Transforming Transportation
There’s got to be a better way
Climate change will drastically impact society and governments, with transportation being a major contributor to climate pollution in California and the U.S. We need a resilient and adaptable transportation system that prioritizes clean energy, equitable access, and faster implementation.
While mobility brings many economic and social benefits, an overreliance on cars comes at a significant cost. This reality is most acute in places where sprawl has made access heavily reliant on car mobility. Current state and regional transportation plans simultaneously extoll mobility’s virtues while making reducing vehicle travel a central goal, creating confusing and ineffective approaches.
Research by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies reveals that a lack of public trust hinders the development and implementation of sustainable, just and resilient transportation plans, policies, and programs. This lack of trust stems from conflicting visions among transportation experts and political leaders, leading to muddling actions and stalled progress.
Delivering transformed transportation
The 2023 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium: Transforming Transportation will delve into how governments can overcome obstacles to deliver a transformed transportation system. Through a curated selection of speakers and ample discussion over 2.5 days, participants will explore piloting projects, governance approaches, and finance to build trust and realize the transportation vision.
Establishing trust requires a shared vision and demonstrated progress, which presents a dilemma: Achieving success is essential to foster a common vision for a multimodal future.
Topics at the 2023 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium include:
Speakers
Tierra Bills
Evelyn Blumenberg
Liz Brisson
tamika l. butler
Markus Coleman
Cecilia Estolano
Eric Goldwyn
Susan Handy
Hasan Ikhrata
Kate Kigongo
Jody Litvak
Adonia Lugo
Tom Maguire
Michael Manville
Charles Marohn
Juan Matute
Katie Miller
Jon Nouchi
Regan Patterson
Kelcie Ralph
Karthick Ramakrishnan
Asiyahola Sankara
Joshua Schank
James Shahamiri
Donald Shoup
Brian D. Taylor
Tanisha Taylor
Randall Winston
Program
Time | Description | Location |
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12–1:30 PM | Lunch | Dining Room |
1:30–2 PM | Welcome and Overview | Pineview |
2–3:15 PM | There’s Got to Be a Better Way The transportation system is failing our health and is the source of many social and environmental problems. Many people are dissatisfied with the performance of the existing system, but are even more dissatisfied with options for change. What are the issues and what can be done about them?
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Pineview |
3:15–3:45 PM | Break | |
3:45–5 PM | Envisioning a Just and Sustainable Transportation Future What can we learn from inclusive efforts to envision and plan for California’s future?
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Pineview |
5:30–6:30 PM | Social Hour | Lakeview |
6:30–8 PM | Dinner | Dining Room |
8:15–9:30 PM | Visions for Transforming Transportation I Sunday and Monday night session speakers give 8-10 minute presentations on their vision for transforming transportation and then participate in a panel to discuss their approaches and answer questions from the audience.
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Pineview |
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7:45–8:30 AM | Breakfast | Dining Room |
8:30–10 AM | Change from Within: Making Institutions Work How can transportation organizations learn to manage trade-offs in resources and processes in order to develop capacity for scaling transformative transportation changes?
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Pineview |
10–10:30 AM | Break | |
10:30–12 PM | The New P3: Innovations in Partnerships, Procurement, and Pilots New models like SCAG’s Regional Pilot Initiative match process improvements in procurements and partnerships with pilot projects to explore new technologies, designs, or approaches to transportation services and infrastructure. What can we learn from them?
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Pineview |
12–1:30 PM | Lunch | Dining Room |
1:30–2:30 PM | It Doesn’t Spark Joy: Tidying Permit and Process Clutter that Drives Capital Costs How can government and society unravel decades of sprawling processes to introduce speed and agility without weakening social and environmental protections?
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2:30–3 PM | Roundup of Lessons Learned | Pineview |
3–5:30 PM | Break | |
5:30–6:30 PM | Social Hour | Iris |
6:30–8 PM | Dinner | Dining Room |
8:15–9:30 PM | Visions for Transforming Transportation II Sunday and Monday night session speakers give 8-10 minute presentations on their vision for transforming transportation and then participate in a panel to discuss their approaches and answer questions from the audience.
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Pineview |
Time | Description | Location |
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7:45–8 AM | Breakfast | Dining Room |
8:30–10 AM | Building Constituencies for Transforming Transportation How do we grow a constituency for (clean) transportation (and energy and housing and other infrastructure) sufficiently large and powerful and organized to effect the needed policy decisions (projects, permitting reform, etc.)?
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Pineview |
10–10:30 AM | Break | Pineview |
10:30–12 PM | Lessons Learned and Next Steps | Pineview |
12–1:30 PM | Lunch | Dining Room |
About the Symposium
Since 1991, the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium has tackled the connections between transportation, land use, and the environment. Arrowhead’s diverse and influential group of policymakers, private sector stakeholders, public sector analysts, consultants, advocates, and researchers dive into these pressing policy issues every day. Here we’ve collected some of their insights from the Symposium, as well as information on their ongoing work and updates on upcoming events. Learn more about previous events in the symposium’s 30+ year history.
The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, which presents this UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, acknowledges the UCLA campus presence on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the peoples who today use the names Tongva, Gabrielino, and Kizh.
Furthermore, we acknowledge the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge & Conference Center’s presence on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Yuhaaviatam Indigenous people.