PSR Spotlight: New UCLA student projects and awards

METRANS is proud to announce the recently completed PSR-sponsored student capstone projects from UCLA:

Shelly Quan: California Government Screening Maps for Climate, Equity, and Planning
Eric Dasmalchi and Natalie Amberg: Local Option Sales Taxes and Transit Funding in California
Yu Hong Hwang: Piloting Transit Priority Improvements in the City of Los Angeles
Alexander Murray: Evaluation and Recommendation for All Door Boarding at LA Metro
Samikchhya Bhusal: Transit-Oriented Development Without Displacement: Strategies to Help Pacoima Businesses Thrive
Edgar Mejia: Aligning LA Metro Bus Service to Major Travel Patterns and other COVID-19 related Effects
Natalie Amberg and Eric Dasmalchi: Daylighting Public Funding Streams to Increase Equitable Access to Public Transit Across California
Lena Rogow: Slow Streets in San Francisco
Jan Yonan: Slow Your Roll! An Analysis of LADOT’s Slow Streets Program
Alexandra Weber: Washington State Ferries Terminal Wait Times and Traveler Information
Madeleine Garces: Lessons for Upgrading Los Angeles' Slow Streets: A Feasibility Study for Making the L.A. Slow Streets Program Permanent in a Post-COVID City
Allison Yang: Towards Achieving Carbon Neutrality in California: Forecasted Transportation Expenditures for Fossil Fuel Vehicles and Zero Emission Vehicles from 2020 to 2045

Additionally, METRANS congratulates PSR-affiliated UCLA researchers on the following awards:

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Martin Wachs
- Planning Pioneer Award, APA California
- Award of Excellence (Planning Pioneer category), APA Los Angeles

UCLA ITS research on falling transit ridership prior to the pandemic:  “Transit Blues in the Golden State" and "What's Behind Recent Transit Ridership Trends in the Bay Area?”
- Award of Merit (Academic category), APA California
- Award of Excellence (Academic category), APA Sacramento Valley
- Award of Excellence (Academic category), APA Inland Empire
- Award of Merit (Academic category), APA Central Coast
- Award of Merit (Best Practices category), APA Northern California