News & Announcements
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
John Gunnar Carlsson, Ph.D., has joined the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. Assistant Professor Carlsson is a specialist in geographic resource allocation, such as vehicle routing and scheduling, facility location, and backbone network design. He received a Ph.D. in computational mathematics from the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering under Yinyu Ye at Stanford ...
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Monday, February 2, 2015
Please join us in welcoming METRANS WTS Student Liaison Ling Feng to the METRANS student team. In this position, Ling is responsible for managing the USC and CSULB student communication and involvement with the Los Angeles chapter of WTS, as well as promoting participation in the WTS Transportation Resume Book to colleges and universities throughout the greater Los Angeles region. Ling will also plan and coordinate METRANS and WTS related events. Ling Feng is a first-year MPL ...
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Friday, January 30, 2015
Authored by Sheng'ao Xie, USC Master of Planning, 2016 On January 22, USC Professor Ketan Savla received a 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) career award of $500,000 to fund his research proposal, Control Design for Dynamical Network Flows with Applications to Transportation . Savla's project will develop an integrated research and education program on rigorous control design for intelligent infrastructure networks, with an emphasis on transportation. "The most exciting part ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
On January 21, UCLA Faculty Rui Wang presented his research, Restricting Driving for Better Traffic and Clearer Skies: Did It Work in Beijing? to a capacity crowd at the University of Southern California as the first METRANS Transportation Research Seminar presentation of the new year, and a joint effort of METRANS and the USC Sol Global student organization. Wang examined the impact of Beijing driving restrictions on congestion and air pollution in the city of Beijing and shared ...
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Friday, January 23, 2015
Please join us in welcoming Susan Bradforth to the METRANS team. Susan joined METRANS as Development Officer in January 2015. She is responsible for managing the METRANS Advisory Board and METRANS Associates Program, as well as increasing philanthropic support for METRANS. Previously at USC, Susan was Assistant Director of the IBEAR Executive Program, managing professional educational programs for international businesses, including the Asia Pacific Business Outlook conference. ...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
The Los Angeles Chapter of WTS is now accepting resumes for inclusion in their annual Transportation Resume Book, an annual publication with wide distribution to the transportation community. All 2015 college graduates interested in considering a career in transportation are encouraged to submit their resumes for consideration. Resumes must be submitted to WTS by March 13, 2015 by email to [email protected] . The Los Angeles WTS Transportation Book aims to help match graduates with ...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Please join us in congratulating Vy Phan-Hoang (MPL, Price; Certificate in Transportation Systems, Viterbi; 2015), who has been selected the METRANS Student of the Year. The Student of the Year honors outstanding students from each University Transportation Center around the country. Vy will attend the TRB Annual Conference to receive the award. Vy is currently an intern at Foothill Transit, and was recommended by her instructor, Eric C. Shen, P.E., PTP, Director of Transportation ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The second METRANS UTC RFP was issued on December 9, 2014. The due date has been extended. Proposals are due February 11, 2015.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Three deserving Ph.D. students from our MetroFreight Center of Excellence were selected to attend the two part VREF Workshop 2014: Transforming Access, Mobility, and Delivery in Cities - Turning Knowledge into Action in New York last month. Beginning on October 26 with a student reception, Adrien Beziat and Adeline Heitz from the University of Paris – East, and Shuai (Louis) Tang from the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York participated in the VREF Ph.D. Student/Young Researcher Workshop 2014 . That program took place at Columbia University and was followed by the ensuing major conference in New York City from October 28 – 30. These young researchers were given the opportunity to share highlights of their research efforts as guests of Volvo Research & Educational Foundations (VREF) for their four day stay in New York, while being introduced to experienced transportation researchers from across the globe.
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
USC Price’s Genevieve Giuliano to serve as senior researcher and project advisor The METRANS Transportation Center, a joint partnership of USC and California State University, Long Beach, has been selected by the Federal Highway Administration to host the newly established Southwest Regional Surface Transportation Workforce Center, which includes a grant of approximately $1 million. The center, to be housed at the CSULB Center for International Trade and Transportation, will ...
