Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs and ITS Director Brian Taylor authored an article published in the Los Angeles Register in support of creating permanent high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes on 14 miles of the Interstate 10 (the San Bernardino Freeway east of downtown) and 11 miles on the Interstate 110 (the Harbor Freeway, south of downtown). Currently,…

Recently, ITS Associate Director Juan Matute was quoted in a New York Times story on future plans to connect Los Angeles International Airport to L.A. Metro’s Green Line. Click here for the full story and Mr. Matute’s comments.

Madeline Brozen, manager of the Complete Streets Initiative, joined a lively group of presenters and participants in the Open Streets Summit, held in Los Angeles the weekend of April 6. She joined Dr. Aaron Hipp of Washington University, the co-author of the report, Open Streets Initiatives: MeasuringSuccess Toolkit and Ed Clancy of CicloSDias, to talk about how…

How is the ubiquity of smart phones, internet connectivity, and real-time information changing transportation? With innovators like Google and start-ups like Lyft entering the transportation arena, what role can government play? On March 20, 2014, planners, policymakers, and thought leaders convened at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles to explore these questions.…

An ongoing research project on teens and travel led by Lewis Center Faculty Fellow Evelyn Blumenberg and Lewis Center Director Brian Taylor was referenced in a recent CBS story about declining automobile usage. Blumenberg, Taylor, and their research team find that young Americans today are traveling much fewer miles than previous generations. In support of the study, the CBS article mentions…

The Urban Institute recently released a report co-authored by ITS affiliates Evelyn Blumenberg (Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Urban Planning), Michael Smart (Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and former Lewis Center Post-Doctoral Researcher), and Gregory Pierce (Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning). The report, Driving to Opportunity: Understanding the Links among Transportation…

Proposed changes by the Los Angeles Metro Board have cut a number of programs, including bus lines that potentially impacts the Bus Riders Union, the elderly, and the lower-income population. These routes, that potentially assist disadvantaged groups, were part of a discussion on KCRW’s local radio show Which Way LA? with Warren Olney. Urban Planning…

Recently, ITS Director Brian Taylor was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story on a new Caltrans study showing that Californians are growing less reliant on automobiles while walking, biking, and transit trips are on the rise. Click here for the full story and Professor Taylor’s comments.

UCLA Transportation Policy &Planning Ph.D. student Kelcie Ralph has been selected to participate in the 22nd Annual Eno Leadership Development Conference hosted by the Eno Center for Transportation in Washington, D.C. on June 1-5, 2014. The program allows graduate students pursuing transportation-related degrees the opportunity to participate in an intensive program with prominent transportation executives in government, public, private, and non-profit organizations.  The conference…

The UCLA Complete Streets Initiative’s work on the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (Metro) Bicycle Count Data Clearinghouse project received both federal and local attention this week. Locally, the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is seeking a way to improve how traffic counts are done…