METRANS Transportation Center

Port Operations
• Petros Ioannou (Professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California), ioannou@usc.edu

• Anastasios Chassiakos (Executive Director for Assessment, Professor of Electrical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach), achassk@csulb.edu

Transport Economics
• Kristen Monaco (Professor of Economics, California State University , Long Beach), kmonaco@csulb.edu

• Joe Magaddino (Chair of the Department of Economics, Professor of Economics, California State University , Long Beach), magaddin@csulb.edu

Environment
• Hamid Rahai (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California State University , Long Beach), rahai@csulb.edu

• Constantinos Sioutas (Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California), sioutas@usc.edu

Policy/Institutions
• Genevieve Giuliano (SPPD, USC), giuliano@usc.edu

Security/Vulnerability
• Peter Gordon (Professor of School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California), pgordon@usc.edu

Best Practices / Lessons Learned
• Tom O'Brien (Director of Research, Center for International Trade and Transportation California State University , Long Beach), tobrien@csulb.edu

• Marianne Venieris (Executive Director, Center for International Trade and Transportation California State University , Long Beach) mvenieris@uces.csulb.edu

Conference Program Committee

William R. Black Professor and Chair Department of Geography Indiana University	Dock Burke Director Southwest Region University Transportation Center and Regents Fellow, External Programs Office Texas Transportation Institute/ Texas A&M University System
Christina Casgar Senior Transportation Specialist Office of Freight and Logistics United States Department of Transportation	Anastasios Chassiakos Executive Director for Assessment Professor of Electrical Engineering College of Engineering California State University , Long Beach
Elizabeth Deakin Professor City and Regional Planning University of California , Berkeley	Peter Gordon Professor School of Policy , Planning, and Development University of Southern California
Lance Grenzeback Senior Vice President Cambridge Systematics, Inc	Randolph Hall Vice Provost of Research Advancement Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California
Jose Holguin-Veras Associate Professor Jonsson Engineering Center Rensselear Polytechnic University	Petros Ioannou Professor EE-Systems University of Southern California

Adib Kanafani Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California , Berkeley	Joseph Magaddino Professor and Chair Department of Economics California State University , Long Beach
Michael Mahoney Dean College of Engineering California State University , Long Beach	Sue McNeil Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Delaware
Kristen Monaco Professor Department of Economics California State University , Long Beach	James E. Moore II Chair Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Southern California
Michael Meyer, P.E. Professor and Director Georgia Transportation Institute Georgia Institute of Technology	Hamid Rahai Professor Mechanical Engineering California State University , Long Beach
Amelia Regan Professor Institute of Transportation Studies University of California , Irvine	John Samuels Senior Vice President Operations, Planning and Support Norfolk Southern Corporation
Constantinos Sioutas Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Southern California	Wayne K. Talley Professor Economics Old Dominion University
Marianne Venieris Executive Director Center for International Trade and Transportation California State University, Long Beach	C. Michael Walton Professor Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-TRAN The University of Texas at Austin