Transportation is often a means to an end – a way to access goods, services, or opportunities. Transportation is inextricably linked with the built environment and quality of life. The Transportation & Communities program examines transit-oriented communities; transportation and urban design; linkages between gentrification, displacement, and mobility; active transportation; pedestrian and bicycle planning; complete streets; and livable streets.
LEAD SCHOLAR
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Professor of Urban Planning
Spotlight
Bulldozing Asian Communities StoryMap
A storymap on how construction of Stockton's Crosstown Freeway (State Route 4) uprooted the city's vibrant Asian enclaves of Chinatown, Japantown and Little Manila.
Freeways, Redlining & Racism Storymap
A storymap on the history of the Foothill Freeway/Interstate 210 that cut through the northwest neighborhoods of Pasadena, resulting in the displacement of nearly 3,000 predominantly Black residents.
Street Widths Project
New research by Adam Millard-Ball of UCLA Urban Planning considers the schools, parks and other infrastructure that go unbuilt because Americans prefer wide streets.
In the News
ITS Publications
Journal Articles
Transit neighborhoods, commercial gentrification, and traffic crashes: Exploring the linkages in Los Angeles and the Bay Area
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Silvia Gonzalez, Karen Chapple
Journal of Transport Geography, 2019
Travel and the Built Environment: Time for Change
Michael Manville
Journal of the American Planning Association, 2017
Faculty Projects
Student Projects
Client: Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT)
Client: Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT)
Scholars
Study transportation at the #1 public university
Transportation-related degrees at UCLA