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METRANS UTC PSR
Sunday, June 25, 2017
I am the outgoing METRANS Lead Student Assistant and a recent graduate of the USC Master of Science, Civil Engineering – Transportation program. As I reflect on my time in graduate school, there are two organizations which changed my life and to which I am eternally grateful. The first is METRANS, and the second is WTS. I would like to dedicate this article, my last as an MSCE student (but definitely not the last I will write for METRANS), to the WTS Orange County (WTS-OC) chapter. The mission ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Sunday, June 18, 2017
[Editor’s note: As part of the expansion of METRANS into the Pacific Southwest Region 9 University Transportation Center, we seek to highlight students at universities that are new members of the UTC. This week we are pleased to feature UC Davis’s Zane McDonald.] Cyclists have a hard time getting around safely in most areas of the United States, but those who live in rural parts of coal country and wish to get around on two wheels instead of in a 4x4 face extra challenges. Such was ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Martin Krieger, professor of planning at the USC Price School of Public Policy, took an unconventional approach to studying transit-oriented development around New York City Subway stations. He picked up a camera and snapped tens of thousands of photographs. “The people who talk about transit-oriented development have a very lovely image of a little village, where people would work and reside and shop, and there would be more walking and less automobile commuting — and there may be truth ...
METRANS UTC
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Transportation is of utmost importance for a constantly evolving and thriving city like Los Angeles. To keep up with development, urban transportation needs innovation at every step, and LA Metro created its Office of Extraordinary Innovation to do just this. On May 3rd, the Women’s Transportation Seminar’s LA chapter welcomed Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Joshua Schank and Metro Vendor/Contract Management Executive Officer Carolina Coppolo to the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Sunday, June 4, 2017
We are pleased to introduce Student Assistant Yang Deng, who leads METRANS graphic design team. Yang is pursuing MS in Transportation Engineering at USC and expects to graduate in 2018. Yang earned a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from Shanxi University of Science and Technology at Xi’an, China and then worked as an R&D designer at Shaanxi Automobile Group Co., Ltd., one of China’s largest bus and truck manufacturers, headquartered in Xi'an, before coming to USC. ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Sunday, June 4, 2017
When Griffin Kantz was called on stage to give his speech as valedictorian at the USC Price School of Public Policy commencement ceremony, it was a surprise to his family. He kept the honor a secret from his parents, sister and two grandmothers in attendance. “I thought if I told them too early in the semester, they’d get too into celebrating, as parents do, and by the time the ceremony came along, the feeling would have normalized — I wanted it to be special for them,” said ...
