From Public Transit to Public Mobility

    The 12th Annual UCLA Downtown Los Angeles Forum on Transportation, Land Use and the Environment

    Friday, March 1
    9:00 am – 5:00 pm
    Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA

    The Program

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    Putting Equity into Action: Ryan Russo of OakDOT

    The Oakland Department of Transportation is California’s newest big-City DOT. Formed as a new model for urban mobility, OakDOT is leading the way with progressive policies that formally recognize and aim to redress past injustices.

     

    Community Participation in Transportation: Remarks from Terry White of King County Metro

    Seattle and King County have put equity at the center of their community engagement programs, creating more representative community participation, successful implementation of transit priority, and increases in transit service and ridership. Terry White will conclude our forum, discussing how Seattle and King County Metro changed their community outreach process, and what other jurisdictions can learn from their efforts.

     

    Partnering to Deliver Public Mobility Services

    With a growing number of private companies providing mobility services, how can the public-sector work with private entities to solve niche transportation problems?

    Partnering to Deliver Public Benefits

          Qiana Patterson, Senior Director of Public Partnerships at Hop Skip Drive

    Crowdsourcing Partnerships: LA Metro’s Unsolicited Proposal Process
           Nolan Borgman, Los Angeles Metro Office of Extraordinary Innovation

     

    Getting the Most from Big Data

    Data is a big topic in the public sector, but too often an abstract concept. How can cities harness the power of data, and apply it to improving mobility? What skills are required by departments internally, and how does a city develop the capacity for it? What are best practices for compelling data sharing from regulated mobility service providers?

    Beyond IT: Managing Big Data in the Public Sector
               Gillian Gillett, California Integrated Travel Program

    Understanding and Regulating Shared Mobility
               Hunter Owens, Data Scientist, City of Los Angeles

    Getting the Most Out of Transit Data: Data Integrity
               Anson Stewart, Analysis and Research, Conveyal

     

    Recent Innovations in Public Transit

    Declining ridership across the country, and especially California, has motivated transit agencies to self-assess and develop strategies to remain competitive in the new mobility landscape. Recent innovations make transit better at its core competency – moving many people through limited space – and promise to make a transit rider’s experience more seamless in the future.

    Prioritizing the Bus in a Transit-First City
               Liz Brisson, Major Corridors Planning Manager, SFMTA

    Swift Small Starts: The First Tactical Transit Pilot
               Jay Monty, Transportation Planner, City of Everett, MA

    A Vision for Seamless Public Mobility: The California Integrated Travel Program
              Jim Allison, Manager of Planning, Capitol Corridor

     

    Asset Management in the Public Sphere

    Curbs have become the most hotly contested urban spaces. From new private courier, rideshare, and scooter services to new public uses like parkets, transit lanes, and bike corrals, demand for curb space has elevated its status as a public asset. Many cities have started using asset management techniques to take control of curbs, and others taking the approach off the curb and into the streets and sidewalks.

    San Francisco’s Curbs: Frontiers of New Mobility
              Sarah Jones, Planning Director, SFMTA

    Managing New Mobility on the Curb and Beyond in Santa Monica
               Francie Stefan, Acting Chief Mobility Officer, City of Santa Monica

    Streets as Public Riches: Asset Management in the Right-of-Way
               Michael Manville, Associate Professor, UCLA Urban Planning

     

    and featuring the Acclaimed Arrowhead Symposium presentation “The Wheel of History” by transportation historian and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs

     

    Thank you to our sponsors

    The 12th UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Downtown Forum grapples with the public sector’s response to the dual trends of emerging new mobility services and declining public transit ridership.

    What does the increasing role of private mobility options in cities mean for transportation agencies, public transit providers, cities, and the traveling public? Should innovation be encouraged, quashed, or managed? Many regions in California are making big investments in public transit to create a viable alternative to driving; are these burgeoning new services a threat or opportunity for these investments?

    The 12th Annual Downtown Forum will explore implementation of the strategies discussed at the October 2018 Arrowhead Symposium, a 3-day in-depth examination of what’s happening in urban mobility amidst an inundation of new options, to how public agencies are adapting to accommodate, manage, and incorporate, and compete with new options while continuing to serve the public interest. The Downtown Forum advances strategies to implementation in four areas seen as critical to the public sector’s response to new mobility:

    • Successful models for the public sector to partner with private companies providing public mobility service
    • How public agencies can effectively obtain and use data to manage public mobility
    • Identifying and implementing the most impactful, cost-effective incremental changes to streets and transit service in order to double public transit ridership in the next decade
    • Coordinating implementation of new technologies and mobility services to enhance equity and quality of life

     

    Location

    Japanese American National Museum