This brief provides a short history of how transit and land development have often gone hand-in-hand in L.A., summarizes research that shows that residential density in greater L.A. is still influenced by long-gone streetcar routes, and recommends ways to achieve greater synergies between housing and public transit investments.
This brief explores why and how jurisdictions in the Los Angeles region should zone for more diverse-types of lowrise housing, especially near transit.
This is a summary of a report that provides a conceptual framework for thinking about how more people can live and work near transit, near the major regional investments that county residents are paying for, in ways that maximize social benefits and minimize social costs.
The goal of this evaluation report is to determine whether parklets, a relatively new streetscape improvement type, is an idea that works along Santa Monica’s Main Street corridor.
This research brief focuses on Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area to examine the relationship between commercial gentrification and fixed rail transit, transit ridership and traffic crashes.
This study focuses on the sexual harassment experiences of university students, a population group that is typically more transit-dependent than the general public, and possibly because of their age, more vulnerable to victimization from sexual harassment than other adults.
This study surveyed university students who use public transit. The survey responses reveal how different subgroups of transit riders are affected by sexual harassment differently.
This report examines current knowledge about disparities in transportation and access to health care for people with various health conditions and health care needs. We highlight evidence related to end-stage kidney disease, pregnancy, cancer, mental health and substance use, disabilities, multiple chronic conditions, and preventive care to discuss population-specific transportation needs and challenges, COVID-19 health risks, and impacts of transportation system disruption on health outcomes during the pandemic. The report concludes with policy recommendations for how leaders in transportation, public health, and health care can improve transportation access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This brief examines the racial/ethnic patterns in Los Angeles' traffic collisions to highlight the strategies that could improve racial equity in transportation safety.
More than 80% of new car and 50% of used car purchases are financed through loans. Consumers with credit issues or lower incomes are frequently offered subprime loans with high-interest rates. There is much to be learned about the growth in subprime lending and the types of policy solutions that could be adopted to reverse this trend.
