UCLA faculty experts advisory: MTA to introduce toll lanes, set prices

In an effort to reduce traffic congestion, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority will allow solo drivers to pay to use carpool lanes on portions of the 10 and 110 freeways. The MTA has scheduled public hearings in advance of its July 23 price-setting vote. UCLA has experts.

 

Brian Taylor, professor of urban planning and director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, is an expert on the politics of financing transportation. He comments frequently on subjects such as toll roads and congestion pricing.

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Minne Hong Ho | 310-916-8465 | mho@spa.ucla.edu

 

Evelyn Blumenberg, associate professor of urban planning, is an authority on the effect of transportation pricing on low-income communities, especially the role of transportation in facilitating the welfare-to-work transition and the role of transportation for immigrants.

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Minne Hong Ho | 310-916-8465 | mho@spa.ucla.edu

 

Michael Manville is a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA's Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studiesand the UCLA Institute for Transportation Studies. He has written extensively on the economics of public transportation and the political obstacles to implementing congestion-pricing policies. Manville is researching the political acceptability of congestion tolls in Los Angeles and will teach a UCLA Department of Urban Planning Course on the subject in fall 2009.

Media contact:

Minne Hong Ho | 310-916-8465 | mho@spa.ucla.edu