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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Policy research has always been a passion for Namjoo Park, who came to USC from her home country of Korea this year to study in the Price School’s Master of International Public Policy and Management (IPPAM) program. Park, who is from Busan, South Korea, attended Hanyang University in Seoul, where she took courses in the fields of economics, law, and philosophy in pursuit of a public policy degree. After spending her college years learning how policies are made in her home country, Park is ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Commute time is a daily consideration for almost everyone, but second-year Price graduate student Jacob Wong takes a particularly long look at how he and other Angeleos navigate the city. As a full-time Master of Public Policy (MPP) student, intern for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), and METRANS student staff writer, transportation is both a professional and personal interest. “I’m always thinking about how to maximize my commute, like how long it will take me to ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Even before moving to Los Angeles to start his International Public Policy and Management (IPPAM) program at the USC Sol Price School, Agil Wibowo has always had a desire to tackle economic inequality in his home country of Indonesia. “In Jakarta [the Indonesian capital], the rich and poor both live in the same areas,” he says.
Wibowo grew up in the city of Binjai on Sumatra island and attended the Perbanas Institute to study banking and finance. After completing his ...
Friday, November 18, 2022
Heavy duty trucks are a leading contributor to global climate change. California has enacted technology forcing legislation to replace fossil fuel trucks with zero emission vehicles to address freight transportation emissions. These vehicles include both battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell class 8 trucks. To determine which type of vehicle provides the most significant savings in energy consumption and emissions over diesel, a cradle to grave life cycle assessment (LCA) using ...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The University of Southern California (USC) is launching a unique, high-visibility postdoctoral fellowship program as part of Assignment: Earth , the USC campus-wide sustainability framework. The program aims to accelerate sustainability research; train future leaders in academia, government and non-governmental organizations, and industry; and support discovery, evaluation, and implementation of innovative solutions to sustainability problems.
The Postdoctoral ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
From Left, Professor Eric Shen, Kailin Liu (BS‘26), Christine Stavish (MS ‘23), Timothy Labounko (BS ‘24), Alex Wang (BS ‘26), Dr. Michael Phoenix, at the ESRI Learning Center
This past Tuesday, November 8th, pouring rain and heavy traffic did not deter USC students from visiting the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Headquarters in Redlands, CA. As students from various academic disciplines toured the beautifully landscaped campus, ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
On Friday, October 28, the METRANS K-12 team hosted its Across the Seas event, giving students from USC Hybrid High School an opportunity to learn about global supply chains through several fun and interactive activities. This was the consortium’s second consecutive year hosting the event in partnership with the Port of Long Beach.
The participating Hybrid High students first got to flash their engineering skills by competing in teams to build a ramp that would take the longest ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Emily Ng, a second-year Master of Urban Planning (MUP) student at the USC Price School, is looking to build on her background in environmental justice through her degree program by learning more about how the urban built environment affects sustainability initiatives that she is passionate about.
Hailing from South Pasadena, Ng attended Pitzer College in Claremont where she double-majored in sociology and environmental analysis. After graduating college in 2020, Ng continued to pursue ...
Monday, October 17, 2022
On October 7, USC students were given the unique opportunity to tour TraPac’s Los Angeles Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles. Students were first given an overview presentation of TraPac and its innovative impact on the logistics and goods movement industry. The presentation was followed by an exclusive tour of TraPac’s fully automated terminal. TraPac Los Angeles is the first automated container terminal on the United States west coast. The terminal’s automated operations increase ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Hong-Sheng (Clark) Hsu, a student in the USC Price International Public Policy and Management (IPPAM) Program, applies a global perspective on public service to his studies in his graduate program and his work as the lead editor of the METRANS student newsletter.
After graduating from the police academy in his home country of Taiwan, Hsu began to serve with the Taiwanese Coast Guard, where he landed a role in the agency’s International Affairs Office. This position ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
This year, USC senior Aylish Turner is taking the lead on a project at METRANS that is years in the making. Turner has been a member of the METRANS game development team since a friend recruited them in the Spring semester of their freshman year. At the time, the team was beginning development on an educational computer game about transportation topics for a K-12 student audience. Nearly three years later, the game is ready to take the next step in development toward release, leaving Turner excited ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The California State Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would make qualifying state residents eligible for a $1,000 tax credit if they do not own a private vehicle. If signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, the legislation would take effect in the 2023 tax year.
SB 457 was introduced to the legislature by Senator Anthony Portantino of Senate District 25. “As the impacts of climate change are felt across our state, it’s time we more aggressively commit to implementing ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
With a background in political science and economic development, USC Price graduate student and returning METRANS student worker William Graswich is looking forward to another year of studying transportation policy in the second year of his Master of Public Policy degree program.
Graswich, whose academic focus for his MPP degree is on sustainable transportation technologies and renewable energy, filled a number of roles for METRANS last year, with stints working on the Toastmasters ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Every Sunday from 7am to 2pm, the Colombian capital of Bogotá restricts car travel on nearly 80 miles of city streets, opening them up to cyclists and pedestrians in a city-sponsored event known as Ciclovia, or ‘bikeway’ in Spanish. The event, which has gone on since the 1970s, draws an estimated 1.7 million participants per week.
In 2010, a group of community activists began hosting similar events in Los Angeles, working with the local government to create ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
The Los Angeles City Council decided on Friday to have the City Budget and Finance Committee consider $706,000 in funding to remove graffiti on the recently opened Sixth Street Bridge near Boyle Heights. After the Public Works Committee recommended to approve the funds toward maintaining the bridge a week earlier, the council decided to pass the item to Budget and Finance rather than vote on it during Friday’s meeting.
According to a report by ABC City News Service, Budget ...
