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Journal articles on the topic "Los Angeles Transit"

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McLaughlin, James, and Daniel K. Boyle. "Transit Incentive Program for Transit-Dependent Riders." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1604, no. 1 (1997): 139–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1604-16.

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Five years ago, several transportation agencies in Los Angeles County began discussions on developing a process to reevaluate the existing bus service delivery system, including the opportunity for public involvement and participation. As a result, the concept of a thorough restructuring study was developed. Restructuring studies are closely related to other activities focused on the bus system. In March 1996, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board approved a broad-based bus system improvement plan that tied together many of the ongoing service improvements with proposed plans and programs to provide a 2- to 5-year set of goals to improve bus service in Los Angeles. It is in this context that the MTA and the Los Angeles Department of Transportation commissioned a special work effort as part of the Central/East/Northeast restructuring study to examine options for a transit incentive program for transit-dependent riders. The transitory nature of transit dependency has gained increased awareness in recent years, but development of effective strategies has lagged behind as transit agencies have targeted discretionary travelers as the largest pool of potential riders. The approach taken is to identify and describe rider-incentive programs implemented at other transit agencies that target or can be applied to the transit-dependent population, to consider public input about incentives and rewards that would be attractive to these riders, and to note key neighborhoods in the study area where there are significant numbers of households without automobiles. The objectives are to develop options for a pilot incentive program and to define the type of area appropriate for a focused demonstration-type project. The application of ideas as part of the consent decree negotiated by the Los Angeles County MTA is summarized.

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Adler, S. "The Dynamics of Transit Innovation in Los Angeles." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 4, no. 3 (1986): 321–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d040321.

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The recent reemergence of the private sector in urban transit, as well as private-sector-like behavior in the public sector, are manifestations of profound political and fiscal crises that are reshaping the service and institutional structure of the US transit industry, These crises developed as coalitions of competing place-based activists sought to deploy transit investments as strategic weapons to gain location advantages, The history and politics of transit in the intensely competitive Los Angeles metropolitan area illuminate these dynamics, especially the continuing conflict between downtown Los Angeles and outlying business centers on the issues of rail rapid transit and the role of the regional bus transit agency. Privatization and institutional fragmentation, facilitated in Los Angeles by passage of a transit sales tax in 1980, are the strategies of choice for outlying business centers, just as region-wide agencies and radial rail rapid transit systems have been downtown initiatives.

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Schuetz, Jenny, Genevieve Giuliano, and Eun Jin Shin. "Is Los Angeles Becoming Transit Oriented?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2016, no. 004 (2015): 1–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/feds.2016.004.

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Fishman, Robert. "Imaging Los Angeles as a Transit Metropolis." Journal of Architectural Education 71, no. 2 (2017): 264–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2017.1340790.

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Olwert, Craig, Jose Tchopourian, Vicente Arellano, and Mintesnot Woldeamanuel. "Stranding Cycling Transit Users on Los Angeles’ Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit." Journal of Public Transportation 18, no. 1 (2015): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2375-0901.18.1.4.

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Spears, Steven, Marlon G. Boarnet, and Douglas Houston. "Driving reduction after the introduction of light rail transit: Evidence from an experimental-control group evaluation of the Los Angeles Expo Line." Urban Studies 54, no. 12 (2016): 2780–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016657261.

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There is a pressing need to estimate the magnitude and dynamics of the behavioural effects of transportation investments and policy. This article innovates by applying an experimental-control group research design to the case of new light rail transit service in Los Angeles, California. Only a handful of previous studies use an experimental design to assess impacts of light rail transit, and this is the first to use an experimental design to measure impacts on vehicle miles travelled, a key determinant of greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector. We administered an annual seven-day travel study to a panel of households in the vicinity of Los Angeles’ Expo light rail line before the 2012 start of rail service and twice after the line opened. We find that households living within walking distance (1 km) of the new light rail drove approximately 10 fewer miles per day relative to control households farther away. Rail transit trips among near-station households approximately tripled relative to households beyond walking distance. Such driving reductions among households within walking distance of new rail transit stations suggest that Los Angeles’ large rail transit investment, coupled with land use policy, has the potential to help achieve climate change policy goals. More broadly, experimental evaluation can provide insights into causality and patterns of travel behaviour change associated with planning policies.

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Bethel, A. C. W. "The Unfinished Web." Southern California Quarterly 102, no. 4 (2020): 327–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/scq.2020.102.4.327.

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Early in the twentieth century, Los Angeles’s regional interurban electric railway, the Pacific Electric (PE), developed serious operational problems because the PE had been assembled from separate railroads that hadn’t been designed to fit together, and because Los Angeles’s explosive population growth overtaxed its facilities. The PE wanted to speed its trains and unify its system with a crosstown subway, but in 1923 the Los Angeles City1 Council blocked the PE’s plan and instead commissioned engineers and professional transit planners to devise comprehensive regional transit plans to be operated for the public good, not for private profit. These plans all focused on bringing lots of people downtown quickly, something irrelevant in a decentralizing city. Part I concludes with two seemingly propitious developments: the PE’s opening of its own mile-long but isolated Hollywood Subway, a compromise design but still impressive; and the unveiling of the most detailed and elaborate of the transit plans, as required by the new city charter. Part II, in the next issue, will describe why that comprehensive plan failed, then trace how political, economic, and demographic changes in the 1920s and 30s affected transit planning and why a plan to locate rail rapid transit in freeway medians failed. Part II will end with an examination of the PE’s financial condition as a refutation of a common explanation of the PE’s long decline.

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Taylor, Brian D., Mark Garrett, and Hiroyuki Iseki. "Measuring Cost Variability in Provision of Transit Service." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1735, no. 1 (2000): 101–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1735-13.

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The cost of producing public-transit service is not uniform but varies by trip type (e.g., local or express), trip length, time of travel, and direction of travel, among other factors. However, the models employed by public-transit operators to estimate costs typically do not account for this variation. The exclusion of cost variability in most transit-cost-allocation models has long been noted in the literature, particularly with respect to time-of-day variations in costs. This analysis addresses many of the limitations of cost-allocation models typically used in practice by developing a set of models that account for marginal variations in vehicle-passenger capacity, capital costs, and time-of-day costs. FY 1994 capital and operating data are used for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). This analysis is unique in that it combines a number of previously and separately proposed improvements to cost-allocation models. In comparison with the model currently used by the Los Angeles MTA, it was found that the models developed for this analysis estimate ( a) higher peak costs and off-peak costs, ( b) significant cost variation by mode, and ( c) lower costs for incremental additions in service. The focus is on the limitations of the rudimentary cost-allocation models employed by most transit operators and not on the Los Angeles MTA per se. This analysis found that an array of factors addressed separately in the literature can be incorporated simultaneously and practically into a usable cost-allocation model to provide transit systems with far better information about the highly variable costs of producing service.

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Kawabata, Mizuki. "Job Access and Employment among Low-Skilled Autoless Workers in US Metropolitan Areas." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 35, no. 9 (2003): 1651–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a35209.

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Focusing on low-skilled workers, I present an empirical analysis of the relationship between transit-based job accessibility and employment outcomes for workers without automobiles. The metropolitan areas examined are Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Two essential components of the analysis are the calculation of refined job-access measures that take into account travel modes as well as the supply and demand of the labor market, and the incorporation of job-access measures into multinomial logit models. The results indicate that improved transit-based job accessibility significantly augments both the probability of being employed and the probability of working 30 hours or more per week for autoless workers in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Further, in these two areas, job accessibility has a greater effect for autoless workers than for auto-owning workers. Job accessibility plays a more significant role in employment outcomes for autoless workers in San Francisco and Los Angeles, highly auto-dependent areas, than it does in Boston, a more compact area with relatively well-developed transit systems. The empirical findings hold important implications for the theory and policy debate surrounding spatial mismatch.

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Vinayak, Pragun, Zeina Wafa, Conan Cheung, et al. "Using Smart Farecard Data to Support Transit Network Restructuring: Findings from Los Angeles." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2673, no. 6 (2019): 202–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198119845661.

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Recent technological innovations have changed why, when, where, and how people travel. This, along with other changes in the economy, has resulted in declining transit ridership in many U.S. metropolitan regions, including Los Angeles. It is important that transit agencies become data savvy to better align their services with customer demand in an effort to redesign a bus network that is more relevant and reflective of customer needs. This paper outlines a new data intelligence program within the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) that will allow for data-driven decision-making in a nimble and flexible fashion. One resource available to LA Metro is their smart farecard data. The analysis of 4 months of data revealed that the top 5% of riders accounted for over 60% of daily trips. By building heuristics to identify transfers, and by tracking riders through space and time to systematically identify home and work locations, transit trip tables by time of day and purpose were extracted. The transit trip tables were juxtaposed against trip tables generated using disaggregate anonymized cell phone data to measure transit market shares and to evaluate transit competitiveness across several measures such as trip length, travel times relative to auto, trip purpose, and time of day. Relying on observed trips as opposed to simulated model results, this paper outlines the potential of using Big Data in transit planning. This research can be replicated by agencies across the U.S. as they reverse declining ridership while competing with data-savvy technology-driven competitors.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Los Angeles Transit"

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Richmond, Jonathan E. D. "Transport of delight--the mythical conception of rail transit in Los Angeles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13397.

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Lai, Bailey. "Exploring Transit-Based Environmental Injustices in San Gabriel Valley and Greater Los Angeles." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/198.

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This thesis attempts to disentangle the multilayered interactions between Greater Los Angeles’s history, its built environment, and its inequitable treatment of different peoples, focusing on how transportation in surrounding suburban communities like San Gabriel Valley has developed in relation to the inner city of Los Angeles. Greater Los Angeles contains a long, winding trajectory of transit-based environmental injustices, from the indigenous societies being overtaken by the Spanish missions, to the railroads and streetcars boosting the farmlands and urban growth of Los Angeles, leading into the decline of transit and rise of automobile-oriented suburbia. Within the San Gabriel Valley, the suburban community of El Monte has a varied history in its racialized spatiality and transportation development, rising from a former agricultural hub and to its more recent growth as a vibrant working-class suburb full of minorities. Based on a case study of El Monte’s past and present built environment, this thesis looks at the present situation of El Monte’s downtown district, including a walkthrough of its ongoing downtown revitalization project centered on transit-oriented development around the newly renovated regional bus station. This thesis finds the city of El Monte and Greater Los Angeles’s transit agencies have approached the renewed economic and public interest in transit in disconnected ways, leading to mixed results for its working-class minority populace, but also finds avenues in which the government and the public can cooperatively create more equitable transit-based communities for the future.

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Psaltakis, Matthew. "An Examination of Rails-Based Public Transit and Neighborhood Wealth in Los Angeles County." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2235.

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Historically, public transportation has served several key purposes. Among them is the need to provide accessible transportation for all persons in an area to increase commercial and social connectivity. However, the effectiveness of public transit in accomplishing this goal is relatively unstudied. I use U.S. Census data and a proprietary dataset matching each neighborhood of Los Angeles County with its nearest public transportation option to estimate median household incomes based on proximity to rails-based public transportation in 2000, 2010, and 2017. Using a fixed effects regression, I find that, in Los Angeles County neighborhoods more than 5 miles from the city’s central business district (CBD), being closer to a rails-based public transportation station is linked with higher median income levels. The magnitude of this effect is more pronounced as a neighborhood gets further from the CBD.

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Chamberlain, Forrest F. "The Smart Growth Implications of the Los Angeles Adaptive Reuse Ordinance." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2015. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1455.

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The Los Angeles Adaptive Reuse Ordinance (ARO) is an incentive program that encourages building reuse through regulatory exemptions. The ARO was partially intended to reduce vehicle miles travelled by encouraging mixed commercial and residential uses in existing buildings within Downtown Los Angeles and areas poised for redevelopment (Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, 2004, pp. 22, 51). Researchers and planners claim that the ARO helped to reduce vehicle miles travelled (Bell, 2014; Los Angeles Department of City Planning, 2014d; Bullen & Love, 2009; Bernstein, 2012), but these claims are not supported by discussions of the spatial distribution of ARO projects in relation to transit, or if the ARO accelerated, or hindered, infill transit-oriented development projects. This thesis aims to better understand the contributions of the ARO to transit-oriented growth in the City of Los Angeles. Two methods of analysis are used: a spatial analysis examining the number of ARO projects within a half-mile radius of Metro stations, and a statistical analysis examining the number of new buildings constructed in Downtown Los Angeles from 1985 to 2013. The majority of ARO projects (72%) have been developed within a half-mile radius of Metro rail stations. The ARO appears to have accelerated downtown development activity since its adoption in 1999, reversing a lull in development that had been occurring in the area since the late 1980s. Findings suggest that the ARO has helped to accommodate and spur transit-oriented growth while preserving historic resources in the City of Los Angeles.

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George, Kelsey G. "Revisiting "The Blue Line Blues"| Transit-Oriented Development in Inner-City Areas of Los Angeles County, 2000-2016." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10639413.

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<p> In the year 2000, Loukaitou-Sideris and Banerjee conducted a study on the Blue Line light rail system in Los Angeles. The study examined eight station areas between Long Beach and Los Angeles that were in some of the more neglected, inner-city areas. The study concluded the presence of light rail alone would not be sufficient enough to stimulate the economic development necessary to attract successful transit oriented development in those areas because of 11 antecedents identified by the authors. However, it can be argued that since only 10 years of rail service had passed when the original study was done, it was not enough time for the Blue Line to attract transit oriented development to the area. </p><p> The existing literature on TOD and inner cities argues that it can take up to 25 years for the benefits of light rail to fully establish. Using this argument to revisit the area studied by Loukaitou-Sideris and Banerjee, this study seeks to find out if and how conditions of the Blue Line have changed and if the 11 antecedents remain. By mirroring the methods used in the original study, this study investigates the same eight stations analyzed in the original study to determine if light rail can spark development and if areas are still hindered by the same antecedents.</p><p>

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Tillitson, Beth Lorraine. "Falling from favor: The demise of electric trolleys in Los Angeles." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1367.

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Tsao, Camille 1971. "Transit as a catalyst for urban revitalization : a a study of the Fourth and Hill area at Pershing Square station in downtown Los Angeles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70304.

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Desmuke, Audrey M. "Effects of Transit-Oriented Development on Affordable Housing, Job Accessibility, and Affordability of Transportation in the Metro Green Line Corridor of Los Angeles (CA)." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2013. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/988.

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The premise of this study is that an understanding of catalysts and impacts of social and economic change in the Los Angeles Metro Green Line study corridor and an analysis of current planning policies can help identify how future planning policies may generate more ideal and positive outcomes for the study corridor. This study evaluated the conditions within the transit corridor with four selected station areas defined by a one-mile radius from each station. The stations that make up the transit corridor are along the Los Angeles Metro Green Line that runs east west between Redondo Beach and Norwalk. A mile radius buffer was chosen to fully capture the spacing between the stations linearly and use that to define the corridor’s primary area of influence. This study evaluated the changes in demographic composition, housing affordability, transportation affordability and job accessibility within the Metro Green Line corridor between the year 2000 and 2010. Trends in the corridor revealed that over a ten-year span, the corridor saw shifts in demographic composition, growth in job and housing densities and increases in the cost of housing. Over the ten years, the corridor has not yet developed to the standards of a location efficient environment. This study recommends that protection of vulnerable populations such as the high proportion of renter-occupied housing units is important because they are more likely to make up core transit riders that need public transportation. Preserving and building affordable housing near transit would enable households to save money on both transportation and housing expenditures and can work towards making the corridor more affordable. By understanding the three main variables in the context of social equity, a decision-maker can avoid the potential of negative gentrification, displacement, and promote economic viability in the corridor.

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Levin, Isabella. "All Roads Lead to the Fair: How a 2022 Los Angeles World's Fair Would Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable and Innovative Forms of Transportation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/943.

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This thesis explores the potential impact of a World’s Fair on urban mobility in Los Angeles County by 2022. A brief historical account of World’s Fairs, and their impact on technological innovations in transportation will be given in conjunction with the development of transportation in Los Angeles. These accounts will help to contextualize an analysis of current plans to provide Los Angeles with transportation solutions, in light of the oversaturated automobile landscape in place today. Specifically, my research has revealed that the further development of light-speed rail systems paired alongside a mass adoption of autonomous vehicles would both alleviate contemporary transportation issues across Los Angeles County and accommodate the audience of international spectators that future mega-events may attract. Particular attention is paid to the Los Angeles World’s Fair for its ability to galvanize the resources and support that these transportation innovations require. I therefore conclude that the Los Angeles World Fair should direct its focus principally in support of these aforementioned technologies, as opposed to other less feasible transportations solutions such as the Hyperloop.

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DePriest, Alexander. "Bus Shelters as Shared Public and Private Entities; and Bus Shelter Advertising Contracts (BSACs), a Product and Source of Global Change: an Overview, History, and Comparison." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1867.

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The transit shelter, the space where riders make the transition from open space to more controlled buses and trains, is in many cases the site of a public-private transaction. Here, government agencies contract private companies to build and maintain shelters in exchange for governmental allowance of advertising in these locations. This dual purpose—the shelter serves concurrently as protection for transit users and as a moneymaker—means the space is contested, with economic and social needs often at odds. Bus shelter advertising contracts (BSACs), increasingly operated by large corporations, have resulted in widespread networks of bus shelters; observing these renders processes of globalization—generally not visible at the street level—more legible. Drawing from case studies of Lyon, France, and Los Angeles and New Orleans, United States, this thesis describes successes and failures both in the implementation of bus shelter contracts and in the provision of public amenities via shelters.

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Books on the topic "Los Angeles Transit"

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Levine, Ned. Factors affecting the incidence of bus crime in Los Angeles. U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1985.

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California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Transportation. Hearing on state transportation improvement program project delays, September 30, 1987, Los Angeles, California. The Committee, 1987.

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Transportation, California Legislature Assembly Committee on. Hearing on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Is it working? Are we getting our money's worth? Is there a unified vision for Los Angeles? Assembly Publications Office, 1993.

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California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Transportation. Hearing on Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Can it fix itself? The Committee, 1995.

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California. Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. LACMTA Governance: Can the LACMTA effectively handle its scope of responsibility? The Committee, 2001.

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Simburger, Edward J. Railroad-freeway: Featuring Metrolink, Metro Rail, and Amtrak in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties. Yerba Seca Publications, 1998.

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California. Bureau of State Audits. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Planning and budgeting of its operations and bus plan need improvement. The Auditor, 1995.

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California. Bureau of State Audits. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: It can increase its efforts to ensure the safe operation of its buses. California State Auditor, Bureau of State Audits, 2001.

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Hill, John W. UMTA project oversight and mass transit issues: Statement of John W. Hill, Jr., Associate Director, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, in Los Angeles, California. The Office, 1990.

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Audits, California Bureau of State. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Converting its poorly performing alcohol-fueled buses to diesel is the most cost-effective option available. California State Auditor, Bureau of State Audits, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Los Angeles Transit"

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He, Sylvia Y. "Los Angeles: A Transit Metropolis in the Making?" In Megacity Mobility Culture. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34735-1_9.

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Chester, Mikhail V., and Cris B. Liban. "Environmental Lifecycle Assessment of Public Transit in Los Angeles." In Engineering for Sustainable Communities. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784414811.ch23.

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Gray, Susan, Lance Glover, and Allison Porterfield. "Practising the Art of Wayfinding Design and Finding the Way to Artwork Materials: Designing Los Angeles County’s Transit Future, Applying Lessons Learned in New Project Delivery Methods for Metro Signage and Artwork." In Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64722-3_15.

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Kurmann, Peter. "Et angeli tui custodiant muros eius. Un cycle de statues méconnu au transept sud de Notre-Dame de Rouen: modèle ou reflet du cortège des anges de Reims?" In Culture et société médiévales. Brepols Publishers, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.csm-eb.3.385.

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Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, Madeline Brozen, Miriam Pinski, and Hao Ding. "Los Angeles, USA." In Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429290244-13.

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"Transit, Race, and Neighborhood Change in Los Angeles and San Francisco." In Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? The MIT Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11300.003.0006.

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Lin, Jan. "Gentrification, Displacement, and the Right to the City." In Taking Back the Boulevard. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479809806.003.0006.

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Examines the impacts of the sharpening gentrification process in Northeast Los Angeles and its socioeconomic and racial overtones as immigrant working class Latino/a families are increasingly threatened by displacement through rent increases, evictions, and socially traumatic uprooting of multi-family networks. Gentrification is tied to neoliberal local state efforts in Los Angeles to incentivize private investment through urban policy strategies like transit-oriented development, transit villages and small lot housing development. I argue the creative frontier of urban restructuring in Northeast LA also generates social violence expressing capitalism’s tendency to foster “accumulation by dispossession” that has been countered by neighborhood “right to the city” movements. I examine the rise of the urban social movements like Friends of Highland Park and Northeast LA Alliance that advocate for the rights of those threatened by housing displacement and eviction, address community and environmental impacts of new high-density housing projects, and campaign for more socially just housing and urban planning policies in Los Angeles. There is also examination of the plight of the homeless and rehabilitating gang members

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Wachs, Martin. "Autos, Transit, and The Sprawl of Los Angeles: The 1920S." In Classic Readings in Urban Planning. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351179522-22.

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Gottlieb, Robert, and Simon Ng. "Spaces of the City." In Global Cities. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035910.003.0007.

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The chapter analyzes and compares the different uses of urban space – whether public space, open space, or privatized space -- in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China. It contrasts the modernist spatial strategies that cater to the automobile and traffic flow and the desire for speed with an alternative view about a more walkable, bikeable, and transit friendly urban environment. It compares the immigrant and different ethnic experiences – a Latino immigrant urbanism in Los Angeles, elderly women dancing in the streets of the city in China, or the immigrant communities constructed in the village-in-the-city enclaves in places like Shenzhen and Guangzhou. It describes the rise of the gated communities in all three places in contrast to the growing advocacy around the right to the city for everyone.

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Lin, Jan. "Boulevard Transition, Hipster Aesthetics, and Anti-Gentrification Struggles in Los Angeles." In Aesthetics of Gentrification. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722032_ch10.

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I examine street-level dynamics of gentrification in Northeast Los Angeles, where artists and residential pioneers who contributed to neighbourhood revitalization have subsequently been threatened with displacement by speculator-investors and corporate developers. In the “neo-bohemia” of Northeast L.A., the aesthetics of countercultural and ethnic subcultural expression have been appropriated by hipster entrepreneurs and gentrifiers. Neoliberal urban policies like public incentives for market rate housing and transit oriented development have sparked accelerated gentrification, countered by anti-gentrification movements from Latinx protestors who view art galleries and hipster aesthetics as harbingers of gentrification. The aesthetics of art and theatre are also part of the toolkit of anti-gentrification activists as they take to the streets to claim their right to the city.

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Conference papers on the topic "Los Angeles Transit"

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Lew, Marshall, Martin B. Hudson, J. Adolfo Acosta, and Susan F. Kirkgard. "Geotechnical Challenges for the Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Gold Line Rail Transit Project." In GeoTrans 2004. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40744(154)151.

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Lovett, Christopher, Farimah Shirmohammadi, Mohammad H. Sowlat, and Constantinos Sioutas. "Commuting in Los Angeles: lung cancer health risks of roadway, light-rail and subway transit routes." In ERS International Congress 2018 abstracts. European Respiratory Society, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/13993003.congress-2018.pa1754.

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Solis, Octavio, Frank Castro, Leonid Bukhin, et al. "LA Metro Red Line Wayside Energy Storage Substation Revenue Service Regenerative Energy Saving Results." In 2014 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2014-3793.

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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) Red Line (MRL) provides heavy rail subway service with six-car trains at up to 65 mph, connecting downtown to the San Fernando Valley with weekday headways down to five minutes. MRL trains have either DC chopper propulsion or AC propulsion. Revenue service measurements at the busy Westlake/MacArthur Park station show that natural regeneration from braking trains to accelerating trains recoups 34% of the energy provided by nearby braking trains. The remaining 66% of the braking train energy is a candidate for capture and reuse. To capture and reuse this energy, Metro contracted with VYCON Inc. to design, supply, and integrate a flywheel Wayside Energy Storage Substation (WESS). WESS will capture and reuse train braking energy at the MRL Westlake traction power substation, located at the Westlake/MacArthur Park station. The project, funded by a grant from the Federal Transit Administration through its Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) Program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), is being cooperatively performed by Metro and VYCON. The initial WESS deployment is of a 2 MW rated system with a 15 s charge / discharge time, and an 8.33 kWh energy capacity. The WESS design allows easy expansion to a 6 MW rating. This paper presents results from initial MRL tests to measure regenerative energy savings which occur during revenue service operations, before installing the WESS.

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Xiao, Yinshuang, and Zhenghui Sha. "Towards Engineering Complex Socio-Technical Systems Using Network Motifs: A Case Study on Bike-Sharing Systems." In ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2020-22631.

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Abstract The socio-technical system (STS) is an important topic in Systems Engineering and Design Science. Its performance is not only affected by social aspects but also influenced by various technical factors. To understand the relationships and interactions among different components and subsystems in STS, many studies have been done either at individual agent level or at the system level, yet few studies were conducted at the local structural level in such systems. Motivated by this research gap, we developed an approach to analyzing STS based on the network motif theory. In this study, we apply this approach to three bike-sharing systems (BSS) to validate its feasibility. We focus on studying the size-3 motif, the most basic building block of complex networks, and its correlations to a BSS’s rebalancing performance in three different cities, i.e., NYC, Chicago, and Los Angeles. This paper reaches three conclusions. First, both seasonal and city effects play a significant role in affecting BSS’s network structure and its local motif characteristics. Second, the rebalancing issue, i.e., the imbalance between bike returns and rentals, happened at the local transit level can be different from that observed at the system level, and vice versa. Third, the average geographical distance of size-3 trip motifs follows strong patters correlated to the motif structures as well as the number of directed links in a motif. Compared with previous studies, these insights would be beneficial to guiding system designers in engineering STS, particularly from a bottom-up manner (e.g., using mechanisms or incentives), to achieve desired system-level performance. This study also provides an in-depth understanding of the relations between local system structures and system-level performance in an STS, therefore contributes to both the design theory of complex systems and the BSS research community from a new network motif-based perspective.

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Gustafson, T. L., D. A. Chernoff, J. F. Palmer, and D. M. Roberts. "Applications Of Picosecond Transient Raman Spectroscopy." In 1985 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, edited by M. J. Soileau. SPIE, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.946544.

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Zan, Kelvin, Vish Mawley, Moises Ramos, and Sarvjit Singh. "Recommended Maintenance Practices for Stray Current Corrosion on DC Electrified Systems." In 2014 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2014-3712.

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The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA), like many other transit agencies throughout the country, is currently addressing the stray current corrosion problems on its rail system. Numerous capital projects have been released by the authority for the rehabilitation of their corroded infrastructures along their right-of-way. In addition, new maintenance procedures have been implemented to minimize corrosion problems to the rail and utility infrastructures located adjacent to the electrified railroad. The corrosion effect on rail infrastructures is often overlooked by most electrified railroad authorities because an immediate corrective response is not necessary for train movement during rail operations. The corrosion process is a natural process that occurs slowly and continuously throughout the life span of all materials, and may be accelerated due to stray currents from the railroad electrification system. Several key locations along the right-of-way have greater impact from stray current corrosion issues: at street crossing due to poor rail insulated boots, switch machines and accumulation of brake dust near passenger platforms. Other significant locations that suffer from stray current effects are overhead and under grade bridges, tunnel structures, rail spikes, fire suppression pipes, sewage pipes and underground feeder cable connections. Moreover, stray current can also cause other vital systems such as signaling systems and communication systems to malfunction. The other aspect of stray current is intentional discharging of stray current into earth ground through Negative Grounding Device (NGD) to maintain negative rail over voltage level for safe operation and reliability of rail service to the public. Typical negative rail voltage with respect to earth ground in operation is over 100VDC which is over the recommended voltage of 50VDC. Corrosion problems can be controlled by the implementation of a cathodic protection system, proper inspection of the running rail, impedance bond connections and proper maintenance of the cathodic protection system and negative grounding devices. The purpose of this paper is to address corrosion issues associated with DC electrified railways, recommend maintenance practices to control stray current sources, recommended maintenance practices for cathodic protection systems and discuss the balancing act to control negative rail over voltage versus intentional discharge of stray current to earth ground.

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Johnson, N. M. "Deep - Level Transient Spectroscopy: From Characterization To Electronic Defect Identification." In 1985 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, edited by Fred H. Pollak and Raphael Tsu. SPIE, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.946317.

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Duncan, M. D., R. Mahon, L. L. Tankersley, and J. Reintjes. "Control Of Transient Raman Amplifiers." In 1988 Los Angeles Symposium--O-E/LASE '88, edited by Robert A. Fisher. SPIE, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.943855.

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Scholl, James F., Tsae-Pyng J. Shen, Daniel N. Rogovin, Tracy E. Dutton, and Peter M. Rentzepis. "Degenerate transient beam combination." In OE/LASE '90, 14-19 Jan., Los Angeles, CA, edited by Robert A. Fisher and John F. Reintjes. SPIE, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.18301.

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Lin, A. T. "Transient Effects In High Current Gyrotrons." In 1988 Los Angeles Symposium--O-E/LASE '88, edited by Norman Rostoker. SPIE, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.965075.

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Sandoval, Gerardo Francisco. Transit-Oriented Development and Equity in Latino Neighborhoods: A Comparative Case Study of MacArthur Park (Los Angeles) and Fruitvale (Oakland). Portland State University Library, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/trec.58.

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Zhang, Yongping, Wen Cheng, and Xudong Jia. Enhancement of Multimodal Traffic Safety in High-Quality Transit Areas. Mineta Transportation Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2021.1920.

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Numerous extant studies are dedicated to enhancing the safety of active transportation modes, but very few studies are devoted to safety analysis surrounding transit stations, which serve as an important modal interface for pedestrians and bicyclists. This study bridges the gap by developing joint models based on the multivariate conditionally autoregressive (MCAR) priors with a distance-oriented neighboring weight matrix. For this purpose, transit-station-centered data in Los Angeles County were used for model development. Feature selection relying on both random forest and correlation analyses was employed, which leads to different covariate inputs to each of the two jointed models, resulting in increased model flexibility. Utilizing an Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) algorithm and various evaluation criteria, the results demonstrate that models with a correlation effect between pedestrians and bicyclists perform much better than the models without such an effect. The joint models also aid in identifying significant covariates contributing to the safety of each of the two active transportation modes. The research results can furnish transportation professionals with additional insights to create safer access to transit and thus promote active transportation.

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Niles, John, and J. M. Pogodzinski. TOD and Park-and-Ride: Which is Appropriate Where? Mineta Transportation Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2021.1820.

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Despite the sharp drop in transit ridership throughout the USA that began in March 2020, two different uses of land near transit stations continue to be implemented in the United States to promote ridership. Since 2010, transit agencies have given priority to multi-family residential construction referred to as transit oriented development (TOD), with an emphasis on housing affordability. In second place for urban planners but popular with suburban commuters is free or inexpensive parking near rail or bus transit centers, known as park-and-ride (PnR). Sometimes, TOD and PnR are combined in the same development. Public policy seeks to gain high community value from both of these land uses, and there is public interest in understanding the circumstances and locations where one of these two uses should be emphasized over the other. Multiple justifications for each are offered in the professional literature and reviewed in this report. Fundamental to the strategic decision making necessary to allocate public resources toward one use or the other is a determination of the degree to which each approach generates transit ridership. In the research reported here, econometric analysis of GIS data for transit stops, PnR locations, and residential density was employed to measure their influence on transit boardings for samples of transit stops at the main transit agencies in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San José. Results from all three cities indicate that adding 100 parking spaces close to a transit stop has a larger marginal impact than adding 100 housing units. Previous academic research estimating the higher ridership generation per floor area of PnR compared to multi-family TOD housing makes this show of strength for parking an expected finding. At the same time, this report reviews several common public policy justifications for TOD as a preferred land development emphasis near transit stations, such as revenue generation for the transit agency and providing a location for below-market affordable housing where occupants do not need to have a car. If increasing ridership is important for a transit agency, then parking for customers who want to drive to a station is an important option. There may also be additional benefits for park-and-ride in responding to the ongoing pandemic.

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