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Friday, November 17, 2023
The CITT Policy and Steering Committee proudly presented Harbor Commissioner Diane Middleton with the 2023 Domenick Miretti Award at this year’s State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall Meeting. On November 17, ILWU Local 13 President Gary Herrera took the stage and introduced Middleton not only as an esteemed labor advocate and an accomplished attorney, but as a dear friend to the ILWU and the Harbor community at large. Like Domenick Miretti, the inspiration for this prestigious ...
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Friday, November 17, 2023
2023 CITT: Decarbonization: Truth, Consequences and Hard Choices
CITT hosted its annual State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall Meeting on November 17 at the Pointe Conference Center on the campus of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). This year’s focus was on port decarbonization. Since the inaugural event in 2001, the CITT Town Hall has featured robust discussions about controversial topics. Past Town Halls have addressed issues running the ...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Environmental organization Pacific Environment and C40 Cities, a global network of nearly 100 mayors committed to tackling the climate crisis, came together on November 14 at the Carson Event Center for a Green Shipping Corridor Workshop. The event convened policymakers and staff from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, City of Los Angeles, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District for a night of insight, education, and community engagement. METRANS joined the Global Initiatives Showcase ...
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Japanese and U.S. companies and ports gathered in San Pedro on October 20 to share experiences, information, technical know-how, and best practices in forming Green Shipping Corridors and decarbonizing the port sector. Representatives from four Japanese ports and the California ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Hueneme were in attendance. The California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) and the Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) ...
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
The METRANS Transportation Consortium hosted the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) conference in Long Beach, California on September 5-8, 2023. IAME is an international association with over 300 individual members from every continent and more than 10 corporate members. The event garnered a large international audience with over 160 maritime professionals joining the conference. More than 130 papers covering a variety of topics including the cruise industry, container ...
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
A group of USC Price School of Public Policy students on the boat tour.
A group of 14 USC students traveled to Long Beach on September 8, 2023 to attend the last day of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) conference and a harbor boat tour of the Port of Long Beach (POLB). Students toured POLB’s 25-mile waterfront and had the opportunity to examine the containers, cargo ships, and machinery used in the port’s day-to-day operations.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
From left to right: Miles Witting, Lan Ca, and Patrick Son.
Three California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) students are actively developing skills and abilities associated with intelligent transportation systems (ITS) as part of a pilot talent pipeline program made possible through a strategic partnership between CSULB and Gannet Fleming, a global engineering firm. A talent pipeline, unlike a traditional internship, features a structured onboarding process and a bidirectional ...
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
A recent report funded by the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center has expanded the capacity of transportation planners to model the complexity of modern commute choices. For workers, ride-hailing or ride-sourcing companies have simplified commutes by expanding options beyond a private vehicle, carpooling, or public transit. Workers can now commute via ride-hail in the morning and carpool home (or vice versa). This innovation for workers has proven to be a headache for ...
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Registration for the 2023 International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Conference is now open. The METRANS Transportation Consortium will host this year’s event in Long Beach, CA from September 5-8, 2023. Join researchers and industry leaders as they delve into the future of the maritime economy amidst the effects of the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, swift technological advancements, and a growing imperative to address global climate challenges.
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Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Image courtesy of Lisa Kay Schweyer
METRANS researchers highlighted the dynamic industry and community partnerships university transportation centers (UTCs) bring to their regional communities at the Fourth Annual National Mobility Summit of USDOT Centers sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University. The March Summit, held in Washington DC had as its theme “UTC Innovations and Impacts: Advancing Mobility for All.” Dr. Genevieve Giuliano discussed the role ...
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Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Two METRANS researchers recently partnered with the City of Long Beach to win a National Science Foundation (NSF) planning grant to research, develop, and pilot a community-informed digital rights platform that can serve as a national model for acknowledging data privacy as a human right.
The grant provides $147,370 for a full fiscal year beginning in July 2023. Dr. Gwen Shaffer, who will serve as the project PI, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations ...
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Access to the chassis used by motor carriers, railroads, and marine terminal operators to transport intermodal containers is a key determinant in supply chain efficiency. To address that supply chain priority, Dr. Tom O’Brien, Executive Director of the Center for International Trade & Transportation, is serving on a committee, sponsored by the Federal Maritime Commission, to examine chassis dislocation and lack of chassis availability to determine effective industry ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
The sixth annual Region 9 Pacific Southwest Region University Center (PSR-UTC) Congress returned to California this year, with two full days of sessions hosted by the University of Southern California on March 17 th and 18 th . The title of this year’s Congress was Moving Forward: Improving Transportation in Region 9 , and featured concurrent sessions across five themes: Improving Mobility , Mobility & Technology , Improving Resiliency , The Intersection of Research and ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
The METRANS Transportation Consortium has received another five years of funding to carry out important research in freight and goods movement. Since 1987, the U.S. Department of Transportation has supported university transportation centers across the country. This funding, provided through grants to the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR UTC) and the National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST), provides the bulk of financial support responsible for ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
When the modern expressway system was built, vast swaths of urban neighborhoods were bulldozed to clear new channels for suburban residents to drive to job centers. Yet some older neighborhoods survived relatively unscathed. In Los Angeles, local residents organized to protest and eventually cancel plans to extend State Route 2 through the affluent communities of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles’s westside. In contrast, similar grassroots efforts failed in Los Angeles’s eastside, ...
