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METRANS UTC
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
METRANS has scheduled an informative seminar series for the 2017 Spring 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 .
METRANS UTC
Monday, January 30, 2017
By Anusha Ramakrishnan, MSCS 2018 We are pleased to announce the formation of the new, METRANS student web team, and their upcoming launch of a new, student-focused website, which will function both as a section of the METRANS website and as a standalone site. Created by and for students, this new resource will be full of transportation-related information and opportunities designed for students. The METRANS student web page will be easily accessible directly from the main website ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, January 27, 2017
Feiyang Zhang, USC MPL 2016 Photo by METRANS The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting was held in Washington, D.C. from January 8th to January 12th, 2017. Several METRANS Region 9 representatives attended the event, and they took advantage of the opportunity to hold the first, in person meeting of the newly awarded Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center (UTC) by holding its first official, in-person meeting there. METRANS, specifically ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, January 27, 2017
Photo by METRANS Axel Hellman, University of Southern California (USC) Master of Planning student, traveled to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to be awarded 2016 METRANS Student of the Year and to attend the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), taking place January 8-12, 2017 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The Student of the Year distinction honors outstanding students from each University Transportation Center around the country and ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Currently, traffic light control systems treat all vehicles equally. However, due to different dynamics, trucks behave differently from passenger vehicles: it takes them a longer distance to stop, they have slower acceleration rates, etc. Normally, we don’t pay much attention to these differences, but they can create delays at intersections and affect the travel time of all vehicles involved. To address this issue, METRANS researcher professor Petros Ioannou conducted research titled “Design ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Anusha Ramakrishnan, MSCS 2018 METRANS is pleased to announce that Kaitlyn Kenan Zhang, METRANS student assistant and MPP candidate at the University of Southern California, was awarded the prestigious James A. Ditch Education Fund Scholarship, offered by Southern California Regional Transit Training Consortium (SCRTTC). The SCRTTC’s “focus is to provide a training resource network comprised of Community Colleges, Universities, Transit Agencies, Public and Private Organizations ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, January 9, 2017
USC Center Leads Research Effort to Solve Transportation Issues With a federal grant, USC will lead a group of institutions through research that will address challenges with transportation technology, help vulnerable populations travel, and ease the transportation of goods. A USC-hosted transportation research center has been selected to lead a multi-state effort to study and solve a range of transportation concerns, from issues with mobility to challenges that affect public access, ...
METRANS UTC MetroFreight
Monday, January 9, 2017
The MetroFreight Center of Excellence (COE) Partners were graciously hosted by The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) for a multi-faceted 2-day visit to Seoul from July 6 – 7, 2016. Dr. Sangbeom Seo, Research Fellow and Director of the Division for Logistics Policy and Industry, and Jee-Sun Lee, Associate Research Fellow, developed the program and orchestrated the schedule to include multiple venues. The activities for the Partners included: 1) a MetroFreight Business Meeting; 2) an ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Meiduo Ji, MPL 2018 Dr. Ajay Agarwal recently received the 2016 Queen’s University International Educational Innovation Award. In alignment with the Comprehensive International Plan (QUCIP) of the Queens University (located in Ontario, Canada), this award was created in 2015 to honor the outstanding individual or collaborative efforts in courses planning on international learning. Agarwal created the School of Urban and Regional Planning’s (SURP) course 827 - International ...
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