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The Seventh Annual PSR Congress Highlights Research Topics from Autonomous Vehicles to Transportation Equity
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The 2024 Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) Annual Congress was hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on March 11 and 12, 2024. Every year, a member institution of the PSR Consortium hosts the PSR Congress. The Annual Congress provides an opportunity for researchers, students, and transportation industry stakeholders from PSR member universities and from other universities, firms, and agencies in the US Department of Transportation Region 9 to share findings and build collaborations. Over 100 students, faculty members, researchers, and industry associates joined the two-day event which featured 50 presentations on transportation research themes ranging from mobility in tribal nations to autonomous vehicles, and from dashboards for transportation equity to machine learning for traffic signal control systems. | |
PSR Researcher and Associate Director of Research for METRANS, Dr. Petros Ioannou, Appointed as University Professor at the University of Southern California | |
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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 and honor to our university through their work. Their research enlightens and enriches collective understandings outside of USC and contributes to the advancement of society.”
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METRANS & PSR In the Media | |
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METRANS Director Marlon Boarnet quoted in an L.A. Times article about the approval of Measure HLA, which expedite construction of the transit, sidewalk, and bicycle lane elements of Los Angeles’s 2015 mobility plan.
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Dr. Genevieve Giuliano quoted in an L.A. Times article about LAX's People Mover rail link.
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Events Hosted at USC METRANS | |
Events at PSR Partner Universities | |
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UC Berkeley
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ITS Berkeley Seminar: Planning for Equitable Micromobility, April 19, 2024, In Person. Click here for more information.
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ITS Berkeley: Transportation Seminar, Ph.D. Student Talks, April 26, 2024, In-Person. Click here for more information.
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ITS Berkeley Seminar: Separation of Learning and Control in Emerging Mobility Systems, May 3, 2024, In Person. Click here for more information.
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UCLA
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Human Transit, Book Talk with Jarrett Walker, April 18, 2024, In Person.
Click here for more information.
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UC Davis
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Promises and “limitations” of big and small data for human mobility analysis, April 5, 2024, Hybrid. Click here for more information.
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Resilience Hubs: Human-Centered Analysis of Transportation Considerations, April 19, 2024, Hybrid. Click here for more information.
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The METRANS Transportation Consortium was established in 1998 as the first University Transportation Center in Southern California. METRANS is a joint partnership of the University of Southern California (USC) and California State University, Long Beach (CSULB).
METRANS' mission is to solve transportation problems of large metropolitan regions through interdisciplinary research, education and outreach. Its three primary objectives are: (1) fostering independent, high quality research to solve the nation's transportation problems; (2) training the next generation transportation workforce; and (3) disseminating information, best practices, and technology to the professional community.
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