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Friday, February 26, 2016
Shichun Hu, MSISE, Spring2016 Photo Credit: Shichun Hu, USC MSISE, Spring 2016 On February 24, 2016, HEC Montréal professor Jean-François Cordeau presented his research, the Benders Decomposition for Production Routing Under Demand Uncertainty on the USC campus. Cordeau first introduced the background of production routing problems and followed with his research on how to use benders decomposition approach to solve the stochastic positive realization problem (PRP) ...
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Friday, February 26, 2016
On Tuesday, February 23m METRANS Transportation Center and Urban Growth Seminar co-sponsored Research Seminar “Urban Design and Street Typology, Do They Matter?“ presented by Dr. Billy Riggs, Professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Consultant at Sustinere Consulting. Riggs shared the results of a study he conducted of the impact of two-way streets on accidents, property values, economic growth, and crime along these streets. In order to understand the impact that two-way streets may ...
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Friday, February 26, 2016
Photo Credit: Faiyang Zhang, USC MPL 2016 METRANS researcher, assistant professor and the John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair of Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in USC, Ketan Savla, has recently completed his METRANS research project: ``A Dynamical Framework for Integrated Corridor Management”. In this project, Savla developed a framework for dynamical analysis and control synthesis for integrated corridors. The key components of this research ...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Advisory Board Member and dear friend to METRANS, Domenick Louis Miretti, passed away on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, after a brief and brave battle with cancer. He was 83 years old at the time of his passing. Domenick was born September 12, 1932 in Rancho Palos Verdes, and he later lived in Chino, El Segundo, and in Harbor City where he settled with his family. Domenick was a founding member of the METRANS Advisory Board and one of METRANS strongest supporters. He was a stalwart proponent ...
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Mingyang Hao, USC MSCE 2016 Photo: John Lower sharing his powerpoint with students. Photo Credit: Ganqing Du, MPL 2017 Iteris Associate Vice President John Lower kicked off the METRANS Spring 2016 Lunch with A Practitioner Series with a screening of “IF YOU DON'T COUNT IT, IT DOESN'T COUNT,” a newly created presentation of transportation systems and traffic sensors at ITERIS, followed by a lively discussion of applications of this technology as we move toward ...
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Friday, February 19, 2016
By Vince Wenhao Zhang, USC MPL 2016 Photo: TRB Annual Meeting Panel. Photo Credit: Eric Shen at shenphotography.org The Transportation Research Board (TRB) held its 95th Annual Meeting from January 10–14, 2016 in Washington D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Over 12,000 professionals in the field of transportation from around the globe were attracted to attend this annual event. During the meeting, more than 5,000 presentations were given in nearly 800 ...
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Friday, February 19, 2016
By Katie Jagodka, USC BA/BS 2016 Photo: Fred Chang Recently graduated with a B.S. in Policy, Planning and Development from the Price School, University of Southern California in December 2015, Fred Chang now spends his days as a Transportation Planner at Iteris, Inc. in downtown Los Angeles. On an average week, Chang divides his time between four to five different transportation projects. One of the major projects on which he is currently working is the Alameda County ...
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Friday, February 12, 2016
Photo: Axel Hellman Please join us in welcoming METRANS Student Worker Axel Hellman to the METRANS student assistant team. Axel started working with METRANS this month, and will specialize in writing, editing, and research review. Axel Hellman is a progressive degree student at the University of Southern California, in the last semester of his senior year of his undergraduate degree, and in his second semester as a graduate student pursuing a Master’s degree in planning. Hellman ...
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Friday, February 12, 2016
Photo: Tom O'Brien In December 2015, Thomas O’Brien, METRANS Associate Director of CSULB Programs, concluded work on two METRANS research projects, funded by Caltrans and USDOT. The first study, Changing Workforce Development Needs for Regional Transit and Transportation Agencies in California , investigates the effect that SB 375 has had on the workforce needs and constraints of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in the state. Through an intensive series of interviews ...
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Photo Credit: Ganqing Du METRANS kicked off the Spring 2016 Research Seminar series with “Analysis and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Traffic Congestion,” a presentation by Dr. Ugur Demiryurek , associate director of Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at USC, Viterbi. Demiryurek conducted the research with his colleague Cyrus Shahabi and doctoral student, Dingxiong Deng. In their research, Demiyurek et al. investigate machine learning techniques, to model and predict future ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016
We are pleased to release our Spring Lunch with a Practitioner Series lineup. The Lunch with Practitioner series was launched in Spring 2015 with the goal of providing a forum for students to meet and learn from practitioners throughout the transportation industry, from recent graduates through senior professionals, from planning and engineering, and from both the the public and private sectors. Our past events have featured speakers with backgrounds in construction management, urban ...
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Friday, February 5, 2016
Photo Credit: Feiyang Zhang, MPL 2016 METRANS research project 1.1-b entitled, “The Freight Landscape: Using Secondary Data Sources to Describe Metropolitan Freight Flows” was published in December 2015. Genevieve Giuliano, Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government and Director of METRANS Transportation Center, led and conducted the research along with USC doctoral students Nathan Hutson, Sanggyun Kang, and Quan Yuan. In their research, the team developed ...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
IFFSTAR hosted the first MetroFreight Urban Freight Training Seminar in Paris in December 2015. The two-day interactive workshop brought regional and municipal-level transportation planners from across France together to learn about legislative changes impacting the work of the planning agency, the results of the recently completed Paris Freight Survey and to discuss Best Practices. The trainees worked in teams to address urban logistics challenges and presented their findings to leading industry experts. The format proved popular with the trainees who welcomed the opportunity to work with peers from other regions and to learn from practitioners. The training will be repeated in 2016 and will include not only transport professionals, but city planners and representatives from economic development and commerce departments as well. Below are some photos from the training seminar.
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