Latest Unpublished Research
This section highlights research in motion.
Urban Experimentation and Policy Innovation:
Exploring how cities act as living laboratories, designing flexible policies to test disruptive technologies like autonomous vehicles.
City Branding and Symbolic Politics:
Exploring how cities use automated vehicle test pilots to market themselves as innovation leaders and signal political ambition, modernity, and tech savviness.
Federalism and Multi-Level Governance:
Exploring how decentralized power structures create diverse pathways for local technology adoption and experimentation.
Innovation Ecosystems and Economic Development:
Exploring the role of industry clusters, universities, and public-private partnerships in fostering experimental deployments.
Upscaling and Diffusion of Urban Experiments:
Exploring how pilot projects transition—or struggle to transition—into broader, institutionalized change across cities.
Research & Publications
Explore key published research.
A Okashita, R Willson
Impact of market-rate residential parking permit fees on low-income households
Transportation Research Record 2673 (12), 644-654
A Okashita, H Arzate, JH Kim
Telecommuting and the Open Future
Institute of Transportation Studies.
JH Kim, JM Barajas, NJ Marantz, D Houston, V Herrera, A Okashita, MB Cabello
Assessing the Potential for Densification and VMT Reduction in Areas Without Rail Transit Access
Institute of Transportation Studies. California Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative.
C Cha, L Chan, A Okashita, FC Wang, C Yen, PM Ong, CA Lee
Sawtelle Japantown: Neighborhood Planning in
Los Angeles Asian Neighborhoods
University of California, Los Angeles.
Research Socials
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