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Urban Planning PHD student Kelcie Ralph talked to Chicago NPR affiliate WBEZ earlier this week about the unique obstacles facing American women from taking up bicycling. The interview covers ideas outlined in a Guardian op-ed that Ralph penned with Lewis Center researcher Herbie Huff, and builds off her research with UCLA colleagues on household travel and activities among students and non-traditional…

The author Leo Tolstoy once wrote: “All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.” Both of these archetypal stories involve travel, a subtle connection which may speak to an intrinsic link between travel and those experiences that bring meaning to our lives. Yet…

On a recent October afternoon, California Transportation Commission (CTC) executive director Andre Boutros gave a crash course in California transportation finance for a group of UCLA students, faculty, and researchers. Boutros sketched an overview of the CTC’s role in allocating over $25 billion worth of state and federal transportation funds, and provided a window into the CTC’s decision-making…

Lewis Center Director Brian Taylor traveled to the University of Vermont in September to participate in the Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture Series. His talk was entitled: “Who Knows About Kids These Days? Understanding the Travel Behavior of Teens and Young Adults.” Full video of the engaging lecture and Q&A can be found here.

On Monday, UCLA Urban Planning PhD student Carole Turley gave the first-ever Institute of Transportation Studies brown bag. She talked about Transportation Utility Fees, or TUFs. What are TUFs? TUFs are a charge for the use of the transportation system, and are typically levied by cities on property owners.

Lewis Center Researcher Herbie Huff and Urban Planning PHD Candidate Kelcie Ralph recently penned an article in the Guardian newspaper asserting that an overlooked barrier to more women biking is the fact that their lives are disproportionately filled with housework and child-related chores. Read on for the thought-provoking article.

Transportation talks don’t get much more electric than the UCLA Regents lecture delivered by Janette Sadik-Khan on a recent October evening at UCLA. Urban Planning Chair Evelyn Blumenberg and Lewis Center faculty fellow Martin Wachs both used the term “rock star” to describe Khan in their introductory remarks, and one fan following the event on…

Lewis Center and ITS Faculty Fellow Don Shoup sat down with BuzzFeed news to expand on his astute sound bite at CityLab this week, “It’s unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.” The article condenses Professor Shoup’s some 700-page tour de force “The High Cost of…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a citizen of Los Angeles in possession of an automobile must be in want of traffic relief. On Sept. 29, Lewis Center Director Brian Taylor challenged this and other conventional wisdom about traffic congestion on a panel at the Zocalo Public Square event entitled: “What Could Speed Up…

Lewis Center Director Brian Taylor and researcher Madeline Brozen recently moderated panels at the Mobility 21 Summit, an annual conference that focuses on transportation issues confronting the Southern California region.