Established through a cooperative agreement between the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and UCLA, the Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles (Mobility COE) researches and disseminates research on the impacts of new mobility and highly automated vehicles on land use, urban design, transportation, real estate, equity, and municipal budgets.
The Mobility COE collects, funds, and conducts research on how behaviors of emergent new technologies aggregate over time with increased market penetration and geographic scale, including system-level impacts on:
- Land use, real estate, and urban design;
- Transportation system optimization, including:
- System-level efficiencies;
- Travel demand and associated energy use;
- System resilience, security, and reliability;
- Commercial and freight operational models; and
- Mode switching and transfers.
- Equitable access to mobility and job participation; and
- Municipal budgets and cost-effective allocation of public resources.