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Insights from an environmental pioneer: Mary Nichols offers roadmap toward cleaner future
Mary Nichols, longtime champion of emission regulation in California, offers a roadmap toward a cleaner transportation future.
UCLA scholars publish reports on future of California transportation, housing
To help envision a better future for the state, UCLA researchers recently released two reports on the future of housing and transportation, made possible by a California 100 grant.
COVID research team – including seven students – win young professionals award
This rapid-research project produced an impressive amount of publications and tools for measuring the pandemic's impact on transit.
New faculty seeks to advance science of transportation equity
Tierra Bills's dual appointments in engineering and public policy will allow her to develop travel models and measure their community impacts.
UCLA doctoral student named PSR student of the year
Urban planning PhD student Julene Paul studies transportation equity, finance and politics, and regional labor issues.
MURP student uses life experiences to fight for equity in transportation
For Paola Tirado Escareño, unsafe driving conditions in the built environment are personal. And so is the effort to change them.
Transfers Issue 8 looks at age-old issues in new light
The articles in the latest issue of Transfers can shed light on how transportation fits in an uncertain future.
UCLA at TRB 2022
UCLA faculty, students and researchers will present at the 101st annual meeting in January.
Bike commuting project designed by UCLA team earns $1 million award
CiBiC initiative, which will create digital art in real time, [...]
Transportation Equity Expert to Join UCLA Engineering, Public Affairs Faculty
Tierra Bills, who specializes in the socioeconomic impacts of transportation decisions, to join the UCLA faculty as an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, with a joint appointment in the Luskin School of Public Affairs.
APA Recognizes UCLA Transportation Work
The American Planning Association (APA) recently announced the winners [...]
UCLA ITS Awarded Grant to Evaluate Transportation in California’s Future
UCLA ITS to spearhead transportation planning research as part of California 100 initiative to envision and shape the long-term success of the state
ITS awards capstones for excellence, equity in transportation
To fulfill their degree requirements, urban planning graduate students [...]
Transfers Issue 7 spans topics from the Anthropocene to TODs
Transfers Magazine, the biannual digital magazine of the Pacific Southwest [...]
Decarbonizing California transportation by 2045
This rapid-research project produced an impressive amount of publications and tools for measuring the pandemic's impact on transit.
Remembering Marty Wachs
The ITS community has suffered a terrible loss. Martin Wachs was a distinguished professor emeritus, founder of UCLA ITS, and dearest friend & colleague.
Wachs Lecture shares research on the joint rise of automobiles and policing
How the rise of the automobile fundamentally changed the nature [...]
Using art and technology, proposal aims to increase bike commuting in L.A.
Project by UCLA faculty envisions collaborative bicycle “flows” that generate [...]
UCLA ITS launches new transportation equity student prize
UCLA ITS will award urban planning graduate students for work that addresses inequities in the transportation field. The Excellence in a Transportation Equity and Justice Capstone Prize is the latest effort by UCLA ITS to build educational and research capacity around transportation injustices.
UCLA ITS, Lewis Center launch Access to Opportunities Initiative
The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and the UCLA [...]