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Mikhail Chester Associate Professor, Arizona State University Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment Graduate Faculty, School of Sustainability Affiliate Faculty, Global Security Initiative Google Scholar More Info Related Items: Plotting California's most vulnerable roads post-wildfire (September 2020) Vulnerability of California Roadways to Post-Wildfire Debris Flows (July 2020) Visiting scholar has eyes on the road ― literally ― in search of wildfire impacts (September 2019) Biography: Mikhail Chester is leading research efforts to develop an understanding of how urban systems have been deployed, frameworks for assessing their energy and environmental impacts, and strategies for transitioning infrastructure systems for twenty-first century needs. His goal is to develop the science for understanding how embedded infrastructure design enables the emergent behaviors that we often consider to be unsustainable, and for analyzing and breaking path dependencies that will aid in transitioning to lower energy and environmental impact futures. His graduate work through 2008 largely focused on transportation infrastructure and since then he has focused more broadly on the interface of infrastructure and urbanization processes. Approximately half of his work is focused on the assessment of transportation systems and the [...]

California Local Option Sales Taxes for Transportation DataOur researchers at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies compiled a dataset with information on 76 California Local Option Sales Taxes for Transportation (LOSTs) put before California voters between 1976 - 2016. These data are divided into four subject categories; administrative, temporal, finance and voter support, and modal distributions. For some measures data are incomplete across all fields. These are not errors of omission, but rather owing to failed data collection attempts. The research team assembled these data as a part of a collaborative project funded by the University of California Center for Economic Competitiveness (UCCONNECT) and the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. The full report produced by these efforts can be found here.   Using these data? Questions? Comments? Modifications needed? We want to hear from you. Please send an email to us at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.  California LOST Data Citation Publications and research reports using the UCLA ITS data on California Local Option Sales Taxes must cite it appropriately. Please include the following information: Jaimee Lederman, Anne Brown, Maxwell Albrecht, Brian D. Taylor, and Martin Wachs. (2017). California Local Option Sales Taxes Data, 1976-2016. UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. [...]

Awards Student Capstone Prizes Monisha Reginald MURP ’24 and Carolyn Pugh MURP ’4 received the top prizes this year from ITS for their master’s capstone projects. Reginald received the Grand Prize for her project, “Progress, Priorities, and Obstacles to Providing Adequate Shade and Lighting at Bus Stops,” which was completed for her client, Kounkuey Design Initiative. Pugh received the Transportation Equity & Justice Prize for her project on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Rochester’s Inner Loop Freeway-to-Boulevard Project.” A total of seven projects, including two master's theses, were recognized by ITS for their contributions to their clients and the field. Learn more >> APA Awards Three sections of the American Planning Association in California recognized five UCLA master’s capstone projects and one research report by UCLA and UC Davis researchers. All the awards were given for the academic category. Anne Yoon MURP ’23 received an Award of Excellence for her capstone completed last year, “Bus Shelter Equity: A Study of the Distribution of Bus Shelters in Los Angeles County and Unincorporated Communities.” Elena Savignano MURP ’23 and Shelly Quan MURP ’21 both received Awards of Merit for their capstone projects, “Change [...]