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Sunday, October 30, 2016
Photo by Blake Wagner On October 19 th , 2016, Monica Born, Vice President and Senior Engineering Manager of WSP | Parsons Brinkerhoff, visited USC and shared her journey, in particular her experience managing several METRO rail projects as a project manager. Born has been involved in multiple major rail line projects with L.A. METRO, including the Expo Line Phase 1 and 2, the Pasadena Gold Line, and the Foothill Extension. All of these projects run through several jurisdictions and impose ...
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
Photo by Andrea Maldonado Lopez Thousands of cyclists, skaters and pedestrians gathered in downtown Los Angeles on October 16th , 2016 for the 19th CicLAvia, a recurring street festival that celebrates non-vehicular forms of transit. Attendees traversed a 5.75-mile car-free route that started in MacArthur Park, stretched along Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, and extended east to Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. USC Master of Planning (MPL) students worked as volunteers for the event, ...
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
WTS-LA once again successfully organized a transportation event that attracted industry leaders, transportation professionals, and students, who came together to network and learn about the current and future trends and issues that impact the rail system in Southern California. METRANS facilitated the attendance of transportation students from local universities and all appreciate the generous donations of sponsors Alexandra Spencer, Arthur Schurr, John Livzey, USC METRANS, and Jacobs Engineering ...
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
While attending the VREF Conference on Urban Freight 2016 in Sweden, Alison Conway, Assistant Professor, The City College of New York, was interviewed by a representative of Chalmers University of Technology. Using the city streets of Gothenburg as a back drop, Professor Conway pointed out urban freight challenges and site specific solutions that she observed in regards to safety, parking and congestion. The Volvo Research & Educational Foundations (VREF) supports the research efforts of the MetroFreight Center of Excellence. Full Article
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Benjamin Miller, Senior Research Fellow, Freight Programs, University Transportation Research Center in New York (and his colleagues [or: partners]) have moved their MetroFreight research project on waste management into the pre-implementation feasibility-analysis phase. For Trucks, Trains, Tugs, and Tubes: A Model for More-Efficient Collection and Transfer of Solid Waste, the Predominant Form of First-Mile Urban Freight, they studied the feasibility of retrofitting neighborhoods ...
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Photo by Nicole Guo As transportation planners, engineers, and enthusiasts anticipate a world in which autonomous vehicles powered by alternative fuels become increasingly common, it is not surprising that BMW—a company celebrating its centennial—would spend little time reflecting on its storied past. Following appearances in Munich, Beijing, and London, the BMW Group’s exhibit Vision Next 100: Iconic Impulses finished its world tour on October 16 in Santa Monica, and there was ...
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Friday, October 21, 2016
On Oct. 4 th , 2016, as part of its Industry Outlook Series, METRANS welcomed Mr. Ben Conwell from Cushman & Wakefield to speak to an audience of around 70 students, faculty, and transportation practitioners about the outlook of E-Commerce industry and the roles played by and impact on supply chain management and transportation. Starting with a simple yet demonstrative question, “How many of you have shopped online before?” Mr. Conwell showed that e-commerce is nearly universal. He ...
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Photo by Blake Wagner On Wednesday, October 12, 2016, Dr. Maged Dessouky, professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at USC, and fourth year Ph.D. candidate from ISE USC Wentao Zhang, presented their work investigating supply chain consolidation and cooperation with the California Association of Flower Growers to students, faculty, and the public, as part of METRANS’ Fall Research Seminar Series. Their project started more than four years ago with the question: ...
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Friday, October 14, 2016
By Shichun Hu, MSISE 2017 When talking about transformers, what would you think of? Maybe the childhood must-see TV series? Or the movie series with stunning image quality and animations? Either way, one still sees them as a part of science fiction. Source: The Internet However, on April 1 st (yes, on April Fool’s Day), a Turkish Company named Letvision uploaded a video on Youtube to showcasing its product. In that video, you can see a BMW moving slowly toward the controller ...
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Friday, October 14, 2016
On September 23rd, 20 USC students led by two professors from the University of Southern California visited three transportation management centers: the Los Angeles Regional Transportation Management Center (LARTMC), Transportation Management Center at the City of Pasadena, and the Port of Long Beach Joint Command and Control Center. Photo by Eric Shen The first stop on the agenda was LARTMC, the Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) District 7 headquarters that also houses ...
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Friday, October 14, 2016
Photo by Eric Shen On October 5th, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) USC chapter held its first event of this Fall semester, featuring an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) application in the industry. Darryl DePencier, a professional urban planner at Kittelson & Associates, gave an up-close look at how to use Bluetooth technology in investigating travel time reliability. Attendees attended included students at both the graduate and undergraduate level and alums ...
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Tour attendees posing after arrival at the Foothill Transit Arcadia Division. Photo by Foothill Transit and the USC Price Alumni Association. On September 17th, 20 USC students and 3 USC Price alumni attended METRANS’ second and final field trip of Fall 2016, a behind-the-scenes tour of the Operations and Maintenance Facility for Foothill Transit in Arcadia, CA. This field trip was a collaboration between METRANS, the USC Price Alumni Association, and Foothill Transit, the primary public ...
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Photo by Blake Wagner September 21, METRANS Transportation Center held its second Research Seminar for the Fall 2016 semester, featuring Peter Gordon, Emeritus Professor of the USC Price School of Public Policy, and John Cho, Associate Regional Planner from the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). SCAG was the joint sponsor of this seminar. The featured research focused on the “agglomeration” effects in cities by utilizing business location data, especially at ...
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Janell Goddard Pictured: Janell Goddard (Biola University), Haichao (Nicole) Guo (USC MSCE ’17), and Biying Zhao (USC MPL ’16) The Intelligent Transportation Society of California recently held its Annual Conference on September 19-21 in Indian Wells, CA. Six students from the University of Southern California (USC) and Biola University had the pleasure of participating in the conference as volunteers, myself included. I assisted at the registration table ...
