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
UCLA Mobility Lab
A research lab dedicated to harnessing system theories and tools, such as AI, robotics, and machine learning, to innovate and develop advanced mobility technologies and solutions for smart cities, particularly intelligent vehicular and transportation systems
Sharing Mobility Data for Planning and Policy Research
A UC ITS brief to inform regulatory and legislative decision-making around shared mobility providers.
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.
The Modal Impacts of Bikeshare
An infographic showing whether bikeshare users are more likely to use other forms of public transit as well
In the News
ITS Publications
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
Faculty Projects
Student Projects
Client: WSP Global
Client: Coco Delivery
Scholars
Study transportation at the #1 public university
Transportation-related degrees at UCLA