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When Forecasting Fails

UCLA hosted the 10th annual ‘Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture”, where invitee lecturer, Joe Schofer, Faculty at Northwestern University, provided a wide-ranging view about forecasting – a prominent feature of transportation planning. He explains that learning to accept the inherent limitations of the forecasting process is a necessary first step in helping planners improve their predictions of cost, utilization, performance and impact, and that systematic learning from experience is vital when predicting the outcome of major infrastructure projects

Travel Behavior and the Three Revolutions of Shared, Electric, and Autonomous Vehicles

A select group of transportation policymakers, stakeholders, and experts convened for a session at the 2017 LA CoMotion Expo & Festival on the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program from the UC Institute of Transportation Studies. The program, led by researchers at ITS-Davis, hopes to guide public decision-making and private investments around new vehicle technology, and the discussion centered on the implications of shared, electric, and autonomous vehicles on mobility, pricing, greenhouse gas emissions, public transit, and much more.

Transportation is a Women’s Issue – Part I: Public transportation and #MeToo

The #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault must influence public transportation procedures, designs, and policies. ITS associate director Madeline Brozen kicked off a new 2017-18 discussion series by speaking with Dr. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, a professor of urban planning at UCLA Luskin and ITS faculty fellow, about women’s transportation needs, how transit agencies are and are not meeting these needs, and the role of sexual harassment in public space and public transit.

Transportation is a Women’s Issue – Part II: A gendered planning mismatch

Discussions and plans for the future of transportation and new innovative mobility services often fail to account for women’s travel patterns. What potential do new mobility options, bikesharing, ridesourcing, and microtransit hold for closing this gap? Naomi Iwasaki of Investing in Place hosted a conversation about women’s travel patterns with UCLA Luskin professor Dr. Evelyn Blumenberg, Seleta Reynolds of the LA Department of Transportation, and Stephanie Wiggins of LA Metro.

Smart Cities: The Future of Urban Infrastructure

The 11th annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture, hosted at Berkeley, featured a panel of transportation and planning experts: Jeff Morales, Ryan Russo, Tom Maguire, Maria Mehranian, and Susan Shaheen. The talk addressed the fact that with increased capacity and greater mobility undergirding economic viability and quality of life comes congestion, increased energy consumption, air pollution, and urban sprawl. This current dilemma and hypermobility demands a transport agenda for this global era to be set.

2018 Spring Speaker Series

The 2018 Spring Speaker Series brought national experts to the UCLA Luskin School to discuss new research and best practices around public transit, transportation finance, innovative mobility, and much more. It took place during Professor Brian Taylor's Transportation Policy and Planning graduate course, but all events were open to the public.

UCLA ITS 25th Anniversary Celebration

UCLA ITS celebrated its 25 years of scholarship, education, and public engagement--reconnecting classmates, friends, and professors. See photos from this event.

2018 Fall Innovative Mobility Speaker Series

2018 Fall Innovative Mobility Speaker Series Realistic Prospects for Vehicle Automation in the Years Ahead and their Implications for Mobility with Steven Shladover Extraordinary Innovation at Metro with Joshua Schank New Mobility: Lys Mendez and Marla Westervelt of Bird Robert Poole: Rethinking America's Highway Institutions Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future - Dan Sperling, UC Davis

Spring 2019 Lecture Series on Resilient, New Mobility

Spring 2019 Lecture Series on Resilient, New Mobility Unintended Consequences of Autonomous Vehicles | Adam Millard-Ball, UC Santa Cruz Towards Resilient Infrastructure for a Changing Climate and Future | Mikhail Chester, Arizona State University Model Checking in a Time of Simulation | Timothy Brathwaite, Lyft Bringing Congestion Pricing to LA | Joshua Schank, Metro Building Traveler-Centric Methods to Design Safe and Functional Urban and Intercity Transportation Infrastructure | Megan Ryerson, University of Pennsylvania Representing the Underrepresented: Making the Case for Digital and Inclusive Data for Travel Activity Studies | Tierra Bills, University of Michigan Financing California's Transportation Infrastructure: A Capital Markets Perspective | Alex Zaman, Citi

Designing the 30-Minute City

The 12th annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture, held at UCLA, was presented by David Levinson. The 30-minute isochrone has long defined people’s use of cities — from ancient times through the trams era to modern times. There are opportunities to use design to reduce the costs of travel and thus increase access for relatively little monetary outlay. This talk discussed both the measurement of accessibility, why it matters, and how it might affect traveler behavior, institutional behavior, and public policy.

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