METRANS Associate Director, Petros Ioannou, Inducted into NAE. As a member of the NAE, a nonprofit institution with more than 2,000 peer-elected members including 34 Viterbi-affiliated faculty, Ioannou is receiving one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

METRANS Announces New Director, Professor Marlon Boarnet, who will step into his role July 1, 2022. Dr. Boarnet has been engaged with METRANS since joining USC in 2012 and has been a member of the Executive Committee for many years. 

Local Inequities in the Relative Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Air Pollution in Los Angeles on March 30, 2022

Mobility, Accessibility, and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods on April 6, 2022

Balancing of Truck Parking Demand by a Centralized Incentives/Pricing System on April 12, 2022

With funding provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation, PSR researchers John Gunnar Carlsson, Kellner Family Associate Professor at the USC Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and USC graduate student Bo Jones, developed a mathematical model for calculating efficient routes for sidekick vehicles.

In the PSR research report “Race, Class, and the Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Pollution in Los Angeles,” Assistant Professor Geoff Boeing from the University of Southern California (USC), and graduate students Yougeng Lu, Clemens Pilgram, and Peter Mannino examined how the effects of vehicular air pollution are not necessarily born by those who generate it.