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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Meet Jeremy Marks, Spring 2020 graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) program with a focus on Transportation Policy and Planning.
Jeremy grew up in central San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood and moved to Claremont, a suburb on the eastern edge of LA County boundaries, where he majored in Public Policy Analysis at Pomona College. After receiving his undergraduate degree in 2014, he opted for a change ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
While the global pandemic may discourage travel to destinations worldwide, transit enthusiasts and researchers can now virtually explore the world of urban rail transit, thanks to a new global transit database, the World Rail Network.
The World Rail Network (WRN) was developed as a side project by Lyle Janicek, an Associate Regional Planner at the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). WRN’s Databases and Dashboards can be explored through Lyle’s website, ...
Thursday, December 17, 2020
What tactics can planners use to better engage and build trust with the communities in which they serve? How can planners work to help people formulate solutions to challenges within their communities? How can young people become more civically engaged to have more of a say in how their communities are shaped?
From 2016 to 2020, USC Price student interns have had the opportunity to team up with Public Matters, a Los Angeles-based creative studio for civic engagement, on a project called ...
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Meet Lupita Huerta, a Spring 2020 graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) program, with a focus on Transportation Policy and Planning.
Originally from El Monte, CA, Lupita also attended UCLA as an undergraduate, majoring in International Development and graduating in 2012. She worked for four years in education, including with Teach for America, before deciding to transition to urban planning, with a specific interest ...
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Thursday, December 3, 2020
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), a global nonprofit focused on sustainability and improving social inclusion, has a reputation for supporting innovative and creative solutions during challenging times. In collaboration with the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), ITDP hosted “ MOBILIZE: Building Collective Action for the Next Decade ," a virtual transportation summit with an eye toward problem solving and bringing together ...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) hosted its annual Lake Arrowhead Symposium with the subject “Not ‘Back to Normal’: Mapping a Just Transportation Recovery from COVID-19,” which explored changes the transportation industry has experienced within the context of the pandemic. UCLA is a partner in the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center, ...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
David Kim, Secretary of the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) and USC alumnus, recently attended Adjunct Associate Professor Eric Shen’s “Transportation Studio,” a graduate course within the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, to speak on “the Fast-Changing Supply Chain Ecosystem: Understanding Goods Movement and Developing Multi-Modal Transportation Strategies in Urban Settings.” ...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
The METRANS Transportation Center held its second Advisory Board meeting of the year in November 2020. METRANS was founded in 1998 as the first transportation-focused center in Southern California dedicated to fostering high quality transportation research, training the future transportation workforce, and educating the public and industry on best practices and cutting-edge information. The METRANS Advisory Board includes distinguished ...
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Thursday, December 3, 2020
A commonly cited concern found among transit riders is the danger of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is a common occurrence in everyday transit environments (e.g., train stations, train wagons, buses, and bus stops). Each step of the journey until the transit riders reach their destination is a potentially hazardous situation. UCLA Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and ...
PSR
Thursday, December 3, 2020
In an era of growing calls for racial and economic justice, researchers are increasingly interested in the role that gentrification and displacement may play in exacerbating existing inequalities for disenfranchised communities. Gentrification is the concept of neighborhoods changing by bringing in new businesses, improving housing, and attracting wealthier residents. Gentrification leads ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Meet Doctor Raphael Isaac, Spring 2020 graduate of UC Davis’ Transportation Technology and Policy PhD program. This same spring Raphael joined Energetics, an energy technology consulting firm, as a Senior Transportation Data Analyst. Originally hailing from the east coast, Dr. Isaac was inspired to enter the transportation field by a variety of educational, professional, and personal experiences.
“Growing up in New Jersey, I was aware of the fact that cars seemed to be necessary ...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
METRANS is excited to feature the successes of a double Trojan, Thomas Check, who graduated with his BS and MS of Civil Engineering in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Thomas is moving up the ranks as a Transportation Engineer with the City of Santa Monica, where he has worked since the summer of 2017.
Thomas began at the City of Santa Monica in their Land Development Group, within the Engineering Division, first as a Civil Engineering Assistant in September 2017, and then as a Civil Engineering ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
On Friday November 13th, the METRANS Transportation Center held a panel event entitled Mentoring for Success in a Virtual World . The panel served as the annual launch event for the METRANS Mentor Program, which strives to connect students and young professionals interested in transportation with experienced leaders in the field.
The discussion was moderated by USC Annenberg Professor and leadership professional Rebecca Weintraub. The panelists included three current ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Azulita-Jane Camacho recently graduated from Pima Community College's Truck Driving Training Program in Tucson, Arizona. Pima Community College is a METRANS Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR) partner. As a member of the Deaf community, Azulita-Jane’s journey to earning a Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) was no easy feat. Now, it is clear that her hard work and determination to enter the trucking and transportation industry have paid off as she begins her ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
On October 27, METRANS, the Pacific Southwest University Transportation Center (PSR), and special partner, the University of Southern California’s (USC) Undergraduate Planning at Price organization (UP), launched the fourth and final research webinar for the Fall 2020 webinar series. UP is a student-led organization at USC Price for anyone interested in urban planning. UP’s vision is to build a community of equity-oriented undergraduate students, promote academic and professional development, ...
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