June 2024 News

The International Urban Freight conference (I-NUF) began in 2006 and has been hosted by the METRANS Transportation Consortium (University of Southern California and California State University, Long Beach) approximately every two years since. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners in urban freight, supply chains, and logistics from around the world. It is a showcase for cutting-edge research and dynamic information-sharing and provides a forum for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to reimagine and guide the future of the industry.

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PSR Researcher Geraldine Knatz Publishes New Book on Terminal Island Communities

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, Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering, 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 people can imagine that the Island was once home to thriving communities. Terminal Island was home to residential communities for a period of 70 years, including a refuge for artists writers and scientists and wealthy Angeleno’s who built their summer homes on the edge of the surf.

Research Spotlight: Using Streaming Data for Congestion Pricing

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 on survey data. Yet those data – surveying persons usually at one time and place – may not be suitable for dynamic pricing which requires understanding how VOT varies across different times and traffic conditions.

Photo: (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

METRANS to Lead Partnership Initiative with Four Southeast Asian Universities

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 Partnership (MUSP) Regional Connectivity Program.

Events at PSR Partner Universities

UCLA

Ciclovía at 50: Changing Street Cultures Across the World, June 26, 2024, Zoom. Click here for more information and here to register.

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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