News & Announcements
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
On Friday April 6, 2018, former Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx spoke to student members and guests of the USC Price School’s County of Los Angeles Executive Leadership Development Program as well as interested members of the general public. Moderated by Professor Roberto Suro, the discussion started with a look at Secretary Foxx’s time as a councilmember and mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, and concluded with insight from Foxx on how to be a strong public leader while he was ...
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
On April 6, 2018 Associated Students of Planning and Development (ASPD), Gear Up 4 LA and METRANS hosted 49 high school students and school administrators to participate in Planning for College . Held at the University of Southern California campus, the event introduced students to the college admissions process and to the field of urban planning. Gear Up 4 LA is an organization that prepares low-income, first generation, minority students for college success, and preparation for Planning for ...
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Saturday, April 14, 2018
On April 3rd, 2018, METRANS Transportation Center invited Nate Kaplan of GoRail to speak at USC about the sophistication and impact of freight rail in the U.S., regarded as the world’s best freight rail system in terms of cost, efficiency, and reliability. Kaplan began by bringing freight rail home to the audience. He describes how there are many, many miles behind every item that we’ve accumulated or consumed in our lives, and how little is known about the vast infrastructure that supports ...
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Saturday, April 14, 2018
On February 24 th , WTS-Orange County Transportation YOU 4 th Annual Girls’ Engineering Day was held at South Junior High School in Anaheim. The goal of this event is to help girls in middle school or high school get to know more about engineering fields. Over 125 girls attended this event and were paired with engineers who work in various areas of transportation, such as environmental engineering, highway, rail, transit planning and design, geotechnical engineering, and land surveying. More ...
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Sunday, April 8, 2018
On behalf of METRANS on the Move, our student created and produced weekly newsletter, I am pleased to welcome its new Editor-in-Chief, Priyanka Ramasamy. Ramasamy is a second-year Master of Civil Engineering – Transportation Engineering student, and will take over the management of newsletter content, coordination of writing assignments, and publishing, from me. I am graduating this spring, and while I will miss this position, I know the newsletter is in good hands. Ramasamy joined the METRANS ...
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Sunday, April 8, 2018
On March 24 th , 2018, students and alumni from USC, UCLA, UCI, Cal State Fullerton and other universities visited KOA Corporation and the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) for behind-the-scenes guided tours. The two are located adjacent to each other in Orange County, California. Upon arrival at KOA Corporation, we were welcomed by senior transportation planner Mengzhao Hu, and enjoyed lunch, courtesy of KOA. After lunch, Hu delivered a presentation about the company at ...
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Sunday, April 1, 2018
It certainly has been a busy 2018 already for Elizabeth Warren. After returning from a recent trip to Hong Kong, Elizabeth recently caught up with METRANS to discuss her passion for logistics and transportation at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, her experience as a graduate student at USC, and her affinity to be in the midst of a technological revolution that the port industry is currently experiencing. Elizabeth Warren, Master of Global Public Policy ‘18, University of Southern ...
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Sunday, March 25, 2018
On March 6 th , 2018, at the USC Doheny Memorial Library, USC Women in Management (WIM) and METRANS hosted USC alum Suzanne Dworak-Peck in a lunch conversation centered around her life and career, her principles, and her advice. Suzanne Dworak-Peck has served as President of the National Association of Social Work, is a member of the USC Board of Trustees, and is a proud social work practitioner, and generously provided the naming gift for the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. We appreciate ...
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Sunday, March 18, 2018
On February 23 rd , 2018, students from USC and UCLA were the first in the history of The Boring Company to view the company’s private and heavily guarded test site in Hawthorne, California. The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction company founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2016, and ours was their first student tour. The company’s vision is to establish an underground tunnel network that they claim would alleviate traffic and reduce commute times considerably. ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018
In an effort to prioritize transportation workforce development research, METRANS Associate Director Thomas O’Brien led an effort to secure a Federal Highway Administration grant to launch and operate the Southwest Transportation Workforce Center (SWTWC). Housed at CSULB’s Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT), the center covers an eight-state region including California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. “SWTWC’s key ...
