Martin Wachs

Biographic Data

ID	3758491
NAME	Martin Wachs
GIVEN NAMES	Martin
FAMILY NAME	Wachs
SIGNATURE	WACHS M
AFFILIATIONS	University of California, Los Angeles
ORCID	0000-0002-6739-1654
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	30
TOTAL CITATIONS	41
AUTHOR COUNT	30
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2022
H-INDEX	2

Keys to the Car: Driving Cessation and Residential Location Among Older Adults
Open AccessAndrew Schouten, Evelyn Blumenberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Planning…2022
Problem, research strategy, and findings Most Americans live in communities in which automobiles are central to participation in economic, social, and cultural activities. Outside of dense central cities, the ability to continue driving as one ages is fundamental to the quality of life among older adults. Driving rates decline significantly with age. Researchers have studied the myriad reasons former drivers stop driving, but few have examined as…
Development and application of a dynamic transmission model of health systems’ preparedness and response to Covid-19 in twenty-six Latin American and Caribbean countries
Open AccessAdrián Santoro, Alejandro López Osornio et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022
The global impact of COVID-19 has challenged health systems across the world. This situation highlighted the need to develop policies based on scientific evidence to prepare the health systems and mitigate the pandemic. In this scenario, governments were urged to predict the impact of the measures they were implementing, how they related to the population’s behavior, and the capacity of health systems to respond to the pandemic. The overarching a…
The changing accuracy of traffic forecasts
Open AccessJawad Mahmud Hoque, Gregory D Erhardt et al.ARTICLETransportation2022
Cohort analysis of driving cessation and limitation among older adults
Open AccessAndrew Schouten, Martin Wachs et al.ARTICLETransportation2022
Automobiles are central to participation in economic, social, and cultural activities in the United States. The ability to drive as one ages is fundamental to the quality of life among older adults. Driving rates decline significantly with age. Researchers using cross-sectional data have studied the reasons former drivers have stopped driving, but few have followed individuals over time to examine changes in relationships among driving cessation,…
Analyzing voter support for California’s local option sales taxes for transportation
Open AccessAnne Brown, Jaimee Lederman et al.ARTICLETransportation2021
Infrastructure: National Roles Without National Policy
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2021
In 1992 Professor Dick Netzer posed the question “Do We Really Need a National Infrastructure Policy?” but a national infrastructure policy really is a fanciful notion. America has never had a national infrastructure policy, there is no consensus as to what constitutes “infrastructure,” and little to agreement on public policy at the national level. Although we may agree that public expenditures to build and maintain infrastructure should be effe…
Japa Is More Than a Generalist Journal
Martin WachsARTICLEJournal of the American Planning…2020
"JAPA Is More Than a Generalist Journal." Journal of the American Planning Association, 86(4), p. 510
Arguing over Transportation Sales Taxes: An Analysis of Equity Debates in Transportation Ballot Measures
Open AccessJaimee Lederman, Anne Brown et al.ARTICLEUrban Affairs Review2020Cited by: 2References: 27
What’s a fair way to pay for urban transportation? Local option sales taxes (LOSTs) for transportation are an increasingly common mechanism for locally financing transportation in the context of declining federal and state funding. LOSTs are typically regressive, raising equity concerns. But their fairness also depends on who benefits from them, based on which projects are funded, where projects are located, and when investments occur. We examine…
Renewing America’s Infrastructure: An Agenda for Federal Transportation and Water Policy
Open AccessDebra Knopman, Martin Wachs et al.ARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2018Cited by: 2
Federal infrastructure investment is receiving a great deal of attention, largely about money: how to finance capital investment, operations, and maintenance. Less discussed but very important is modernizing federal policy to support the mature and urban-centered economy of the United States—rather than the economy it had when most of the terms of federal engagement were set. This article summarizes a RAND Corporation report which addresses recen…
More Than Money: Infrastructure and Governance
Open AccessEmil Frankel, Martin WachsARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2016
The Boy Who Cried Wolf? Media Messaging and Traveler Responses to “Carmageddon” in Los Angeles
Open AccessAnne Brown, Anne E Brown et al.ARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2016
One of the most heavily traveled freeways in the United States closed for construction over weekends in 2011 and 2012. Some public officials publicized the closures by appealing to civic pride whereas others threatened nightmarish delays they dubbed “Carmageddon.” In 2011, contrary to many media predictions, traffic flowed freely at volumes far below normal levels. Our analysis finds that travelers did not switch routes, modes, or trip timing, bu…
Turning cities inside out: Transportation and the resurgence of downtowns in North America
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLETransportation2013
Putting a Tax on Oil
Open AccessKeith Crane, Nicholas Burger et al.ARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2012
We investigate the possibility of using a percentage tax on crude oil and imported refined oil products consumed in the United States to fund the nation’s transportation infrastructure. This tax on oil could replace existing gasoline and diesel taxes and, potentially, other transportation taxes, such as taxes on airline tickets. The revenues from this tax could be used to fully fund federal infrastructure expenditures on highways, public transit,…
Factors influencing support for local transportation sales tax measures
Open AccessRobert Hannay, Robert Kerr Hannay et al.ARTICLETransportation2007
Metropolitan Transportation Funding: Prospects, Progress, and Practical Considerations
Open AccessGian-Claudia Sciara, Martin WachsARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2007Cited by: 5References: 3
Recent efforts to implement regional-level funding sources in Las Vegas, Nevada; California's San Francisco Bay Area; and the state of Texas indicate that some states and regions are responding to transportation needs with institutional innovations that could allow greater metropolitan-level involvement in transportation finance. In light of the waning revenue-generating capacity of federal and state transportation user fees—historically, the mai…
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Distinguished Educator Award
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…2007
A Dozen Reasons For Gasoline Taxes
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2003Cited by: 1
Motor fuel taxes at state and federal levels have traditionally been earmarked for transportation investments, supporting road construction, maintenance, operations, and increasing public transit. Recently, elected officials have been reluctant to raise fuel taxes despite increases in the cost of transportation programs. Other forms of support, especially borrowing and local sales taxes, are playing larger roles in transportation finance. Raising…
Learning from Los Angeles: Transport, urban form, and air quality
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLETransportation1993
The Changing Commute: A Case-study of the Jobs-Housing Relationship over Time
Open AccessMartin Wachs, Brian D Taylor et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies1993Cited by: 26References: 1
Commuting patterns between home and work were studied among 30 000 employees of Kaiser Permanente, a major health care provider in Southern California. The study tracked the differences between home and work location among employees over 6 years by analysing employee records and responses to a survey of over 1500 of the workers. It was found that work trip lengths had in general not grown over the 6 year period. Growth of the work force had contr…
Regulating traffic by controlling land use The Southern California experience
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLETransportation1990
Discussion of Three Papers on Planning Methods
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…1986Cited by: 2
Ethics in Planning
Open AccessSeymour J Mandelbaum, Martin WachsARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1986
Management Vs. Political Perspectives on Transit Policymaking
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…1985Cited by: 1References: 1
Over a thirty year period the American transit industry has been transformed from private to public ownership, and financial support for transit has come to be domi nated by a political perspective rather than a management perspective Examples of the politicization of transit policy are drawn from four areas: (1) fare policies designed to encourage ridership use in low density suburbs while penalizing inner-city residents taking short trips, (2) …
Crime in public transit systems: An environmental design perspective
Open AccessAdele Pearlstein, Martin WachsARTICLETransportation1982
Ethical Dilemmas in Forecasting for Public Policy
Martin WachsARTICLEPublic Administration Review1982

The Changing Commute: A Case-study of the Jobs-Housing Relationship over Time
Open AccessMartin Wachs, Brian D Taylor et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies1993Cited by: 26References: 1
Commuting patterns between home and work were studied among 30 000 employees of Kaiser Permanente, a major health care provider in Southern California. The study tracked the differences between home and work location among employees over 6 years by analysing employee records and responses to a survey of over 1500 of the workers. It was found that work trip lengths had in general not grown over the 6 year period. Growth of the work force had contr…
Metropolitan Transportation Funding: Prospects, Progress, and Practical Considerations
Open AccessGian-Claudia Sciara, Martin WachsARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2007Cited by: 5References: 3
Recent efforts to implement regional-level funding sources in Las Vegas, Nevada; California's San Francisco Bay Area; and the state of Texas indicate that some states and regions are responding to transportation needs with institutional innovations that could allow greater metropolitan-level involvement in transportation finance. In light of the waning revenue-generating capacity of federal and state transportation user fees—historically, the mai…
Arguing over Transportation Sales Taxes: An Analysis of Equity Debates in Transportation Ballot Measures
Open AccessJaimee Lederman, Anne Brown et al.ARTICLEUrban Affairs Review2020Cited by: 2References: 27
What’s a fair way to pay for urban transportation? Local option sales taxes (LOSTs) for transportation are an increasingly common mechanism for locally financing transportation in the context of declining federal and state funding. LOSTs are typically regressive, raising equity concerns. But their fairness also depends on who benefits from them, based on which projects are funded, where projects are located, and when investments occur. We examine…
Renewing America’s Infrastructure: An Agenda for Federal Transportation and Water Policy
Open AccessDebra Knopman, Martin Wachs et al.ARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2018Cited by: 2
Federal infrastructure investment is receiving a great deal of attention, largely about money: how to finance capital investment, operations, and maintenance. Less discussed but very important is modernizing federal policy to support the mature and urban-centered economy of the United States—rather than the economy it had when most of the terms of federal engagement were set. This article summarizes a RAND Corporation report which addresses recen…
Discussion of Three Papers on Planning Methods
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…1986Cited by: 2
Transportation for the Elderly: Changing Lifestyles, Changing Needs
Open AccessGraham D Rowles, Martin WachsARTICLEGeographical Review1982Cited by: 2
A Dozen Reasons For Gasoline Taxes
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLEPublic Works Management & Policy2003Cited by: 1
Motor fuel taxes at state and federal levels have traditionally been earmarked for transportation investments, supporting road construction, maintenance, operations, and increasing public transit. Recently, elected officials have been reluctant to raise fuel taxes despite increases in the cost of transportation programs. Other forms of support, especially borrowing and local sales taxes, are playing larger roles in transportation finance. Raising…
Management Vs. Political Perspectives on Transit Policymaking
Open AccessMartin WachsARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…1985Cited by: 1References: 1
Over a thirty year period the American transit industry has been transformed from private to public ownership, and financial support for transit has come to be domi nated by a political perspective rather than a management perspective Examples of the politicization of transit policy are drawn from four areas: (1) fare policies designed to encourage ridership use in low density suburbs while penalizing inner-city residents taking short trips, (2) …