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Class Act: An Assessment of Los Angeles Metro’s U-Pass Program
In 2016, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) introduced the Universal College Student Transit Pass (U-Pass), its reduced transit fare pass program for college and university students, with the expressed goal of increasing student transit ridership. An increase in college student transit ridership has great potential in Los Angeles County, where public transit…
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Improving first/last mile conditions near highways: An investigation of access and coordination barriers
In considering how transit riders must walk or bike near highways to reach transit stations, highway infrastructure becomes a significant barrier to transit access and an impediment to a safe and comfortable transit trip experience. As such, areas surrounding highways can be priority pathways for first/last mile improvements, which is in turn complicated by the…
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Charging Infrastructure Strategies: Maximizing the Deployment and Use of Electric Drayage Trucks in Southern California
Research Team: PI: “Gabrielle “”Libby”” Bradley” Team: About this project: What problem does this research aim to address? What are the expected impacts and benefits of the research?
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Regional Seismic Safety Assessment of Transportation Networks including Economic Loss Analayses
Research Team: PI: Barbaros Cetiner Team: About this project: What problem does this research aim to address? What are the expected impacts and benefits of the research?
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Advancing a Mobility as a Service: Lessons Learned from Leading-Edge Public Agencies
Mobility as a Service presents the opportunity to comprehensively shift how people travel – from personal vehicle ownership to a marketplace offering integrated trip planning, fare payment, and behavioral incentives. Increasingly, major private mobility providers, such as Uber and Lyft, are demonstrating their ambitions to be one-stop shops for urban mobility. Yet, when it comes…
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Congestion Pricing for Climate, Capacity, or Communities?
This research models vehicle travel and emissions in an effort to answer the question: What are the potential environmental impacts of congestion pricing?
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Promises and Projects: Examining the Accountability and Flexibility of LOST Expenditure Plans
This research will examine how well expenditure plans presented in measures reflect actual project delivery over the life of the sales tax. This project builds on previous research done at UCLA on LOSTs in California. The research team will first review all California LOST ballot measures for which expenditure plans are available to identify language…
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SB1 Sec 48(a) ZEV Finance Research with ITS Davis
This research was specified in SB1 as a study for the University of California at Davis. Professor Martin Wachs, an internationally-renowned transportation finance expert member of the SB 1077 Road User Charge Technical Advisory Committee, is assisting research at UC Davis with this study.