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Urban Planning Paper Wins Transportation Research Award
Posted on February 13, 2007
A UCLA study recently won the 2006 Best Paper Competition sponsored by the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) at City University of New York.
The study, titled “Light Rail Lite or Cost-Effective Improvements to Bus Service? Evaluating Costs Implementing Bus Rapid Transit,” was conducted by Brian Taylor, associate professor of urban planning and director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, Daniel B. Hess (Ph.D. 2002) and Allison Yoh, current UCLA urban planning Ph.D. student. The study was originally published in the Transportation Research Record, the journal of the Transportation Research Board.
The winning paper looks at two distinct emerging views of the rapidly growing U.S. trend toward developing bus rapid transit systems (BRT). One is BRT as a new form of high-speed, rubber-tired, rail-like rapid transit. The second is BRT as a cost-effective way to upgrade both the quality and image of traditional fixed-route bus service. The study analyzed the BRT costs of 14 planned and recently opened BRT systems to determine how the wide range of BRT service and technology configurations affect costs.
The awared will presented at the Annual Leadership in Transportation Awards reception Feb. 15 in New York City. The awards ceremony will be hosted by the New York University Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and The Council on Transportation.
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