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Sunday, April 30, 2017
Shichun Hu, MSISE 2017 Welcome back to What’s Cool in Transportation! Previously, we discussed the history, the status, and the core battery techniques of electric vehicles (EVs). And today we will finish this series about EVs. What will this piece be about? You may reasonably guess it will be on the future of EV, or perhaps the differences between different EVs (hybrid, plug-in charge, etc.). But our last column won’t be on any of these topics. I don’t know for ...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, METRANS showcased the research of two USC PhD candidates in Urban Planning and Development as part of the METRANS Research Seminar Series. Sanggyun Kang presented his research, “Warehouse Location Choice: A case study in Los Angeles, CA,” an evaluation of the changes in warehouse location choice factors. Eun Jin Shin’s research, “Disparities in Access to Opportunities across neighborhood Types: Evidence from the Los Angeles Region,” focused ...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
METRANS researchers convened Southern California-based regional and city planners for the Metropolitan Transportation Management Certificate pilot course, a class conducted over four consecutive Fridays in February and March which addressed multi-modal transportation conflicts in urban areas. Participants in this course included employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) and Caltrans, as well as representatives from the office of Los Angeles City Council ...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Devin Chan is currently enrolled in Global Logistics Specialist Professional Designation Program at California State Long Beach offered through the Center for International Trade and Transportation. He is also working as Logistic Apprentice at Kuehne+Nagel, Inc at Torrance, California. In this article, we share his journey to becoming an apprentice at Kuehne+Nagel, Inc. Chan was born in Paramount, California, USA, and grew up very close to Long Beach. “As for my family,” Chan ...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
METRANS is proud to introduce its newly awarded and funded research center, the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR UTC), led by the University of Southern California (USC), funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. PSR will lead a region covering California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific Island territories, and includes the following partners: California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) University of California, Davis (UC Davis) University ...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
In my previous column, I interviewed Jessica Meany, a woman who is working to change the transportation field in Los Angeles by making transit accessible to people of all incomes, ages, and cultures. Cyclists ride along the main streets during CicLAvia, Photo by Arpita Sharma This week, I explore how diversity might be changing the way we think about cycling. To most of us, diversity represents the inclusion of a variety of people from different cultural or racial backgrounds, but ...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017
In celebration of the brilliant and enterprising students from our multi-university METRANS community, we present this second installment of our ‘A’ Papers column – in which I highlight recent and outstanding academic publications by transportation students. This issue features transportation research by two of my fellow undergrads in the Sol Price School of Public Policy. Soobin Kim, a junior in Urban Studies and Planning, wrote "Bus Shelters in Los Angeles" in a transportation ...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017
METRANS is proud to announce that PhD. candidate in Urban Planning and Development at the Price School of Public Policy at USC, Eun Jin Shin, was recently hired by Yale-NUS College, Singapore, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Urban Studies. Shin was born and raised in South Korea, where she completed her BS and MS degrees in Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering at Seoul National University. She then completed her Master’s of Urban Planning degree at University of Washington-Seattle, ...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017
by Shinhee Lee, USC MPL 2018 It is not surprising to know that inequality lies in commuting patterns between different income groups. However, how does workplace location affect this pattern? As part of METRANS’ spring research seminar series, Associate Professor Lingqian Hu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, came to the USC Main Campus on March 29th, 2017 to present her research (co-authored by Professor Robert Schneider) titled “Different ways to get to the same workplace: ...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
METRANS researchers presented a wide range of research at the 96 th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting this January in Washington, D.C. The spotlight theme for the 2017 meeting was “Transportation Innovation: Leading the Way in an Era of Rapid Change.” TRB 2017 attracted approximately 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world and featured more than 5,000 presentations in over 800 sessions and workshops, addressing topics of interest to policymakers, ...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The METRANS Transportation Center has grown substantially over the past 19 years, beginning in 1998 as one federally funded University Transportation Center (UTC) led by the University of Southern California (USC) and California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). It currently houses five research centers receiving funding from both public- and private-sector donors. The most recent addition is the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center, a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded ...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) named CSULB student Jose Jimenez as one of its 2016-17 TRB Minority Student Fellows at its 96 th Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. this January. Jimenez, who completed his B.S. in civil engineering in 2016, is a current M.S. student under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Shailesh Chandra of the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management. Jimenez has worked on two projects under Chandra over the past year, one of which, titled ...
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Friday, April 7, 2017
By Ellen Jisu Lee, MPL 2017 On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, METRANS hosted Therese McMillan, Chief Planning Officer of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (commonly known as Metro), who presented “Juggling Crystal Balls: Tackling LA County’s Transportation Future” as part of the METRANS Practitioner Speaker Series. McMillan provides executive leadership for Metro’s planning, grant funding, and real estate functions. (Photo by Ling Feng) ...
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Friday, April 7, 2017
By Efram Stone, MSCE & MPL 2017 My previous two columns explored technical issues that are important to understand when using data for transit-related projects. In this article, I decided to discuss a sensitive topical issue that has been discussed in two recent publications. This issue is the impact of transit on rents. Transit is an amenity, and all additional amenities in a neighborhood are expected to increase the price of housing there, whether the amenity is transit or something ...
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Friday, April 7, 2017
By Natalie Xuya Jiang, USC MS CE 2018 The method and outcome of truck routing choice has been a focus of conversation worldwide. Key factors in that choice have been identified as a balance between choices which incur a minimal amount of value of time (VOT) and those which ensure a high value (level) of reliability (VOA). A large numbers of stated preference surveys have been conducted in an effort to understand these key factors of route choice. In order to better utilize these ...
