This chapter forecasts transportation energy demand, for both the U.S. anc California, for the next 20 years. Our guiding principle has been to concentrat~ our efforts on the most important segments of the market. We therefore provide detailed projections for gasoline (58 % of California...

Our current alarm about traffic congestion stems in large part from perception of trends: thirty years ago traffic flowed smoothly; today it crawls. If this trend continues, congestion will become gridlock. These perceptions lead to statements such as: "There is no point to building highways,...

This paper summarizes the literature on the effectiveness of employee ridesharing programs. It provides the conceptual and empirical basis for our evaluation of AQMD’s mandatory ridesharing ordinance, Regulation XV. We review the literature on the following topics: i) employee ridesharing...

This study uses institutional economics to shed light on many of the issues plaguing the evaluation of design-build contracting. The purpose is to assist lawmakers in the State of California as they contemplate the adoption of enabling legislation. In institutional economic terms, design-build...

With the advent of ubiquitous mobile sensing and self-tracking groups, travel demand researchers have a unique opportunity to combine these two developments to improve the state of the art of travel diary collection. While the use of mobile phones and the inference of travel diaries from GPS and...

On September 29, 1993, President Clinton and the chief executive officer of Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors (the "Big Three") announced the creation of what was to become known as the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV). The primary goal of the partnership was to develop a...

This paper reports on a study of current practice in policy transfer, and ways in which its effectiveness can be increased. A literature review identiï¬es important factors in examining the transfer of policies. Results of interviews in eleven cities in Northern Europe and North America...

This paper considers residential segregation by race and by type of household in 1970 and 1980. The paper presents entropy indices of segregation for the San Francisco Bay Area and its five metropolitan areas. The methodology permits an investigation of the effects of group definition upon...

We investigate employment subcenters in the Los Angeles region using’1980 Census journey-towork data. A simple subcenter definition is used, based solely on gross employment density and total employment. We find a surprising dominance of downtown Los Angeles and three large subcenters...

Transportation planning research addresses accessibility from diverse approaches, focusing varyingly on the usability of the transportation system as a whole, a particular mode, the pattern of land uses, or the wherewithal of individuals and communities to make use of those systems. One...