We study California's free/reduced-fare student pass programs since COVID-19. Of 67 agencies surveyed, most of the 34 with programs kept them through 2022-23. LA Metro's GoPass reached 241,000+ students. K-12 programs expanded post-pandemic, boosting ridership. Learn more: ucits.org/research_pro...

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California set ambitious goals for decarbonizing the transportation sector, including reducing the amount of per capita vehicle travel. This may mean shifting more travel to other modes of travel, such as...

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Join us for our first round of Emerging Scholars on September 25th, featuring high school and undergraduate scholars who participated in our 2026 TRIP and PRIME programs! The Zoom QR code is attached below.
We hope to see you there!🚆

ITS invites you all to join our 2026 Emerging Scholars Transportation Research Symposium! Undergraduate students from this summer’s TRIP and PRIME program will be presenting their research accomplishments! We hope you can join us in supporting them!

On Saturday, August 29, ITS hosted an end-of-program BBQ get-together to conclude the summer TRIP and PRIIME program, which included food, board games, and more! Thank you to everyone who came, and we hope that you stay in touch with ITS in the future! 💛💙

TRIP/PRIME Professor Spotlights! ⭐
Introducing Professor Jun Wu, A Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health!

This Wednesday, August 26th, the Railroad Association of Southern California (RASC) hosted a mixer featuring guest speaker Aaron Azevedo, the director of Metrolink! Students from ITS were able to network with transportation professionals and gain more insight into the railway industry!

Dewei Xiao, Lu Xu, and Jean-Daniel Saphores find that autonomous driving and online shopping lower freight costs & promote larger, consolidated warehouses, and reduce drayage truck, they increase delivery truck miles and raise overall total mileage.

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Can construction vehicles go electric—and still make financial sense?

A new study by Shakib Kafashan and Jean-Daniel Saphores examines the economic and environmental case for electrifying construction equipment and the findings are encouraging!

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New research from UC Irvine ITS examines LA Metro's GoPass program, which provides fare-free transit to K-12 and community college students in Los Angeles, through a survey of students and analysis of 1.1 million TAP card records.

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Shakib Kafashan and Jean-Daniel Saphores dig into the infrastructure, regulatory, and economic roadblocks standing in the way of electrifying job sites, and explore what it will actually take to clean up one of the state's most overlooked polluters.

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UCI ITS affiliated researcher, Dr. Mohammad Al Faruque, with UCI students Yasamin Moghaddas, Avinash Kadiyala, and Mohamad Habib Fakih find that Inductive Loop Detectors are concerningly vulnerable to novel cyber and physical attacks.

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