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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The METRANS Transportation Consortium was recently selected to lead a United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) University Partnership Program (UPP). METRANS will partner with four Southeast Asian universities to support collaboration among United States and Southeast Asian professionals, researchers, and university students in the context of the US-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP) Transportation Program and the Mekong-U.S ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Photo Credit: (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Congestion pricing – used on highways in Southern California and in cities such as Singapore and London – requires understanding how much drivers would be willing to pay to travel faster. Technically, this is called travelers' value of travel time (VOT), and it is fundamental not only for congestion pricing, but also for many analyses of transportation projects. Most existing methods for estimating VOT rely ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The stories of the peoples that lived on Terminal Island is now being told in a new book Terminal Island, Lost Communities on America’s Edge by USC Price School’s Geraldine Knatz, with co-author Naomi Hirahara, with a foreword by USC’s William Deverell and an afterword by actor George Takai.
Today it’s a largely man-made land mass that is home to massive container terminals, huge cranes, ships and heavy-duty trucks. Few ...
