News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, September 12, 2014
METRANS and MetroFreight Directors Gen Giuliano and Tom O'Brien, Researchers Laetitia Dablanc, Eleonora-Morganti, and Qian Wang, and PhD students Shaui (Louis) Tang and Sanggyun Kang represented the MetroFreight Center of Excellence at the 2014 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (PASI-SUFS) held from August 3rd through August 15th in Bogota, Colombia. USC Price Urban Planning PhD student Sanggyun Kang was awarded Volvo Research and Educational ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, September 12, 2014
We are pleased to announce our new USC graduate level course, Seaport Policy and Management. Launched this fall and taught by Dr. Geraldine Knatz, former CEO of the Port of Los Angeles, the purpose of this course is to provide the student with an introduction to the vital role that seaports play in accommodating world trade. After reviewing the historical development of seaports and the public trust doctrine, this course will examine various pattens of port governance found around the world and how those governance patterns can affect port operations, management and business success. Students learn about U.S. trade policies and the role of various international maritime bodies. National and local governments that regulate or influence ports and the movement of goods are also discussed. The course is cross listed with both the Policy and Engineering Schools, and is open to graduate students of all disciplines.
METRANS UTC
Friday, September 12, 2014
Four USC transportation undergraduates, Thomas Check (Civil Engineering (CE)), Felipe Helman (Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE)), Takahiro Kuwabara (ISE), and Benjamin Richardson (CE) have each been awarded two year, paid internships from the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) as part of the new College Internship Program. Designed to give students practical work experience in transportation engineering and planning, the program allows each intern four, six-month rotations ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, September 8, 2014
METRANS Directors Genevieve Giuliano and Thomas O'Brien and ten USC transportation students were guests of the Los Angeles Chapter of WTS August 14th Long Beach port and harbor tour to welcome newly appointed POLB CEO Jon Slangerup. Harbor Commissioner and CITT Policy and Steering Committee Member Richard Dines gave the tour to over 100 transportation professionals and invited students. "Having the exclusive experience to tour the Port of Long Beach while networking with top professionals in the industry was truly an invaluable experience" remarked Todd Nguyen, recent USC graduate and newly hired Transportation Planner at Caltrans. "I enjoy networking as it gives me the opportunity to take the theory and readings from class and apply them into a real world context. What interests me about transportation is the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives and improve future generations."
METRANS UTC
Monday, September 8, 2014
METRANS is proud to announce a stimulating line up of noon time seminars for the Fall 2014 semester. Seminars are held in Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL), USC, are open to the public, and are free of charge. The series starts on September 16th with USC Price School faculty Marlon Boarnet, Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Academic Programs, and discussant Lisa Schweitzer, Associate Professor, presenting, "Measuring Rail Transit's Sustainability Goal: An Experimental Evaluation of the Expo Line." The complete series and upcoming seminar details are available at http://www.metrans.org/seminars .
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Friday, September 5, 2014
METRANS and MetroFreight Director Genevieve Giuliano traveled to Washington, D.C. this summer to offer insights on a recent slate of recommendations that memebers of the National Freight Advisory Committee (NFAC) submitted to (former) U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in June. Giuliano is serving as one of three designated freight experts appointed to the committee by former Secretary LaHood. Giuliano's fellow designated freight experts are Jose Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, September 5, 2014
METRANS Tier 1 Center is pleased to award $300K funding to five new research projects from proposals submitted in response to its spring 2014 RFP. Scheduled to begin in early 2015, these projects are intended to increase US economic competitiveness by improving transporation system performance in large metropolitan areas. Regular tenure track full-time faculty members and research faculty at USC and CSULB are eligible to serve as Principal Investigator. Proposals may also include as ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, September 5, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014, fifteen USC transportation students from both policy and engineering attended the WTS lunch meeting, LA INSIGHTS FROM THE BOARDROOM - Leading Transportation Across Land, Air and Sea. Sponsored by AECOM and CH2M Hill. The students heard from women who serve in this high stakes arena as the Directors and Commissioners responsible for setting policy that will impact Southern California for generations. This panel included leaders from varied modes of transportation, ...
METRANS UTC, MetroFreight
Sunday, August 3, 2014
The Peer-to-Peer Exchange Program is designed to share global best practice cases and real world examples of sustainable urban freight systems. This program is open to anyone with a professional or a personal interest in freight transportation issues. This presentation looks at spatial patterns of freight and logistics activities and the impacts associated with them. It focuses on a phenomenon known as logistics sprawl, which is the tendency of warehouses to move away from urban regions ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Welcome to our new website. METRANS is now home to the METRANS UTC, METROFREIGHT, and the National Center for Sustainable Transportation. Please visit each of the centers to learn about our research, events, students, faculty, and more. Let us know what you think – the website is a work in progress.
