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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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UCLA welcomes new expert on connected, automated vehicles
Q&A with engineering professor Jiaqi Ma As we head into the fall quarter, we’d like to welcome one of the new transportation faculty members to the UCLA ITS community. Jiaqi Ma joins the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering as an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. He’ll also lead the UCLA ITS New Mobility…
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From Classroom to Real World
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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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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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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…