transportation

UCLA Transportation’s focus on alternative transportation and success in reducing traffic and emissions at UCLA won an award from the California Environmental Protection Agency

As the UC system marches toward its goal of carbon neutrality by 2025, UCLA is doing its part by using less energy in buildings, converting half of its fleet to alternative-fuel vehicles and adding LEED-certified green buildings.

The deans of the UCLA School of Nursing and the David Geffen School of Medicine write in an op-ed that making Westwood Boulevard more bike-and pedestrian-friendly would improve air quality, safety and business.

Two scholars — one from UCLA and another from Chapman University — discuss the importance of train transportation in L.A.'s history and whether or not rail will play an integral role in the city's future.

For American cities to usher in a European-style bike renaissance, society will need to shift toward a more even distribution of child-rearing duties between women and men, say UCLA researchers.

Brian Taylor, who directs the Institute of Transportation Studies at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, joined three other transportation experts to address questions about the state of traffic in L.A.

UCLA experts will engage with city leaders from around the world to create smarter cities.

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Director Brian D. Taylor joins other experts at Zócalo Public Square on Sept. 29 in a discussion of L.A.'s traffic woes.

To speed up the opening of new transportation projects, California should streamline its environmental review and approval process, writes law professor Ethan Elkind.

In Q&A with the Los Angeles Times, Shoup says much should be changed about how the city provides parking.

UCLA's national parking expert, Donald Shoup, says that when a city temporarily suspends parking meters it often backfires for the businesses it was meant to help.

Evelyn Blumenberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, is a 'Champion of Change' for her research on the links between transportation access, employment and poverty.

Ethan N. Elkind researches and writes on environmental law with a joint appointment at the UCLA and UC Berkeley schools of law. He is the author of the new book "Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the...

Donald Shoup, distinguished professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has become the nation’s oft-quoted, go-to expert on parking. 

Whether you're taking your first step toward alternative transportation or looking to green your already eco-friendly commute, these 10 New Year's resolutions will give you ideas for 2014.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has announced it will work with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. for its 2014–15 master of architecture II program known as SUPRASTUDIO.

Ever wish Los Angeles traffic moved better? It might if more commuters followed the lead of UCLA, where only about half of campus commuters drive alone to work.