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Thursday, August 25, 2016
The Summer 2016 Issue of METRANS News is now available. Click here for a PDF version. METRANS News is generally published three times a year and summarizes METRANS research, education and outreach activities. It highlights METRANS researchers, conferences and other events, recent publications, interviews with key individuals involved in METRANS, and other newsworthy activities and events. It is distributed to university transportation centers and faculty throughout the U.S., to federal, state, and local public agencies, and to the transportation industry. To be added to the mailing list for a hard copy of the newsletter or to receive an email announcement regarding each new issue, please contact [email protected] .
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Saturday, August 20, 2016
(Photo by Victor Xie) METRANS is proud to announce that Sheng’ao (Victor) Xie was recently hired by WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) at the firm’s Salt Lake City office as a Planner I, with a specialization in transportation. Xie first joined METRANS in Spring 2015 as Student Communication Assistant and has since earned his Master of Planning degree from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Xie ‘s first project at the PB office is the Mountain Accord Program, a comprehensive ...
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Friday, August 19, 2016
Photo by Nicole Guo On August 12 th , METRANS hosted its second Summer Research Seminar, titled “Transit Oriented Development and Community Sense, a Case Study in Hong Kong.” The seminar featured USC Price School graduate, Dr. Sylvia He, who is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. Dr. He primarily specializes in studying travel behavior in Hong Kong and mainland China, however, she is currently ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
MetroFreight researcher Alison Conway and co-authors received the 14 th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) best paper award for the Freight Transport and Logistics track. Alison Conway, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, City College of New York, presented the paper, Cargo cycles for local delivery in New York City: Performance and impacts, during the Electric Vehicles, Alternative Fuels and Cargo Bikes session on July 14, 2016 . Her co-authors include Jialei ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
The 14 th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) took place on July 10 – 15, 2016 in Shanghai, China. The program included more than 1,170 papers presented in oral and poster sessions. The authors from 65 countries ensured that WCTR 2016 was a truly international event. The MetroFreight Center of Excellence was well represented by research project presentations given by faculty, researchers and doctoral students from the University of Southern California (USC), California State ...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016
by Jimmy Mai, MSCE 2017 On Thursday, August 4 th , METRANS and MetroFreight jointly sponsored a research seminar featuring a presentation by Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, “The Rise of Instant Delivery Services in European Cities; What Are the Potential Impacts on the Urban Freight Routine?” Over 20 researchers, professional practitioners, and students attended the event. Dr. Genevieve Giuliano, Director of METRANS, introduced the speaker and pointed out that instant delivery, ...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016
Recent Ph.D. graduate and METRANS researcher Dr. E-Sok (Andy) Hong has been hired as a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Population and Public Health in the University of British Columbia. Hong began his studies at USC in the fall of 2011, bringing with him a B.S. in informatics, and two Master’s degrees from the University of Washington – one in urban planning and the other in public administration. While at USC he worked as a graduate instructor for 500+ level courses. ...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016
Ketan Savla, Professor at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering, recently received a 2016 Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund his research proposal, From Microscopic to Macroscopic Traffic Flow: A Queuing Theoretic Approach . This research project applies queuing theory to control traffic flow, shifting attention from interaction of individual vehicles to overall traffic flow, providing a new vision ranging from ...
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Friday, August 5, 2016
On July 28 th , DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute and the Transportation Research Forum held a webinar to present transportation research conducted by Joseph Schwieterman, professor at DePaul University, and upcoming METRANS Fall 2016 research seminar presenter. He was joined by Chris Kopp, Transportation Planning Practice Leader for HNTB Corporation. Schwieterman’s research explored the travel behavior of citizens in Chicago and how this impacts the future acceptance and usage ...
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Friday, August 5, 2016
Photo by Feiyang Zhang, USC MPL 2016 Four USC student members of WTS in transportation-related fields were able to attend a recent site tour of the Long Beach Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project, a professional event organized by the WTS Los Angeles area chapter. The students—Wai Shong Chan, Griffin Kantz, Biying Zhao, and Feiyang Zhang—joined 20 professional WTS-LA members on July 22, 2016, for an engineering and planning briefing at the project’s Long Beach offices, followed ...
