News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, PSR
Monday, August 27, 2018
On behalf of the METRANS student team, I am pleased to welcome our new Lead Graphic Designer, Kavina Yasangbhai Patel. Patel earned an Undergraduate Degree in Urban Planning from CEPT University, India and recently joined USC as Master of Planning student specializing in Transportation Planning. Her responsibilities at METRANS will include design for both print and electronic media, including the design of the METRANS on the Move newsletter. Patel was introduced to METRANS by a fellow MPL student, ...
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Friday, August 24, 2018
An in-depth conversation with Randy Iwasaki, Executive Director of the Contra Costa County Transporation Authority and former director of the California Department of Transportation. Randy shares his thoughts and work underway by the CCTA related to autonomous vehicles, good movement and the last mile, mass transit, encouraging healthy transportation options, funding and the roles of research and higher education.
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Monday, August 20, 2018
Thanks to METRANS on the Move (this newsletter!) I learned about TURF, the Transportation Undergrad Research Fellowship, a summer fellowship opportunity at Portland State University. I studied abroad in Athens, Greece during Spring 2018, and looked forward to receiving the newsletter each week because it kept me in the loop with what’s happening in the transportation sector. Little did I know that it would also lead me to a new home “turf” and an exciting summer in Oregon. ...
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Monday, August 13, 2018
On Monday, July 23th, 2018, at USC’s Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall, students, faculty, staff, and practitioners had the pleasure of listening to the presentation of Stephane Hess, a Professor of Choice Modelling at the Institute for Transport Studies and Director of the Choice Modelling Centre at the University of Leeds, present, “From Behaviour to Data to Models and Back Again: Where Next for Understanding and Predicting Human Decision-Making?” This event was part of the METRANS ...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018
On Wednesday, July 18, the Orange County and Los Angeles chapters of Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) hosted a professional development lunch, Caltrans 11 &12 , featuring speakers Gerard Chadergian, Division Chief of TMC Traffic Operations, Caltrans District 11; and Geraldo De Santos, Acting District Director, Caltrans District 12; addressing the new opportunities for regional transportation as a result of Senate Bill 1 (SB-1) Speakers Addressing Luncheon Attendees Photo ...
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Sunday, July 22, 2018
Each year, the Eno Center for Transportation (Eno) invites selected students to attend the "Eno Future Leaders Development Conference (LDC)” which “gives 20 of the nation’s top graduate students in transportation a first-hand look at how national transportation policies are developed. Students apply to the program early in the year and those selected as “Eno Fellows” come to Washington, DC for a week of meetings with federal officials and leaders of businesses and non-profit ...
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Monday, July 16, 2018
“Keep trying and know the opportunities out there” suggests METRANS Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Ramasamy who recently joined DKS Associates in Sacramento as a Transportation Engineering intern. I got an opportunity to talk to her about her path to gaining an internship and her experience at DKS Associates. DKS is a transportation engineering and planning with offices in California, Oregon, and the state of Washington. “To start my career in the transportation industry, I started ...
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Monday, July 9, 2018
On Thursday, May 31, 2018, local transportation students were sponsored to attend a WTS-LA breakfast panel event to learn industry experts’ insights on connected and autonomous vehicles (AV). The panel presented a comprehensive coverage of views on the impacts of AV on future transportation developments, featuring leaders of multiple sectors including a traditional planning and engineering consulting firm seeking opportunities in the new era, multi-level public sectors seeking to connect AV ...
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Thursday, July 5, 2018
I learned of the National Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NaTMEC) when CARTEEH Director Dr. Joe Zietsman and my supervisor Dr. Reza Farzaneh asked me if I was interested in applying for a sponsorship to attend this event, held from June 10-13, 2018 in Irvine, California. After viewing the conference website, I quickly realized what a great opportunity it would be. I submitted my master’s thesis work, “Application of Big Data to Characterize Unexpected HOT Lane Choice Behavior” ...
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Monday, June 25, 2018
“Check your emails!” suggests Lauren Mullarkey-Williams, a USC Price student pursuing a B.S. in Policy, Planning, and Development and an M.S. in Geographic and Information Science and Technology. Mullarkey-Williams is currently participating in the Transportation Undergraduate Research Fellowship, through the Portland State University (PSU) Transportation Research and Education Center, that she discovered in one of METRANS on the Move ’s very own articles. The summertime Transportation ...
