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METRANS UTC
Monday, May 4, 2026
USC Urban Planning students speak with Caltrans District 7 Deputy Director Marlon Regisford
The METRANS Transportation Consortium and the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis hosted Marlon Regisford, a 20-year Caltrans veteran now serving as Deputy District Director for Caltrans District 7, for a coffee chat with USC Urban Planning students. Regisford is responsible for delivering Division functions, including ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Left to right: Dr. Genevieve Giuliano (USC); Dr. Marlon Boarnet (USC); Yuquan (Wendy) Zhou, PhD Candidate (USC); Dr. Geoff Beoing, Zhou's disseration advisor (USC)
Yuquan (Wendy) Zhou , an Urban Planning & Development PhD candidate at USC's Sol Price School of Public Policy has been awarded the 40th Annual Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science at this year's Western Regional Science Association conference. This prize is awarded in honor of the outstanding ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
METRANS is concluding a two-year engagement with four Southeast Asian universities, leading research on transportation problems that are common across the U.S. and ASEAN nations. Want to learn more about the use of sidewalks as public space, travel behavior in tourist cities, transit planning with open source data, or institutional structures for open loop payments? Then these webinars are for you! Links to register may be found below. (Note webinar date and time are in ...
PSR
Monday, March 23, 2026
Get to know this year’s Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR UTC) Students of the Year! Every year, faculty from across the ten PSR institutions nominate students pursuing transportation- related degrees based on technical skills, academic performance, and leadership qualities. One graduate student is selected as the UTC’s U.S. Department of Transportation Outstanding Student of the Year while the other four student winners are selected as Student ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Tom O’Brien (second from right), Associate Dean of CSULB’s College of Professional and Continuing Education, accepted the award on behalf of CSULB, CPaCE, and the CITT. Pictured from left to right: Constantine Tarawneh (UT Rio Grande Valley), Carita Ducre (APTA), Yinhai Wang (UW).
The Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT) received the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Workforce Development ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
The Center for International Trade and Transportation is excited to announce that the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has published new research from CITT Executive Director Tyler Reeb and Project Manager James Reuter on the statewide transit operator shortage. California’s public transit systems face a persistent shortage of transit operators that is undermining service reliability and long-term transportation goals. The report examines the workforce and ...
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