News & Announcements
METRANS UTC
Sunday, October 7, 2018
On Friday, September 28th, several USC Price school alumni formed a panel to discuss their careers working in the private sector. The panel discussion, “A Peek into the Private Sector” was organized by the USC Price Office of Career Services (OCS) and moderated by Seta Kenady, Associate Director of Employer Relations at OCS. Photo credit to ?USC Price Office of Career Services staff, Dominic Alletto Panelists included Shengao (Victor) Xie, a Price MPL alumnus who currently ...
METRANS UTC, PSR, MetroFreight, NCST
Thursday, October 4, 2018
The Summer 2018 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] .
METRANS UTC
Sunday, September 30, 2018
On Monday, September 24th, the METRANS Speaker Series welcomed University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy student Gene Burinskiy to discuss his doctoral research on “Gentrification Near Rail Transit Areas: A micro-data analysis of moves into and out of Los Angeles Metro rail station areas.” This highly relevant research brought a packed room for the event. For his research, Burinskiy asked “Does rail transit development increase displacement of lower-income ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, September 23, 2018
On Thursday, September 16, Fehr & Peers, a transportation consulting firm located in Downtown Los Angeles, opened its doors to ten emerging planners selected by the Young Planners Group of the American Planning Association (APA) Los Angeles chapter. This event, named Plates with Planners , was the first of its kind and proved to be a successful way to connect students and recent grads with professionals in the transportation industry.
Two USC undergrads, two USC graduate students, and two ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, September 22, 2018
California’s two largest cities are a mere 300 miles apart, yet in 2018 the transportation modes directly connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco are functionally limited to personal transport, air travel that necessitates a dreaded trip to and fro LAX, or the ultra-reliable and super clean Greyhound Lines, Inc. Enter FlixBus, a Europe-based long-distance mobility company, making inroads in the Western US transportation market. “There is growing demand for transportation alternatives, ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Monday, September 17, 2018
METRANS, Pacific Southwest Region UTC, and USC Women in Management (WIM) kicked off their Fall 2018 Speakers Series Thursday, September 13 at the Doheny Memorial Library, USC, with an interactive workshop delivered by Dr. Rebecca Weintraub, USC Annenberg clinical professor and director of the Communication Management Master’s program. Dr. Weintraub is a recent recipient of the prestigious USC Provost’s Mentoring Award, a selective honor awarded to no more than two professors from across ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Avid readers of METRANS on the MOVE will remember our summer write-up of Lauren Mullarkey-WIlliams’s coveted fellowship at Portland State University’s Transportation Research and Education Center. By her own words Ms. Mullarkey-Williams “took a risk” accepting the summer-long fellowship in an unfamiliar field but found that, “the transportation industry became a way to combine my interests, meet people of very different and exciting backgrounds and skill sets, and prepare ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Friday, September 7, 2018
In recognition of the METRANS Transportation Center’s 20th anniversary, Dr. Thomas O'Brien, Executive Director of the Center for International Trade and Transportation at California State University, Long Beach, reviews the recent history of global trade and what it has meant for the nation and the region with METRANS Director Dr. Genevieve Giuliano. They also discuss the changes brought about by e-commerce and what it means for the future of moving goods.
METRANS UTC, PSR
Thursday, September 6, 2018
There are currently several ongoing PSR research projects. Here we highlight projects nearing completion from UC Davis, University of Hawaii, and Northern Arizona University. The table below reflects the current developments of a few research projects that began in 2017. To read more about other PSR research projects, go to: http://bit.ly/2NrQfv8 UC Davis Automated Analysis of Wildlife-Vehicle Conflict Hotspots Using Carcass and Collision Data - UC Davis - PI: Fraser Shilling ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Virginia Tsu, Director of the Center for Transportation Workforce Development of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), recently visited the Los Angeles Trade Tech College’s (LATTC) Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) pilot course, developed in partnership with the Southwest Transportation Workforce Center (SWTWC). Tsu was able to experience firsthand the beginning stages of an active transportation career pathway and the products of SWTWC’s workforce development ...
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