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Transfers Magazine – Issue 2

Issue 2 — Fall 2018 What Makes a Good Driver? The Impact of Gender, Age, Athletics, Video Games, and Confidence on Novice Drivers Nancy L. Wayne, Gregory A. Miller Does Light Rail Reduce Traffic? The Case of the LA Expo Line Genevieve Giuliano, Sandip Chakrabarti Worst-Case Scenarios: Flooding and Evacuation Plans in Honolulu Karl Kim, Pradip Pant, Eric Yamashita Converting Garages for Cars into Housing for People Anne E. Brown, Vinit Mukhija, Donald Shoup Opinion: Fueling Collisions: The Case for a Smarter Freight Tax Cody Nehiba Subscribe to Transfers

By |2021-01-08T11:45:08-08:00November 14th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|
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Recap: Lessons from the Sharing Economy for the Autonomous Vehicle Future

Webinar featuring Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley and Mike Manville, UCLAAutonomous vehicles hold enormous potential - a future with self-driving cars could mean safer streets, less congestion, and increased equity. These benefits are particularly promising when autonomous vehicle technology meets shared mobility companies like Uber and Lyft. But how close are we to that future? Professor Susan Shaheen of UC Berkeley and Associate Professor Michael Manville of UCLA talked about this difficult issue during a webinar hosted by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.We are still some time away from truly autonomous vehicles. There are five stages of automation: level 4 means you can occasionally take your eyes off the road and your hands off the wheel and level 5 means completely self-driving vehicles. No large-scale deployments of level 4 or 5 automation exist, but that will change soon. “What I think we’re going to see as we move into 2017 and beyond is more of these highly automated or fully automated deployments,” explained Professor Shaheen. Companies like Uber and Tesla are already starting to scale up autonomous vehicle experiments.When autonomous vehicles do roll out in larger numbers, it will likely be in limited scenarios. Cities like Columbus and San Francisco [...]

By |2021-01-08T10:40:31-08:00February 23rd, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|
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CicLAvia Associated with Increased Sales to Local Businesses

LOS ANGELES, October 1, 2012 — Businesses along the June 2013 CicLAvia route experienced a 10 percent bump in sales on the day of the event, a new study from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs has found. The increase was greater among those businesses that engaged with CicLAvia participants such as with a vending table or music. “Active participant” businesses saw their sales increase 57 percent according to the study, with sales revenue increases of $1,356 on average compared to $407 on average for all businesses. With the eighth iteration of L.A.’s day of car-free streets approaching on October 6, the data gives business owners, residents and CicLAvia participants tips on how to make the most of the unique interactions that happen during the event. Approximately 150,000 people on foot, bikes and skates experienced iconic Wilshire Boulevard as part of the CicLAvia event on June 23, 2013. Researchers at UCLA Luskin’s Complete Streets Initiative and the Luskin Center for Innovation surveyed a representative sample of brick-and-mortar businesses along the route, comparing sales revenue and foot traffic on CicLAvia Sunday and a Sunday earlier that month. The researchers found revenues increased by an average of $407 per business—$3,122 in sales on [...]

By |2020-09-30T17:46:17-07:00October 1st, 2013|Categories: Complete Streets, Transportation|
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Juan Matute Addresses California Assembly Committee on Community and Neighborhood Development

Manager of the Local Climate Change Initiative Juan Matute addressed California State Assembly Members about options to finance public improvements.  Matute recently wrote a policy brief on the evolution of policy options used to fund or finance local infrastructure improvements in California.    A key finding was that though financing needs for infill settings in established communities were more complicated, fewer practical financing options existed in these areas. On Wednesday, August 28th, the California Assembly's Select Committee on Community and Neighborhood Development held a hearing to explore challenges to funding and financing infrastructure improvements in established communities, especially in light of the dissolution of redevelopment in California two years ago.  Matute and UCLA Urban Planning alumnus and City of San Diego Planning Director Bill Fulton gave official testimony about the challenges to infrastructure finance in established communities, where many statewide funding mechanisms are less applicable or more difficult to use. At the hearing, the Assembly Members and witnesses discussed options to institute a more limited form of tax increment financing applicable to infill areas and high quality transit areas, a topic currently under consideration in Senate President Darrell Steinberg's SB 1.

By |2021-01-08T10:39:54-08:00August 29th, 2013|Categories: Transportation & Communities|
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Study: Downtown L.A. Parklets Improve Community, Quality of Life

In February 2013, City of Los Angeles unveiled its first pair of parklets. Six months forward, UCLA Luskin and affiliated researchers have found the parklets bring an improved quality of life to residents and visitors along the Spring Street corridor. In an evaluation (PDF) completed as a part of the “Reclaiming the Right of Way” project, researchers at UCLA Luskin’s Complete Streets Initiative and the research collaborative Parklet Studies monitored various elements one would find in a thriving urban street setting — including pedestrian and bike traffic, use of public space, and patronage of local businesses — to gauge how the neighborhood has changed since the parklets were installed. Parklets are small public spaces created in urban areas from the conversion of parking spots, alleyways and other underutilized spaces for cars into places for people. Los Angeles joins New York, San Francisco and Vancouver, B.C., in the ranks of cities that have encouraged parklets as innovative solutions to increase access to open space and provide residents opportunities for recreation in their neighborhoods. Two of the four Los Angeles pilot parklet installations, which are located at the ends of a block of Spring Street in Downtown’s Historic Core, offer local residents a place to sit and [...]

By |2021-01-08T10:39:53-08:00August 26th, 2013|Categories: Complete Streets, Transportation & Communities|
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Complete Streets Initiative Announces the Opening of Parklets; Manual for Living Streets Wins National Award

On February 7, two "parklets," or micro urban parks, were officially opened in downtown Los Angeles in a morning ribbon-cutting ceremony on Spring Street; the Lewis Center's Complete Streets Initiative played a central role in creating these new public spaces. "This parklet is the first in the nation focused on active recreation," said Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Associate Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, who was a lead Lewis Center researcher on the project and who spoke at the ceremony. The parklet features bike equipment and a foosball table along with seating and vegetation. The two parklets on Spring Street were designed by the Downtown L.A. Neighborhood Council with support from Councilmember Jose Huizar and the L.A. Department of Transportation. The Complete Streets Initiative worked with these partners throughout the project phases and supported construction with a grant from the Rosaline & Arthur Gilbert Foundation. The local parklet movement is guided by the parklet toolkit (PDF) authored by Loukaitou-Sideris, UCLA Complete Streets Initiative Manager Madeline Brozen, and UCLA Luskin Center Deputy Director Colleen Callahan. "It is a very exciting day for Los Angeles and UCLA. We are seeing our research put into action by helping the city implement this [...]

By |2020-11-30T12:59:31-08:00April 9th, 2013|Categories: Complete Streets|
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