Almost half of Los Angeles's unsheltered population live in their vehicles. Over the years, local complaints have amplified the proliferation of vehicular-dwelling criminalization ordinances — making it difficult for people to locate safe places to park, elevating fears of being towed, ticketed, or interacting with the police.
Parklets are small public spaces created by converting parking spots into recreational areas for people. The city of Los Angeles installed its first parklets in early 2013, and this study seeks to examine the effect of these two parklets on their adjacent downtown community.
This white paper identifies potential relationships between improved bicycle count data and travel demand modeling in the Los Angeles region.
This report seeks to establish baseline conditions in order to measure progress in the future. Our hope is that this data will serve as a baseline for a new era in transportation performance measurement in Los Angeles – one whose goal is not only to maximize mobility and access but also quality of life for all Angelenos.
A growing number of communities are discovering the value of their streets as important public spaces for many aspects of daily life. This manual presents an opportunity to these communities to design their streets for health, safety, livability, sustainability, and more.
Calculating GHG emissions reductions for transportation projects is both difficult and imperative for policy. The existing scholarship reflects three problems: 1) the complexity of transportation systems and travel behavior, 2) the lack of data to support emissions calculations, 3) the inability to apply existing academic models to policy implementation.
In this study we draw on data from the last two California Household Travel Surveys to examine walking behavior in four major California regions—the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego.
TTI estimated that traffic congestion cost the LA economy a staggering $13.3 billion in 2014, based on premise that moving slowly wastes time and fuel, costs that are multiplied over millions of travelers. But do such measures really capture how congestion and the conditions that give rise to it affect regional economies?
Scholars, municipalities and federal agencies have proposed new measures for evaluating street performance for non-automobile modes including transit service, bicyclists and pedestrians.
This paper concerns the methods for calculating Pedestrian Level of Service and Bicycle Level of Service as they are presented in the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual.
