Student Showcase

Please join us for the 2019 Student Showcase, taking place as a breakout session in Desert Salons 1-5 at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 2. Some of the SCAG region’s most outstanding students will present exciting and innovative research and planning work on a number of the region’s greatest challenges and opportunities. Come take a look at the featured projects, and vote on which you think are best! Your votes will determine the Audience Award (and accompanying cash prizes) for competing students.

STORY MAPS

The Evolving Field of Digital Freight Matching Technologies and the Role of Geographic Information Systems

An overview of environmental issues facing the supply chain industry and how geospatial network analytics can provide solutions to these issues in the form of digital freight matching.

Earthquake Preparedness: Are we prepared for the next great shake?

An exploration of the regional impacts of a seismic event along the San Andreas Fault on the SCAG region, the importance municipal Hazard Mitigation Plans, and the utilization of regional resources to help cities prepare for the inevitability of a high intensity earthquake.

Geographic Eligibility and Financial Feasibility of the New Tax Increment Financing Tools

An assessment of the efficacy of tax increment financing tools to provide funding for the production of affordable housing in the SCAG region, including their policy weaknesses and recommendations to strengthen them at the state level.

Homelessness and Environmental Injustice

An exploration of the relationship between environmental injustice, regional homelessness, and best practices.

Southern California Expansion

An exploration of how improvements to transportation and residential land use can promote the development of more sustainable communities in Los Angeles County using EPA principles of smart growth.

POSTERS

Congestion Pricing for Capacity, Climate, or Communities?

An examination of equity, environmental justice, and policy considerations of congestion pricing on the I-710 corridor.

How 2040 Transit Priority Areas Affect Transit Access Outcomes for Low-Wage Workers in the SCAG Region

An analysis of how planned improvements to the 2012 Transit Priority Areas in the 2016-2040 RTP/SCS affect the transit accessibility of low- and high-wage jobs in the SCAG region and to understand if the planned transit priority areas offer greater transit access to low- or high-wage jobs at both the residence and workplace.

Investigating Un/Loading Related Parking Citations and the Changing Transportation Uses of Streets

An analysis to determine whether citations typically related to un/loading (double parking, parking at bus stops etc.) occur more frequently in commercial, residential, or industrial zones, to identify hot spots where implementing more short term parking and/or un/loading zones should be investigated, and whether shifting use patterns of businesses and housing demands changes in infrastructure.

Mobility on Zelzah Avenue in Northridge: A Community Based Urban Design Project

A project to improve mobility, safety, and accessibility for active modes of transportation through evidence-based community design on Zelzah Avenue in Northridge.

Reducing Urban Heat Islands and Improving Quality of Life One Pavement at a Time

An exploration of the efficacy of replacing existing non-porous and non-reflective pavements with porous-reflective pavements to reduce urban heat islands, reduce noise levels, reduce air pollution, and reduce maintenance.

Safety Leadership Symposium

Traffic safety is a serious issue in Southern California. On average, more than 1,500 people die and 136,000 people are injured in collisions every year, and most collisions are happening on local streets – not freeways. Many of these injuries and deaths can be prevented through local education or enforcement strategies, or by designing safer streets.

Elected officials are invited to join us to explore regional traffic safety issues at a special pre-conference Safety Leadership Symposium on Wednesday, May 1, from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Expert panelists will highlight policy and implementation tools available to local governments to help improve safety.

Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.