News & Announcements
METRANS UTC
Sunday, March 10, 2019
On Friday, February 22 nd , generous corporate sponsorships sent students from USC and UCLA to the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) luncheon welcoming the new Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink) Chief Executive Officer, Stephanie Wiggins. This notable achievement is the first time the Metrolink Board of Directors has hired a woman and an African American to lead the agency. In this role, Wiggins will oversee Metrolink’s inter-regional commuter rail network which ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, March 9, 2019
The annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting was held this year in Washington D.C. from January 13-17, 2019. The meeting attracted more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world to attend and participate in over 5,000 sessions and workshops that cover all modes of transportation and the newest innovations in the field. The annual meeting also provided multiple opportunities for attendees to grow their network and focus on career development. This year, the meeting’s ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, March 2, 2019
On February 20, 2019, Dr. Edward Smaglik of Northern Arizona University presented results from a NITC-funded collaborative research project which investigated bicycle-vehicle safety at urban intersections and aimed to address conflicts through signal timing treatments while also maintaining efficiency for all user groups within the intersection.
As bicycling rises in popularity and communities start investing more in bicycle infrastructure, transportation professionals ...
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Friday, March 1, 2019
The Winter 2019 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] .
METRANS UTC
Monday, February 25, 2019
As cities and towns develop policies and infrastructure to accommodate the growth of shared, electric, and traditional bicycles, it is crucial that researchers, planners, and policymakers consider the wide range of experiences and needs among bicyclists. To address this, the February 15 seminar hosted by the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis (ITS-Davis) focused on strategies for making bicycle research, policy, and advocacy more equitable, inclusive, and just.
Dr. Sarah McCullough ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, February 25, 2019
With self-driving vehicles capturing the attention of the public, industry, investors, government, and the media, the head of the autonomous vehicle program at the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) was the featured speaker at the February 1 seminar hosted by the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis (ITS-Davis).
DMV Deputy Director Bernard Soriano spoke at the seminar, sponsored through ITS-Davis’ partnership with the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Adylbek Abdykalikov, USC, IPPAM 2020 In January 2019, Pouyan Hosseini, USC Viterbi PhD Candidate presented his research at doctoral student seminar on “Transportation Operations and Traffic Control” at the 2019 Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting in Washington, DC. This year’s annual TRB Meeting attracted more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world and included more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops, ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, February 23, 2019
“Do you believe that transportation has the power to change our community ?” asked Laura Cornejo, Deputy Executive Officer at Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), as she began her highly anticipated presentation on January 30 th , 2019 at the USC campus to a standing room only audience of students and transportation practitioners, centering on the future of transportation in Los Angeles. Undoubtedly, this was a question shared by all the students and professionals ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, February 16, 2019
The UC Berkeley (Cal) Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter held the 6 th Annual Student Leadership Summit (SLS) January 25-27, 2019. Over 150 student leaders from nearly 20 universities traveled to the Bay Area to take part in a weekend full of technical, professional, and leadership development, all focused around emerging topics in the transportation industry. Students from nearly 20 universities gathered outside Cal's University Library. USC ITE leaders, ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, February 10, 2019
January 30, 2019, Dr. Gary Painter and Madison Swayne presented their research, Innovation on Job Accessibility with General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Data at USC, their new research regarding job accessibility via public transit to nearly 100 students, faculty, researchers, practitioners and community members as part of the METRANS spring speaker series. For those unfamiliar with their work, Painter is a USC Sol Price School of Public Policy professor and director of the Sol Price Center ...
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