Conference Chair

Genevieve Giuliano, Ph.D., Director, METRANS Transportation Center, Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

Conference Organization Chair

Thomas O'Brien, Ph.D., Deputy Director of METRANS, CSULB; Executive Director, Center for International Trade and Transportation, California State University, Long Beach

Conference Coordinator

Ariella Copeland, Conference Coordinator, California State University, Long Beach

 

Theme Chairs

Topic #	Theme chair
Topic 1 - Local/last mile pickup and delivery	Laetitia Dablanc, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR)
Topic 2 - Mode and Nodes	Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Global Studies, Hofstra University
Topic 3 - Urban freight modeling and planning	Maged Dessouky, Ph.D., Professor, Epstein Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
Topic 4 - Technology and automation	Petros Ioannou, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Systems; Associate Director of Research, METRANS, University of Southern California
Topic 5 - Changing consumption, production, and spatial organization	Alison Conway, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Grove School of Engineering, The City College of New York
Topic 6 - Best practices	Genevieve Giuliano, Ph.D., Director, METRANS Transportation Center, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Thomas O'Brien, Ph.D., Deputy Director, METRANS Transportation Center; Executive Director, Center for International Trade & Transportation, California State University, Long Beach

 

Conference Committee

Johanna Amaya, Assistant Professor and Researcher, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania

Matt Barth, Ph.D., Yeager Families Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside (invited)

Marlon Boarnet, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Graduate Programs in Urban Planning, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

Michael Browne, Professor, Industrial and Financial Management and Logistics, University of Gothenburg

Anastasios Chasskiakos, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical Engineering and CECS, Department of Engineering, California State University, Long Beach

William Eisele, Ph.D., Mobility Practice Leader and Senior Research Engineer, Texas Transportation Institute 

Anne Goodchild, Ph.D., Director, UW Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center; Professor, College of Engineering, University of Washington 

Peter V Hall, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Simon Fraser University 

Jose Holguin-Veras, Ph.D., William H. Hart Chair Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Randell Iwasaki, Leader of State and Local Transportation at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Hossein Jula, Ph.D., Lecturer, College of Engineering, California State University, Long Beach

Kazuya Kawamura, Ph.D., Professor, College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago 

Jee-Sun Lee, Associate Research Fellow, Division of Logistics Technology and Freight Transport Market Research, The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)

Barbara Lenz, Professor, Institute of Transport Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) 

Alan McKinnon, Ph.D., Professor, Kahne Logistics University (invited)

Annie Nam, Manager, Goods Movement & Transportation Finance, Southern California Association of Governments 

Maria Oscott, Ph.D., Program Director, Triple FFF 

Fatemeh Ranaiefer, Transportation Planner/Engineer, Fehr & Peers (invited)

Seleta Reynolds, General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Transportation (invited)

Steve Ritchie, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Irvine 

Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Global Studies, Hofstra University 

Matthew Roorda, Ph.D., Professor, University of Toronto 

Ivan Sanchez-Diaz, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology 

Ketan Savla, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California 

Sangbeom Seo, Ph.D., Director, Division for Logistics Policy & Industry, The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) 

Eric Shen, P.E., PTP, CPE, Director, Capitol Projects; San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (invited)

Laurent Tavasszy, Ph.D.,  Professor, Freight Transport and Logistics, Delft University of Technology 

Thierry Vanelslander, Ph.D., BNP Paribas Chair on Transport, Logistics and Ports, Department of Transport and Regional Logistics, University of Antwerp 

Jeff Wojtowicz, Senior Research Engineer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Johan Woxenius, Ph.D., Professor, Maritime Transport Management and Logistics, Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg 

Hugo Yoshizaki, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Innovation In Logistics Systems, University of Sao Paulo