Will New Mobility Services Fill Transit Service Gaps? (Phase 1)

2024-12-12T17:07:02-08:00

Transit accessibility remains an issue for many residents, particularly in low-income and minority areas. Additionally, empty buses run during off-peak or late-night hours and in suburban areas to meet coverage requirements, often resulting in inefficient resource allocation. This project will assess the potential for new mobility services (e.g., AVs and micromobility) to fill gaps in transit service and improve operational efficiency. 

Will New Mobility Services Fill Transit Service Gaps? (Phase 1)2024-12-12T17:07:02-08:00

Accessible Rendezvous with Automation at the Curb

2024-12-12T17:07:03-08:00

Autonomous vehicles, both individual and shared shuttles, offer significant mobility benefit to people with disabilities and others who lack use of a personal vehicle. However, they may also exacerbate existing barriers to human-driven shared ride services, such as policy violations, rendezvous failures, and poor curb location selection. We seek to address these barriers by developing recommendations for policy decisionmakers and service providers.

Accessible Rendezvous with Automation at the Curb2024-12-12T17:07:03-08:00

Optimizing urban mobility: A data-driven approach to strategic Mobility Hub placement

2024-12-12T17:07:04-08:00

Cities would need to facilitate a multi-modal mobility platform, which provides travelers with seamless access to a range of emerging mobility options, such as fixed-route or flex-route public transit, micro-transit, ride-sharing, car rentals, bike-sharing, scooters, moped, and walking routes. Those options altogether have potential to improve accessibility to essential resources regarding employment, health care and food. This research acquires mobility service data to understand travel behavior in choosing mobility options, optimize design of such a platform by optimally placing mobility hubs with multiple mobility options, with the ultimate goals of improving accessibility, sustainability and efficiency for underserved populations.

Optimizing urban mobility: A data-driven approach to strategic Mobility Hub placement2024-12-12T17:07:04-08:00

Understanding transit, ridehail and micro mobility use among low-income mobility wallet recipients

2024-12-12T17:07:01-08:00

LA Metro is providing financial support to 1,000 low-income people to support their use of transit, ridehailing, scooters, bicycles, and other shared services as a part of their universal basic mobility efforts. In the previous pilot phase, most funds went towards transit and ridehailing services, raising concerns about whether ridehailing may replace transit trips. Collecting and analyzing observed data about participants' travel behavior is needed to understand this relationship.

Understanding transit, ridehail and micro mobility use among low-income mobility wallet recipients2024-12-12T17:07:01-08:00

Permits, Fees, Paperwork and Delays: Regulating New Shared Mobility

2024-12-12T17:07:03-08:00

Public agencies and state and local governments often impose various regulations on shared mobility services. These regulations vary widely by place and mode, and the costs and benefits of these regulations are poorly understood. This project aims to categorize shared mobility regulations, identify their intents and impacts, and to identify the appropriate balance of regulations.

Permits, Fees, Paperwork and Delays: Regulating New Shared Mobility2024-12-12T17:07:03-08:00
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