Land Use and Vehicle Miles of Travel in the Climate Change Debate: Getting Smarter than Your Average Bear.
by Marlon G. Boarnet, Douglas Houston, Gavin Ferguson, and Steven Spears
Affordable Housing in Transportation Corridors – Built Environment, Accessibility, and Air Pollution Implications of Near-Roadway Residential Locations. Principal Investigator: Douglas Houston, UCI Policy, Planning and Design; Co- Principal Investigator: Jun Wu, UCI Epidemiology & Program in Public Health. Abstract is here.
Spatially Focused Travel Survey Data Collection and Analysis: Closing Data Gaps for SB 375 Implementation. Principal Investigator: Marlon Boarnet, UCI Policy, Planning and Design; Support: University of California Transportation Center and the California Department of Transportation. Abstract is here.
The Orange Crush: The Squeezing of Orange County’s Middle Class– John Hipp conducted a study in 2009 documenting the demographic and economic changes in Orange County over the last 40 years. The full report is available here.
Harbor Communities Study– Douglas Houston conducted research near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to examine how the activity patterns of residents of these largely low-income and minority communities are associated with potential air pollution exposure.
Inter-group violence between Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles – John R. Hipp, George Tita, and Lyndsay Boggess conducted a study of the relative rate of intergroup violence between two minority groups in one part of Los Angeles undergoing considerable racial/ethnic transition. The report presented to the LAPD is available here.