UCI receives grant to study traffic, pollution remedies

A research team at UCI’s Institute of Transportation Studies has received a grant to study commercial traffic around the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports in hopes of finding ways to ease traffic and pollution.

The University of California Transportation Center, funded by the California and U.S. departments of transportation, is expected to provide the UCI study team with $220,000 during the next two years. Six faculty experts will examine traffic patterns on the 110 and 710 freeways and the Alameda Corridor, a rail-cargo expressway between the ports and city of Los Angeles.

“We hope our study will generate new insights that will be helpful in mitigating the environmental and health impacts of freight corridor operations at the ports,” Institute of Transportation Studies Director Stephen G. Ritchie, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCI, said in a news release.

— Michael Miller