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PSR
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Pictured above: PSR Director Marlon Boarnet presents his lectern on changing work-from-home, commuting, and housing affordability trends at the FoT Summit on August 13, 2024.
Pictured above: Tom O'Brien, Associate Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPaCE) at CSULB & Missy Blair, Advanced Program Manager at Pima Community College, present their ...
PSR
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
The METRANS Transportation Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of a new research paper that explores the pivotal role of Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) units in shaping the future of workforce development across California. The peer-reviewed paper was a collaborative effort between Center for International Trade & Transportation Executive Director Dr. Tyler Reeb, a PSR researcher and METRANS executive committee member, and two other members of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
METRANS UTC
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 ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Friday, May 10, 2024
Photo credit: Bailey Shen, USC
Secretary Toks Omishakin of the California State Transportation Agency visited USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy on April 8, 2024, and spoke to students about Land Use and Transportation strategies and implementations of ongoing projects in California. He highlighted the policies focusing on Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TND) and Transit Oriented Development (TOD), as well as their ...
METRANS UTC PSR
Friday, May 10, 2024
When ridehailing (e.g., Uber, Lyft) became popular over ten years ago, scholars and transportation professionals wondered whether it would reduce or increase transit ridership. In short, is ridehailing a substitute or complement for public transit? Much more recently, a seemingly unrelated discussion has become popular: How can fare-free transit boost public transportation ridership compared to other policy tools? Our recent METRANS research sheds light on both questions.
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METRANS UTC PSR
Friday, April 5, 2024
In a letter to the USC community on February 29, 2024, USC Provost Andrew T. Guzman announced this year’s University and Distinguished professorships, the university’s highest academic honors. Our own Dr. Petros Ioannou, a long-time professor at USC and renowned transportation researcher, was honored with the title of University Professor. Provost Guzman notes, “We present these annually to select outstanding faculty who have brought great distinction ...
PSR
Friday, April 5, 2024
From left to right: Students attend PSR Congress session at UNLV. UCLA student Alejandra Rios Gutierrez pictured with PSR Director, Marlon Boarnet. UC Irvine student Urian Campos pictured with PSR Director, Marlon Boarnet. UNLV student Yazmin Martinez pictured with parent and PSR Director Marlon Boarnet.
The 2024 Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) Annual Congress was hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on March 11 ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Principal Investigator: Detlof von Winterfeldt with Aleyeh Roknaldi, Julie Hopper, Richard S. John, Laurel Kruke and Alice Qiao
A new PSR-funded research report has improved the estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from student commuting at the University of Southern California (USC). PSR researcher Detlof von Winterfeldt and his team determined student commuting contributes 17,969 metric tons of carbon emissions, or about 8.6% of all emissions from USC . ...
PSR
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
METRANS and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) are proud to announce the forthcoming sixth annual Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR-UTC) Congress, slated for March 11 and 12 at the UNLV Campus in Las Vegas, Nevada. Researchers may submit abstracts until February 2 at this link.
Each year, the PSR Congress serves as a pivotal platform for researchers, students, and practitioners to disseminate the outcomes of their research activities, along with ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
The Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center (UTC) is proud to honor exceptional students from member institutions for their promise in the transportation field. Students in doctoral, masters, undergraduate, community college, and professional development programs are recognized for their technical and research merit, academic, and leadership capabilities.
Monisha Reginald, a Master’s student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is PSR’s ...
PSR
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) awarded Professor Susan Handy with the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship at TRB’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. Handy is the Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Policy and Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California, Davis, a member of the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR UTC). The Lectureship is an honor conferred upon one academic ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, November 17, 2023
2023 CITT: Decarbonization: Truth, Consequences and Hard Choices
CITT hosted its annual State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall Meeting on November 17 at the Pointe Conference Center on the campus of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). This year’s focus was on port decarbonization. Since the inaugural event in 2001, the CITT Town Hall has featured robust discussions about controversial topics. Past Town Halls have addressed issues running the ...
METRANS UTC
Friday, November 17, 2023
The CITT Policy and Steering Committee proudly presented Harbor Commissioner Diane Middleton with the 2023 Domenick Miretti Award at this year’s State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall Meeting. On November 17, ILWU Local 13 President Gary Herrera took the stage and introduced Middleton not only as an esteemed labor advocate and an accomplished attorney, but as a dear friend to the ILWU and the Harbor community at large. Like Domenick Miretti, the inspiration for this prestigious ...
