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Saturday, February 11, 2017

by ? By Griffin Kantz, B.S. in Policy, Planning, and Development 2017

With appreciation for the students that help make METRANS and its constituent university transportation centers what they are today, I am proud to launch this monthly column featuring transportation student projects and papers. My goal is to disseminate noteworthy samples of just some of the brilliant work continually produced by transportation students, in an effort not only to share their accomplishments, but also to inform and inspire.

In this first installment I include two papers, each recently published by current USC doctoral students. Mohammad Motie, Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, co-wrote “Throughput Analysis of a Horizontal Traffic Queue under Safe Car Following Models” with assistant professor Ketan Savla, and was selected to present it at the 55^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) held in Las Vegas, Nevada last December. Eun Jin Shin, currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development, published the first essay of her doctoral dissertation, “Unraveling the Effects of Residence in an Ethnic Enclave on Immigrants’ Travel Mode Choices,” in the Journal of Planning Education and Research in August 2016.

“Throughput Analysis of a Horizontal Traffic Queue under Safe Car Following Models”