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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Meet Naila Sharmeen, 2021 Ph.D. graduate in Transportation Science from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dr. Sharmeen completed her bachelor's and Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Sharmeen developed a keen interest in Transportation Planning since her undergraduate study at BUET. She has also developed projects like “Developing a Generic Methodology for Traffic Impact Assessment ...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Meet Amalvy Perez, a graduate of the Class A Vehicle Driver certificate program from Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona.
Originally from the Dominican Republic, Amalvy Perez grew up in Santiago and immigrated to the United States when he was 14. Perez graduated from high school in Miami, Florida. Perez says he is an autodidact, a self-taught person. “I don’t know how everything would work out, but at the end, everything fell into place.”
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
The 2021 Perloff Lecture Series on Race in Transportation is an annual series presented by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Urban Planning and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. This year, “The Human Infrastructure of Sustainable Transportation Systems: Human-Powered Mobility and Just Transition” was presented by Dr. Adonia E Lugo as part of that series. Dr. Lugo shared her ideas from her collaborations in mobility justice to argue for the significance ...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
“ I have been interested in transportation from a very young age, so it is perhaps not surprising that I am now a PhD candidate in urban planning at the University of Southern California (USC), focusing my studies and research firmly in the field of transportation planning, investigating and developing knowledge in both the technical–physical and socioeconomic complexities of the field.”
Meet Yougeng Lu, PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial ...
Monday, June 7, 2021
Given its concerns over climate change and environmental justice, the State of California is mandating a transition to electric vehicles over the next decade and a half. The recent Clean Miles Standard aims to increase zero-emission miles per passenger and decrease greenhouse gas emissions by setting up new regulations for transportation network companies (TNCs)—also known as ridesharing companies. One of the largest ridesharing companies, Lyft, has already committed to a target of 100 percent ...
Monday, June 7, 2021
In a culture formed around their coastal and marine environments, communities in Hawaii are suffering from growing concerns relating to coastal hazards like accelerating erosion, sea level rise, and coastal storms that threaten to flood roadways and new rail infrastructures on the islands. While “hard” structures like seawalls, bulkheads, and rock revetments have been consistently used to protect the coasts from wave energy, they cause detrimental erosion and have already led to the ...
Friday, June 4, 2021
Following a comprehensive peer review process, METRANS recently revealed the list of research projects selected for funding this year through the university transportation center (UTC) program. The projects total $2.8M in research support from the US Department of Transportation (US DOT) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). METRANS issued its joint Request for Proposals (RFP) in early February for both the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR), a ...
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Meet Sonia Anthoine, a recent Bachelor of Science graduate in Civil Engineering with a minor in Sustainability in the Built Environment from the University of California (UC), Davis.
Sonia was born and raised in Chico, California, and came straight to UC Davis for her Bachelor of Science program after graduating from high school. She recalls having many fantastic teachers throughout the school but mentioned that she was particularly grateful to her fifth-grade teacher Mrs. Carroll and ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Jong-Shi Pang, USC Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, was recently inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Induction to the NAE is considered one of the highest professional honors for engineers to receive. NAE members represent leading individuals in business management, technical positions, academia, government, and private engineering organizations. Pang is a respected expert in the field of operations research and optimization in systems with multiple ...
