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What’s Youth Got to Do with It? Exploring the Travel Behavior of Teens and Young Adults
What’s Behind the Decline in Driving Among Millennials? This question has been hotly debated in the press and in policy circles, but mostly based on impressions and anecdotes and not solid evidence – until now. The following two recent national studies by ITS researchers shed considerable light on those mysterious Millennials and their travel behavior. What’s…
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Enabling Strategic Growth in Cudahy, California
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…
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Green City Transportation Architecture
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…
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Green City Transportation Architecture
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…
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SCAG Bicycle Clearinghouse
[alert type=”success”]The clearinghouse is now live! Please visit: www.bikecounts.luskin.ucla.edu[/alert] What is the Bicycle Data Clearinghouse Project? This project seeks to compile, organize, make accessible, and create a data standard for bicycle count data collected in Los Angeles County. The project will collect existing data and create an interface for collecting future data, in 1 centralized…
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TransitWiki – California Statewide Transit Resources Project
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 Transportation Association, the…
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Performance Monitoring Tools to Assess Sustainable Communities Strategies
REVISION (Regional Engaging, Visioning, and Implementing Sustainability through Infill Opportunities Network)* is a transformational upgrade to the CALOTS (California Land Opportunities Tracking System), which has served as a useful, public tool over the past decade of integrated regional transportation and land use planning. The UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, working with the Southern…