Senior Research Project on Equity in Transportation Planning: Collaboration Organizing Strategies

As the world continues to develop and resources continually become scarce, alternatives to sustain the American way of life have become more important than ever. The American transportation system has become increasingly dependent on one mode of transportation, the personal automobile. Throughout the 20th century the American transit system of the postwar boom developed in favor of the automobile, especially in the sprawling cities of the west coast, like San Diego. The developed...

This study provides an evaluation of the San Diego Association of
Government’s (SANDAG) long range regional transit plan contained in San
Diego Regional Transportation Plan: Pathways of the Future 2030. More
specifically, the project addresses the policy and implementation of
multimodal transit systems.

Sustainability in developing countries is an issue gaining an increasing interest from the international community. This research project examines the upcoming development in Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic Games catalyze major urban changes to its physical environment. The study focuses on transportation planning and how the population will be affected as the federal, state, and municipal governments work with private companies to implement projects that improve the current...

Measuring the effect of the MTS SuperLoop on car and shuttle traffic to UCSD

Southern California has always been a place planned 'for the automobile'. That is to say that that the sole focus of Southern California's transportation planning is to develop transportation infrastructures such as widening freeways or building more freeways to improve the regional transportation mobility and as well as planning residential zones horizontally so that citizens have to drive a long distance before they can get to their workplace.