November 2024 News

2025 I-NUF Registration Now Open

The International Urban Freight conference (I-NUF) began in 2006 and has been hosted by the METRANS Transportation Consortium (based jointly at 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. The event 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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Leadership from the Port of Los Angeles

and Riverside County Transportation Commission Visit USC

 
 

Photo Credit: Shen Photography

On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, fourteen University of Southern California students from the Sol Price School of Public Policy and Viterbi School of Engineering had the pleasure of welcoming David Libatique, the Deputy Executive Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Port of Los Angeles, and Aaron Hake, the Executive Director of the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) and the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority (RCA). Hake and  Libatique joined a graduate class for a discussion on port operations, goods movement, and transportation policy in Southern California, facilitated by USC Professors Eric Shen and Marlon Boarnet.

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METRANS Research Highlights Holistic Approach

 to Succession Planning at Caltrans
 

The METRANS Transportation Consortium is excited to announce the publication of a new research report authored by Drs. Tom O’Brien and Tyler Reeb. Over the past year, the research team at the Center for International Trade & Transportation (CITT) collaborated with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to evaluate and discuss the progress and setbacks the state DOT has encountered in the implementation of its agency-wide succession plan.
 
 
 
 


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Equitable Tribal Transportation: Insights from the National Peer Exchange
 
 
 

In a landmark initiative led by the Standing Committee on Native American Transportation Issues of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Tribal transportation leaders, government transportation professionals, and academic researchers convened both in person and virtually for a peer exchange focused on "Equitable Tribal Transportation Systems: Benchmarking Workforce Needs." The event addressed the complex challenges faced by Tribal governments in developing, maintaining, and advancing transportation infrastructure—a critical yet often under-resourced sector within Tribal lands.

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Announcements
  • Save the Date: 2025 PSR Annual Congress Hosted by UC Berkeley, March 24-25, 2025. Visit the official 2025 PSR Congress website to learn more.
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METRANS & PSR In the Media
  • Dr. Genevieve Giuliano (USC), Dr. Juan Matute (UCLA), and Dr. Anastasia- Loukaitou- Sideris (UCLA) quoted in a Torched LA article recapping UCLA's Lake Arrowhead Symposium and the many obstacles Los Angeles faces ahead of the 2028 Olympics.
 

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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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