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METRANS Selects Next Round of Research Projects!

Friday, June 4, 2021

Following a comprehensive peer review process, METRANS recently revealed the list of research projects selected for funding this year through the university transportation center (UTC) program. The projects total $2.8M in research support from the US Department of Transportation (US DOT) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). METRANS issued its joint Request for Proposals (RFP) in early February for both the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR), a UTC based at USC, and the National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) based at University of California, Davis.

Proposals chosen by the centers align with themes such as technology for improved mobility and managing mobility in high growth cities and regions, as well as environmentally responsible infrastructure and operations and multimodal travel and sustainable land use.

The range of topics reveals the depth of research capacity in the schools that are part of the METRANS Consortium.

Project Title	Principal Investigator	University	Center
The Potential for Ride-Matching in Disadvantaged Communities	Genevieve Giuliano	USC	PSR
Validation of Freight Volume Modeling on Major Highway Links	Cyrus Shahabi	USC	PSR
Modeling Multi-modal Mobility in a Coupled Morning-Evening Commute Framework that Considers Deadheading and Flexible Pooling	Jong-Shi Pang	USC	PSR
Routing of Battery Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks for Drayage Operations	Maged Dessouky	USC	NCST
The Ridesharing Routing Problem with Flexible Pickup and Drop-off points	Maged Dessouky	USC	NCST
Centrally Coordinated Schedules and Routes of Airport Shuttles with LAX Terminals as Application Area	Petros Ioannou	USC	NCST
Coordinated Traffic Flow Control in a Connected Environment	Petros Ioannou	USC	NCST
Commuting During and after COVID-19: The Impact of COVID-19 on Shared Mobility and Extreme Commuting in the Bay Area - Central Valley	Marlon Boarnet	USC	PSR
Slow Streets and Dockless Travel: Using a Natural Experiment for Insight into the Role of Supportive Infrastructure on Non-Motorized Travel	Marlon Boarnet	USC	NCST
White Paper: Institutional Obstacles to New Transportation Technology Adoption	Marlon Boarnet	USC	PSR
Improving the Accuracy of Intersection Counts and Densities for Measuring Urban Street Network Compactness and Resilience	Geoff Boeing	USC	PSR
Spatial Implications of Telecommuting in the United States	Andrii Parkhomenko	USC	NCST
Evaluation of Sidewalk Delivery Robot Interactions with Pedestrians and Bicyclists	Steven Gehrke	NAU	PSR
Development of Instrumented Bikes: Toward Smart Cycling Infrastructure and Maintenance	Chun-Hsing Ho	NAU	PSR
Evaluating Alternative Strategies for Traffic Reduction in Los Angeles	Antonio Bento	USC	NCST
Spatial Microanalysis and Equity Assessment of Joint Relationships among Destination Choice, Activity Duration, and Mode Choice	Konstadinos Goulias	UCSB	PSR
Connectivity-Based Cooperative Ramp Merging in Multimodal and Mixed Traffic Environment	Guoyuan Wu	UCR	PSR
Evaluating Accessibility of Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Using Data-Driven Time-Dependent Reachability Analysis	Cyrus Shahabi	USC	NCST
New Continuous Approximation Models for Passenger and Freight Transportation	John Gunnar Carlsson	USC	PSR
Coordinated Demand-side Management and Traffic Control for Tight Areas	Ketan Savla	USC	PSR
Redeveloping Failing Malls: Opportunities for Reducing VMT and GHG Emissions and Increasing the Housing Supply through Urban Villages	Hilda Blanco	USC	PSR