METRANS Transportation Center

Our March 2024 newsletter is out and can be read by clicking the link below.

March 2024 METRANS News & Updates PSR Congress Announcement; Detflof von Winterfeldt Research Spotlight; Media Features   March 2024 News   2024 PSR Congress Reminder: March 11 and 12 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas     METRANS

The 2023 CITT Town Hall is tomorrow!

Join our partners at CITT for the 2023 State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall at The Pointe on the CSULB campus on November 17 at 7:30am for breakfast and a mission-critical discussion.

Borne out of a need for a forum to resolve port-related conflicts, CITT Town Hall events since 2001 have addressed issues running the gamut from labor strikes to chassis shortages to the impacts of a global pandemic. This year’s Town Hall, “Decarbonization: Truth, Consequences, and Hard Choices,” features a documentary film screening and an expert round table discussion to address ways that California Supply Chain leaders can balance unprecedented decarbonization mandates in the face of an unrelenting American consumer demand for rapid and affordable fulfillment of goods.

Register for the Town Hall here: https://tinyurl.com/2tuhwtu2

Information on expert panelists can be found here: https://conta.cc/3QGg3SY

2023 CITT Town Hall Draws Expert Panelists to Discuss Decarbonization Challenges Dr. Sarah Saltzer, Dr. Genevieve Giuliano, Trelynd Bradley, and Jack Hedge will be speaking at this year's Town Hall!     2023 CITT Town Hall Draws Expert Panelists to Discuss Decarbonization Challeng

In case you missed it: The October 2023 METRANS Newsletter is out!

October 2023 News METRANS News & Updates   October 2023 News   METRANS Convenes More Than 150 Maritime Professionals at 2023 IAME Conference     The METRANS Transportation Consortium hosted the International Associatio

Registration for the 2023 CITT State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall is now open! https://conta.cc/3PVplKA

Register Now: 2023 CITT TOWN HALL Decarbonization: Truth, Consequences, and Hard Choices 2023 CITT State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall Meeting Decarbonization: Truth, Consequences, and Hard Choices California Supp

The Southern California Association of Governments (S**G) project team invites you to participate in a social media challenge where you can share your vision for how the goods movement industry could benefit and/or challenge your communities! Participants submitting videos will be automatically entered into a raffle drawing for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card.

Below are instructions on how to be a part of the challenge as well as access to the video submission form: https://lnkd.in/gwxpcJUr.

1. Submit a video no longer than 40 seconds, 10 MB file size
2. Please introduce yourself by sharing your name and/or the community in which you live or work
3. Please consider responding to the following questions when creating your video:
a. What is your personal relationship to the goods movement industry? (e.g. “I work for Amazon” or “I order from Amazon weekly” or “I live near railroad tracks”)
b. How do you envision your community benefiting from the opportunities related to goods movement?
c. How does the movement of goods in your community impact or benefit you?
d. What ideas do you have for addressing the challenges related to moving goods in and through your community?
4. You may submit multiple video submissions if you would like to answer multiple questions but each video may not exceed 40 seconds.

If you experience any issues, please email [email protected]

Only 2 weeks left until our annual Town Hall Meeting as part of the METRANS Freight Futures Week events!

Join us for a discussion of "Chasing Supply Chain Sustainability: Balancing Economic Growth, Consumer Demand, and the Environment" on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, from 7:30 AM to 10:00 AM PDT at Hyatt Regency (Long Beach).

This is a free in-person event. Click here to register - https://bit.ly/3McAaVL

Only two weeks left until our 9th METRANS International Urban Freight Conference!

The 2022 I-NUF is taking place at the Hyatt Regency (Long Beach) from May 25-27! Click here to register - https://bit.ly/35Lnkxe.

CITT is holding its annual State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall Meeting as part of the METRANS Freight Futures Week events on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, from 7:30 AM to 10:00 AM PDT at Hyatt Regency (Long Beach). Join us for a discussion of "Chasing Supply Chain Sustainability: Balancing Economic Growth, Consumer Demand, and the Environment."

This is a free in-person event. Click here to register - https://bit.ly/3McAaVL

Join us at our 9th METRANS International Urban Freight Conference at the Hyatt Regency (Long Beach) from May 25-27, 2022! Click here to register - https://bit.ly/35Lnkxe.

PSR Project Development of Instrumented Bikes: Toward Smart Cycling Infrastructure and Maintenance is in the news!

A PSR-funded team of engineers and engineering students at NAU is working on a smart bike to improve cycling safety. The bikes are equipped with sensors that are paired with a mobile app to alert the cyclist to road hazards ahead.

Click the link to learn more about the bike safety technology. https://lnkd.in/gnMPUBzB (Video by Autriya Maneshni/Cronkite News)

Cronkite News presents in-depth reporting on border issues, sustainability, education, politics, health, business and justice in Phoenix and across Arizona.

Northern Arizona (NAU) is a member of the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center

Only a month left to the event!

Join us at our 9th METRANS International Urban Freight Conference at the Hyatt Regency (Long Beach) from May 25-27, 2022! Click here to register - https://bit.ly/35Lnkxe.

We would like to send our warmest congratulations to Carrie Bowen on being awarded the COMTO Southern California Regional Chapter Business Member of the Year!

Through 30 years of working experience with a diverse background in both the public and private sector, Carrie has been dedicating her efforts to improving the quality of California’s transportation systems and the environment with sustainable approaches. The award is a solid recognition of her commendable scope of work. Carrie, congratulations and thank you for your many years of service to METRANS.

You are invited! Petros Ioannou joins METRANS NCST Speaker Series on Tuesday, April 12, noon PDT, USC RGL 308 and virtual, presenting Balancing of Truck Parking Demand by a Centralized Incentives/Pricing System.

Click here to register on Zoom - https://bit.ly/3E4b9IX
For those joining in person, lunch will be served starting at 11:45 am.

Join us at our 9th METRANS International Urban Freight Conference at the Hyatt Regency (Long Beach) from May 25-27, 2022! Click here to register -https://bit.ly/35Lnkxe

UCLA's Paul Ong joins PSR Speaker Series on Weds, April 6, at 12 PM (Pacific), presenting, "Mobility, Accessibility and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods." This is a virtual event.

Register at: https://uscprice.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KH_wn2ucTIuIwE15-PMxZQ

You are invited!

Associated Students of Planning and Development (ASPD) and METRANS are hosting the State of Planning 2022 Roundtable via Zoom on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm PDT. We invite future planners, students, and planning practitioners to attend. Panelists will provide students and guests with an insider's perspective on the current state of the planning field, careers, and tools needed to be a successful planner in today's urban environment. The distinguished list of speakers on this panel have multidisciplinary approaches to planning and work in various agencies and sectors across the field.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedNV1aCHezJHByKziwXhGdnvZTVKhaJoZkHA2bjfGmjl_wjQ/viewform

We congratulate Michael Christensen on starting a new position as Chief Operations & Maintenance Officer at Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA)!

Michael Christensen is a member of the METRANS Transportation Consortium Advisory Board. LAWA is a member of the METRANS Associates Program.

Read more about Michael Christensen and LAWA: http://shorturl.at/oqwD2

Read more about LAWA and METRANS: http://shorturl.at/gnxQY

USC Price Student Britt Adkins aims to make outer space inclusive


“Billionaires Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk recently made waves with their flights into outer space – but will the final frontier be reserved for the wealthy? Not if Britt Adkins, a USC Price School of Public Policy student, has anything to say. Adkins’ newly launched media company, Celestial Citizen (https://www.celestialcitizen.com), seeks to demonstrate that the future of human development beyond Earth isn’t just for the elite.”


Read more here: https://priceschool.usc.edu/news/student-aims-to-make-outer-space-inclusive/


Read more about the USC Price Master of Urban Planning program here: https://priceschool.usc.edu/mup/

Space isn’t just for billionaires: Price student aims to make outer space inclusive Aiming to change the way we talk about outer space, a USC Price student has launched a media company. Britt Adkins says “Celestial Citizen” provides a platform for people who are often unheard.

Join us at our 9th METRANS International Urban Freight Conference at the Hyatt Regency (Long Beach) from May 25-27, 2022! Click here to register - https://bit.ly/35Lnkxe.

METRANS | 2022 Event Registration

USC's Geoff Boeing joins METRANS Speaker Series on March 30, 2022 at 12:00 PM PST presenting "Local Inequities in the Relative Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Air Pollution in Los Angeles." Register here: https://bit.ly/3ML81pe

METRANS | Events | Spring 2022 Series: Balancing of Truck Parking Demand by a Centralized Incentives/Pricing System Vehicular air pollution has created an ongoing public health crisis. We examine how different communities’ driving volume and exposure to vehicular air pollution relate to race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, and how this varies across the region. How much vehicular pollution are different com...

METRANS hosts Day of SCervice with NASA, JPL, and USC Alumni Association, Saturday, March 13, 10 am to 2 pm, USC Main Campus and California Science Center – suitable for all ages!

To participate, contact Victoria Deguzman at [email protected]

We are excited to kick off the Spring 2022 Speaker Series with, "Assessing the Status of Transportation Equity Work in California." Join us!

Click here to register: https://bit.ly/3sSmHuH

UC Davis is a member of the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center.

𝗨𝗦𝗖’𝘀 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗼 𝗦𝗼𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗦𝗖𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝗣𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗼𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱

Lucio Soibelman, Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded the 2022 Peurifoy Construction Research Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Institute (ASCE-CI) Construction Research Council.

The annual award went to Soibelman for “conducting pivotal research on the application of emerging information and communication technologies, big data concepts, smart buildings, smart infrastructure, machine learning, and AI.”

Click the link to read more. https://bit.ly/3hNI0ao

𝗨𝗦𝗖'𝘀 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘂𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗖𝗦𝗘𝗔 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽

The NCSEA Diversity in Structural Engineering Scholarship was established by the NCSEA Foundation in 2020 to award funding to students who have been traditionally underrepresented in structural engineering (including but not limited to Black/African Americans, Native/Indigenous Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and other people of color). Multiple scholarships will be presented annually to junior college students, undergraduate students, and/or graduate students pursuing degrees in structural engineering.

Winner “Jessica Brown is a senior studying Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California. As a native of the Washington, DC Metropolitan area as well as a student in Los Angeles, Jessica has seen how infrastructure affects the lives of city residents positively and negatively. Living in these cities has inspired her to use her curiosity, love for problem-solving, and passion for the well-being of people to create impactful solutions to complex urban problems.”

Read more here:
https://bit.ly/3HL958F

Learn more about the scholarship here:
https://bit.ly/3tD0NuB

Join us for an uncoming webinar, "Assessing the Status of Transportation Equity Work in California" on March 9th at 12PM PST. Click the link to learn more and register. https://bit.ly/3pvV5cJ

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Assessing the Status of Transportation Equity Work in California. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Location: RGL 101 This report assesses equity work within transportation in California by analyzing the expert perspectives of transportation professionals who also identify as Black or people of color. Key findings centered around a distinction between "performative" equity work and "authentic" equ...