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Monday, November 17, 2025
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On October 22, 2025, over 60 USC Price School of Public Policy undergraduate students had the opportunity to meet California State Senator Laura Richardson and engage in a discussion about her career in politics across the local, city, state, and federal levels. Dr. Marlon Boarnet, Professor of Public Policy at USC, led the discussion with Senator Richardson. Discussion topics included career advice for students, California’s affordability ...
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Monday, November 17, 2025
From left to right: Dr Marlon Boarnet, Professor of Public Policy at USC; Dr. Peng Hao, Associate Research Engineer, UC Riverside; András Csepinszky, Founder & CEO of Mo TeRe; Nathan Mustafa, Deputy Public Works Director/ City Engineer for the City of Riverside
Dr. Marlon Boarnet, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the METRANS Transportation Consortium, joined the lineup of speakers at the 2025 Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Forum, Driving ...
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Monday, September 29, 2025
From left to right: Dr. Noel Hacegaba, Commissioner Bonnie Lowenthal, Robert Loya, Sal DiCostanzo, and Dr. Tom O'Brien.
This year’s CITT State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall celebrated the legacy of resilience in our Port Town communities. Town Hall attendees ranged from supply chain and transportation industry veterans to community stakeholders to students—each in their own way reflecting on the importance of global trade to our community. After ...
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Monday, September 15, 2025
On Tuesday, September 9, 2025, USC ITE and METRANS co-hosted the semester’s first speaker series event featuring Dr. Noel Hacebaga, Chief Operating Officer of the Port of Long Beach, and Michael Cano, Interim Senior Executive Officer of Multimodal Integrated Planning at LA Metro. Together, they represented two different perspectives of Southern California’s goods movement industry. METRANS director, Professor Marlon Boarnet, moderated the discussion.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Driver-assistance systems are essential to reduce accidents and improve efficiency through efficient convoying. To improve their effectiveness, it is important that vehicles are able to communicate with each other, informing each other of their intentions, and warning each other of obstacles or cross traffic that only some of the vehicles might see. However, since such communication must be done wirelessly, reliability and latency of the communication can be an issue. A METRANS ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
A new report from Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT) researchers validates the feasibility of university-industry partnerships and their ability to support the development of multi-tiered curricula to empower workforce development in the transportation and mobility sector. The talent pipelines piloted in the study demonstrate the unique opportunities enabled by an alignment between educational programs and industry engagement, with an eye ...
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Aisling O’Reilly, a PhD student in Urban Planning and Development at the University of Southern California, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship, receiving the maximum award of $35,500. This fellowship is awarded annually to about 150 students across the nation pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines, recognizing their potential to contribute to the future of transportation.
“The Eisenhower ...
Thursday, January 23, 2025
A new research article penned by Pacific Southwest Region UTC researcher and Director, Dr. Marlon Boarnet; Dr. Susan Handy, Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST); Sara Schremmer, Policy Director at NCST; and Atorod Azizinamini, Director of the Accelerated Bridge Construction UTC, highlights the mechanisms through with UTCs serve as technology transfer hubs.
The article was featured in TR News, TRB's bimonthly magazine, which features timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation.
Read the full article here.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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