News & Announcements
METRANS UTC
Thursday, May 11, 2017
The Spring 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
Saturday, May 6, 2017
On April 5th, USC Price School of Public Policy students had the opportunity to hear from a veteran and shaker in the field of public transportation, John Fasana. Fasana currently serves as the Mayor of Duarte, a city of 21,000 in the San Gabriel Valley, and also as Chairman of the Board for the LA County Metro. He first arrived at Metro back in the 1990s under a heavily conservative County government—much different than the County we have today. Over time, he has seen many changes at Metro, ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Saturday, May 6, 2017
METRANS is proud to congratulate USC Price PhD in Urban Planning and Development, 2015, Sandip Chakrabarti, on joining the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad this fall as Assistant Professor in the Public Systems Group. Currently he is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans. He teaches courses in transportation planning, social policy and environmental justice. Chakrabarti received a Bachelor's in Architecture ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, May 6, 2017
On April 13th, the 10th Annual UCLA Downtown Los Angeles Forum was held at the California Endowment Center, focusing on practical limitations and concerns of connected and automated vehicle technology. The forum was composed of four sections addressing the difficult choices and possible strategies that public policy makers interacting with private industry will have to make. Ten different speakers from both the public and private sectors presented a mix of practice and research, and the audience ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Two public webinars were convened to gather information from stakeholders and the community on the expected impacts of freight, and possible mitigation strategies. The webinars were titled Addressing Congestion & Delays Caused by Freight and were streamed live from the University of Southern California (USC) on two separate occasions: May 23, 2017 and May 30, 2017. The webinar presenters included Jose Marquez-Chavez, Senior Transportation Planner, Caltrans Office of Freight ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, April 30, 2017
METRANS researchers convened Southern California-based regional and city planners for the Metropolitan Transportation Management Certificate pilot course, a class conducted over four consecutive Fridays in February and March which addressed multi-modal transportation conflicts in urban areas. Participants in this course included employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) and Caltrans, as well as representatives from the office of Los Angeles City Council ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, April 30, 2017
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, METRANS showcased the research of two USC PhD candidates in Urban Planning and Development as part of the METRANS Research Seminar Series. Sanggyun Kang presented his research, “Warehouse Location Choice: A case study in Los Angeles, CA,” an evaluation of the changes in warehouse location choice factors. Eun Jin Shin’s research, “Disparities in Access to Opportunities across neighborhood Types: Evidence from the Los Angeles Region,” focused ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Shichun Hu, MSISE 2017 Welcome back to What’s Cool in Transportation! Previously, we discussed the history, the status, and the core battery techniques of electric vehicles (EVs). And today we will finish this series about EVs. What will this piece be about? You may reasonably guess it will be on the future of EV, or perhaps the differences between different EVs (hybrid, plug-in charge, etc.). But our last column won’t be on any of these topics. I don’t know for ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Saturday, April 22, 2017
In my previous column, I interviewed Jessica Meany, a woman who is working to change the transportation field in Los Angeles by making transit accessible to people of all incomes, ages, and cultures. Cyclists ride along the main streets during CicLAvia, Photo by Arpita Sharma This week, I explore how diversity might be changing the way we think about cycling. To most of us, diversity represents the inclusion of a variety of people from different cultural or racial backgrounds, but ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Saturday, April 22, 2017
METRANS is proud to introduce its newly awarded and funded research center, the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR UTC), led by the University of Southern California (USC), funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. PSR will lead a region covering California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific Island territories, and includes the following partners: California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) University of California, Davis (UC Davis) University ...
