The New Mobility program considers the intersection of travel behavior, economics, engineering, regulation, and infrastructure as technology and business forces lead to new mobility options. These options include ride-hailing, automated and connected vehicles, and micromobility. New mobility can strain existing infrastructure and regulations, and researching empirical questions can inform a response.

LEAD SCHOLAR

Jiaqi Ma
Associate Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering

Spotlight

2024-03-26T12:34:40-07:00

Ride-hail Revolution: Ride-hail Travel and Access in Los Angeles

Ride-hail services such as Uber and Lyft have revolutionized how people access cars. But research into where they travel and who they serve has been limited. For her doctoral dissertation, Anne Brown analyzed trip-level data to measure access across race, ethnicity and gender.

In the News

UCLA Newsroom

Electric vehicles improve air quality for everyone but have less impact in more polluted areas

December 13, 2023

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Daily Bruin

UCLA Mobility Lab works to decrease traffic and improve safety in Westwood

November 26, 2023

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Los Angeles Times

Waymo’s driverless taxi launch in Santa Monica is met with excitement and tension

October 11, 2023

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New York Times

Is the Hyperloop Doomed?

September 22, 2022

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Journal Articles

Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) Capacity Adjustment Factor (CAF) Development for Connected and Automated Traffic at Signalized Intersections

Adekunle Adebisi, Yi Guo, Bastian Schroeder, Jiaqi Ma, Burak Cesme, Apoorba Bibeka, Abby Morgan

Transportation Research Board, 2021

Why can’t abuela take Lyft to her doctor? A mixed methods study of older adult mobility in inner-city Los Angeles

Madeline Brozen, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Lia W Marshall, Miriam Pinski, Martin Wachs

Transportation Research Board, 2019

Redefining Car Access: Ride-hail Travel and Use in Los Angeles 

Anne Brown

Journal of the American Planning Association, 2019

Fault-y Reasoning: Navigating the Liability Terrain in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Jaimee Lederman, Mark Garrett, Brian D. Taylor

Public Works Management & Policy, 2015

Faculty Projects

Student Projects

Where Do Batteries Go When They Die? An Assessment of Battery Disposal Strategies for Battery Electric Buses
Matthews Cribioli

Client: WSP Global

The Impacts of Sidewalk Autonomous Delivery Robots on Vehicle Travel and Emissions A Focus on On-Demand Food Delivery
Yu-Chen Chu

Client: Coco Delivery

Adapting the California Vehicle Code into a Machine-Readable Database to Improve Legal Compliance in Automated Driving Systems
Matt Huffman

Scholars

Study transportation at the #1 public university

Transportation-related degrees at UCLA

Master of Public Policy in Transportation

Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering in Transportation

Master of Urban and Regional Planning in Transportation

Master’s in Civil Engineering in Transportation

Ph.D. Urban Planning in Transportation

Ph.D. Civil Engineering in Transportation

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