News & Announcements
METRANS UTC
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Click Here to Apply In order for your application to be considered, please attach a cover letter and resume to your application. The METRANS Transportation Center in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy seeks a qualified Project Administrator. This position is a one-year, fixed-term, 75% FTE benefits-eligible position. The position may be renewable after the first year. The successful candidate will serve as project manager for research and planning in support of the project. ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Quinn Wallace, Master of Planning student at USC Price, won first place in the American Planning Association (APA) Transportation Planning Division 2018 Student Paper Competition for her examination of harassment women face on public transit. APA, the nation’s largest membership organization of planners, has awarded top student papers on transportation planning since 2007, and Wallace is the first USC student to receive first place in this category. Wallace spent her childhood in Portland, ...
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
Dr. Andreas Molisch, Professor of Electrical Engineering at USC Viterbi School of Engineering won the 2018 IEEE Communications Society’s Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award. The Technical Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Molisch for his “pioneering contributions to wireless channel measurement and modeling and spectrally efficient wireless transmission techniques.” This includes research that was funded by METRANS Transportation Center. IEEE Communications Society, ...
METRANS UTC
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Fifth year transportation PhD student at University of California, Irvine (UCI) is Daisik Nam is actively contributing the field of optimization and maximization of efficiency of transportation systems. Born in the densely populated city Seoul, Korea, Nam remembers public transportation as an integral part of his life from a young age. After high school, he decided to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Transportation Engineering and a master’s degree in City Planning, both at Seoul National ...
METRANS UTC
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
On Tuesday, March 19 th , 2019, METRANS, PSR, and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering invited Ronald Milam to bring critical perspectives and recent research on the travel behavior implications of disruptive trends and autonomous vehicles (AVs) to the USC campus. Milam is the director of evolving the status quo at Fehr & Peers and leads the company’s research and development. His work revolves around travel market priorities, disruptive trends such as internet shopping and automated vehicles, ...
METRANS UTC
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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METRANS UTC
Sunday, April 14, 2019
PSR and the USC Bedrosian Center teamed up on August 11, 2019 to bring Dr. Emerald Archer to USC to address the challenges facing the women in the workplace. Archer, the director for the Center for the Advancement of Women in Mount Saint Mary’s University, shared that she “has dedicated her career to studying questions related to gender equity and women’s representation in non-traditional domains such as the United States military,” and offered her findings and insights to ...
METRANS UTC
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Missy Blair, Program Manager for Pima Community College’s Center for Transportation Training, has been named as one of the Top Women to Watch in Transportation by Women in Trucking (WIT), a national organization . The organization identified 53 women who stand out as top performers in the transportation industry. Missy was nominated and selected because of her multi-disciplinary efforts within the College and collaboration with business and industry to upscale drivers with the advent ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, March 15, 2019
On February 21, METRANS students, faculty, and staff toured the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project. The current, aging Gerald Desmond Bridge is a through arch bridge that connects Terminal Island to Long Beach. The replacement project, expected to cost around $1.5 billion, started in 2013 and is set to be completed in late 2019. The new bridge is slated to be one of the tallest cable stayed bridge in the United States. The Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles make up one of the busiest ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, March 15, 2019
UC Irvine Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD Student Anthony Lopez became interested in transportation upon commencing his doctoral studies at UCI when he and a lab mate began to work on a project dealing with wireless communication security for intelligent transportation systems and the future of connected vehicles. “This sparked my interest in the dynamics of automotive and transportation systems,” said Lopez, a native of Redlands, California with a computer science degree ...
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