Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation - UC Institute of Transportation Studies

Creating a Multimodal Future

From taking the bus to walking or riding a scooter, our research explores how to give travelers more options other than driving in their car alone. We explore topics from microtransit’s impact on public agency costs and environmental outcomes to shifts in public transit service and ridership, effects of bicycle education on ridership, partnerships between ridehail companies (e.g., Uber, Lyft) and public agencies, and more.

Publications

published journal article

Does Bike-share Enhance Transport Equity? Evidence from the Sacramento, California Region

policy brief

Communities Are Experimenting with Microtransit to Fill Critical Gaps in Public Transit Service – What Have We Learned so Far?

research report

Transit, Belabored: Issues and Futures for California’s Frontline Transit Workforce

Lead Experts

Brian Taylor, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, UCLA

Jacob Wasserman

Research Project Manager, UC Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis

Assistant Professional Researcher, UC Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Featured Projects

Reforming California’s Transportation Development Act

Research Team:

Brian D. Taylor (lead), John Gahbauer, Juan Matute

UC Campus(es):

UCLA

Designing Microtransit Services to Complement Public Transit

Research Team:

Susan Shaheen (lead), Susan Pike, Kari Edison Watkins, Adam Cohen

UC Campus(es):

UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine

Exploring Opportunities to Improve Transit Access to Community Resilience Centers for Safety and Evacuation Planning

Research Team:

Elisa Borowski (lead)

UC Campus(es):

UC Irvine