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Student award shines light on school transportation issues
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International Study on Women and Ride-Hailing Wins Award
Fariba Siddiq is leveraging her cross-cultural knowledge to study gender differences in ride-hailing. Siddiq, who was born and raised in Bangladesh, is researching ride-hailing experiences across genders in two cities: Los Angeles and Dhaka, Bangladesh. In her study, she’ll explore how ride-hailing impacts mobility and access to opportunities for women in both countries — before…
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Urban Planning graduate conducts year’s best academic work
A research project on Los Angeles’ parking minimums received the American Planning Association Los Angeles’ 2020 award for academic excellence for work conducted as part of master’s capstone project. Titled “Parking? Lots! Parking Over the Minimum in Los Angeles,” Katelyn Stangl MURP ‘19 explored developer responses to parking minimums in the city. Critics of parking…
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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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ITS awards 10 urban planning capstones for quality work on pressing transportation issues in LA, California
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ITS students receive top honors in 2018
ITS students are among the most honored in academic planning — and 2018 was no exception. Once again, graduate students and doctoral candidates at ITS took home a number of the country’s most prestigious awards for transportation scholarship. Anne E. Brown, who completed her Ph.D. this spring, was the third ITS scholar in the past…
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ITS scholar Anne E. Brown awarded Best Dissertation in Planning
For the third time in the past four years, an ITS scholar has received the Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning. The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) has honored Anne E. Brown for her groundbreaking dissertation on racial discrimination and travel patterns in ridehailing. Anne completed her doctorate at ITS this spring…
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MURP Student Chelsea Richer Awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship to first year UCLA MURP student Chelsea Richer. The award, established as part of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, recognizes students pursuing transportation-related degrees and aims to attract the brightest minds in the field to the…
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ACCESS Magazine Wins Organization of the Year Award
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…
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ITS People Briefs
Urban Planning student (and ITS fellowship recipient) Will Dominie recently won the Neville Parker Award for the best transportation and planning capstone project in the United States from the the Council of University Transportation Centers. Full story here. Eric Morris was recently named winner of the 2012 UCTC Outstanding Student of the Year award. Eric received…