News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, PSR
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Two METRANS researchers recently partnered with the City of Long Beach to win a National Science Foundation (NSF) planning grant to research, develop, and pilot a community-informed digital rights platform that can serve as a national model for acknowledging data privacy as a human right.
The grant provides $147,370 for a full fiscal year beginning in July 2023. Dr. Gwen Shaffer, who will serve as the project PI, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Image courtesy of Lisa Kay Schweyer
METRANS researchers highlighted the dynamic industry and community partnerships university transportation centers (UTCs) bring to their regional communities at the Fourth Annual National Mobility Summit of USDOT Centers sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University. The March Summit, held in Washington DC had as its theme “UTC Innovations and Impacts: Advancing Mobility for All.” Dr. Genevieve Giuliano discussed the role ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The University of Southern California (USC) is launching a unique, high-visibility postdoctoral fellowship program as part of Assignment: Earth , the USC campus-wide sustainability framework. The program aims to accelerate sustainability research; train future leaders in academia, government and non-governmental organizations, and industry; and support discovery, evaluation, and implementation of innovative solutions to sustainability problems.
The Postdoctoral ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, October 30, 2020
This year’s METRANS Industry Outlook featured perspectives from leaders in transit, port, and aviation regarding their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual METRANS event was held virtually for the first time this year, which increased audience participation to include more global participants in addition to the traditional concentrations of Southern California participants.
Panelists for the October 1, 2020 Industry Outlook event were Michael Christensen , ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, July 31, 2020
For many, the world as they know it has come to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses have shuttered, schools have moved to remote learning, and stay at home orders are in place across the country. Millions of people have lost their jobs or been furloughed, and millions more have migrated to working from home in an effort to “flatten the curve.” Yet essential pillars of the economy such as food delivery and emergency services march on. Maintaining ...
METRANS UTC
Thursday, July 30, 2020
METRANS is thrilled to announce HDR as its newest METRANS Associate Partner. For over the past hundred years, HDR has provide d engineering innovation , environmental progress and foundation-building construction services throughout the United States and worldwide. Its multidisciplinary international teams address challenges in transportation, ...
METRANS UTC
Thursday, July 30, 2020
University o f Southern California P rofessor of Practice and former Director of the Port of Los Angeles , Dr. Geraldine K natz , in collaboration with Dr. Mary Brooks and a team of international transportation policy expert s , recently published a PortReport on “Transparency in G overnance: S eaport P ractices . ” This ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, April 24, 2020
When METRANS Director Genevieve Giuliano was organizing the agenda for the METRANS Advisory Board meeting to be held virtually in early April, she wanted to focus on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on global goods movement. She immediately thought of Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue.
"Professor Rodrigue is one of the world’s experts in international trade. He has researched just about every aspect of trade, including the potential ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, April 10, 2020
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic is having unprecedented and unanticipated impacts on international trade and supply chains. The presentation tries to articulate the complex ramifications a pandemic can have on supply chains. It first looks at the role of transportation as a diffusion vector during a pandemic. Then, the continuity of supply chains is discussed. It is argued that a pandemic initially creates a supply chain shock as key manufacturing sectors may experience a drop in production ...
METRANS UTC
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Reaghan Murphy is a first-year Master of Urban Planning student at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at University of Southern California (USC) who has joined METRANS as a Student Director of the METRANS Mentor Program.
Murphy was born in New York and grew up just outside of Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from the University of South Carolina (UofSC) Honors College in Columbia, SC, with a B.A. in Global Studies, a B.S. in Geography, and minors in Environmental Studies and Spanish. She remembers ...
