UCLA ITS Audio Edition

About 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.

Publisher

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 May 2025

Latest episode

2 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Jul 2025

   Induced Travel Demand Estimation Revisited

   This episode explores the complexities of induced travel demand and examines how managed highway lanes impact regional driving patterns.

2. 

   17 Jun 2025

   Guardrails on Priced Lanes: Protecting Equity While Promoting Efficiency

   Industry experts discuss congestion pricing implementation in California and explore methods for protecting vulnerable residents, offering insights into equitable transportation solutions.

3. 

   29 May 2025

   How and Why Would Congestion Pricing Work?

   Transportation scholars explore congestion pricing, addressing public concerns about fairness and effectiveness, to reveal its potential for reducing road traffic.

4. 

   16 May 2025

   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 when goods are underpriced, shortages result, and congestion is essentially a shortage of road space. People react and adjust in many ways to shortages, but accurate pricing is the only reliable way to end a shortage caused by mispricing. Read the original publi...

5. 

   1 May 2025

   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 Olympics and Paralympics. This report summarizes the discussions, lessons learned, and action items from the convening. Read the original report here.

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