From Public Transit to Public Mobility

The 12th Annual UCLA Downtown Los Angeles Forum on Transportation, Land Use and the Environment

Friday, March 1
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA

The 12th UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Downtown Forum grapples with the public sector’s response to the dual trends of emerging new mobility services and declining public transit ridership.

What does the increasing role of private mobility options in cities mean for transportation agencies, public transit providers, cities, and the traveling public? Should innovation be encouraged, quashed, or managed? Many regions in California are making big investments in public transit to create a viable alternative to driving; are these burgeoning new services a threat or opportunity for these investments?

The 12th Annual Downtown Forum will explore implementation of the strategies discussed at the October 2018 Arrowhead Symposium, a 3-day in-depth examination of what’s happening in urban mobility amidst an inundation of new options, to how public agencies are adapting to accommodate, manage, and incorporate, and compete with new options while continuing to serve the public interest. The Downtown Forum advances strategies to implementation in four areas seen as critical to the public sector’s response to new mobility:

• Successful models for the public sector to partner with private companies providing public mobility service
• How public agencies can effectively obtain and use data to manage public mobility
• Identifying and implementing the most impactful, cost-effective incremental changes to streets and transit service in order to double public transit ridership in the next decade
• Coordinating implementation of new technologies and mobility services to enhance equity and quality of life