News & Announcements
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Monday, April 13, 2015
by Tyler Reeb, California State University, Long Beach Since graduating in 2003 with his Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from USC’s Price School of Public Policy, Sandipan Bhattacharjee has launched his own transportation-consulting firm while also keeping close ties with his alma mater as an adjunct faculty member. Bhattacharjee describes his consulting firm, Translutions, Inc., as “a solutions oriented transportation planning and traffic engineering company.” ...
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Monday, April 13, 2015
By Mark Guanchao Huang, USC Viterbi MSCE Transportation, 2016 On April 1st, Arup Senior Engineer Genaro Mejia shared both his experience and his project, The California High Speed Rail, with students on USC main campus as the final guest of the Lunch with Practitioner Series for the 2015 spring semester. Mejia’s firm, Arup, has partnered with Hatch Mott Macdonald (HMM) and URS to develop design drawings to certify the Environment Impact Report/ Environmental Impact Statement ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
The third METRANS UTC RFP was issued on March 24, 2015. Proposals are due April 27, 2015.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
The Spring 2015 Issue of METRANS News is now available. Click here for a pdf version. METRANS News is generally published three times a year and summarizes METRANS research, education and outreach activities. It highlights METRANS researchers, conferences and other events, recent publications, interviews with key individuals involved in METRANS, and other newsworthy activities and events. It is distributed to university transportation centers and faculty throughout the U.S., to federal, state, and local public agencies, and to the transportation industry. To be added to the mailing list for a hard copy of the newsletter or to receive an email announcement regarding each new issue, please contact [email protected] .
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
By Victor Sheng’ao Xie, USC Master of Planning, 2016 We are pleased to announce that first year MPL student Emily Finkel was selected by the Board of Regents of the Eno Center for Transportation to participate in the 23rd annual Eno Future Leaders Development Conference to be held in Washington, DC, from May 30 to June 4, 2015. Each year, 20 of the nation’s top graduate students in transportation are awarded this coveted opportunity to experience firsthand how national ...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
By Justine Pascone, USC Master of Planning, 2016 On February 25, University of Southern California Professor Emeritus Peter Gordon presented his research, “ What Do We Know About Economic Development? What Do We Know About Cities and Networks? How Are They Linked? “ to practitioners, professors, and students on the USC campus as part of the METRANS Spring 2015 Transportation Research Seminar Series. Professor Gordon relates his research to the same economic question ...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
By Matthew Kredell Geraldine Knatz, Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering, traveled to Panama in February to help inform members of the U.S. Congress on what Panama Canal expansion means for North America. Taking part in the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, Knatz, who holds a joint appointment at the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, presented her research to 15 legislators from the Senate and House of Representatives. ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
USC Master of Planning student Arnold Valdez was recently published in the Journal of Applied Geography. Valdez worked on this paper as an undergraduate and as coauthor was responsible for the coding, data gathering/processing, visual representation, and part of the writing of the final manuscript. The abstract is below, and the complete article may be accessed at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622815000259 Link may require library access or subscription. ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
By Sneh Kishan, Master of Science, Construction Engineering and Management, 2016 On 4 th March, Monica Born, Professional Engineer and Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff, met with students at University of Southern California as part of the METRANS Spring 2015 ‘Lunch with a Practitioner’ Series. The event started with the brief introduction from both Monica Born and from the students who were there for the event. Born had known she was destined for a career in engineering ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
By Natalie Chunfan Man, USC MSCE, Transportation Engineering, 2015 On March 6th, 2015, WTS, Los Angeles invited Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Hilda Solis to join transportation professionals, practitioners, policy makers and students to talk about transportation system development in Los Angeles County, both now and in the future, and in particular, these plans as they affect and address the issues of education, healthcare, economic development, and social rights for vulnerable groups. More than 100 professionals and students from 30 different agencies joined the luncheon and exchanged thoughts on these issues, among them, thirteen students from USC.
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