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Thursday, January 23, 2025
A new report from Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT) researchers validates the feasibility of university-industry partnerships and their ability to support the development of multi-tiered curricula to empower workforce development in the transportation and mobility sector. The talent pipelines piloted in the study demonstrate the unique opportunities enabled by an alignment between educational programs and industry engagement, with an eye ...
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Aisling O’Reilly, a PhD student in Urban Planning and Development at the University of Southern California, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship, receiving the maximum award of $35,500. This fellowship is awarded annually to about 150 students across the nation pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines, recognizing their potential to contribute to the future of transportation.
“The Eisenhower ...
Thursday, January 23, 2025
A new research article penned by Pacific Southwest Region UTC researcher and Director, Dr. Marlon Boarnet; Dr. Susan Handy, Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST); Sara Schremmer, Policy Director at NCST; and Atorod Azizinamini, Director of the Accelerated Bridge Construction UTC, highlights the mechanisms through with UTCs serve as technology transfer hubs.
The article was featured in TR News, TRB's bimonthly magazine, which features timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation.
Read the full article here.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, fourteen University of Southern California students from the Sol Price School of Public Policy and Viterbi School of Engineering had the pleasure of welcoming David Libatique, the Deputy Executive Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Port of Los Angeles, and Aaron Hake, the Executive Director of the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) and the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The METRANS Transportation Consortium is excited to announce the publication of new a research report authored by Drs. Tom O’Brien and Tyler Reeb. Over the past year, the research team at the Center for International Trade & Transportation (CITT) collaborated with the California Department of Transportation ( Caltrans ) to evaluate and discuss the progress and setbacks the state DOT has encountered in the implementation of its agency-wide succession plan.
Succession ...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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PSR served as the lead UTC sponsor of the TRB Tribal Peer Exchange. Esri, the global leader in geospatial information systems, graciously hosted the three-day event at its corporate headquarters in Redlands, CA, October 23-25, 2024.
In a landmark research initiative, Tribal transportation leaders, government officials, and researchers convened both in-person and virtually for a Transportation Research Board (TRB) ...
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Monday, October 28, 2024
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One of the most challenging problems in urban transportation planning is the lack of fine-grain data on freight movements. Cities and regions do not know how many trucks operate on their streets and highways and have limited freight flow information. Recent PSR- funded research shows the potential for an effective and scalable solution to truck flow estimation using advanced computational methods applied to data from existing sensors.
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PSR
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Pictured above: PSR Director Marlon Boarnet presents his lectern on changing work-from-home, commuting, and housing affordability trends at the FoT Summit on August 13, 2024.
Pictured above: Tom O'Brien, Associate Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPaCE) at CSULB & Missy Blair, Advanced Program Manager at Pima Community College, present their ...
PSR
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
The METRANS Transportation Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of a new research paper that explores the pivotal role of Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) units in shaping the future of workforce development across California. The peer-reviewed paper was a collaborative effort between Center for International Trade & Transportation Executive Director Dr. Tyler Reeb, a PSR researcher and METRANS executive committee member, and two other members of the ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The stories of the peoples that lived on Terminal Island is now being told in a new book Terminal Island, Lost Communities on America’s Edge by USC Price School’s Geraldine Knatz, with co-author Naomi Hirahara, with a foreword by USC’s William Deverell and an afterword by actor George Takai.
Today it’s a largely man-made land mass that is home to massive container terminals, huge cranes, ships and heavy-duty trucks. Few ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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Congestion pricing – used on highways in Southern California and in cities such as Singapore and London – requires understanding how much drivers would be willing to pay to travel faster. Technically, this is called travelers' value of travel time (VOT), and it is fundamental not only for congestion pricing, but also for many analyses of transportation projects. Most existing methods for estimating VOT rely ...
METRANS UTC
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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 ...
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Friday, May 10, 2024
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Secretary Toks Omishakin of the California State Transportation Agency visited USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy on April 8, 2024, and spoke to students about Land Use and Transportation strategies and implementations of ongoing projects in California. He highlighted the policies focusing on Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TND) and Transit Oriented Development (TOD), as well as their ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Friday, May 10, 2024
When ridehailing (e.g., Uber, Lyft) became popular over ten years ago, scholars and transportation professionals wondered whether it would reduce or increase transit ridership. In short, is ridehailing a substitute or complement for public transit? Much more recently, a seemingly unrelated discussion has become popular: How can fare-free transit boost public transportation ridership compared to other policy tools? Our recent METRANS research sheds light on both questions.
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Friday, April 5, 2024
In a letter to the USC community on February 29, 2024, USC Provost Andrew T. Guzman announced this year’s University and Distinguished professorships, the university’s highest academic honors. Our own Dr. Petros Ioannou, a long-time professor at USC and renowned transportation researcher, was honored with the title of University Professor. Provost Guzman notes, “We present these annually to select outstanding faculty who have brought great distinction ...