Transportation Planning

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Analyzing equity impacts of transit fare changes: Case study of Alameda–Contra Costa Transit, California (with Aaron Golub and Elizabeth Deakin), Evaluation and Program Planning (2009)

Many public transit agencies consider increasing fares when faced with budget shortfalls. This paper analyzes...

 

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Providing Senior Citizen Mobility at Minimum Public Cost, City and Regional Planning (2009)
 

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Preliminaries to a Feasibility Analysis of the Maglev Proposal of The Southern California Association of Governments for the Region, City and Regional Planning (2009)

This is a seed grant study to perform a preliminary investigation of the system components...

 

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City of Guadalupe: Background Report (with Jeffrey W. Hook and Cal Poly Graduate Planning Studio), City and Regional Planning (2009)

This Background Report is an integral part of the City of Guadalupe Community Plan. It...

 

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City of Guadalupe: Community Plan (with Jeffrey W. Hook and Cal Poly Graduate Planning Studio), City and Regional Planning (2009)

The Guadalupe Community Plan contains long‐term goals, objectives, policies, and programs to provide a basis...

 

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City of Guadalupe: Housing Element (with Jeffrey W. Hook and Cal Poly Graduate Planning Studio), City and Regional Planning (2009)

The City of Guadalupe’s Housing Element is a major component of the General Plan that...

 

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A Benefit-Cost Evaluation of Smart Transit Features at Small Scale Transit Operations (with Edward Sullivan, Xudong Jia, Neil Hockaday, and Bruce Chapman), Proceedings of the 2009 Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting: Washington, D.C. (2009)

This study evaluates the benefits and costs of smart transit technologies at San Luis Obispo...

 

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Transforming High-speed Rail Stations to Major Activity Hubs: Lessons for California (with Elizabeth Deakin), Proceedings of the 2009 Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting: Washington, D.C. (2009)

This paper presents findings from domestic and international case studies of developments around high-speed rail...

 

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Vehicle Emissions and Level of Service Standards: Exploratory Analysis of the Effects of Traffic Flow on Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions (with Rafael Cobina, Tony Henderson, Sudeshna Mitra, and Edward Sullivan), Proceedings of the 2009 Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting: Washington, D.C. (2009)

Many local jurisdictions seek to preserve adequate infrastructure by enacting level of service (LOS) policies...

 

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EDAPTS Benefit/Cost Evaluation (with Xudong Jia, Edward Sullivan, and Neil Hockaday), City and Regional Planning (2007)
 

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Defining Sampling Districts for Household Travel Surveys: A Case Study of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, Transportation Research Record (2007)

This paper provides an additional demonstration of the phenomenon richly illustrated by previous studies that...

 

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MCRP Community Planning Graduate Studio 2005/06: King City Community Plan (with Kenneth Topping), Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2006)

During the current academic year, the City and Regional Planning Department graduate Community Planning Studio...

 

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New Public Transit System for Accra, Ghana, Focus: Journal of the City and Regional Planning Department (2006)

Cornelius Nuworsoo joined the CRP department in 2005 and specializes in transportation planning. He developed...

 

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Cost per User as Key Factor in Project Prioritization: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area (with Kamala Parks and Elizabeth Deakin), Transportation Research Record (2006)

Efforts to accommodate increasing and dispersed demand for travel in the face of mounting traffic...

 

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System Plan for California's Bay Area Regional Express Bus Service (with Elizabeth Deakin, Manish Shirgaokar, Aaron Golub, Jean Finney, Wingate Lew, Becky Frank, Chris Cherry, Nathan Higgins, Elihu Rubin, Thomas Valentin, Kamala Parks, Willa Ng, and Deborah Wong), Transportation Research Record (2006)

Express buses operating on freeways and arterials are an important part of many metropolitan area...

 

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Discounting Transit Passes, Access Magazine (2005)

Public transit operators in the United States have long known that fare hikes do not...

 

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Deep Discount Group Pass Programs: Innovative Transit Finance, Berkeley Planning Journal (2005)

For public transit operators in the U.S., neither fare increases nor fare reductions have been...

 

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Deep Discount Group Pass Programs as Instruments for Increasing Transit Revenue and Ridership, Dissertation Series UCB-ITS-DS-200402 (2004)

Transit properties in the USA have historically experienced loss of market share and low levels...

 

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Reverse Commuting and Job Access in California: Markets, Needs and Policy Prospects (with Robert Cervero, Yu-Hsin Tsai, Joulia Dibb, Andrew Kluter, Irina Petrova, M. Reinur Pohan, Martin Wachs, and Elizabeth Deakin), Research Report: UCB-ITS-RR-2002-7 (2002)

Getting to work, keeping appointments, and taking advantage of employment support services require suitable transportation....

 

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A Model to Minimize Non-Revenue Costs In Bus Transit Operations, Transportation Research Record (1999)

This paper derives from feasibility studies for a proposed Bus Division of the Mass Transit...

 

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City of San Joaquin 2040 Community Plan: Policy Document (with City of San Joaquin, California and Graduate Community and Regional Planning Studio, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo) (2011)
 

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City of San Joaquin 2040 Community Plan, Volume I: Background Report (with City of San Joaquin, California and Graduate Community and Regional Planning Studio, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo) (2011)
 

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Integration of Bicycling and Walking Facilities into the Infrastructure of Urban Communities (with Erin Cooper, Eugene Jud, and Katherine Cushing), City and Regional Planning (2011)

Several manuals, handbooks and web resources exist to provide varied guidance on planning for and...