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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Quanquan Chen, a PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering at the City College of New York, was awarded a Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Study Visit Grant. Quanquan has been working with the MetroFreight team at the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) under the guidance of advisor Dr. Alison Conway to study parking activity associated with curbside delivery to residential buildings in New York City. From November 2 nd to 21 st , 2016, she traveled to Paris, ...
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Friday, November 25, 2016
On November 17, the annual MSCE (Master of Civil Engineering) Transportation Program dinner was held in Chinatown near Downtown Los Angeles. Professor James Moore, Vice-Dean for Academic Programs of USC Viterbi School of Engineering, organized and sponsored the event, and second-year MSCE student Nicole (Haichao) Guo helped in planning and coordinating the dinner with the restaurant. This year, the dinner invitation was extended to Sol Price School of Public Policy transportation concentration ...
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Friday, November 25, 2016
Please join us in welcoming Eric Tunell to the METRANS Transportation Center student assistant team. Tunell is responsible for writing and editing newsletters and articles, as well assisting with events. Tunell is a first-year Master of Planning student in the Price School of Public Policy at USC with a concentration in Transportation and Infrastructure Planning. When asked what attracts him most about transportation, he remarked that he particularly likes the fact that transportation has such ...
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Friday, November 18, 2016
On Oct 28, 2016, the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) hosted its 15 th Mayoral Housing, Transportation, and Jobs Summit at the University of California, Los Angeles. The summit was divided into three distinct sessions: “Addressing LA’s Housing Needs: Increasing Market Rate, Workforce and Affordable Housing Production in Los Angeles,” “The Future of Transportation in Los Angeles,” and “Is There a Future for Workforce Housing in California?”. Four USC graduate ...
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Though the convenience of e-commerce has changed the way we shop, the argument about the impacts of home delivery on the environment via CO2 emissions is never settled. One of the main reason behind this is the difficulty of creating an appropriate model that is both informative and faithful to real-world scenarios. Sources: letcteachers.wordpress.com & www.kiro7.com Recently, Professor John Gunnar Carlsson and his Ph.D. student Xiangfei Meng, funded by METRANS, explored a method ...
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Photo by Nicole Guo, November 5, 2016. Ten USC transportation students and alumni attended an industry seminar held by ICTPA-SCC, the International Chinese Transportation Professional Association Southern California Chapter, at Cal Poly Pomona on Saturday, November 5. The seminar was cohosted by the Cal Poly Pomona Institute of Transportation Engineers student chapter. Featured were four practitioners from the public and private sectors who presented on the shared themes of travel forecasting ...
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Saturday, November 12, 2016
Photo by Rui Zhang The METRANS Transportation Center is pleased to welcome Rui Zhang, who joined the student assistant team earlier this semester. Zhang is a first-year Master of Planning student in the Price School of Public Policy at USC. She is a recent graduate of Wuhan University with a bachelor’s degree in urban planning, and is working primarily on the METRANS events team, managing schedules, coordinating logistics, and ensuring the success of the many events that are held ...
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Saturday, November 12, 2016
Photo by Eric Shen On Wednesday October, 26 th , Allen Yourman from Diaz·Yourman & Associates (DYA) joined 25 USC students majoring in planning and transportation engineering to share an engineer’s view of the Ports as part of the METRANS Lunch with A Practitioner Series. The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are important for the United States and the world in terms of their capacity and impact on international trade, Yourman noted. The two ports combined handle approximately ...
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Saturday, November 12, 2016
METRANS is pleased to announce that several transportation students from USC and CSULB are WTS-LA 2016 scholarship winners. WTS-LA began awarding scholarships in 1985 and has provided almost $1 million to deserving candidates since that time. This year $43,000 in scholarships were awarded to women throughout the Los Angeles region. Ms. Sunghea Khil, a senior at the University of Southern California studying Policy, Planning, and Development received the Directors Scholarship. ...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016 marked the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for ZTO Express, a Chinese delivery firm that was founded 14 years ago. It raised $1.4 billion from its listing as an IPO, the largest on Wall Street this year. ZTO is expecting significant growth potential of home deliveries in China and claims higher profit margins than FedEx or UPS. Alibaba is its main customer, accounting for 70% of ZTO’s business. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, MetroFreight ...
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Friday, November 4, 2016
Axel Hellman (MPL, Price) was selected to be the 2016 METRANS Student of the Year. The Student of the Year distinction honors outstanding students from each University Transportation Center around the country. Axel will travel to the TRB Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. in January 2017 to receive the award. Hellman worked for METRANS as a Student Assistant during the Spring 2016 and Fall 2016 semesters. Prior to that, he was involved with the center as a volunteer for ...
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Friday, November 4, 2016
Photo by USC Sol Price School of Public Policy On November 8th, Los Angeles voters will go to the polls to decide on a variety of issues and elected offices. One issue on the ballot is Measure M, a proposed sales tax increase to fund transportation projects in the county. The proposed measure would raise the county sales tax by an additional half cent and extend 2008’s Measure R until voters decide to end it. The measure is projected to raise $120 billion over the next 40 years, ...
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Friday, November 4, 2016
By Meiduo Ji, MPL 2018 On Friday, October 21st, 2016 METRANS held its fifth transportation research seminar featuring the research of three Ph.D. students in urban planning from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Southern California Association of Governments was the joint sponsor of this seminar. Marlon Boarnet professor chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis, critiqued each presentation. Attendees were students ...
