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Three UCLA students win national recognition

UCLA students received three of the top national transportation research awards by the Council of University Transportation Centers. The CUTC was established in 1979 to represent transportation research centers and organizations across the country and connect their research to government and industry. Each year, students from across the country are recognized for best doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, master’s projects and overall accomplishment. During a Jan. 7 ceremony in Washington, D.C., Julene Paul, doctoral candidate in urban planning, was recognized as the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) UTC Outstanding Student of the Year; Miriam Pinski Ph.D. ’22 received the Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award for best dissertation; and Nataly Rios Gutierrez MURP ’22 was awarded the Neville A. Parker Award for best master’s project. Julene Paul — Outstanding Student of the Year Julene Paul The Outstanding Student of the Year award is based on students’ overall research and academic accomplishments as well as professional and leadership qualities. Paul’s research focuses primarily on multimodal transportation access and informal carsharing. She has written and published research articles on transit ridership patterns in California, spatial mismatch, and work-from-home behaviors for urban and rural residents, among other topics. “Over the past few years, I’ve enjoyed working and collaborating with researchers from throughout [...]

Three UCLA students win national recognition2023-04-11T14:22:32-07:00

Editor’s Note

As I write this editor’s note, rain is lashing the windows of my apartment — an unusual event for Los Angeles. Over the last two weeks our normally sunny city, like most of the rest of California, has been drenched by rain from a series of atmospheric rivers. California is in a drought, so the succession of storms is, in the long run, helpful.  But in the short run it brings trouble: flooding, mudslides, and perhaps most of all fear for the many people who live on our cities’ streets, and whose already precarious lives are made even more harrowing by the onslaught of water. The storm reminds those of us safe from such travails of our good fortune, and suggests the urgency of efforts to protect the more vulnerable among us from the volatile weather of both today and tomorrow.   This issue of Transfers has articles that touch on these issues. Madeline Brozen presents research on vehicular homelessness, and how cities use, or misuse, parking policy to regulate it. Nina Amenta and Angela Sanguinetti describe a way to nudge air travelers toward greener, less carbon-intensive flights. Kelly Turner, Ruth Engel and Adam Millard-Ball examine the vexing problem of [...]

Editor’s Note2023-08-16T13:55:31-07:00
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