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Tuesday, December 26, 2017
On December 6th, 2017, the Pacific Southwest Region 9 University Transportation Center (PSR) sponsored students from member universities California State University Long Beach (CSULB), the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to attend the Intelligent Transportation Society of California (ITS California) Southern California Workshop, "Harnessing Big Data & Analytics to Improve Transportation." I was one of these fortunate students. ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Sunday, December 17, 2017
As massive tunnel-boring machines dig the Regional Connector, a new subway link underneath downtown Los Angeles, a "job walk" hosted by the USC AEC Construction Alumni Group toured one of the future station sites. On Tuesday, December 5th, some fellow UCLA urban planning students and I journeyed to the offices of Regional Connector Constructors, a joint venture of Skanska and Traylor Brothers, and met up with a group of USC construction management students and alumni for the tour. I donned a ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Meet Yoko Igawa, MPA '09, Public Affairs Manager at Foothill Transit, who credits her experience at the Price School with teaching her how to "swing to find her swing." Q: What was your most inspirational moment as a Price student? A: It's impossible for me to identify just one moment. It's easier for me to describe how having been a Price student has made a lasting impact on the guiding values that continue to inspire my career goals. I had such amazing professors and equally ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Monday, December 11, 2017
On October 17, 2017, METRANS and USC Women in Management (WIM) brought Nicola Franklin to the USC Main Campus for an engaging and lively program on Career Advancement for women. Franklin is the Talent Acquisition Operations Director at Tronc (formerly Tribune Publishing). METRANS was proud to partner with WIM, formed in 1979 in response to the need for an organization for women in academic leadership positions. Originally composed of about 20 visionary women, WIM now boasts a membership of ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Financing has become an increasing challenge for California infrastructure, and a group of recent graduates from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs addressed it in their recent research, California Infrastructure Financing Alternatives, an insightful project on financing alternatives, soon to be published by their university. [1] Currently, the costs of Californias much-needed infrastructure ...