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Friday, October 14, 2016
Photo by Eric Shen On October 5th, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) USC chapter held its first event of this Fall semester, featuring an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) application in the industry. Darryl DePencier, a professional urban planner at Kittelson & Associates, gave an up-close look at how to use Bluetooth technology in investigating travel time reliability. Attendees attended included students at both the graduate and undergraduate level and alums ...
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Friday, October 14, 2016
On September 23rd, 20 USC students led by two professors from the University of Southern California visited three transportation management centers: the Los Angeles Regional Transportation Management Center (LARTMC), Transportation Management Center at the City of Pasadena, and the Port of Long Beach Joint Command and Control Center. Photo by Eric Shen The first stop on the agenda was LARTMC, the Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) District 7 headquarters that also houses ...
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Friday, October 14, 2016
By Shichun Hu, MSISE 2017 When talking about transformers, what would you think of? Maybe the childhood must-see TV series? Or the movie series with stunning image quality and animations? Either way, one still sees them as a part of science fiction. Source: The Internet However, on April 1 st (yes, on April Fool’s Day), a Turkish Company named Letvision uploaded a video on Youtube to showcasing its product. In that video, you can see a BMW moving slowly toward the controller ...
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Janell Goddard Pictured: Janell Goddard (Biola University), Haichao (Nicole) Guo (USC MSCE ’17), and Biying Zhao (USC MPL ’16) The Intelligent Transportation Society of California recently held its Annual Conference on September 19-21 in Indian Wells, CA. Six students from the University of Southern California (USC) and Biola University had the pleasure of participating in the conference as volunteers, myself included. I assisted at the registration table ...
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Photo by Blake Wagner September 21, METRANS Transportation Center held its second Research Seminar for the Fall 2016 semester, featuring Peter Gordon, Emeritus Professor of the USC Price School of Public Policy, and John Cho, Associate Regional Planner from the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). SCAG was the joint sponsor of this seminar. The featured research focused on the “agglomeration” effects in cities by utilizing business location data, especially at ...
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Tour attendees posing after arrival at the Foothill Transit Arcadia Division. Photo by Foothill Transit and the USC Price Alumni Association. On September 17th, 20 USC students and 3 USC Price alumni attended METRANS’ second and final field trip of Fall 2016, a behind-the-scenes tour of the Operations and Maintenance Facility for Foothill Transit in Arcadia, CA. This field trip was a collaboration between METRANS, the USC Price Alumni Association, and Foothill Transit, the primary public ...
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Friday, September 30, 2016
METRANS Associate Director of Research Professor Petros Ioannou has recently released his research and development of complex real-time simulation models that could provide much more efficient routing decisions than currently made. His research project is titled “Optimum Routing of Freight in Urban Environments under Normal Operations and Disruptions using a Co-simulation Optimization Control Approach.” His full research report can be viewed through this link. The City of Los Angeles ...
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Friday, September 30, 2016
Lauren Deaderick, MPL 2018 University of Southern California Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer was recently awarded the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 2016 Margarita McCoy Award. As the ACSP writes on its website, the Margarita McCoy Award is presented biannually to “recognize individuals who have made an outstanding contribution toward the advancement of women in planning at institutions of higher education through service, teaching, and/or research.” ...
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Friday, September 30, 2016
University of Southern California Graduate Max Sherman—Urban Planning major at USC Price School of Public Policy—has just completed an internship with the Bringing Back Broadway initiative, and reported an “amazing” experience! (Photo by Max Sherman) Sherman found the internship through PriceNet, a popular resource for Price school students seeking internships and jobs. He made it through the stages leading up to an interview. He credits his use of his past experiences in Real Estate, ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016
Students beginning the excursion’s first guided tour on the forward deck of the USS Iowa , facing the six forward guns. Photo by Jimmy Mai, MSCE-Transportation Engineering 2017. Fifty USC students toured Navy ships as part of METRANS’ first field trip excursion of Fall 2016, boarding both the retired Battleship USS Iowa and the active USS America Museum during the annual LA Fleet Week event on the San Pedro waterfront on Saturday, September 3, 2016. The students first received ...
