When the first road was built to Yosemite in 1856, entry to the park cost $1 by foot and $2 by horse. The November ITS Brown Bag seminar saw 2nd year student Casey Osborn, whose passion for the outdoors is longstanding (see photo), provide this and other delightful insights in a talk that tackled the tense relationship between some of our most beloved wilderness locations and the cars we need to get there. Osborn also offered several sharp ideas for applying pricing and public transit to better manage access to our National Parks in the present-day.
Casey’s focus is in transportation planning. She is interested in transportation finance, transportation challenges for national parks and public lands, using data and technology in public sector planning, and human capital development. This past summer she worked at the SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) where she led a traffic enforcement pilot in SoMa and worked on projects focused on development and transportation integration. She is an active member of the UCLA Bike Coalition and UP curriculum committee, and has yet to meet her annual goal of spending 15 nights outside in the wilderness. The count is currently at 12.
