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UCLA, USC host 7th annual ITE Student Leadership Summit
During Jan. 31–Feb. 2, the Institute of Transportation Engineers Western and Mountain Districts gathered its members across 13 states for the 7th Annual Student Leadership Summit hosted by UCLA and USC. ITE SLS History The ITE Student Leadership Summit originated in 2014 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The event’s original goal was to create…
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UCLA identifying strategies for carbon neutrality in transportation
UCLA part of team contracted by the California Environmental Protection Agency to study solutions for the state’s largest source of global-warming emissions The transportation sector is the largest source of global-warming emissions in California and now a team of researchers from UCLA and other UC campuses will embark on a landmark study to achieve carbon…
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TRB award highlights LA bus-only lane pilot
Out of the dozens of Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellows selected to present at the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) 99th Annual Meeting, a UCLA student took home top honors. Cassie Halls, a second-year MURP graduate student won the “Best Master’s Student Poster Presentation” for the 2020 Transportation Research Showcase. So so SO proud of @CassieEHalls,…
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UCLA Luskin graduate wins award for best planning capstone project
Jacob Wasserman MURP ‘19, who currently works as a research project manager for UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, won the Neville A. Parker Award for his capstone project, “A Time and Place for Every Rider? Geographic and Temporal Changes in Bay Area Transit Ridership.” The award is given annually by the Council of University Transportation…
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UCLA ITS faculty, students win prestigious transportation award for 3rd time
Co-winner Martin Wachs receives the honor from the Transportation Research Board for a second time — four decades apart by Lena Rogow Evelyn Blumenberg and colleagues who include Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs have won the 2019 Pyke Johnson Award from the Transportation Research Board (TRB) for a recent paper about the mobility needs of aging…
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ITS helps build student coding, data skills
Have you ever wondered how to track bus locations in real-time? Do you know how transit agencies track where all shared scooters are at any given time? Or how to better analyze crash data in Los Angeles? These are all projects that UCLA Luskin graduate students are working on as a way to increase their…
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Why Uber and Lyft drivers are independent contractors — and what does that mean?
With the recent passage of AB 5 in California — which limits companies’ abilities to classify workers as independent contractors — the topic of Uber and Lyft drivers’ employment statuses has been on the minds of many. To shed light on the topic, UC Hastings College of Law associate professor Veena Dubal came to UCLA…
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How deciding where to put the port shaped the entire city
Where to situate the port became a decisive moment that impacted the development of Los Angeles, according to Eric Morris, who spoke on the subject Nov. 1. Morris, an associate professor of city and regional planning at Clemson University, gave a lecture that focused on the “Free Harbor Fight,” which involved a legal battle in…
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Seven UCLA students awarded WTS-LA scholarships
UCLA Luskin urban planning students Maddy Ruvolo (left) and Cassie Halls received the prestigious Myra L. Frank Memorial Graduate Scholarship from WTS-LA. by Lena Rogow Seven UCLA women were honored this year in recognition of their achievements in transportation-related studies. The Los Angeles chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar, or WTS-LA, distributed $100,000 in scholarship…
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ITS awards 10 urban planning capstones for quality work on pressing transportation issues in LA, California
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