New Video Explains UCLA Study on Transit Ridership Decline
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A new video shows UCLA research on why transit has declined, and what can be done to bring it back.
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L.A. Tied for 4th in CALPIRG U.S. City Wired Transportation Report Rankings
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Los Angeles is in the top six major U.S. cities when it comes to using technology to get around, according to a report released today. California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) and the Frontier Group released The Innovative Transportation Index: The Cities Where New Technologies and Tools Can Reduce Your Need to Own a Car which analyzes […]
Report: “Multi-Modal Level of Service” Metrics Not Quite Up to the Challenge
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Livability proponents celebrate that car-centric Level of Service (LOS) is finally on its way out, at least in California.Wouldn’t it be great if there was a similar bike- or walk-centric metric that could be used instead? UCLA Lewis Center and Institute for Transportation Studies researchers have studied some of the published metrics for evaluating how well streets […]
Putting the Brookings Report Into Context
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Last week, the Brookings Institute, one of Washington’s oldest think tanks released, Transit Access and Zero Vehicle Households, a report that looked at transit access for the country’s most dependent populations and ranked each major American metropolitan area on how well they provided bus service to this population. Los Angeles ranked second in terms of […]
Insurance Institute Study: Red Light Cameras Reduce Traffic Deaths
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A new study shows that, despite their supposed reputation as government revenue collectors, red light cameras are saving lives. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that red light cameras prevented 159 deaths between 2004 and 2008 in 14 of the largest cities in the U.S., and that 815 deaths would have been prevented had […]
Want to Foster Walking, Biking and Transit? You Need Good Parking Policy
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The high-water mark for American parking policy came in the early 1970s, when cities including New York, Boston, and Portland set limits on off-street parking in their downtowns. They were compelled to do so by lawsuits brought under the Clean Air Act, which used the lever of parking policy to curb traffic and reduce pollution […]