UCLA ITS Audio Edition
An audio companion to the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies' most impactful research. We're bringing our greatest hits to your ears — translating years of influential transportation studies into accessible audio stories. Whether you’re on the move or digging deeper into policy, planning, and mobility, stay informed with expert-driven insights from one of the nation’s leading transportation research centers.
Episodes
5 episodes
Induced Travel Demand Estimation Revisited
Suppose a government adds two lanes to a highway in both directions, but then restricts access to those lanes. The lanes will be “managed” — open only to people in carpools, or to people in single-occupancy vehicles who pay a toll. The toll wil...
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Episode 5
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2:47:50
Guardrails on Priced Lanes: Protecting Equity While Promoting Efficiency
Can congestion pricing be implemented in a way that protects vulnerable residents of California? This report examines that question from two perspectives. First, we estimate the size of the vulnerable population likely to be impacted if congest...
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Episode 4
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1:12:01
How and Why Would Congestion Pricing Work?
Transportation scholars regularly argue that congestion pricing is the only reliable way to reduce road traffic congestion. The public often resists this advice, often out of confusion about how pricing would work, concern about whether it woul...
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Episode 3
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1:45:59
Roads, Prices and Shortages: A Gasoline Parable
Can pricing roads really help reduce congestion? One way to answer this question is to ask if not pricing roads causes congestion. This essay by Michael Manville makes that case, and does so by demonstrating the general principle that ...
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Report from the 2024 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium: Mega Events, Major Opportunities
On Oct. 13–15, 2024, nearly 170 representatives of government, private sector consulting firms and companies, nonproft and advocacy groups, and universities joined the 2024 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium on mega events, like the upcoming 2028 Olympic...
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