News & Announcements
METRANS UTC, PSR
Monday, June 3, 2019
On Wednesday May 22, 2019, transportation students from USC and CSULB were afforded the opportunity to attend an exciting Women's Transportation Seminar, Los Angeles (WTS-LA) Port discussion panel, “Update With the Ports.” As a student and newcomer to the transportation industry, it was inspiring to lunch, chat, and network with industry professionals and consultants in the field. Thanks to generous corporate sponsorships, students gained direct access to leading firms, elected officials, ...
METRANS UTC, PSR, MetroFreight, NCST
Friday, March 1, 2019
The Winter 2019 Issue of METRANS News is now available. Click here for a PDF version. METRANS News is generally published three times a year and summarizes METRANS research, education and outreach activities. It highlights METRANS researchers, conferences and other events, recent publications, interviews with key individuals involved in METRANS, and other newsworthy activities and events. It is distributed to university transportation centers and faculty throughout the U.S., to federal, state, and local public agencies, and to the transportation industry. To be added to the mailing list for a hard copy of the newsletter or to receive an email announcement regarding each new issue, please contact [email protected] .
METRANS UTC, PSR
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Anne Brown, now an Assistant Professor of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon, is the 2019 recipient of the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR) Student of the Year Award. Brown’s research examines the intersection of equity, shared and innovative mobility, travel behavior, and transportation finance. Her recent work analyzes how and when people change their travel behavior, the false equivalency between being car-less and ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Miguel Jaller is the 2018 recipient of the Cambridge Systematics (CS) New Faculty Award. This award is one of the annual CUTC Professional Awards that recognize the excellence of academic and non-academic professionals in the field of transportation and education research.
Jaller has strong theoretical foundations and practical experience in industrial and transportation engineering and management. Before joining UC Davis, Jaller was a Research Associate at the Center for Infrastructure, ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Thomas O'Brien, Executive Director of the Center for International Trade and Transportation, and Terry Bills, the Global Transportation Industry Director at Esri, discuss the underpinnings of GIS technology in this episode of Trade Talks. Esri is the global market leader in GIS headquartered in Redlands, California, and Terry Bills is responsible for all of Esri's transportation infrastructure segments worldwide.
METRANS UTC, PSR
Monday, November 19, 2018
METRANS is hiring post docs at USC! We are pleased to announce that we have two open position for postdoctoral researchers. These are positions at the University of Southern California. Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate – Transportation Access to Health Services APPLY The METRANS Transportation Center and the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics is seeking candidates for a one year, renewable for a second year, full-time Postdoctoral Research position. ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Monday, November 19, 2018
Transfers Magazine is the biannual research publication of the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center. The latest issue features articles from scholars at UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa on critical questions facing transportation policy. What makes a good new driver? Does light rail really reduce traffic? How can coastal cities create better evacuation plans to deal with the increased threats of climate change? Why do parking requirements stand in the way of more affordable, flexible "granny flat" housing? Each article is a condensed, accessible version of peer-reviewed academic research, intended to transfer the knowledge of experts into policy actions that improve people’s lives. Click here for the most recent issue
METRANS UTC, PSR
Sunday, November 18, 2018
Despite the numerous ways that transportation has reinvented itself, it still has not solved the problem of moving people efficiently over short distances. In a seminar held at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis on November 2, transportation leading mobility innovation expert discussed some emerging forms of transportation that will make us re-evaluate how we move in dense, urban environments.
Jonah Houston, Senior Portfolio Lead at IDEO’s Transportation and Mobility ...
METRANS UTC, PSR
Saturday, November 3, 2018
With the issue of how California funds highway and transit projects currently much in the news and on the minds of voters, one of the state’s leading experts on financing transportation gave a tutorial on the complexities of such taxes and fees at the October 26 seminar hosted by the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. Students attending the seminar on October, 26, 2018 . Michael Coleman, fiscal policy advisor for the League of California, and noted author and local ...
METRANS UTC, PSR, MetroFreight, NCST
Thursday, October 4, 2018
The Summer 2018 Issue of METRANS News is now available. Click here for a PDF version. METRANS News is generally published three times a year and summarizes METRANS research, education and outreach activities. It highlights METRANS researchers, conferences and other events, recent publications, interviews with key individuals involved in METRANS, and other newsworthy activities and events. It is distributed to university transportation centers and faculty throughout the U.S., to federal, state, and local public agencies, and to the transportation industry. To be added to the mailing list for a hard copy of the newsletter or to receive an email announcement regarding each new issue, please contact [email protected] .
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