The City of Santa Monica is joining a class of cities across the United States and abroad that seek to increase public space by converting excess roadway space for cars into places for people. Parklets present an opportunity for creating public open space for residents at a significantly lower cost than parks. Further, the creation of parklets provides an opportunity for community groups, business …

About the Initiative The UCLA Complete Streets Initiative is a Luskin School of Public Affairs-wide program working to achieve more livable and complete streets for people in the Los Angeles region. Complete streets enable people to travel safely regardless of their transportation mode, ability or age. The Initiative expands beyond complete streets to also encompass living streets concepts in stre …

Welcome to the Spatial Analysis Group in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. This website showcases projects that SAG has produced as well as offers related resources including information about GIS, how GIS is used in Public Affairs, projects by faculty and students that demonstrate the use of GIS, related GIS resources, and courses offered at UCLA. Spatial Analysis Group MembersGeographic …

After decades of sprawl, state and regional governments are now focused on encouraging compact, infill and transit-oriented growth as a key strategy to reduce vehicle travel and greenhouse gas emissions. According to this logic, growth in already-developed areas that are more central and better-served by transit will result in less driving and fewer emissions. Cudahy is such a community, and has u …

Learn REVISION. An On-Demand Recording of the Training & Demonstration Webinar is available 24/7/365.  You can also view the  User Guide,  Project Flyer, Data Documentation, or one of our case-specific guidance documents:Using REVISION to assess neighborhood change associated with gentrificationUsing REVSION to understand neighborhood transportation dynamicsWant updates? Join the REVISION Mail …

TransitWiki.org is a knowledge management website for sharing information among California’s transit agencies and operators.  The goal is to to accelerate the successful implementation of cost-effective strategies to improve transit service. On this site you’ll find basic information about strategies, examples of their implementation, and links to reports and guidance from the American Public Tran …

Pedestrian and bicycle volume data is rarely collected in Los Angeles County, and even more rarely is high quality data available in low-income communities. While short-duration manual counts exist here at several hundred locations, these provide a limited understanding of how volumes may vary by time of day. This project analyzed some of the first longer-duration bicycle and pedestrian data in LA …

Two reports now available: Placemaking for an Aging Population: Guidelines for Senior-Friendly Parks  Parks for Seniors: Identifying Opportunity Sites in Los Angeles  Project Description Senior citizens remain a highly underserved group in regards to parks. This despite the fact that studies find a positive relation between physical and emotional well-being and spending time in a natural setting ( …

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 the sensors associated with the parking meters th …

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 exposures with …