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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
The VREF invites PhD students and researchers in early stages of their career (max 5 years after PhD exam) to apply for grants for short-term study visits. The invitation is continuously open until October 31st, 2017, and the study visit should be carried out before December 31st, 2017. The VREF wishes to have wide distribution of grants between universities, thus in the first half of 2017 (up to 30 June 2017) a maximum of one (1) grant will be awarded to the same home university. Read more information about the SVG-application
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Friday, February 24, 2017
Welcome to one of METRANS’s special columns, “What’s Cool in Transportation!” I am your writer Shichun Hu, a graduate student studying industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California. I am excited to be able to head up this column focusing on one of my passions, namely new and cool developments at the intersection of transportation and technology. Before I begin, please allow me to stress that my goal for this column is to present both reliably sourced ...
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Friday, February 24, 2017
By Feiyang Zhang, USC MPL, 2017 On Wednesday, February 15th, on the USC main campus, a group of students had the opportunity receive career advice from Meredith Canterbury, senior Geographic Information Science (GIS) Specialist at LSA Associates, Inc. at the first METRANS Lunch with a Practitioner event of the spring semester. Not surprisingly, GIS is becoming increasingly popular with students as they recognize its growing importance and applications in planning, engineering, ...
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Friday, February 17, 2017
By Jisu Lee, MPL 2017 We are pleased to announce that Deepa Rama Hegde has started a new position at METRANS, working as a research assistant under METRANS Director, Professor Genevieve Giuliano, on “Evaluating Freight Efficiency Metrics,” a METRANS research project funded by Caltrans to evaluate freight efficiency metrics. This study aims to develop a set of performance measures to monitor the performance of the California freight system and measure progress to respond the ...
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Friday, February 17, 2017
By Seva Rodnyansky, Ph.D. Candidate in Urban Planning and Development, USC Price METRANS and USC Lusk Center for Real Estate co-sponsored a seminar on February 10, 2017 to host Dr. Elisabeth Perlman of the U.S. Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies. Perlman, who holds a Ph.D. Degree in Economics from Boston University, is broadly interested in U.S economic history and in urban and regional economics. Her presentation, "Dense Enough to Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and ...
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Kristine Rose O’Brien is a USC alumnus. She completed a Master of Planning with a concentration in Transportation and Infrastructure in 2015 from the USC Price School of Public Policy. Just this year, Kristine started her new position in the United States Senate as a Legislative Aide for Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY). Our conversation follows. Can you tell us a bit about your job? I recently accepted a position as a Legislative Aide for Senate Minority Leader, ...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017
By Deepa Hegde, MS in Business Analytics 2017 METRANS is pleased to introduce student assistant Meiduo Ji, who assists as both a member of the administrative team and as a research assistant. Ji was born in China, and completed her Bachelor’s of Engineering in Geographic Information Systems from Beijing Normal University in 2016. She is now a first-year Master of Planning student at the USC Price School of Public Policy, concentrating in transportation. (Photo by Meiduo Ji) ...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017
By Deepa Hegde, MS in Business Analytics, USC Marshall The METRANS Transportation Center is pleased to introduce Student Assistant Yilin Zhang, who has recently joined the Center’s administrative team. Zhang was born and raised in China, where she completed her undergraduate degree in Administration in Land Resource Management at Nanjing Agriculture University. She is now pursuing her Master of Planning (MPL) degree with a concentration in transportation at the Price School of ...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017
With appreciation for the students that help make METRANS and its constituent university transportation centers what they are today, I am proud to launch this monthly column featuring transportation student projects and papers. My goal is to disseminate noteworthy samples of just some of the brilliant work continually produced by transportation students, in an effort not only to share their accomplishments, but also to inform and inspire. In this first installment I include two papers, each ...
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Friday, February 3, 2017
As big data becomes increasingly important in our world, ensuring that this data is not misused becomes ever more vital. In addition to the obvious potential for deliberate misuse, there is always the risk of a naive implementation of data techniques resulting in invalid results. For most types of data, the statistical techniques required are well explored and often taught in basic statistics classes. Data with a spatial component, however, has several unique issues that are often not well understood ...
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
University of Southern California (USC) students David Roachford and Fernanda Gushken were recently awarded 2017 California Transportation Foundation (CTF) scholarships. Both represented METRANS and USC at the 23rd Annual Transportation Education Symposium held in Santa Cruz, CA in November 2016. David Roachford is pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies and Planning, with an emphasis in sustainable planning and a minor in spatial studies, and plans to graduate this spring. ...
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
Shichun Hu, MSISE 2017 Photo by Joseph Ritzman, SSA Marine On January 18 th , METRANS kicked off its Spring 2017 Research Seminar series with USC ISE Professor John Carlsson presenting his research, “Quantifying the Impact of Next-Generation Modes of Delivery.” “A new delivery paradigm has emerged for transporting goods on the so-called last mile to households, pioneered by such services as Google Shopping Express, Amazon Prime, Instacart, and Walmart To Go, ...
