News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, April 16, 2017
In celebration of the brilliant and enterprising students from our multi-university METRANS community, we present this second installment of our ‘A’ Papers column – in which I highlight recent and outstanding academic publications by transportation students. This issue features transportation research by two of my fellow undergrads in the Sol Price School of Public Policy. Soobin Kim, a junior in Urban Studies and Planning, wrote "Bus Shelters in Los Angeles" in a transportation ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) named CSULB student Jose Jimenez as one of its 2016-17 TRB Minority Student Fellows at its 96 th Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. this January. Jimenez, who completed his B.S. in civil engineering in 2016, is a current M.S. student under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Shailesh Chandra of the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management. Jimenez has worked on two projects under Chandra over the past year, one of which, titled ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The METRANS Transportation Center has grown substantially over the past 19 years, beginning in 1998 as one federally funded University Transportation Center (UTC) led by the University of Southern California (USC) and California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). It currently houses five research centers receiving funding from both public- and private-sector donors. The most recent addition is the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center, a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Friday, April 7, 2017
By Efram Stone, MSCE & MPL 2017 My previous two columns explored technical issues that are important to understand when using data for transit-related projects. In this article, I decided to discuss a sensitive topical issue that has been discussed in two recent publications. This issue is the impact of transit on rents. Transit is an amenity, and all additional amenities in a neighborhood are expected to increase the price of housing there, whether the amenity is transit or something ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Saturday, April 1, 2017
June Liu is a USC alumnus. She completed a Master of Public Policy in 2015 from the USC Price School of Public Policy. Just this year, June started her new position in Portugal as an International Consultant with Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI). Our conversation follows. (Photo by June Liu) Can you tell us a bit about your job? I recently accepted a position as an International Consultant with Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, a science and innovation consulting firm. I will ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Saturday, March 25, 2017
By Nicole Guo, MSCE 2017 Photo by Janell Goddard METRANS is proud to announce that Janell Goddard was recently hired by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (commonly known as LA Metro, or Metro) as a transportation associate. Goddard began attending METRANS events in Spring 2016 and has since earned her bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Biola University. Goddard’s interests include multi-model transportation systems and sustainable ...
