News & Announcements
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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 ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
The Center for International Trade and Transportation is excited to announce that the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has published new research from CITT Executive Director Tyler Reeb and Project Manager James Reuter on the statewide transit operator shortage. California’s public transit systems face a persistent shortage of transit operators that is undermining service reliability and long-term transportation goals. The report examines the workforce and ...
METRANS UTC
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Tom O’Brien (second from right), Associate Dean of CSULB’s College of Professional and Continuing Education, accepted the award on behalf of CSULB, CPaCE, and the CITT. Pictured from left to right: Constantine Tarawneh (UT Rio Grande Valley), Carita Ducre (APTA), Yinhai Wang (UW).
The Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT) received the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Workforce Development ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, November 17, 2025
Photo Credit: Akilah Graham
On October 22, 2025, over 60 USC Price School of Public Policy undergraduate students had the opportunity to meet California State Senator Laura Richardson and engage in a discussion about her career in politics across the local, city, state, and federal levels. Dr. Marlon Boarnet, Professor of Public Policy at USC, led the discussion with Senator Richardson. Discussion topics included career advice for students, California’s affordability ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, November 17, 2025
From left to right: Dr Marlon Boarnet, Professor of Public Policy at USC; Dr. Peng Hao, Associate Research Engineer, UC Riverside; András Csepinszky, Founder & CEO of Mo TeRe; Nathan Mustafa, Deputy Public Works Director/ City Engineer for the City of Riverside
Dr. Marlon Boarnet, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the METRANS Transportation Consortium, joined the lineup of speakers at the 2025 Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Forum, Driving ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, September 29, 2025
From left to right: Dr. Noel Hacegaba, Commissioner Bonnie Lowenthal, Robert Loya, Sal DiCostanzo, and Dr. Tom O'Brien.
This year’s CITT State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall celebrated the legacy of resilience in our Port Town communities. Town Hall attendees ranged from supply chain and transportation industry veterans to community stakeholders to students—each in their own way reflecting on the importance of global trade to our community. After ...
METRANS UTC
Monday, September 15, 2025
On Tuesday, September 9, 2025, USC ITE and METRANS co-hosted the semester’s first speaker series event featuring Dr. Noel Hacebaga, Chief Operating Officer of the Port of Long Beach, and Michael Cano, Interim Senior Executive Officer of Multimodal Integrated Planning at LA Metro. Together, they represented two different perspectives of Southern California’s goods movement industry. METRANS director, Professor Marlon Boarnet, moderated the discussion.
Dr. Hacebaga ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, July 11, 2025
A METRANS funded research paper authored by USC researchers Dr. Cyrus Shahabi, Dr. Luciano Nocera, and Dr. Genevieve Giuliano studied the feasibility of freight traffic modeling from precise and localized but sparse freight data and built machine learning (ML) models that can predict freight volumes on highway segments. Freight data sources are very limited, often based on infrequent surveys or extrapolations of in-road sensor data. This research aims to close that gap by combining multiple data ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, July 11, 2025
National leaders in transportation gathered for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) National Summit on the Future of the Transportation Workforce , held June 2-4, 2025 in Westminster, Colorado. CITT Executive Director Tyler Reeb and Glenn McRae of the National Network for the Transportation Workforce served together as co-chairs of the Summit.
The Summit’s program centered around three key questions:
How do ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, July 11, 2025
METRANS has launched Transportation Pathways ( www.transportationpathways.org ), a new website which aims to introduce high school students to the field of transportation and empower them to take control of their educational future. The website consolidates information from ten schools across the Pacific Southwest region that house some of the nation’s most impressive transportation research, workforce, and training programs. “There are over 13 million people ...
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