News & Announcements
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
METRANS Associate Director of Research Petros Ioannou was awarded the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transportation Technologies Award in June. IEEE awarded Ioannou for his “contributions to the design, analysis, and implementation of adaptive cruise-control systems.” For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards Program has paid tribute to technical professionals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and the engineering profession.
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
By Mike Reicher , Los Angeles Daily News In this Saturday, May 16, 2015 photo, a Metro Expo Line train travels as traffic builds up on the 110 freeway in Los Angeles. Until the rise of the automobile, the city offered an extensive network of streetcars. The current rail renaissance is possible because planners preserved old rights of way, allowing them to build new lines where old tracks had been ripped out or buried under concrete decades ago. AP Photo — Jae C. Hong ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
On Thursday, July 9 th , Mr. Roger A. Johnson, the Deputy Executive Director of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), was invited by WTS-LA Chapter to join transportation professionals, practitioners, policy makers, and students to talk about the multi-billion dollar capital improvement program underway at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Thanks to the generous sponsorship of AECOM, Emilie Gino, James Moore, and Alexandra Spencer, eight USC undergraduate and graduate students from ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
From Price staff reports Price MPL students with board members from the American Planning Association’s Los Angeles chapter (Photo courtesy of APA Los Angeles (Photo/Bill Alkofer, The Orange County Register) The Associated Students of Planning and Development (ASPD) at the USC Price School of Public Policy received the Academic Award of Merit from the American Planning Association’s Los Angeles chapter. The award recognizes the student organization’s innovative ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
MetroFreight Director Genevieve Giuliano presented her research on freight landscape as a transportation and land use topic of interest at the 9th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference at Chongqing University in Chongqing, China from June 19-21, 2015. The theme for the event was “New Urbanization: Smart Growth and Sustainable Development.” “Cities are growing exponentially in China and this presents a wide range of transportation planning challenges,” ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
National and International Awards and Distinctions USC MPL student Emily Finkel was selected to participate in the 23rd Annual Eno Future Leaders Development Conference held in Washington, D.C. on May 30, 2015 to June 4, 2015. USC PhD students Sandip Chakrabarti, Andy Hong, Yuting Hou, Mohja Rhoads, Eun Jin Shin, Xize Wang , and Quan Yuan were selected to present their research at the 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Conference, ...
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Monday, July 13, 2015
On Thursday, June 25th, FuturePorts held its annual conference "Strong Ports=Strong California: Unbundling Challenges and Targeting Opportunity" at the Hyatt Regency in Long Beach, CA. Six Master of Planning students from USC Price School of Public Policy assisted as conference volunteers, and enjoyed both the panels and the valuable networking opportunity. “I enjoyed celebrating FuturePorts’ 10th Anniversary with people from across the region”, said Yanlin Zhou, a 2 nd ...
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Friday, July 10, 2015
Lisa Schweitzer is Associate Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy ( http://priceschool.usc.edu/lisa-schwe... ). She specializes in urban studies, and, in particular, analyses of social justice, environment and transport. Her work has appeared in multiple popular and scholarly outlets, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. She maintains a blog about sustainable urbanism at www.lisaschweitzer.com . View her latest video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=masWsqmr_UQ&feature=youtu.be
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
AFILOG ( www.afilog.org ), one of the main French logistics providers’ organizations, has teamed up with the MetroFreight Paris team to set up a research project on urban planning issues related to the accommodation of logistics facilities in dense urban centers. The project will last from fall 2015 to the end of June 2016. It will involve a Master’s thesis on the issue, supervised by Laetitia Dablanc.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Paris&Co, the Paris economic development agency, has launched a program to promote innovative experiments in sustainable urban logistics. Thirty-two proposals were submitted in June 2015. Evaluations took place during a two-day audition on June 24-25 in which Laetitia Dablanc (MetroFreight Paris) participated as a member of the jury. Final decisions will be announced at the end of July 2015. Experiments proposed range from the use of a barge for urban freight transportation on the Seine River to accommodation of urban logistics spaces in commercial and office buildings in dense Paris neighborhoods. Both large companies as well as start-ups participated. The description of the program can be found at: http://expe.parisregionlab.com/projet/181
