News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
At the January 2018 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington DC, Dr. Laetitia Dablanc and co-authors Takanori Sakai (main author), Adrien Beziat and Adeline Heitz were recognized for their research paper, Testing the ‘Freight Landscape’ Concept for Paris . Dr. Dablanc described it as a “very collective paper and very MetroFreight in nature.” Takanori Sakai, Research Associate, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology; Adrien Beziat, ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 14, 2018
On January 8, 2018, METRANS hosted its annual dinner to welcome University of Southern California (USC) and California State University Long Beach (CSULB) attendees to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual conference in Washington, DC. The dinner gave participants the opportunity to discuss research updates and industry innovations, and gave METRANS the opportunity to thank them for their continued support of the center. “It’s always wonderful to keep connecting with METRANS ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Friday, January 12, 2018
The Fall 2017 Issue of METRANS News is now available. Click here for a PDF version. METRANS News is generally published three times a year and summarizes METRANS research, education and outreach activities. It highlights METRANS researchers, conferences and other events, recent publications, interviews with key individuals involved in METRANS, and other newsworthy activities and events. It is distributed to university transportation centers and faculty throughout the U.S., to federal, state, and local public agencies, and to the transportation industry. To be added to the mailing list for a hard copy of the newsletter or to receive an email announcement regarding each new issue, please contact [email protected] .
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 7, 2018
On October 28th, 2017, students and alumni from PSR universities USC, UCLA, and UC Irvine were given a private, behind-the-scenes guided tour of the facilities of Foothill Transit. Foothill Transit is the largest municipal transit operator in the San Gabriel Valley, with a fleet of about 330 buses, including 315 CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) buses and 15 fast-charge electric buses. I was one of the students in attendance. We began the day with a private Foothill bus trip from the USC main campus ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Happy New Year to all! Important legislation and policy changes related to transportation take effect this year at all levels of government. Here is an overview of the most important changes and what their impacts will likely be. At the federal level, as of this week, transportation funding commitments for 2018 are still being shaped by Congress. Although overall funding for the Department of Transportation is anticipated to experience a decline from its 2016-17 threshold, funding for air, ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, January 4, 2018
The December 2017 edition of the City of Paris' newsletter on urban logistics contains articles directly related to MetroFreight research topics. This quarterly publication by the Mobility Agency, Department of Roads and Mobility in Paris, can be viewed below. Urban Logstics in Paris PDF
METRANS UTC, PSR
Monday, January 1, 2018
On December 5, METRANS and USC Women in Management (WIM) hosted Susan Metros as part of a year-long professional development speaker series. Susan Metros is an expert in new and emerging educational technology, including multimedia, visual, and digital interactive technology. She is Associate Vice Provost and Associate Chief Information officer at USC, and holds professorships at the USC Rossier School of Education and USC Roski School of Fine Art. In her presentation titled “From Wet ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
On December 6th, 2017, the Pacific Southwest Region 9 University Transportation Center (PSR) sponsored students from member universities California State University Long Beach (CSULB), the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to attend the Intelligent Transportation Society of California (ITS California) Southern California Workshop, "Harnessing Big Data & Analytics to Improve Transportation." I was one of these fortunate students. ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Meet Yoko Igawa, MPA '09, Public Affairs Manager at Foothill Transit, who credits her experience at the Price School with teaching her how to "swing to find her swing." Q: What was your most inspirational moment as a Price student? A: It's impossible for me to identify just one moment. It's easier for me to describe how having been a Price student has made a lasting impact on the guiding values that continue to inspire my career goals. I had such amazing professors and equally ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, December 17, 2017
As massive tunnel-boring machines dig the Regional Connector, a new subway link underneath downtown Los Angeles, a "job walk" hosted by the USC AEC Construction Alumni Group toured one of the future station sites. On Tuesday, December 5th, some fellow UCLA urban planning students and I journeyed to the offices of Regional Connector Constructors, a joint venture of Skanska and Traylor Brothers, and met up with a group of USC construction management students and alumni for the tour. I donned a ...
