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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
On February 28, 2015, USC Adjunct Professor and Port of Long Beach Director of Transportation Planning Eric Shen received the Orange County Engineering Council’s 2015 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. In addition to teaching and his work at the Port, Shen is also the faculty adviser to the ITE/USC Student Chapter. “Eric Shen has built a long record of inspiring teaching. He draws the best out of his students, guiding them to produce professional quality work. He is a mentor ...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
On February 23rd, METRANS Advisory Board Member and General Manager of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) Seleta Reynolds joined a panel of practitioners and elected officials at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles to discuss the roles of the public and private sectors in car- bike- and ride-sharing as part of the Live Ride Share Conference, the first conference of its kind. Sponsored by both industry and the public contributions, the daylong event was designed to ...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
On February 28 th , USC transportation students from both engineering and public policy joined the International Chinese Transportation Professionals Association (ICTPA), Southern California Chapter to celebrate the Lunar New Year of Sheep with Chinese Transportation Professionals at Heritage Park Community Center in Diamond Bar. The event was sponsored by the generous contributions of Transpogroup, CREEC, EtherWAN, FPL and Associates, HNTB, and Parsons Brinckerhoff. Bryan Pennington, Executive ...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
By Matthew Kredell USC Price School of Public Policy Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer’s article titled “ Planning and Social Media: A Case Study of Public Transit and Stigma on Twitter ,” published in the Journal of the American Planning Association , has been selected by the journal’s associate editors as the best paper in 2014. The award will be presented in April at the American Planning Association’s Annual Conference in Seattle. Schweitzer discussed ...
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Monday, March 2, 2015
On February 28 th , a group of 16 local transportation professionals and USC students traveled via Metro and Metrolink trains from the USC campus to the new Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) for lunch and a tour of the multimodal transportation hub. This was the first METRANS Transportation field trip of 2015, and was a joint effort of METRANS, and the generous sponsorships of Parsons Brinkerhoff and Metrolink. Guided by John Lower, associate vice president at Iteris, ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Further elevating the USC Price School of Public Policy’s scholarly profile, more than a dozen Price faculty and doctoral students took part in the Western Regional Science Association’s 54th annual meeting, held Feb. 15-18 in Tucson, Ariz. Founded in 1961, WRSA is an international multidisciplinary group of university scholars and government and private-sector practitioners dedicated to the scientific analysis of regions. USC Price professors Genevieve Giuliano, senior associate ...
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Monday, February 23, 2015
Yuzhe (Vincent) Ying is a first-year USC Price School Master of Planning student concentrating in transportation, and the newest member of the METRANS student team. His undergraduate background is land resource management. Yuzhe’s interest in transportation originated while on a trip to Anchorage, Alaska. After two months working and traveling there and seeing the contrast between transportation systems in North America and his home country of China, he was inspired to dedicate ...
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Monday, February 23, 2015
By Vincent Yuzhe Ying, USC Master of Planning, 2016 METRANS Lunch with a Practitioner Series allows student the opportunity to meet and learn from active transportation practitioners in the field. This is the first of many. On February 11, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Transportation Planning Manager Steven Mateer met with transportation students at the University of Southern California as the first guest speaker of the new METRANS Lunch with ...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
“Andres is such a great mentor! He has given me such valuable advice and is so enthusiastic about his career that I cannot wait to follow in his footsteps. Each time we meet I leave feeling so lucky for the chance to have his guidance. The most important thing I have learned from him is that we should never stop broadening our connections.” Ying Yao, USC Master of Planning, speaking about his mentor, Andres Fernando Di Zitti, Transportation Planner, LA Metro
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
Annette Kunitsa is currently a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT) at California State University, Long Beach. She supports METRANS on MetroFreight professional development programs, the International Urban Freight Conference, and various other projects. Annette is pursuing her Master of Arts in Economics with a focus on transportation and urban/regional economics. She also provides research support to the University’s Office of Economic Research for projects that include the 2014 Regional Economic Forum. As an undergraduate at CSULB, she was the President of the Economics Association. In addition, she was an economics/math tutor and teaching associate until joining CITT. Annette is a real estate licensee certified by the California Department of Real Estate.
