The METRANS Advisory Board met in early April to discuss strategic changes to the METRANS name and logo as well as to receive updates on 2021 signature METRANS events.
The PSR Congress showcased significant transportation research, covering topics from freight delivery to the implications of sea level rise on transportation systems, being conducted across the PSR partner campuses.
Dr. Gen Giuliano and USC doctoral student Yougeng Lu showcased their research on “Understanding Mobility Changes in Response to COVID-19." They examined how COVID-19 affected people’s travel behavior and how different population groups responded to COVID-19 and related policy restrictions.
Pima's Center for Transportation Training Advanced Program Manager Missy Blair and TuSimple Director of Transportation Jay Lau discussed the Community College's new Autonomous Vehicle Driver and Operations Specialist Certificate program and the process, challenges, and successes of such an endeavor in this Pima Cross Discipline Presentation series.
RESEARCH
PSR Researchers Study Fragmentation in California’s Daily Travels
To close the gap in understanding activity-travel fragmentation, UCSB Professor Konstandinos Goulias, UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Elizabeth McBride, and UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Adam Davis analyzed the connection between travel fragmentation, social interaction, and the accessibility offered by the environment around people in their study, “An Analysis of Accessibility, Social Interaction, and Activity-Travel Fragmentation in California.”
PSR Researchers Analyze the Socioeconomic Dimensions
of Transportation Network Disruptions and Resilience Tactics
In the PSR-funded project, "Socioeconomic Dimensions of Resilience to Seaport and Highway Transportation Network Disruptions," various PSR researchers including USC Research Associate Professor Dan Wei, Research Professor Adam Rose, Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lucio Soibelman, and doctoral candidate Eyup Koc developed an integrated transportation-socioeconomic impact analysis model and estimated the aggregate income distribution impacts of a disruption to seaports and associated inland transportation infrastructure through a simulated earthquake scenario affecting the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
METRANS researchers from our member institutions have recently completed the following project in the three topical areas of: integrated management of freight and passenger systems, sustainable and efficient urban freight transportation, and urban mobility. To learn more about specific projects, please click on the title to access the research briefs and reports.
The METRANS Transportation Consortium was established in 1998 as the first University Transportation Center in Southern California. METRANS is a joint partnership of theUniversity 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.
