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Friday, September 30, 2016
University of Southern California Graduate Max Sherman—Urban Planning major at USC Price School of Public Policy—has just completed an internship with the Bringing Back Broadway initiative, and reported an “amazing” experience! (Photo by Max Sherman) Sherman found the internship through PriceNet, a popular resource for Price school students seeking internships and jobs. He made it through the stages leading up to an interview. He credits his use of his past experiences in Real Estate, ...
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Friday, September 30, 2016
Lauren Deaderick, MPL 2018 University of Southern California Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer was recently awarded the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 2016 Margarita McCoy Award. As the ACSP writes on its website, the Margarita McCoy Award is presented biannually to “recognize individuals who have made an outstanding contribution toward the advancement of women in planning at institutions of higher education through service, teaching, and/or research.” ...
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Friday, September 30, 2016
METRANS Associate Director of Research Professor Petros Ioannou has recently released his research and development of complex real-time simulation models that could provide much more efficient routing decisions than currently made. His research project is titled “Optimum Routing of Freight in Urban Environments under Normal Operations and Disruptions using a Co-simulation Optimization Control Approach.” His full research report can be viewed through this link. The City of Los Angeles ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016
Photo by John LIvzey On September 13, three USC students were sponsored to participate in the WTS Los Angeles Chapter reception honoring several national transit leaders, Grace Crunican, General Manager, Bay Area Rapid Transit; Nuria Fernandez, General Manager/CEO, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority; Carolyn Flowers, Acting Administrator, Federal Transit Administration; Neil McFarlane, General Manager, Trimet; and Peter Rogoff, Chief Executive Officer, Sound Transit. These five individuals ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016
METRANS researcher, Professor John Gunnar Carlsson, was recently selected as one of Popular Science magazine’s Brilliant 10 of 2016. The article described Professor Carlsson’s genius at using geometry to reframe distribution problems, thus creating “an elegant new approach” as they say. Read the full article here: http://www.popsci.com/brilliant-10-2016 . Source: snapshot from Popular Science website John Gunnar Carlsson is an assistant professor at the University ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016
Students beginning the excursion’s first guided tour on the forward deck of the USS Iowa , facing the six forward guns. Photo by Jimmy Mai, MSCE-Transportation Engineering 2017. Fifty USC students toured Navy ships as part of METRANS’ first field trip excursion of Fall 2016, boarding both the retired Battleship USS Iowa and the active USS America Museum during the annual LA Fleet Week event on the San Pedro waterfront on Saturday, September 3, 2016. The students first received ...
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Friday, September 16, 2016
By Shichun Hu, MSISE 2017 Photo by Kaitlyn Zhang Are you a student interested in considering a career in transportation but find yourself unsure of how to begin? Or perhaps you are well on your way and just need some additional support? We have great news for you! We are pleased to announce that METRANS will continue our popular mentor program this fall and is now accepting applications! METRANS continues to work hard to help interested students in exploring and possibly ...
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Friday, September 16, 2016
Photo by Blake Wagner METRANS Transportation Center kicked off its Fall 2016 Research Seminar series with a presentation by visiting professor Joseph Schwieterman, Director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. The seminar was co-sponsored by the Associated Students of Planning and Development (ASPD) and the USC chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-USC). Schwieterman is an authority on passenger travel, and his research project ...
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Friday, September 16, 2016
METRANS Transportation Center Associate Director, Professor Maged Dessouky recently completed a project named Integration of Passenger and Freight Rail Scheduling with the help of Ph.D. candidates Liang Liu, Santiago Carvajal and Lunce Fu. Nowadays, in the United States, the freight railway industry is already running without much excess capacity which has become a large issue due to rapidly increasing demand for freight railway transportation. Train scheduling in urban rail networks is greatly ...
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Friday, September 9, 2016
Photo by Blake Wagner On Wednesday, August 31 st , METRANS kicked off its Fall Lunch with a Practitioner Series with civil engineer and small business owner Stephanie Wagner. Stephanie Wagner is the founder and co-president of Wagner Engineering & Survey, Inc., an engineering firm that is actively involved with transit projects across southern California. Wagner discussed her recent work implementing “Quiet Zones” along the San Bernardino Metrolink line and ...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
METRANS continues to fund research to seek revolutionary changes to solve transportation problems, and we are pleased to announce METRANS funding of eight new transportation research projects. These projects are listed below.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
We are pleased to announce our upcoming METRANS Research Seminar Series for Fall 2016. The fall line-up includes experts from the fields of metropolitan development, urban planning, industrial engineering etc. The first research seminar, “Have App Will Travel: Comparing the Price & Speed of Fifty CTA & UberPool Trips in Chicago,” has already taken place on Wednesday, September 7th in Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240. The lecture was presented by Joseph Schwieterman, Visiting Scholar from DePaul University School of Public Service, Director, Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development. For a complete list of upcoming seminars, check here:
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
METRANS has scheduled an informative seminar series for the 2016 fall semester. The lineup includes experts from the fields of metropolitan development, urban planning, and industrial engineering. Seminars will take place at locations on the USC and CSULB campuses. Lunch or dinner will be served at each seminar. Many of the seminars are recorded and available via YouTube. Dates, seminar topics, and presenters are listed here .
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Friday, September 2, 2016
On July 2016, METRANS Director Genevieve Giuliano had the chance to reunite with several of her previous planning students now living in Korea, while attending the International Seminar on City Logistics in Seoul. The seminar was held by MetroFreight and the Korea Transportation Institute (KOTI). The USC Alumni shared their experiences after graduate school, their career plans, and advice for current students and recent graduates. (Photo by Jongwon Lee) Jongwon Lee, Master of Planning ...
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Friday, September 2, 2016
Photo by Thomas O’Brien The 14 th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) took place in Shanghai, China, on July 10-15, 2016. The program included more than 1,170 articles presented in oral and poster sessions. WCTR 2016 was a truly International event, with authors from 65 different countries. There were eight key themes during this conference, and the aim of the conference was to offer a unique opportunity to bring together experts in all disciplines of transport research ...
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