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Friday, January 29, 2016
Photo: Students at Cal State Long Beach during METRANS Research Seminar By Arpita Sharma, MPP/MPL 2017 California State University, Long Beach hosted three METRANS Research Seminars to engage students in discussions about transportation issues this fall. Two of the research seminars focused on tracking truck movements in and out of the marine terminal and better technology to get information on how long it takes trucks to get through the ports. The last seminar focused on ...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Photo: Joel Volinski, President/Director of CUTC (Right) and Greg Winfree, Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology USDOT (Left) present Student of the Year award to Arnold Valdez Please join us in congratulating second year MPL student Arnold Valdez, selected as METRANS 2015 Student of the Year. The Student of the Year honors outstanding students from each University Transportation Center around the country. Arnold traveled to the TRB Annual Conference in Washington ...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
We are pleased to announce our upcoming METRANS Research Seminar Series. The line up includes experts from the fields of engineering, city and regional planning, architecture, and economics. Link to Spring 2016 Schedule. The first research seminar, titled, “Analysis and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Impact,” will take place on Wednesday, February 10th in RGL 101. The lecture will be jointly presented by Cyrus Shahabi, Director, Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and Associate Director, IMSC, and Ugur Demiryurek Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Eng. at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. For more information about this seminar, click here.
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Friday, January 22, 2016
Please join us in welcoming METRANS Student Correspondent Arpita Sharma to the METRANS student team. She has been working with METRANS since August 2015. Arpita is responsible for interviewing and writing articles about METRANS events, conferences, research, field trips, and more. Arpita Sharma is a current dual Master of Public Policy and Master of Planning candidate at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. She is interested in working as ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
USC Student Shichun Hu with her Mentor Chen Wang, Supply Chain Operations Research Analyst at Nestle USA We are pleased to announce that METRANS is now accepting applications for our spring mentor program! The METRANS mentor program offers students the opportunity to gain practical perspective on the transportation profession and receive advice and counsel from a transportation professional. Mentors are matched with mentees based on common career and academic interests and provide practical ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
By Griffin Kantz, Bachelor of Science, Policy Planning and Development, Sustainable Planning, 2017 On December 2, 2015, METRANS held its fifth and final research seminar event of the calendar year at the University of Southern California titled, "Cars that Kill? The Effect of Fuel Economy Standards on Vehicle Weight Dispersion and Safety." The event, jointly sponsored by the American Planning Association (APA) USC student chapter, featured USC Price Professor of Public Policy Antonio ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
METRANS Researcher Dr. Geraldine Knatz has recently published an article entitled “Seattle-Tacoma Alliance Exemplifies Change in Port Strategy” in the Journal of Commerce, Annual Review & Outlook, Perspective, 2015. In the article, Dr. Knatz identifies two general trends taking hold within the port industry, specifically the “governance and structural changes to make the port region more competitive,” and the movement of “landlord ports … beyond their traditional ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
METRANS welcomes Student Assistant Wenhao Zhang to the Student Assistant team. As a new member of the METRANS family, Wenhao’s responsibilities include managing student and professional profiles for the Mentor-Mentee Program, assisting with METRANS-associated events and activities at USC, and assistance with transportation-related research assignments for both upcoming textbooks and commissioned white papers. Wenhao is a second-year MPL student in the USC Price School of Public Policy ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
We are pleased to announce the naming of Dr. Petros Ioannou as the A.V. “Bal” Balakrishnan Chair of the Ming Hseih Department of Electrical Engineering, USC. Ioannou is a Professor of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering with joint appointments in the Departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Industrial and Systems Engineering. He received his B.Sc. degree with First Class Honors from University College, London, England, and his M.S. ...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Henrik Nolmark is the Executive Director of the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, backer of the METROFREIGHT Center of Excellence based at METRANS, and a major funder of the 2015 INUF Conference. Henrik joined host Mat Kaplan for this exclusive conversation at the Long Beach, California gathering. TransCast is available here .
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Please join us in welcoming METRANS Student Worker Shichun Hu to the METRANS student assistant team. Shichun began her work with METRANS by assisting with events promotion and logistics. More recently, she has taken the responsibility of coordinating the METRANS mentor program, a valuable and meaningful opportunity for students to seek advice from and build a relationship with a mentor in their career field of interest. Shichun is dedicated to maintaining a successful program and helping ...
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Wednesday, November 11th, Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA, shared his research and made the case that cities should charge fair market prices for on-street parking, use the meter revenue to finance public services in the metered neighborhoods, and remove off-street parking requirements. The event, held on the USC campus, was co-sponsored by the USC Master of International Public Policy and Management (IPPAM) Program and Partnership for ...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016
METRANS congratulates Dr. Geraldine Knatz, Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering, a joint appointment between the USC Price School of Public Policy and the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, on being awarded a research grant of $49,117 from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. The grant will be managed by the Price School. The Haynes Foundation issues up to $3 million each year in grants and scholarships ...
