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Saturday, May 27, 2017
By Deng Yang, MSCE 2018 We are pleased to introduce Lead Student Assistant Madhurima (Maddie) Bhattacharyya, who recently joined the Center’s administrative team. Maddie was born and raised in India where she completed her Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from KIIT University in 2015. After graduating, she worked as a Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant Technology Solutions for a year. She is now pursuing a Master of Science (MS) in Engineering ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017
METRANS On the Move , the METRANS weekly student news and events e-bulletin, welcomes its new editor-in-chief. Second-year USC Price Master of Planning student Rui Zhang will be taking over supervision of all content sourcing and publication for the newsletter, following the graduation of 2016-2017 editor-in-chief Kaitlyn Zhang (no relation but quite a cool coincidence). Rui is entering this new role with abundant prior experience in publications editing, research support, and event coordination ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017
METRANS Research Assistants, John Ho and Julia Brown, were recognized as first place winners for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Story Maps Student Challenge. SCAG and Esri, a software company specializing in mapping and spatial data analytics, organized the Challenge for college and university students to display their research to more than 1,000 elected officials, planning practitioners and various public, private and non-profit stakeholders. Winners of the ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017
Price undergraduate David Roachford presented his senior thesis at the Urban Affairs Association annual conference in Minneapolis. Weeks before completing his bachelor of science degree from the USC Price School of Public Policy, David Roachford stood alongside university professors and doctoral students to present his senior thesis on gentrification in neighborhoods surrounding Los Angeles Metro stations at the Urban Affairs Association annual conference in Minneapolis. “I looked at the ...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
Kaitlyn (Kenan) Zhang, METRANS Editor-in-Chief & Publisher of the weekly METRANS student newsletter, graduated from the USC Price School of Public Policy this week with a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree and a Graduate Certificate in Civil Engineering – Transportation Systems. Although the METRANS staff is sorry to see her leave, we are immensely proud of her accomplishments. Kaitlyn began her career with METRANS as part of our events team, planning and hosting the 2016 Council of University ...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
On April 27 th , the Los Angeles Chapter of WTS held its Transportation Résumé Book Mixer at Fehr & Peers Downtown Los Angeles office. Students were given opportunity to network with transportation professionals from the fields of planning, engineering, environment, public policy, and logistics. From left Nicole Guo, USC ViterbiMSCE 2017; Xiaonan Han, USC Viterbi MSEMT 2017; Todd Nugyen, WTS-LA Transportation Resume Book Chair; Xiaobei Wu, USC Viterbi MSEMT 2017; Efram Stone, USC ...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
The Spring 2017 Issue of METRANS News is now available. Click here for a PDF version. METRANS News is generally published three times a year and summarizes METRANS research, education and outreach activities. It highlights METRANS researchers, conferences and other events, recent publications, interviews with key individuals involved in METRANS, and other newsworthy activities and events. It is distributed to university transportation centers and faculty throughout the U.S., to federal, state, and local public agencies, and to the transportation industry. To be added to the mailing list for a hard copy of the newsletter or to receive an email announcement regarding each new issue, please contact [email protected] .
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Saturday, May 6, 2017
On April 13th, the 10th Annual UCLA Downtown Los Angeles Forum was held at the California Endowment Center, focusing on practical limitations and concerns of connected and automated vehicle technology. The forum was composed of four sections addressing the difficult choices and possible strategies that public policy makers interacting with private industry will have to make. Ten different speakers from both the public and private sectors presented a mix of practice and research, and the audience ...
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Saturday, May 6, 2017
METRANS is proud to congratulate USC Price PhD in Urban Planning and Development, 2015, Sandip Chakrabarti, on joining the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad this fall as Assistant Professor in the Public Systems Group. Currently he is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans. He teaches courses in transportation planning, social policy and environmental justice. Chakrabarti received a Bachelor's in Architecture ...
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Saturday, May 6, 2017
On April 5th, USC Price School of Public Policy students had the opportunity to hear from a veteran and shaker in the field of public transportation, John Fasana. Fasana currently serves as the Mayor of Duarte, a city of 21,000 in the San Gabriel Valley, and also as Chairman of the Board for the LA County Metro. He first arrived at Metro back in the 1990s under a heavily conservative County government—much different than the County we have today. Over time, he has seen many changes at Metro, ...
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Two public webinars were convened to gather information from stakeholders and the community on the expected impacts of freight, and possible mitigation strategies. The webinars were titled Addressing Congestion & Delays Caused by Freight and were streamed live from the University of Southern California (USC) on two separate occasions: May 23, 2017 and May 30, 2017. The webinar presenters included Jose Marquez-Chavez, Senior Transportation Planner, Caltrans Office of Freight ...
