittleson and Associates. As a part of this multi-phase $150,000 project, UCLA will collect and standardize data for…

A new study examines travel of teens and young adults in an era of advanced communications technologies. Written by UCLA’s own Evelyn Blumenberg, Brian Taylor,Michael Smart, Kelcie Ralph, Madeline Wander, and Stephen Brumbaugh, the study was funded by both the U.S. Federal Highway Administration and the University of California Transportation Center. The researchers find that economic factors, first and foremost are behind…