News & Announcements
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, PSR
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
The METRANS Transportation Consortium hosted the 10th International Urban Freight conference, April 9-11. This year’s conference was the largest ever, drawing 215 attendees from 15 countries and five continents.
“METRANS is committed to building bridges between research and practice,” said Marlon Boarnet, Director of METRANS and a professor at the USC Price School. “Over a quarter of the ...
PSR
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 ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
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.
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METRANS UTC, PSR
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) ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
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 ...
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