News & Announcements
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Monday, September 4, 2017
Rosa G. Guillen-Sanchez is a Transportation Analyst in Rail Operations at Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) whose wish is to improve transportation in her community. She recently shared her personal and professional path that has guided her toward a career in public service. Guillen-Sanchez grew up in Orange County, a child of a low-income family of four, and her family was transit-dependent. “My dad couldn’t drive because he had severe arthritis, and my mom never drove,” ...
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Monday, September 4, 2017
Each summer, the Orange County chapter of WTS (WTS-OC) hosts the Transportation Academy, a two-week transportation immersion program for college students throughout the region, now in its 8 th year. From August 1-10, 28 students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, representing USC, UC Irvine, UCLA, Cal Poly Pomona, and Cal State Fullerton visited 13 firms including AECOM, Kimley-Horn, Metro, SCAG, Port of Long Beach, TRC, HDR, and more, as part of the 2017 academy. Marisa Trautz, ...
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
On May 17th, the Institute of Transportation Engineers Southern California Section in collaboration with the Orange County Traffic Engineers Council (OCTEC) held its annual job fair and Student Presentation night at Knott’s Berry Farm Hotel, in Buena Park, California. (Photo by Eric Shen, ITE USC Chapter Faculty Advisor) Representatives of more than ten transportation companies and agencies attended the job fair, giving current and recent graduates who are interested in traffic, ...
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Sunday, August 20, 2017
The fall semester is about to begin, and the METRANS students have been busy working on a comprehensive line-up of transportation programming for the fall semester, with events and opportunities sure to spark broad interest – research presentations, practitioner speaker series, field trips, opportunities to mentor and be mentored, and much more. “Each year, we retool based on participant feedback so we can always bring engaging, impactful, and educational activities to the transportation ...
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Sunday, August 20, 2017
It is an exciting time at METRANS; three of our transportation PhDs have started a new journey in their lives: parenthood! Sanggyun Kang, Quan (Jack) Yuan, and Yong-Jin Ahn shared with us their stories as fathers and about their upcoming journey filled with hope and endless possibilities. Sanggyun Kang completed his PhD in Urban Planning and Development in June and will continue his postdoctoral studies over the next two years with METRANS Director Professor Genevieve Giuliano. His son Ethan ...
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Monday, August 14, 2017
On July 28, 2017, Laetitia Dablanc, Director of Research at the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR) at University of Paris-Est, presented “Urban freight policy: recent developments on low emission zones, city logistics innovations and urban warehouses in Paris.” This MetroFreight research seminar was part of her activities at USC as a Volvo Research and Educational Foundations visiting scholar. “Dr. Dablanc invested her time ...
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
Xize Wang recently completed his PhD in Urban Planning and Development at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy. This September, he begins work as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley. Wang’s research interests center on transportation and urban form, demography and travel, and active travel and sustainability. His doctoral dissertation, “Impact of Demographic Shifts on the Automobile Travel in the ...
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Sunday, August 6, 2017
The UCLA Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) program is only two years long, and there’s plenty to do in Southern California during that time. But Ribeka Toda, UCLA MURP ‘18, knew that making the most of her experience at UCLA meant getting an outside perspective. To that end she is using her summer break to intern in Mexico City with the traffic safety department of Laboratorio para la Ciudad, an innovative planning division of the city government. Toda expected to spend ...
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
The 25th Future Leaders Development Conference was held from June 4 to June 8, 2017 at the Eno Center’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Three students from the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center schools were selected to attend: Anne Brown and Cat Callaghan from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Karina Hermawan from University of California, Irvine (UCI). 2017 Eno LDC students Tour Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Photo by Eno ...
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Sunday, July 23, 2017
On May 1, Women in Management (WIM) held a professional workshop titled “Art of Negotiation” presented by Dr. Sabrina Pasztor, Assistant Professor of Clinical Business Communication at the USC Marshall School of Business. METRANS Associate Director Victoria Deguzman selected three female METRANS Student Assistants to attend the workshop to learn more about these important skills for women in the workforce. WIM is an organization for women in leadership positions at the University of ...
