April 2022
NEWS & UPDATES
As the inaugural fellow of the Long Beach Transit Fellows Program, USC Price Master of Urban Planning (MUP) graduate Reaghan Murphy showcased her research at a poster session for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Read part one in this three-part series.
PSR PARTNER UPDATES
On March 4th, the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR) hosted its annual Emerging Scholars Transportation Research Symposium in partnership with METRANS on campus at USC. 

PSR began hosting the Research Symposium four years ago as an opportunity for students in member universities to share their research. This year’s installment marked a return to a live presentation format, after two years of a virtual format.  
Upcoming Events
Join us for the 2022 International Urban Freight Conference from May 25-27!
The International Urban Freight Conference (I-NUF) is the premier biennial conference that addresses all aspects of city logistics and goods movement in the world’s metropolitan areas. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners in urban freight, supply chains, and logistics from around the world.

Click here to register and find more information. For a full list of keynote speakers and the agenda, click here.
RESEARCH
Where’s My Bus? PSR Researchers Develop Tools for Predicting Public Transit Arrivals 
Congestion continues to increase as Los Angeles reopens in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As congestion increases, bus transit that shares the streets with other traffic becomes less reliable. Cyrus Shahabi (Principal Investigator, University of Southern California), Yao Yi Chiang (Co-Principal Investigator, USC), and Luan Tran (Ph.D. Student, USC) released their Caltrans sponsored research, “Large-scale and Long-term Forecasting of Performance Measurement of Public Transportation Systems.” The research team developed a method for predicting bus arrivals at stops taking real-time traffic conditions into account.
PSR Researchers Investigate Freight Coordination to Optimize Routing
To optimize trucking routes with the goal of improving freight transport efficiency, PSR researchers Petros Ioannou (Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California) and Pengfei Chen (Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, USC) released their study “Dynamic Routing of Trucks and Truck Platoons Using RealTime Traffic Simulators.”
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 metropolitan transportation problems of large 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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