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Monday, October 27, 2014
On Sunday, October 26, the American Planning Association-USC Chapter (APA¬USC) hosted their second tour of Downtown Los Angeles, this time to experience the city by light rail, aided by complimentary TAP card Day Passes donated by Metro. The group of twenty four students met LA Metro Transportation Planner Andres Fernando Di Zitti at Jefferson/USC Station and rode the Expo and Blue Lines in the Downtown LA area. Accompanied by Di Zitti, the group traveled to one of Metro’s newest ...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
On Friday, October 17, 2014, USC Price School of Public Policy PhD students Andy Hong, Eun Jin Shin, and Yuting Hou presented their ACSP transportation research to students, faculty, and practitioners at the University of Southern California as part of the METRANS Transportation Research Seminar Series. They will also present this research at the upcoming 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference, Big Ideas, Global Impacts , to be held ...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Wednesday, October 15th, a record 27 USC transportation students from both policy and engineering began their day at the Millennium Biltmore Los Angeles as invited attendees to the WTS meeting, PART OF A COMPLETE STREETS BREAKFAST - WTS-LA Welcomes LADOT General Manager, Seleta Reynolds . Generously sponsored by WTS members USC Viterbi Vice Dean James Moore and former Los Angeles Unified School District Administrator Emilie Gino, corporate sponsors AECOM and CH2M Hill, and the WTS LA ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
By Derek Hung, USC Price BS Policy, Planning, and Development On Saturday, September 20, the American Planning Association - USC Chapter (APA-USC) hosted a walking tour of Downtown Los Angeles, its ?rst event since the Chapter’s inception earlier that month. Although organized and operated entirely by six undergraduate students, the event boasted a total of 30 RSVPs from USC undergraduate and graduate students in majors ranging from Urban Planning to Civil Engineering ...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
On Wednesday, October 1, 2014, USC Price School of Public Policy PhD students Sandip Chakrabarti, Mohja Rhoads, and Xize Wang presented their transportation research to students, faculty, and practitioners at the University of Southern California as part of the METRANS Transportation Research Seminar Series. They will also present this research at the upcoming 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference, Big Ideas, Global Impacts, to be ...
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Friday, September 26, 2014
Detroit is a captivating study in urban evolution. Once one of America’s richest cities, it is now among its poorest. This summer, under the guidance of Professor Michael Thom, twenty USC Price students had the opportunity to help reverse the decline, addressing the challenges of transit, land use, education, and nonprofit innovation. Among them, masters students Michael Johnston and Kurt Taillon along with undergraduates Derek Hung, Rory O’Sullivan, and John Tomlinson were ...
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Friday, September 26, 2014
USC undergraduates Andrina Dominguez (Public Policy), Erica Fine (Public Policy) Rayed Khan (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) and Todd Nguyen (Public Policy) were selected to participate in the 19th Annual California Transportation Foundation's (CTF) Educational Symposium in Santa Cruz, where they gained a unique opportunity to learn by doing with transportation professionals in the industry. “The core of the symposium is a mock RFP,” explains USC Viterbi School of Engineering ...
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Friday, September 26, 2014
On Friday, September 26, 2014, Marco Dean, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London presented his research regarding decision making for mega projects to students, faculty, and practitioners at the University of Southern California as part of the METRANS Transportation Research Seminar Series and the Volvo Educational Research Foundations (VREF) Educational Exchange program. Defined as extremely large-scale investment projects, typically costing more than $1 billion, ...
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Friday, September 26, 2014
On September 8, METRANS Faculty, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Vice Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), Civil Engineering, and Public Policy Professor, and President Elect of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) James Moore joined the approximately one million new ALS donors to be doused in ice water to help raise funds for the disease. Moore, along with colleagues IIE President and Amazon Director Dennis Oates, and IIE ...
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Seven transportation PhD students from USC have been selected to present their research at the 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) conference, Big Ideas, Global Impacts, to be held October 30 to November 2 in Philadelphia. The students are: Sandip Chakrabarti, Andy Hong, Yuting Hou, Mohja Rhoads, Eun Jin Shin, Xize Wang, and Quan Yuan. More information regarding the conference is at http://www.acsp.org/conferences/annual_conference
