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Brian D. Taylor, AICP   
Ph.D., Urban Planning, UCLA (1992)
M.C.P., City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley (1988)
M.S., Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley (1986)
B.A., Geography, UCLA (1983)
 

Professor and Chair of Urban Planning
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies
Associate Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
 
Phone: (310) 903-3228
FAX: (310) 206-5566   btaylor@ucla.edu 

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Professor Taylor's research centers on transportation policy and planning - most of it conducted in close collaboration with his terrific students. His work explores how society pays for transportation systems and how these systems in turn serve the needs of people who - because of low income, disability, location, or age - have lower levels of mobility. Topically, his research examines travel behavior, transportation finance, and politics & planning.

His research on travel behavior has examined (1) the effect of travel experience on cognitive mapping, (2) how travel patterns vary by race/ethnicity, sex, age, and income, (3) the social, economic, and spatial factors explaining public transit use, (4) the role of walking, waiting, and transferring on travel choices, (5) the potential of bus rapid transit to cost-effectively increase transit use, and (6) alternative ways to evaluate the effects of traffic congestion on people and firms.

A principal focus of his research is the politics of transportation finance, including (1) the history of freeway planning and finance, (2) emerging trends in pricing road use, (3) the equity of alternative forms of finance, (4) linking of subsidies to public transit performance, and (5) measuring equity in public transit finance. Related work has also examined the effect of political drivers on planning outcomes; such has how concerns over civil rights law, traffic congestion, terrorism, and climate change affect transportation policy and planning.


The publications listed below are available from the Digital Object Identifier website at http://www.doi.org Type or paste the DOI number (e.g., 10.1000/182) into the text box to bring up the publication.

Selected Publications:  

Hess, Daniel Baldwin, Brian D. Taylor, and Allison Yoh. 2006. “Light-Rail-Lite or Cost-Effective Improvements to Bus Service? Evaluating Costs of Implementing Bus Rapid Transit,” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1927: 22-30. DOI: 10.3141/1927-03.

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, Brian D. Taylor, and Camille Fink. 2006. “Rail Transit Security in an International Context: Lessons from Four Cities,” Urban Affairs Review, 41(6): 727-748. DOI: 10.1177/1078087406287581.

Yoh, Allison, Hiroyuki Iseki, Brian D. Taylor, and David King. 2006. “Interoperable Transit Smart Card Systems: Are We Moving Too Slowly or Too Quickly?” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1986: 69-77. DOI: 10.3141/1986-11.

Mondschein, Andrew, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Brian D. Taylor. 2006. “Cognitive Mapping, Travel Behavior, and Access to Opportunity,” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1985: 266-272.

Taylor, Brian D., Camille N.Y. Fink, and Robin Liggett. 2006. “Responding to Security Threats in the Post 9/11 Era: A Portrait of U.S. Urban Public Transit,” Public Works Management & Policy, 11: 3-17. DOI: 10.1177/1087724X06291133.

Taylor, Brian D. 2006. “Putting a Price on Mobility: Cars and Contradictions in Planning,” Longer View, Journal of the American Planning Association, 72(3): 279-284.

Sorensen, Paul A. and Brian D. Taylor. 2006. “Innovations in Road Finance: Examining the Growth in Electronic Tolling,” Public Works Management & Policy, 11(2): 110-125. DOI: 10.1177/1087724X06294067.

Iseki, Hiroyuki, Allison Yoh, and Brian D. Taylor. 2007. “Are Smart Cards the Smart Way to Go? Examining Their Adoption by U.S. Transit Agencies,” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1992: 49-53. DOI: 10.3141/1992-06.

Schweitzer, Lisa and Brian D. Taylor. 2008. “Just Pricing: The Distributional Effects of Congestion Pricing and Sales Taxes,” Transportation, 35(6): 797-812. DOI 10.1007/s11116-008-9165-9.

Taylor, Brian D., Douglas Miller, Hiroyuki Iseki, and Camille Fink. 2009. “Nature and/or Nurture? Analyzing the Determinants of Transit Ridership Across U.S. Urbanized Areas,” Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice, 43(1): 60-77. DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2008.06.007.