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Rodrigue Addresses COVID-19 Impacts on Global Trade

Friday, April 24, 2020

When  METRANS Director Genevieve Giuliano was  organizing  the agenda for the METRANS Advisory Board meeting to be held virtually in early April, she wanted to focus on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on global goods movement. She immediately thought of Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue. "Professor Rodrigue  is one of the world’s experts in international trade. He has researched just about every aspect of trade, including the potential ...

Meet METRANS Student Event Coordinator Zhanibek Baktygali

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Zhanibek Baktygali is a second-year graduate student studying International Public Policy and Management (IPPAM) at USC Price. He is an international student from Kazakhstan, who is successfully contributing to both the IPPAM program and the METRANS Event team. Baktygali earned a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration at Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan and has 5-years working experience in the public sector at the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources and ...

Meet Beisen Ussenov, Career Opportunities Editor at METRANS

Monday, April 13, 2020

Meet Beisen Ussenov, METRANS Career Opportunities Editor and second-year master’s student in International Public Policy and Management ( IPPAM ). Ussenov is originally from Karaganda City, a city with a population of 450,000 in the northwest of Kazakhstan. Ussenov is a recipient of the Bolashak Scholarship, awarded from the Kazakh government for master’s degree studies in the United States. Upon completion of his Master’s program, Ussenov will return to his position as Deputy ...

Jean-Paul Rodrigue Details COVID-19's Impacts on Supply Chains

Monday, April 13, 2020

On April 3, 2020 Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Professor of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, New York and a member of METRANS’ MetroFreight research center, presented his research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transportation to METRANS Advisory Board, faculty, and staff. Titled “Coronavirus Impacts on Trade and Supply Chains,” the presentation focused on the effects of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic on international trade and supply chains. Rodrigue ...

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Presentation: Coronavirus Impacts on Trade and Supply Chains

Friday, April 10, 2020

The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic is having unprecedented and unanticipated impacts on international trade and supply chains. The presentation tries to articulate the complex ramifications a pandemic can have on supply chains. It first looks at the role of transportation as a diffusion vector during a pandemic. Then, the continuity of supply chains is discussed. It is argued that a pandemic initially creates a supply chain shock as key manufacturing sectors may experience a drop in production ...

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Resilient Transportation Research for COVID-19

Friday, April 10, 2020

While the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in many ways, research in transportation resilience provides useful guidance on how to navigate shocks to the transportation industry and infrastructure. Dr. Karl Kim, a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and a member of the Pacific Southwest Regional (PSR) University Transportation Center is an internationally recognized expert in transportation resilience and his current work is directly addressing ...

USC Grad Zhenlu Huang Joins BCC Engineering

Monday, April 6, 2020

Meet Zhenlu Huang – a young transportation engineer from USC Viterbi School of Engineering who has recently joined a BCC transportation engineering consulting firm as a Transportation Planner in their Altamonte Springs, Florida office. Huang graduated from USC in December 2019 with a master’s degree in Civil Engineering, focusing on Transportation Engineering. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Traffic and Transportation at Southeast University in ...