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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
VREF MetroFreight New York Team Sponsors On April 7, 2016, several MetroFreight team members from New York participated in a conference on Transportation Transformed: Advancing Eco-Friendly Mobility, which was sponsored by the University Transportation Research Center and co-sponsored by the New York State Department of Transportation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Speakers that day reflected on the challenges and potential for encouraging preferred ...
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Friday, May 27, 2016
METRANS student assistant Fred Chang received two graduation awards for excellent performance during his undergraduate studies at USC. The two honors are the Emery E. Olson Award and the Dean's Senior Merit Award. The Emery E. Olson Award, given to a student displaying excellence in scholarship and leadership potential, recognizes Chang’s contributions to METRANS Transportation Center, his groundbreaking establishment of the first ever USC Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA), ...
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Friday, May 27, 2016
Photo by Efram Stone On May 13 th , twelve students from USC, UCLA, CSULB, and CSUN participated in an exciting opportunity to ride the Expo Line to Santa Monica, one week before the Metro line opened to the public. WTS-LA, part of an international organization dedicated to the advancement of women in transportation, organized the trip, which brought together students, transportation professionals, and transit enthusiasts, to celebrate the first passenger train to Santa Monica since 1953. ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2016
For many students, the summer is not just a time to relax from schoolwork, but a chance to find professional development opportunities. This summer, METRANS Student Assistant Axel Hellman will be interning at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a bi-state transportation agency that operates ports, airports, bus terminals, bridges and tunnels in the New York metropolitan area. Hellman, a New Jersey native, is a recently received his Bachelor’s degree from the Price ...
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Friday, May 20, 2016
METRANS researchers Dr. Cyrus Shahabi and Dr. Ugur Demiryurek, both of the Integrated Media Systems Center at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering, recently published their research findings. This project is one of the METRANS projects funded in full by Caltrans. The research addressed the problem of real-time traffic prediction by developing algorithms to deal with missing values and missing sensors for large road networks. The final report is titled “Analysis and Prediction of Spatiotemporal ...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Earlier this year the Transportation Research Board published a new study on interregional travel behaviors and policy. This research was also presented on the 2016 TRB Annual Meeting, January 10-14, 2016. The Committee for a Study of Intercity Passenger Travel Issues and Opportunities in Short-haul Markets was formed to investigate this issue. METRANS UTC Director, Dr. Genevieve Giuliano of the University of Southern California, served on this committee. In this report, interregional travel refers ...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016
This month, MetroFreight published new research by Laetitia Dablanc and Adeline Heitz of the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Spatial Planning, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR) at the Université Paris-Est. Their report, Logistics Spatial Patterns in Paris: The Rise of the Paris Basin as a Logistics Megaregion, builds upon prior IFSTTAR research exploring the spatial growth of the freight and logistics sector in Île-de-France and the larger Paris basin. Dablanc ...
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Friday, May 6, 2016
Photo by Victoria Deguzman METRANS Transportation Center is proud to announce that all five of the Railway Association of Southern California 2016 Scholarships were awarded to students associated with the two partner Universities: University of Southern California Ph.D. candidate Nathan Hutson; California State University, Long Beach Bachelor of Business Administration student Michelle Morales; University of California, Irvine Ph.D. candidate and former METRANS Student Assistant, Gabriel ...
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
Call for papers The Urban Freight Platform invites you to submit papers for the The VREF conference on Urban Freight 2016: Plan for the future - sharing urban space 17-19th of October 2016, Gothenburg The second international conference organised by the Urban Freight Platform will discuss the complexity of freight transport in urban areas with a focus on the need to share space both at the city and regional level. Topics will include: sharing space for freight and passenger ...
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
Photo by: USC Alumni Association On Wednesday, May 4th, METRANS Director Dr. Genevieve Giuliano introduced Phillip Washington, CEO of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) at “Transit Trends: LA’s Transit Renaissance,” a breakfast attended by 75 USC alumni. The event, organized by USC Alumni Association’s Real Estate Network, provides professionals the opportunity to expand their network by connecting them with fellow Trojans from ...
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
We are pleased to announce that a new study of real-time truck driver management, funded by METRANS Transportation Center and the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), was published in February 2016. Conducted by METRANS researchers Dr. Burkhard Englert, Dr. Mehrdad Aliasgari, and Dr. Shadnaz Asgari from the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach, the study introduces a mobile application researchers developed to track truck ...
