Brian Taylor
Chair, UCLA Department of Urban Planning
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA
Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA
URBAN PLANNING
Area of Expertise: Transportation policy and planning.
Biography
Taylor, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning and director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA, researches transportation policy and planning. In particular, 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 low levels of mobility.
A principal focus of his research is the politics of transportation finance, including the history of freeway planning and finance, emerging trends in highway finance, the linking of subsidies to public transit performance, and measuring equity in public transit finance.
His research also examines travel demographics, including patterns of public transit use by the central city poor and the constrained travel patterns of working women. He has also studied the relationships between transportation systems and urban form, including the effects of suburbanization on employment access and the evolving commuting patterns of minority and low-income workers
