Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles

The Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles (Mobility COE) was established by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to “collect, conduct, and fund research on the impacts of new mobility and highly automated vehicles on land use, urban design, transportation, real estate, equity, and municipal budgets.” The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) awarded the Mobility COE to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and its research partners in fall 2023 and charged it with establishing a five-year research agenda to serve as a strategic roadmap that guides research initiatives and projects in the dynamic and ever-evolving field of new mobility.

Directed by Professor Jiaqi Ma, the Mobility COE operates under three major research thrusts:

• Systems analysis and optimization
• Mobility, land use, and urban planning
• Human-centric mobility and society