News & Announcements
METRANS UTC
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
METRANS Transportation Center is proud to announce that USC undergraduate students Thomas Check, Viterbi School of Engineering (VSoE); Edward Loera, Price School of Public Policy (Price); and Danielle Thomas, VSoE; were on the winning team in the Request for Proposal competition at the highly selective California Transportation Foundation Education Symposium held October 15 th and 16 th , 2015 at the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center. Price and VSoE faculty nominated these students to attend ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
METRANS is dedicated to solving urban freight challenges. One way to help achieve this goal is through development of innovative courses based on the latest and best research. A pioneering pilot class was successfully offered online in Spring of 2015. It was taught by Alison Conway, a civil engineer with expertise in freight policy and logistics. Alison is an Assistant Professor in the Grove School of Engineering at City College of New York. She recently joined TransCast host Mat Kaplan for a conversation about this groundbreaking course. Listen to the TransCast here .
METRANS UTC
Thursday, October 8, 2015
We are pleased to announce that METRANS Associate Director of Research Petros Ioannou, METRANS Associate Director of Special Programs Maged Dessouky, and METRANS Director Genevieve Giuliano have received an $800k research award under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Cyber-Physical Systems program, entitled, Cyber Physical Regional Freight Transportation System . The purpose of the research is to use optimization and control techniques, together with real-time simulation models, ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Monday, October 5, 2015
By Arpita Sharma , MPP/MPL 2017 Six PhD students from the University of Southern California will present their transportation research at the METRANS International Urban Freight Conference (I-NUF) to be held October 21 to 23, 2015 at the Westin Long Beach Hotel. Established in 2006, The I-NUF Conference provides a forum for multidisciplinary research on all aspects of urban freight. The Conference raises the visibility of and is recognized as the premier venue for urban freight ...
METRANS UTC, NCST
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
METRANS launched its first Research Seminar Series event at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, September 16th from 12:00 pm to 1:30pm titled, “The Future of Travel Demand” with Susan Handy, Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation and Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. The event was jointly sponsored by the National Center for Sustainable Transportation. Dr. Handy has expertise ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, September 14, 2015
By Arpita Sharma , MPP/MPL 2017 James Moore, METRANS Researcher and Vice Dean for Academic Programs at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, will receive the Secretary Ray LaHood Award from the WTS Los Angeles Area Chapter Board of Directors at their Annual Scholarship & Awards Dinner on Thursday, November 5th, 2015. This award, newly launched this year, is named for former USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood, and is given to men who have been key to ...
METRANS UTC
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
At the September 3, 2015 meeting of the California Trucking Association, Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero called for an audit of the San Pedro Bay Ports' off-peak hours program known as PierPass. In doing so, he credited the work of METRANS Director Genevieve Giuliano and Associate Director Thomas O'Brien who studied the program for a 2008 METRANS study. Click here to revisit that report.
METRANS UTC
Friday, September 4, 2015
By Arpita Sharma , MPP/MPL 2017 A new study on traffic lights was released on June 15, 2015. The study, conducted by Dr. Petros Ioannou, METRANS Associate Director of Research and Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, and funded by METRANS and USDOT, concludes that overall delay for all vehicles and pollution can be reduced by giving priority to trucks at traffic lights. In the study, Ioannou developed a traffic light ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, August 31, 2015
From August 11th to 13th, METRANS researchers presented their transportation research as part of the four-day Advanced Urban Planning Transportation Policy and Road Infrastructure in the United States conference for ten high level officials from China’s Road Administration held at the University of Southern California and hosted by the USC Price International Public Policy and Management program. Participants included the Vice Section Chief of Programming and nine Deputy Directors of the Road ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, August 24, 2015
An Archived Data Management System (ADMS) webpage has been created to share current research generated from this collaborative transportation project. To read more, click here .
