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Dr. Patricia Mokhtarian Resurrects the Joy of Travel in the 8th Annual Martin Wachs Lecture
Author Leo Tolstoy once wrote: “All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.” Both of these archetypal stories involve travel, a subtle connection which may speak to an intrinsic link between travel and the significant experiences that bring meaning to our lives. Yet…
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CTC Executive Director Andre Boutros Talks Transportation Funding and Project Delivery
On a recent October afternoon, California Transportation Commission (CTC) executive director Andre Boutros gave a crash course in California transportation finance for a group of UCLA students, faculty, and researchers. Boutros sketched an overview of the CTC’s role in allocating over $25 billion worth of state and federal transportation funds, and provided a window into the CTC’s decision-making…
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Brian Taylor Delivers Burack President’s Lecture on Travel Behavior of Teens and Young Adults
Lewis Center Director Brian Taylor traveled to the University of Vermont in September to participate in the Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture Series. His talk was entitled: “Who Knows About Kids These Days? Understanding the Travel Behavior of Teens and Young Adults.” Full video of the engaging lecture and Q&A can be found here.
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Carole Turley Kicks Off ITS Brown Bag Series with Talk on Transportation Utility Fees
On Monday, UCLA Urban Planning PhD student Carole Turley gave the first-ever Institute of Transportation Studies brown bag. She talked about Transportation Utility Fees, or TUFs. What are TUFs? They are a charge for the use of the transportation system, and they are typically levied by cities on property owners. The concept is that the…
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Why Aren’t More American Women On Bikes? Lewis Center’s Herbie Huff and Kelcie Ralph Have a Surprising Answer: Household Chores.
Lewis Center Researcher Herbie Huff and Urban Planning PHD Candidate Kelcie Ralph recently penned an article in the Guardian newspaper asserting that an overlooked barrier to more women biking is the fact that their lives are disproportionately filled with housework and child-related chores. Read on for the thought-provoking article.
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Sparking the Conversation: Brian Taylor and Madeline Brozen moderate panels at Mobility 21 Summit
Lewis Center Director Brian Taylor and researcher Madeline Brozen recently moderated panels at the Mobility 21 Summit, an annual conference that focuses on
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Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning Donald Shoup Quoted in New York Times Article
Recently, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and ITS and Lewis Center researcher Donald Shoup was quoted in a New York Times article about aging infrastructure in Los Angeles. For the complete article, read on.
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Congratulations to Madeline Brozen: 2014 Lee Schipper Scholar
We are proud to announce that Institute of Transportation Studies Assistant Director and Complete Streets Program Manager, Madeline Brozen, has been named a 2014 Lee Schipper Sustainable Transport Scholar. Ms. Brozen was one of two scholars selected from among 82 applicants from 26 countries. As a Schipper scholar, she will conduct comparative international research on sustainable…
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Recent UCLA Master of Urban Planning Grad Shares Client Project Experience
By: Tim Black, UCLA Master of Urban Planning ’14 A wise person, though surely not one of the pie-in-the-sky figureheads that occupy our profession’s dominant historical narrative, once remarked, “The devil is in the detail.” And so it was amending details of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines that preoccupied me for much of…
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ACCESS Magazine Wins APA California Award
APA California has announced that ACCESS magazine is the recipient of its 2014 Communications Initiative Award. APA California will officially announce the award at a special brunch ceremony on September 16 at its State Conference, to be held this year in Anaheim at the Disneyland Resort. ACCESS reports on research at the University of California Transportation Center and presents it in…