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METRANS UTC
Friday, February 19, 2016
By Vince Wenhao Zhang, USC MPL 2016 Photo: TRB Annual Meeting Panel. Photo Credit: Eric Shen at shenphotography.org The Transportation Research Board (TRB) held its 95th Annual Meeting from January 10–14, 2016 in Washington D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Over 12,000 professionals in the field of transportation from around the globe were attracted to attend this annual event. During the meeting, more than 5,000 presentations were given in nearly 800 ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, February 19, 2016
Mingyang Hao, USC MSCE 2016 Photo: John Lower sharing his powerpoint with students. Photo Credit: Ganqing Du, MPL 2017 Iteris Associate Vice President John Lower kicked off the METRANS Spring 2016 Lunch with A Practitioner Series with a screening of “IF YOU DON'T COUNT IT, IT DOESN'T COUNT,” a newly created presentation of transportation systems and traffic sensors at ITERIS, followed by a lively discussion of applications of this technology as we move toward ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, February 12, 2016
Photo: Tom O'Brien In December 2015, Thomas O’Brien, METRANS Associate Director of CSULB Programs, concluded work on two METRANS research projects, funded by Caltrans and USDOT. The first study, Changing Workforce Development Needs for Regional Transit and Transportation Agencies in California , investigates the effect that SB 375 has had on the workforce needs and constraints of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in the state. Through an intensive series of interviews ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, February 12, 2016
Photo: Axel Hellman Please join us in welcoming METRANS Student Worker Axel Hellman to the METRANS student assistant team. Axel started working with METRANS this month, and will specialize in writing, editing, and research review. Axel Hellman is a progressive degree student at the University of Southern California, in the last semester of his senior year of his undergraduate degree, and in his second semester as a graduate student pursuing a Master’s degree in planning. Hellman ...
METRANS UTC
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Photo Credit: Ganqing Du METRANS kicked off the Spring 2016 Research Seminar series with “Analysis and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Traffic Congestion,” a presentation by Dr. Ugur Demiryurek , associate director of Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at USC, Viterbi. Demiryurek conducted the research with his colleague Cyrus Shahabi and doctoral student, Dingxiong Deng. In their research, Demiyurek et al. investigate machine learning techniques, to model and predict future ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
We are pleased to release our Spring Lunch with a Practitioner Series lineup. The Lunch with Practitioner series was launched in Spring 2015 with the goal of providing a forum for students to meet and learn from practitioners throughout the transportation industry, from recent graduates through senior professionals, from planning and engineering, and from both the the public and private sectors. Our past events have featured speakers with backgrounds in construction management, urban ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, February 5, 2016
Photo Credit: Feiyang Zhang, MPL 2016 METRANS research project 1.1-b entitled, “The Freight Landscape: Using Secondary Data Sources to Describe Metropolitan Freight Flows” was published in December 2015. Genevieve Giuliano, Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government and Director of METRANS Transportation Center, led and conducted the research along with USC doctoral students Nathan Hutson, Sanggyun Kang, and Quan Yuan. In their research, the team developed ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
IFFSTAR hosted the first MetroFreight Urban Freight Training Seminar in Paris in December 2015. The two-day interactive workshop brought regional and municipal-level transportation planners from across France together to learn about legislative changes impacting the work of the planning agency, the results of the recently completed Paris Freight Survey and to discuss Best Practices. The trainees worked in teams to address urban logistics challenges and presented their findings to leading industry experts. The format proved popular with the trainees who welcomed the opportunity to work with peers from other regions and to learn from practitioners. The training will be repeated in 2016 and will include not only transport professionals, but city planners and representatives from economic development and commerce departments as well. Below are some photos from the training seminar.
METRANS UTC
Friday, January 29, 2016
Photo: Students at Cal State Long Beach during METRANS Research Seminar By Arpita Sharma, MPP/MPL 2017 California State University, Long Beach hosted three METRANS Research Seminars to engage students in discussions about transportation issues this fall. Two of the research seminars focused on tracking truck movements in and out of the marine terminal and better technology to get information on how long it takes trucks to get through the ports. The last seminar focused on ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
We are pleased to announce our upcoming METRANS Research Seminar Series. The line up includes experts from the fields of engineering, city and regional planning, architecture, and economics. Link to Spring 2016 Schedule. The first research seminar, titled, “Analysis and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Impact,” will take place on Wednesday, February 10th in RGL 101. The lecture will be jointly presented by Cyrus Shahabi, Director, Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and Associate Director, IMSC, and Ugur Demiryurek Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Eng. at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. For more information about this seminar, click here.
