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METRANS UTC
Friday, July 11, 2025
A METRANS funded research paper authored by USC researchers Dr. Cyrus Shahabi, Dr. Luciano Nocera, and Dr. Genevieve Giuliano studied the feasibility of freight traffic modeling from precise and localized but sparse freight data and built machine learning (ML) models that can predict freight volumes on highway segments. Freight data sources are very limited, often based on infrequent surveys or extrapolations of in-road sensor data. This research aims to close that gap by combining multiple data ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, July 11, 2025
National leaders in transportation gathered for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) National Summit on the Future of the Transportation Workforce , held June 2-4, 2025 in Westminster, Colorado. CITT Executive Director Tyler Reeb and Glenn McRae of the National Network for the Transportation Workforce served together as co-chairs of the Summit.
The Summit’s program centered around three key questions:
How do ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, July 11, 2025
METRANS has launched Transportation Pathways ( www.transportationpathways.org ), a new website which aims to introduce high school students to the field of transportation and empower them to take control of their educational future. The website consolidates information from ten schools across the Pacific Southwest region that house some of the nation’s most impressive transportation research, workforce, and training programs. “There are over 13 million people ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
The METRANS Transportation Consortium hosted the 10th International Urban Freight conference, April 9-11. This year’s conference was the largest ever, drawing 215 attendees from 15 countries and five continents.
“METRANS is committed to building bridges between research and practice,” said Marlon Boarnet, Director of METRANS and a professor at the USC Price School. “Over a quarter of the ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, fourteen University of Southern California students from the Sol Price School of Public Policy and Viterbi School of Engineering had the pleasure of welcoming David Libatique, the Deputy Executive Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Port of Los Angeles, and Aaron Hake, the Executive Director of the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) and the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The METRANS Transportation Consortium is excited to announce the publication of new a research report authored by Drs. Tom O’Brien and Tyler Reeb. Over the past year, the research team at the Center for International Trade & Transportation (CITT) collaborated with the California Department of Transportation ( Caltrans ) to evaluate and discuss the progress and setbacks the state DOT has encountered in the implementation of its agency-wide succession plan.
Succession ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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PSR served as the lead UTC sponsor of the TRB Tribal Peer Exchange. Esri, the global leader in geospatial information systems, graciously hosted the three-day event at its corporate headquarters in Redlands, CA, October 23-25, 2024.
In a landmark research initiative, Tribal transportation leaders, government officials, and researchers convened both in-person and virtually for a Transportation Research Board (TRB) ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Monday, October 28, 2024
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One of the most challenging problems in urban transportation planning is the lack of fine-grain data on freight movements. Cities and regions do not know how many trucks operate on their streets and highways and have limited freight flow information. Recent PSR- funded research shows the potential for an effective and scalable solution to truck flow estimation using advanced computational methods applied to data from existing sensors.
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METRANS UTC
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The METRANS Transportation Consortium was recently selected to lead a United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) University Partnership Program (UPP). METRANS will partner with four Southeast Asian universities to support collaboration among United States and Southeast Asian professionals, researchers, and university students in the context of the US-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP) Transportation Program and the Mekong-U.S ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Friday, May 10, 2024
Photo credit: Bailey Shen, USC
Secretary Toks Omishakin of the California State Transportation Agency visited USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy on April 8, 2024, and spoke to students about Land Use and Transportation strategies and implementations of ongoing projects in California. He highlighted the policies focusing on Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TND) and Transit Oriented Development (TOD), as well as their ...
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