News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 28, 2018
METRANS held the 7th International Urban Freight Conference (I-NUF) from October 18-20, 2017 in Long Beach, California. The conference featured scholars and industry professionals from 18 countries presenting research on a broad range of topics, including effects of the growth of e-commerce, transformational technology, and other influences on urban freight movement. Break-out sessions and presentations were organized into seven tracks: local and last-mile pickup and delivery; trade nodes and ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 28, 2018
On January 9, 2018, the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies hosted their 25th annual reception at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB). The reception, held at Busboys and Poets, gave faculty, alumni, students, and friends of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs the chance to convene after the third day of conference sessions. Over the course of TRB, UCLA was represented in seven lectern sessions and two poster presentations ...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018
On January 9th, 2018, the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Irvine (ITS-Irvine) hosted a reception to welcome students, alumni, faculty, and professionals who were attending the 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in Washington, DC. ITS-Irvine was pleased to greet more than 70 attendees - 23 from ITS-Irvine and more than 47 from other transportation institutions at the reception held at Matchbox Chinatown, Washington DC. The gathering was so large that we needed ...
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Sunday, January 14, 2018
On January 8, 2018, METRANS hosted its annual dinner to welcome University of Southern California (USC) and California State University Long Beach (CSULB) attendees to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual conference in Washington, DC. The dinner gave participants the opportunity to discuss research updates and industry innovations, and gave METRANS the opportunity to thank them for their continued support of the center. “It’s always wonderful to keep connecting with METRANS ...
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Friday, January 12, 2018
The Fall 2017 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] .
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Sunday, January 7, 2018
On October 28th, 2017, students and alumni from PSR universities USC, UCLA, and UC Irvine were given a private, behind-the-scenes guided tour of the facilities of Foothill Transit. Foothill Transit is the largest municipal transit operator in the San Gabriel Valley, with a fleet of about 330 buses, including 315 CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) buses and 15 fast-charge electric buses. I was one of the students in attendance. We began the day with a private Foothill bus trip from the USC main campus ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Happy New Year to all! Important legislation and policy changes related to transportation take effect this year at all levels of government. Here is an overview of the most important changes and what their impacts will likely be. At the federal level, as of this week, transportation funding commitments for 2018 are still being shaped by Congress. Although overall funding for the Department of Transportation is anticipated to experience a decline from its 2016-17 threshold, funding for air, ...
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Monday, January 1, 2018
On December 5, METRANS and USC Women in Management (WIM) hosted Susan Metros as part of a year-long professional development speaker series. Susan Metros is an expert in new and emerging educational technology, including multimedia, visual, and digital interactive technology. She is Associate Vice Provost and Associate Chief Information officer at USC, and holds professorships at the USC Rossier School of Education and USC Roski School of Fine Art. In her presentation titled “From Wet ...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017
On December 6th, 2017, the Pacific Southwest Region 9 University Transportation Center (PSR) sponsored students from member universities California State University Long Beach (CSULB), the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to attend the Intelligent Transportation Society of California (ITS California) Southern California Workshop, "Harnessing Big Data & Analytics to Improve Transportation." I was one of these fortunate students. ...
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Sunday, December 17, 2017
Meet Yoko Igawa, MPA '09, Public Affairs Manager at Foothill Transit, who credits her experience at the Price School with teaching her how to "swing to find her swing." Q: What was your most inspirational moment as a Price student? A: It's impossible for me to identify just one moment. It's easier for me to describe how having been a Price student has made a lasting impact on the guiding values that continue to inspire my career goals. I had such amazing professors and equally ...
