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METRANS UTC
Monday, June 29, 2015
Two workshops show teens how to bring about change and plan for college By Matthew Kredell Two students discuss the field of urban planning. (Photo/Deirdre Flanagan) Master of Planning students at the USC Price School of Public Policy introduced 80 high school sophomores from the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to the possibilities of urban planning with two workshops at the University Park Campus. It’s one of two ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, June 29, 2015
Metro pilot project will put more than 1,000 rental bicycles around downtown Los Angeles By David Medzerian The bike-sharing program will put nearly 1,100 bikes throughout downtown Los Angeles. (Photo/Bill Alkofer, The Orange County Register) USC students, staff and faculty will have a new transportation option — shared bikes — starting in the spring. The bike-sharing program is a pilot project of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The project ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, June 26, 2015
Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Theo Notteboom have co-authored The Legacy and Future of the Panama Canal: From Point of Transit to Transshipment Hub, a featured article in TR NEWS published by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies . In 2014, the Panama Canal celebrated its centennial – spotlighting its legacy as a gateway of international trade but also raising questions about its future in an increasingly integrated global economy. The authors explore the transformations ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, June 22, 2015
Weary of long commutes on congested freeways? Two USC Viterbi researchers may have a solution. Ugur Demiryurek loves a challenge. While most researchers are frustrated by seemingly unsolvable situations, Demiryurek works against the grain. “As a researcher, problems are more important for me than the solutions. When someone brings me a difficult problem, I definitely like the problem more than the solution, and the rest follows,” he said. In 2006, Demiryurek began his Ph.D. ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, June 22, 2015
Students from Professor Eric Shen’s class visited a Ralph’s Distribution Center. (Photo by Eric Shen) Master of Planning students at the USC Price School of Public Policy went beyond the classroom to apply their skills and knowledge in a varied array of real-world experiences this school year. Planning studios are an integral part of the curriculum, connecting academic education and preparation for professional practice. Recent studios involved students analyzing the best reuse ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Thursday, June 4, 2015
IFSTTAR and the City of Paris are both involved in the CITYLAB European project consortium addressing the challenge of the Horizon 2020 program on “Smart, green and integrated transport,” topic MG5.2.2014, “Reducing impacts and costs of freight and service trips in urban areas.” The project is coordinated by the Institute of Transport Economics (TOI), Norway over a 3 year period, from May 2015 until April 2018. The kick-off meeting took place on Thursday, May 21, ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Professor, Department of Global Studies & Geography, Hofstra University will teach a 35 hour graduate course titled “Hinterland Transport and Logistics” at the Chongqing University in Chongqing, China. The course will focus on the inland dimension of port and maritime activities. The growth of maritime shipping is placing pressures on ports to improve the capacity and reliability of hinterland services. Infrastructure investments such as the development ...
METRANS UTC
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Please join us in congratulating METRANS USC Price Transportation PhD student, Sandip Chakrabarti, on the successful defense of his dissertation, “The demand for reliable travel: Evidence from Los Angeles, and implications for transit policy.” Chakrabarti wrote a multi-essay dissertation on travel reliability and its influence on transit demand. His work makes a major contribution to our understanding of travel behavior. In addition to a critical review of the literature ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
A VREF Study Visit Grant has been awarded to Takanori Sakai on behalf of the MetroFreight Center of Excellence (CoE). Mr. Sakai is a PhD student in Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, working with Kazuya Kawamura. He requested the grant to work with Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR), on logistics sprawl. The study visit is for a one month period of time and Dr. Dablanc ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Urban Freight: Planning for tomorrow and delivering today. A two day conference was held in Gothenburg, Sweden on March 5 – 6, 2015 that focused on the following themes: 1) The importance of urban freight in long term land use and city planning and urban design; and, 2) How to engage with all the relevant stakeholders and encourage changes in behavior (in the short, medium and longer term). MetroFreight Partners presented urban freight research at the conference as listed below. Using proxies to describe the metropolitan freight landscape Genevieve Giuliano, VREF CoE MetroFreight University of Southern California The place of freight in the Paris region's three master plans (transport, land use and energy) Laetitia Dablanc, IFSTTAR
