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Saturday, March 12, 2016
On February 19, 2016, METRANS Transportation Center co-sponsored a special student-professional event with the University of Southern California chapters of the American Planning Association and Institute of Transportation Engineers. The event featured a panel of professionals from WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff working on the California High-Speed Rail project: Kevin Alvarado, Communications and Public Involvement Specialist for the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s Rail Delivery Partner ...
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Friday, March 11, 2016
On Friday, March 4th, METRANS held a Spring Lunch with a Practitioner Seminar event with Steven Mateer, Transportation Planning Manager at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro, or Metro). Mateer met with students over lunch to discuss his role and current projects at Metro. He also shared encouraging and practical advice to students with interests in the planning field. Mateer began with an overview of many of Metro’s current projects. He described the Expo Light ...
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Friday, March 4, 2016
On Wednesday, March 2, METRANS Director Genevieve Giuliano and USC Price Ph.D. candidate Eun Jin Shin, presented their research “Is Los Angeles Becoming Transit Oriented?” on the USC Main Campus to an audience of students, faculty, and practitioners. Along with colleague Jenny Scheutz, Giuliano and Shin examined the impact of building rail transit infrastructure on the development of high density, mixed-use housing and commercial activity that is walking distance from stations, and specifically ...
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Friday, March 4, 2016
Meet Yurida Ramos, METRANS Transportation Center’s newest student team member. Yurida is responsible for coordinating 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 is currently focusing on the upcoming Boots on the Ground, Flats in the Boardroom panel presentation to be held at the USC Doheny Memorial Library on Wednesday, March 23 rd , 2016, and the Council ...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
I sat down and had a chat with University of Southern California second year Master of Planning student Germano Johansson Neto, who established a nonprofit called coURB, the Institute for Collaborative Urbanism, in May 2015. The organization, made up of a group of young professionals from Latin America studying in graduate institutions across the United States, aims to improve the quality of life in urban environments. Prior to his graduate studies, Germano earned Bachelor’s degree ...
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Friday, February 26, 2016
Photo Credit: Faiyang Zhang, USC MPL 2016 METRANS researcher, assistant professor and the John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair of Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in USC, Ketan Savla, has recently completed his METRANS research project: ``A Dynamical Framework for Integrated Corridor Management”. In this project, Savla developed a framework for dynamical analysis and control synthesis for integrated corridors. The key components of this research ...
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Friday, February 26, 2016
On Tuesday, February 23m METRANS Transportation Center and Urban Growth Seminar co-sponsored Research Seminar “Urban Design and Street Typology, Do They Matter?“ presented by Dr. Billy Riggs, Professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Consultant at Sustinere Consulting. Riggs shared the results of a study he conducted of the impact of two-way streets on accidents, property values, economic growth, and crime along these streets. In order to understand the impact that two-way streets may ...
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Friday, February 26, 2016
Shichun Hu, MSISE, Spring2016 Photo Credit: Shichun Hu, USC MSISE, Spring 2016 On February 24, 2016, HEC Montréal professor Jean-François Cordeau presented his research, the Benders Decomposition for Production Routing Under Demand Uncertainty on the USC campus. Cordeau first introduced the background of production routing problems and followed with his research on how to use benders decomposition approach to solve the stochastic positive realization problem (PRP) ...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Advisory Board Member and dear friend to METRANS, Domenick Louis Miretti, passed away on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, after a brief and brave battle with cancer. He was 83 years old at the time of his passing. Domenick was born September 12, 1932 in Rancho Palos Verdes, and he later lived in Chino, El Segundo, and in Harbor City where he settled with his family. Domenick was a founding member of the METRANS Advisory Board and one of METRANS strongest supporters. He was a stalwart proponent ...
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Friday, February 19, 2016
By Katie Jagodka, USC BA/BS 2016 Photo: Fred Chang Recently graduated with a B.S. in Policy, Planning and Development from the Price School, University of Southern California in December 2015, Fred Chang now spends his days as a Transportation Planner at Iteris, Inc. in downtown Los Angeles. On an average week, Chang divides his time between four to five different transportation projects. One of the major projects on which he is currently working is the Alameda County ...
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