News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, February 11, 2018
From January 19 to January 21, 2018, students representing the USC Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers attended the 5th annual 2018 ITE Western Leadership Summit at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR. The summit gave students from universities from across the western district the opportunity to collaborate, meet leading professionals in the field, and further develop their leadership skills. The USC representatives represented both engineers and planners. The group included ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, February 11, 2018
On January 24, 2018, the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Irvine (ITS-Irvine) with co-sponsor the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center hosted “Graduate Colloquium on Redefining Mobility.” The nearly 80 attendees, who included faculty, practitioners, and students from UC Irvine, UCLA, and USC, gained knowledge on the current issues and future demands on mobility. The event began with a keynote presentation by Randy Iwasaki, Executive Director at Contra ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Designing urban space and managing flows – the importance of freight for liveable cities 17-19 October 2018, Gothenburg Sweden The Urban Freight Platform invites you to submit abstracts to the 3 rd VREF Conference on Urban Freight . The conference will present current issues influencing urban freight research and discuss the complexity of designing urban space and managing flows for liveable cities. Key Dates 31st March - Abstract submission 1st May - Notifciation of ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, February 4, 2018
“If you want to hear God laugh, make a plan!” In the summer of 1981, after obtaining his B.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Urban Planning from Northwestern University, Professor Moore—a Midwestern native—recounts how he was driving across the Bay Bridge toward Stanford, certain that he would never return to the unbearable cold of the Midwest. Well, he was wrong. Ironically enough, after he completed his Stanford Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, the best school that offered Professor ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, February 4, 2018
On January 17 th , 2018, Shawn A. Chavira, Associate Director of Transit Operations at USC joined the PSR METRANS Lunch with a Practitioner series and shared his insights with an audience of students, academics, and professionals. I was part of that audience. Mr. Chavira is a transportation professional with greater more than 12 years of experience in transportation contracting management, and in 2013, was named one of the “Top 40 under 40 Transportation employees in the nation” by ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Time to Celebrate! The New Year is a landmark for METRANS as 2018 marks 20 years since its creation. The METRANS Transportation Center was established in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) as the first University Transportation Center in Southern California. Much has changed over the last 20 years but the METRANS partnership of the University of Southern California (USC) and California State University Long Beach (CSULB) has remained strong and ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 28, 2018
METRANS held the 7th International Urban Freight Conference (I-NUF) from October 18-20, 2017 in Long Beach, California. The conference featured scholars and industry professionals from 18 countries presenting research on a broad range of topics, including effects of the growth of e-commerce, transformational technology, and other influences on urban freight movement. Break-out sessions and presentations were organized into seven tracks: local and last-mile pickup and delivery; trade nodes and ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 28, 2018
On January 9, 2018, the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies hosted their 25th annual reception at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB). The reception, held at Busboys and Poets, gave faculty, alumni, students, and friends of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs the chance to convene after the third day of conference sessions. Over the course of TRB, UCLA was represented in seven lectern sessions and two poster presentations ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 21, 2018
On January 9th, 2018, the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Irvine (ITS-Irvine) hosted a reception to welcome students, alumni, faculty, and professionals who were attending the 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in Washington, DC. ITS-Irvine was pleased to greet more than 70 attendees - 23 from ITS-Irvine and more than 47 from other transportation institutions at the reception held at Matchbox Chinatown, Washington DC. The gathering was so large that we needed ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, January 18, 2018
This CBC documentary led by Ira Basen addresses the behind-the-scenes issues that online shopping causes in the delivery of goods to meet consumers’ rising demands for near instant receipt of their purchases. It includes insight from Alison Conway, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the City College of New York, on the need for educating transportation and land use planners on the expected impacts of package deliveries on goods movement activity in urban and suburban settings. As we strive to design more livable communities and take measures to add accommodations for walking and bicycling, street and curb space are reduced for truck deliveries, creating unintended and multifaceted consequences. The importance of input from logistics experts is beginning to be recognized in the decision making process with planners, developers, law enforcement professionals and policy makers. Listen to this fascinating documentary on e-commerce.
