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METRANS to Lead Partnership Initiative with Four Southeast Asian Universities

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

by METRANS Staff

The METRANS Transportation Consortium was recently selected to lead a United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) University Partnership Program (UPP). METRANS will partner with four Southeast Asian universities to support collaboration among United States and Southeast Asian professionals, researchers, and university students in the context of the US-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP) Transportation Program and the Mekong-U.S Partnership (MUSP) Regional Connectivity Program.

The UPP will be led by the University of Southern California, in collaboration with California State University Long Beach, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Universitas Indonesia, and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The UPP will bring a sustained research focus and METRANS’s expertise to the USASCP’s program of knowledge transfer which supports smart city innovations in transportation.

The UPP will use a combination of virtual and in-person educational activities, curriculum building, collaborative research, and knowledge exchange to support these goals.