News & Announcements
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
On Wednesday, April 5th, USC students had the opportunity meet over lunch with Michael Lin, Research Analyst in Regional Economics Research at the Milken Institute, as part of the Spring METRANS Lunch with a Practitioner Seminar Series. Photo Credit: Shichun Hu, USC MSISE 2017 Lin has extensive knowledge of human capital as well as community, urban, and regional planning and development. His organization, the Milken Institute, is a nonprofit nonpartisan think tank that uses independent, data-driven ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Podcasts have become a regular component of METRANS' media offerings, but have primarily included the voices and insights of practitioners, professors, and researchers. As an effort to incorporate a more diverse selection of viewpoints, METRANS students explain METRANS transportation research in their own words. Three shows have been produced so far, with the intention of becoming a regular feature on the METRANS website as time goes on. The first podcast featured 2015 METRANS Student ...
METRANS UTC, NCST
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Request for Proposals for Research Projects 4 METRANS Tier 1 UTC National Center for Sustainable Transportation FY 2015 - 2016 RFP Issued: March 11, 2016 Proposals Due: April 15, 2016
METRANS UTC
Friday, April 1, 2016
METRANS Transportation Center joined California State University, Long Beach’s College of Continuing and Professional Education and Center for International Trade and Transportation co-hosted the 2016 CITT State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall Meeting, Partners in Innovation, on Wednesday March 30, 2016 at the CSULB Gerald Daniel Recital Hall. The event began with a reception, followed by a town hall-style meeting. The main purpose of the event was to discuss how new ...
METRANS UTC
Thursday, March 31, 2016
We are pleased to welcome Kaitlyn Kenan Zhang, METRANS Transportation Center’s newest student team member. Kaitlyn joins us as our Assistant Editor, and will work closely with Arpita Sharma to create the weekly METRANS student newsletters and other Center news. Kaitlyn Zhang is a first year Master of Public Policy (MPP) student with a specialization in transportation policy and planning. She is also working toward a certificate in Transportation Systems from the Viterbi School of Engineering. ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Sixteen students from USC and CSULB visited the Los Angeles Regional Transportation Management Center (LARTMC) on March 25 th for a field trip organized by METRANS Transportation Center. By interacting with Caltrans staff and touring the state-of-the-art facilities, students were able to gain valuable insights while learning in detail about the duties and daily operations of the LARTMC. Photo by Lynn Feng, USC MPL 2016 The two-hour tour began with an overview of Caltrans District ...
METRANS UTC
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Photo taken by Oscar Monge, USC MPL 2017 Boots on the Ground – Flats in the Boardroom was hosted at the University of Southern California’s Doheny Memorial Library on Wednesday evening, March 23, 2016. The event was co-sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of WTS (Women’s Transportation Seminar), an international organization dedicated to building the future of transportation through the global advancement of women. I had the pleasure to volunteer, attend, and network, ...
METRANS UTC
Thursday, March 24, 2016
We are pleased to welcome Daisy Villafuerte, METRANS Transportation Center’s newest student team member. Daisy joins us as our Assistant Event Coordinator, and will work closely with Yurida Ramos to host METRANS events, including our research seminars, our practitioner speaker series, our conferences, and field trips, as well as our staff, board, and committee meetings. She will be helping coordinate the Council of University Transportation Centers annual meeting to be held at USC Town and ...
METRANS UTC
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Thanks to generous sponsorships by Jacobs, AECOM, METRANS, METRANS Assistant Director Victoria Deguzman, Emilie Gino, and Alexandra Spencer, on Friday, March 18 th , eighteen transportation students from USC and CSULB attended the WTS-Los Angeles Members Only Professional Development Breakfast Meeting featuring Joshua Schank, Chief Innovation Officer at METRO and former President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation. Joshua Schank holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University, ...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016
On Wednesday, March 9 th , METRANS welcomed a special guest, Professor Paige Zhuang, to deliver a speech on her research “Regional Governance of a Port in China,” to students, faculty, and practitioners at the University of Southern California. This presentation is part of the METRANS research seminar series, an ongoing series of presentations designed to share cutting edge transportation research with interested parties throughout the industry. All seminars are offered free of charge ...
