News
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Join us in congratulating newly minted Master of Urban Planning, METRANS News Correspondent Hayley Rundle. While working toward her master’s degree, Rundle served as our lead writer at METRANS, specializing in covering complex topics in transportation research. In addition to her work with METRANS, she was an active member of the Associated Students of Planning & Development (ASPD) for both of her years at USC. During her first year, she served as the First-Year Representative ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Join us in congratulating USC undergraduate, Madeline Sellinger, for being selected to lead the METRANS Fast Facts transportation research briefs team this summer. Fast Facts research briefs are cutting edge research summaries, created for students, by students and distributed broadly to make transportation research accessible to a broad audience. Read more about Fast Facts here: https://metranstsa.org/fast-facts-research-summaries .
Madeline is a rising junior ...
Thursday, May 12, 2022
On Tuesday, April 12 th , the Pacific Southwest University Transportation Center (PSR) hosted Professor Petros Ioannou for a seminar on the challenges of truck parking. Titles “Balancing of Truck Parking Demand by a Centralized Incentives/Parking System,” the seminar featured METRANS-funded research from Dr. Ioannou and USC Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Filipe Vital. Dr. Ioannou is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the USC Viterbi ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
On March 9, 2022, researchers Sarah Rebolloso McCullough and C. Sequoia Erasmus gave a virtual presentation on the status of transportation equity work in California as part of METRANS NCST Spring 2022 Speaker Series. The presentation was titled “Performative or Authentic? Assessing the Status of Transportation Equity Work in California.” Seminar collaborators also included the Transportation Research Board Standing Committee (AME20), Women and Gender in Transportation and the ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The fifth Annual Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR-UTC) Congress was held in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Congress took place from March 21-23, 2022, at the University of Hawai’i in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The global crisis has exposed critical issues facing transportation systems throughout the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR). Recognizing the significance of the pandemic's impacts, the themes of this year's Congress centered ...
PSR
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The California (CA)- Hawai’i (HI) Transportation Symposium was held virtually on March 23rd, in conjunction with the 2022 Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR UTC) Congress: Lessons Learned in Vulnerability, Resilience, and Recovery. The symposium consisted of insightful presentations about the themes of infrastructure resiliency and sustainable mobility. Expert practitioners from both states engaged in a critical discussion to share knowledge via panels on freight ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
On Wednesday, March 30 th , the Pacific Southwest University Transportation Center (PSR) hosted Professor Geoff Boeing and USC Urban Planning and Development PhD students Yougeng Lu and Clemens Pilgram for a seminar on the environmental justice issues of vehicle pollution. Titled “Local Inequities in the Relative Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Air Pollution in Los Angeles,” the seminar featured METRANS-funded research from Dr. Boeing and his team. Dr. Boeing is an Assistant ...
