January 4, 2013
When it came to the 2012-13 California Planning Foundation scholarships, eight proved to be the lucky number for the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy's master of planning students. "Eight winners is a wonderful achievement," said Professor Marlon Boarnet. "Our graduate students are among the most competitive in the state -- and this is another indication." Established by the APA's California chapter, the foundation provides scholarships and awards to in-state university students who demonstrate talent, motivation and academic excellence.
November 28, 2012
The New York Times quoted Price Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer about the impact of a light-rail line opening in the Crenshaw area.
November 28, 2012
USC Price School of Public Policy students who took part in the school's China Lab presented their findings to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Port-Cities Programme working group in Paris. The presentation explored the intersection of international trade, public policy and urban planning by comparing the impacts of global goods movement in L.A. with those of China's Zhejiang Province.
November 16, 2012
The New York Times quoted USC Price Senior Associate Dean Genevieve Giuliano about a need for toll roads to alleviate congestion on California roadways.
November 15, 2012
The Desert Sun highlighted an upcoming talk by Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on counter-terrorism. Southers is associate director of the USC's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, the story noted.
October 1, 2012
The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by USC Price Senior Fellow William Fulton about the hidden costs of city sprawl, and how they contribute to city bankruptcies. "Where houses go, where businesses go, where roads go, where sidewalks go, where farms and open space go are all things that collectively affect a community's economic performance and the cost of providing services there," Fulton wrote.
September 11, 2012
KPCC-FM's "Brand-Martinez Show" aired an audio essay by USC Price alumnus Jason Neville, MPL '07, about his experiences living in Los Angeles without a car.
August 13, 2012
NBC Nightly News interviewed Erroll Southers, USC Price adjunct professor and associate director of the USC CREATE Homeland Security Center, about a security breach at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
August 4, 2012
The Economist quoted Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy about Gov. Jerry Brown's political strategy regarding a high-speed rail plan.
July 3, 2012
USC Price planning faculty Marlon Boarnet and Lisa Schweitzer were interviewed by NPR on a story about freeway 'caps.'
July 1, 2012
BBC News (U.K) interviewed Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer about a lack of funding for California high-speed rail.
June 23, 2012
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The Los Angeles Daily News quoted Professor Marlon Boarnet of the USC Price School of Public Policy about the Orange Line busway extension.
June 15, 2012
The Sacramento Bee quoted USC Price Senior Associate Dean Genevieve Giuliano about congestion relief and Los Angeles rail projects.
May 29, 2012
CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" interviewed Lisa Schweitzer of the USC Price School about California's high-speed rail project.
April 26, 2012
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV ran an op-ed by Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School about tax plans proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown and Mayor Antonio Villraigosa. Jeffe noted that Villaraigosa's plan has a number of hurdles to clear in the near future, and will face competition from Gov. Brown, who worries that too many tax plans on the ballot will bring down all the proposals. "It remains to be seen whether Mayor Villaraigosa's persistence in pushing his transportation goals will run headlong into Governor Brown's persistence in pursuing his budget goals," Jeffe wrote.
April 18, 2012
The Los Angeles Daily News quoted Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer of the USC Price School about L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's support for extending Measure R, which involves a tax to support public transit.
April 14, 2012
The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer of the USC Price School about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's 30/10 transit plan and possible sources of funding for it. Schweitzer wrote that receiving federal funding may be a dream, but turning to California's Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, the European Investment Bank or the private global capital market may be viable options.
April 11, 2012
The Atlantic published an interview with USC Price Professor David Sloane focusing on his new book, Planning Los Angeles. The article states, "Covering everything from early planning documents to the impact of the recession to the challenges of regional transportation development, Planning Los Angeles is a comprehensive look at how the city has been shaped by urban planning. Sloane says the essays paint a more complete picture of where planners have done well in the city, where plans have fallen short and why, despite its reputation as an unplanned city, urban planning continues to mold L.A."
April 11, 2012
LA Streetsblog published a story by David Sloane, professor and director of undergraduate programs at USC Price. In the story, Sloane writes about CicLAvia, "a civic event that brings together people of many ages, races and ethnicities, from many neighborhoods around Los Angeles for a momentary 'ephemeral event' where they walk, ride, talk and laugh together. Such moments are crucial to the public life and culture of any city, but especially our city." Sloane added: "Too often Angelenos see the world through the windshield of their car, not imagining that they can safely move around their neighborhoods by other means, and do it faster and more efficiently." The story mentions that Sloane's newest book, Planning Los Angeles, will be released this week.
April 6, 2012
The New York Times ran an op-ed by Senior Fellow William Fulton of the USC Price School on whether Los Angeles should increase its urban density to be more like New York. "While L.A. is still fairly low-rise and auto-oriented over all, it's increasingly a place where you can live a more traditional car-free urban lifestyle," Fulton wrote. "New Yorkers may think that reinventing Hollywood as an urban center is nuts, but the truth is Hollywood already is an urban center."
March 30, 2012
Planetizen ran a Q&A with David Sloane, professor and director of undergraduate programs at USC Price, that discussed his new book, Planning Los Angeles. In the interview, Sloane said: "I would argue that planning is everywhere in LA: from the very grid that underlies the vast majority of the basin, to the way that the rivers are controlled, to the residential neighborhoods that are so carefully protected from commerce and from traffic. So, all those things are just classic elements of 20th century planning. The question then becomes, is it well planned? In some sense, that's what the book gets at as well, the successes and failures."
March 14, 2012
U.S. News & World Report featured several USC schools and programs in its 2013 edition of "Best Graduate Schools." The USC Price School was ranked No. 4 for Health Policy and Management; No. 6 in Public Affairs, up from No. 7 last year; No. 6 for Public Management Administration; No. 7 for City Management and Urban Policy; No. 7 for Nonprofit Management; No. 9 in Social Policy; No. 12 for Public Policy Analysis; and No. 21 for Public Finance and Budgeting.
March 3, 2012
The Philadelphia Inquirer quoted Erroll Southers, USC Price adjunct professor and associate director of USC's CREATE Homeland Security Center, about security at Philadelphia International Airport.
February 16, 2012
Politico ran an op-ed by Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer of the USC Price School, in which she wrote that the Obama administration has been clueless on transportation policy. The administration has tried to cover urban transport needs with federal funds, which come from suburban and rural taxpayers in addition to urban ones, Schweitzer noted. That creates friction and opens the president up to conservative criticism. She wrote that transit advocates need to start looking for funding at the local, regional and state levels. "Without a change in the federal gas tax, the days of federal largesse to transit are coming to a close," Schweitzer added.
February 13, 2012
The San Diego Union-Tribune quoted Professor James Moore of the USC Price School of Public Policy and the Viterbi School of Engineering about San Diego's port traffic.
January 18, 2012
Bloomberg News quoted Senior Fellow Sherry Jeffe of the USC Price School about Gov. Jerry Brown's balancing act between supporting California's proposed high-speed rail network and raising taxes.
December 12, 2011
Bloomberg News quoted Richard Green, USC Price professor and director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate, about Delta Air Lines investing in upgrades at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
November 30, 2011
NPR Boston affiliate WBUR-FM's "On Point" interviewed Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer of the USC Price School of Public Policy about California's plans for a high-speed rail system and a new estimated cost of nearly $100 billion. "This is a much better cost estimate," Schweitzer said, noting that initial estimates seemed unrealistically low at roughly $30 billion. Schweitzer said in 2008, she had students calculate cost estimates for the plan. They ranged from $85 billion to $110 billion. She said whether the cost is worth it depends on what voters value in terms what the project has to offer, including taking cars off the road and reducing accidents and pollution.
November 12, 2011
The Huffington Post quoted Genevieve Giuliano, senior associate dean and professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, about how a subway extension under Beverley Hills wouldn't make a significant improvement in traffic congestion.
November 9, 2011
The Daily Breeze quoted Erroll Southers, USC Price adjunct professor and associate director of USC's CREATE Homeland Security Center, about the benefits to frequent fliers of a trusted traveler program at LAX.
November 8, 2011
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development students learned about the latest privately built apartment complex intended for USC students as part of SPPD's Fell Undergraduate Student Conversation series last month. Con Howe, managing director of developer CityView and adjunct faculty member at SPPD, provided the details on the development of West 27th Place, which puts the luxury amenities usually reserved for apartments downtown just a short bike ride down the Figueroa corridor from the University Park campus.
October 30, 2011
The Wichita Eagle cited Professor Genevieve Giuliano of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development about the weak link between urban design and driving patterns.
October 9, 2011
The Columbus Dispatch quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about Ohio State University's sale of its parking operation to a private vendor. Little is director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at USC, the story noted.
September 14, 2011
LA Streetsblog quoted Professor Gary Painter of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development on his role as a member of the Measure R Oversight Committee Advisory Panel.
August 5, 2011
The Oregonian highlighted research by USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development Professor Lisa Schweitzer, who measured the Twitter sentiment surrounding various public transit entities.
August 3, 2011
The Daily quoted Erroll Southers, SPPD adjunct professor and associate director of USC's cREATE Homeland Security Center, about the Transportation Security Administration's plan to start questioning passengers at airports.
July 29, 2011
The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by SPPD and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore on finishing the 710 Freeway. "In the best case, the political impasse over raising the nation's debt ceiling would lead to a new political reality for evaluating transportation projects: new rules that favor projects with needs and benefits solidly documented, with proven technology, and that do not push funding obligations onto future generations of taxpayers. The poster child for such a scenario would be the long-debated completion of the 710 Freeway," Moore wrote.
July 18, 2011
BBC News (U.K.) interviewed SPPD Senior Associate Dean and Professor Genevieve Giuliano about this weekend's partial freeway closure in Los Angeles, dubbed "Carmageddon."
July 15, 2011
ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV interviewed Professor Genevieve Giuliano of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development about this weekend's partial freeway closure in Los Angeles, dubbed "Carmageddon."
July 14, 2011
ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV interviewed SPPD Senior Associate Dean and Professor Genevieve Giuliano about this weekend's partial freeway closure in Los Angeles, dubbed "Carmageddon."
July 13, 2011
The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by SPPD Professor Lisa Schweitzer on whether the U.S., like Greece, might have to privatize large portions of its transportation system as a result of debt crisis. "So long as Americans refuse to even index gas taxes to inflation, let alone raise the tax outright, we won't be spending enough to maintain our transportation infrastructure, which means that its value will continue to fall," Schweitzer wrote. "That will make it difficult to attract private investment or get a fair price for state-owned assets if the government opts to privatize its transportation assets. Too many more years of disinvestment and we will have to make gun-to-the-head decisions like Greece's," she added.
July 12, 2011
La Opinion quoted SPPD and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore about efforts to convince Angelenos to shift to public transit and away from driving.
July 12, 2011
La Opinion quoted Professor James Moore of SPPD and the USC Viterbi School about Los Angeles' hope that adding capacity to the 405 freeway will alleviate congestion in the long run.
July 8, 2011
The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal quoted Richard Little, senior fellow at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, about whether high-speed trains could share tracks with regular passenger and freight trains. Little is the director of USC's Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, the story noted.
July 7, 2011
L.A. Weekly quoted Professor James Moore of SPPD and the USC Viterbi School about the city's hope that adding capacity to the 405 freeway will alleviate congestion in the long run.
July 7, 2011
The Los Angeles Times quoted USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore about L.A. County adding toll lanes on the 10 and 110 freeways.
June 23, 2011
The Dallas Observer quoted SPPD Professor Lisa Schweitzer on whether streetcars actually improve transit conditions.
June 9, 2011
NBC News Los Angeles interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers to discuss whether airports are spending wisely on security and counter-terrorism. Southers is a transportation security expert and the associate director at the USC CREATE Homeland Security Center, NBC noted.
June 1, 2011
USA Today quoted SPPD and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore about technology for intelligent cars that could tell the driver how to avoid traffic and where to find parking spaces.
May 26, 2011
The Los Angeles Wave noted that Michael Kodama, adjunct associate professor at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, is executive director of the Orangeline Development Authority.
May 7, 2011
CW News Los Angeles affiliate KTLA-TV interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Errol Southers about al Qaeda plans to target train systems in the United States. Southers is the associate director of the USC CREATE Homeland Security Center.
May 5, 2011
The Kommersant (Russia) cited USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development Research Professor Adam Rose regarding the economic cost of the September 11 attacks.
April 26, 2011
Seventy-nine students from the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development spent their spring break working with government agencies, nonprofits or consulting firms through the school's Externship Program. SPPD's Office of Career Services matches students with host organizations nationwide based on their skills and interests. They work on substantive projects and gaining real-world exposure to jobs relevant to their studies.
April 25, 2011
The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore about the drying up of funds for California's high-speed rail project. "California officials, lawmakers and citizens now have the opportunity to step back and reconsider the inflated promises that pervade the high-speed rail program," Moore wrote. "Railroads are a crucial component of the U.S. freight management and distribution system, but we do not need and cannot afford a high-speed rail system for passengers."
April 19, 2011
The METRANS Transportation Center has been named Organization of the Year by the California Transportation Foundation (CTF), a leading nonprofit providing support for the transportation community statewide. METRANS is directed by Professor Genevieve Giuliano, senior associate dean for research and technology at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
April 1, 2011
The Daily Trojan featured a Q&A with SPPD alumnus and transportation planner, Alan Hyun. Hyun took courses with SPPD Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Kodama. After graduating in 2010, he joined Kodama's urban planning consulting group.
March 17, 2011
Pengyu Zhu, a Ph.D. student at SPPD, was awarded the Western Regional Science Association's 2011 Charles M. Tiebout Prize for the best paper submitted by a graduate student. Zhu received the honor on March 1 at the WRSA's 50th annual meeting in Monterey, Calif. His paper - "Are Telecommuting and Personal Travel Complements or Substitutes?" - will be published in The Annals of Regional Science, an international quarterly journal.
March 10, 2011
KCET-TV's "SoCal Connected" interviewed SPPD and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore about increased traffic congestion that might result from the addition of a new NFL stadium to the Los Angeles area.
February 22, 2011
Forbes quoted USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore about the factors that contribute to long commutes in California.
February 14, 2011
With the help of Keith Hwang MS '83, Ph.D '92, the Cheonggye stream -- buried for more than a half-century beneath six kilometers of elevated highway -- is flowing again in downtown Seoul. Hwang, president of the Korean Transport Institute, recently visited USC to give a presentation on the stream restoration and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Jack H. Knott, the C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean and professor at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
January 22, 2011
The Fresno Bee quoted Professor James Moore of SPPD and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering about California's high-speed rail project.
December 5, 2010
The Hartford Courant mentioned a research project by USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development graduate students, on economic development policies in Hartford, Conn.
December 1, 2010
Pacific Standard Magazine featured research by Gary Painter, USC Price professor and director of research at the Lusk Center for Real Estate, and a colleague, finding that immigrants are moving to mid-sized cities within the United States. The migration patterns are due to immigrants seeking out pre-established immigrant communities and places with low job competition. "The anticipated rapid growth of U.S. immigrant populations in the coming decades, coupled with their movement into midsize metro areas, has the potential to transform communities," Painter said.
November 18, 2010
CNN's "CNN Newsroom" interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers, associate director of USC's Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, as to whether in-flight Wi-Fi represents a security risk.
October 27, 2010
La Opinion quoted SPPD and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore
about the importance of having seat belts in school buses, in light of a recent school bus accident in Boyle Heights.
October 18, 2010
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development faculty members Richard Little and Mark Pisano spoke at a "Funding and Financing Solutions for Surface Transportation in the Coming Decade" conference at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. The conference, held last month, was co-sponsored by the USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy.
October 15, 2010
The Wall Street Journal quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about the difficulties of construction projects that lead to increased costs. Little is director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at USC, the story noted.
October 5, 2010
Researchers at the USC METRANS Transportation Center and the USC Integrated Media Systems Center have received a three-year, $1.8 million grant from L.A. County Metropolitan Transit Authority to create an integrated data system that ultimately could improve traffic flows in and around Los Angeles. The work will include development of applications in regional planning, traffic management, system performance and policy analysis. METRANS is directed by the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development professor and senior associate dean Genevieve Giuliano.
September 27, 2010
The Laist cited USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore about an environmental impact report which found that the Subway to the Sea project would not relieve congestion in Los Angeles' Westside.
September 11, 2010
CNN interviewed SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers about the impact of 9/11 on everyday life, business and travel. Southers, a counterterrorism expert, is associate director of special programs at USC's CREATE Homeland Security Center.
September 6, 2010
National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" interviewed SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about public-private partnerships in city parking systems. Little directs the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure at USC.
September 5, 2010
Interplan, a publication of the international division of the American Planning Association, featured an article (pp. 6-7) written by SPPD master of planning student Joy Kwong on the recent planning studio in Berlin. Fifteen SPPD graduate students collaborated with eight master of urban design students from Berlin's Technical University "in a planning studio to re-imagine the potential of the gray field sites surrounding Berlin's newest mega-project, Hauptbahnof," Kwong wrote.
September 4, 2010
Professor James E. Moore II has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the California Transportation Foundation. Moore is the first academic to serve on the foundation's board and the first ever nominated to do so.
August 17, 2010
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about public-private partnerships in city parking systems. Little is director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at USC, the story noted.
August 15, 2010
The San Jose Mercury News quoted Professor Genevieve Giuliano about financing for a high-speed rail system in California. Giuliano is director of the METRANS Transportation Center, the story noted.
August, 8, 2010
Bloomberg News quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about public-private partnerships in city parking systems. Little is director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at USC, the story noted.
August 2, 2010
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted SPPD Professor Genevieve Giuliano about reform of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Giuliano is director of the METRANS transportation research center.
July 31, 2010
The Fresno Bee quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about private investment in high-speed rail. Little is director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at USC, the story noted.
July 23, 2010
The Los Angeles Times quoted Professor James Moore of SPPD and the USC Viterbi School about the impact the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's development of rail service has had on bus transit.
June 7, 2010
The Financial Times (U.K.) quoted Richard Little, senior fellow at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, about infrastructure spending included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Little is director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at USC, the story noted.
May 7, 2010
During spring semester, 15 graduate students from the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development collaborated with students from the Technical University of Berlin on a comparative study of transit-adjacent urban redevelopment. "The overall focus of the Berlin planning studio was the large-scale redevelopment of inner-city rail station sites," said Deike Peters, a SPPD adjunct and director of the planning studio.
April 15, 2010
Yin Wang, a doctoral student at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, won the ninth annual paper award competition of the American Society for Public Administration's Section on Transportation Policy and Administration. She won the honor for her essay "Determinants of Utilization of Private Finance in Toll Road Development: Evidence From the United States."
April 1, 2010
SPPD adjunct associate professor Michael Kodama scribbles on the board at USC's Von KleinSmid Center, trying to keep pace with a dozen students who are calling out transportation-related news headlines during his "Transportation Planning" class. "The first part of the class is led by the students," Kodama said. "They can talk about anything they want and put me on the spot for an hour." It's a fitting way for Kodama to kick off each session, since he's been making news himself as the new executive director of the Orangeline Development Authority.
March 18, 2010
Covering many complex questions facing the nation in areas like the financial crisis, health care reform, transportation and regulation, Congressman Gary Miller spoke at a recent event sponsored by SPPD. The discussion was part of the Dean's Speaker Series presented by the SPPD Athenian Society.
March 16, 2010
The Trojan League of Los Angeles showcased the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development on Feb. 27 at its annual benefit, which featured the theme "Creating Ideas That Shape the World." Each year, the alumnae group selects a distinguished USC department, school or individual to honor.
January 29, 2010
The Wall Street Journal quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little on California receiving stimulus funding to seed high-speed rail plans. "There's a huge push for electric systems in the state to get emission-free transportation," said Little, who directs the USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy. Little also said it was "dicey" that California would be able to garner all the funding through conventional means; he expects other sources to be tapped, including more user fees, the story noted.
January 28, 2011
The Christian Science Monitor quoted SPPD and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore about high-speed rail in California.
January 3, 2010
The Contra Costa Times quoted SPPD Associate Dean and Professor Genevieve Giuliano in an article about construction on the 405 freeway that will add a carpool lane through the Sepulveda Pass. Giuliano, who directs the METRANS Transportation Center, said that the new carpool lane will absorb about 15 percent to 25 percent of vehicles on the road today. "If those cars move into the carpool lane, the traffic will be more evenly distributed across the lanes," she explained.
November 30, 2009
Bucking the trend of the recent economic downturn, the Career Services Office at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development drew a record-high attendance among employers and students alike for its Fall Networking Night. More than 100 graduate and undergraduate students packed the Radisson Hotel Ballroom Oct. 13 to meet and interact with nearly 80 employers representing the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
November 30, 2009
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development Assistant Professor Lisa Schweitzer is among a team of USC researchers to receive a $505,000 award from the National Institutes of Health for a new project, "Access to Scientific Information and Services for Latino Families with Autistic Children."
November 4, 2009
More than 200 experts from the world of goods movement converged on the National Urban Freight Conference, which was organized by the METRANS Transportation Center, to discuss critical issues ranging from traffic to logistics to pollution. METRANS, a research partnership between USC and Cal State Long Beach, is directed by USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development professor Genevieve Giuliano.
November 2, 2009
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development alumna Anupama Mann recently received the Gill-Chin Lim Award for the best dissertation on international planning for her thesis, "A Megaproject Matrix: Ideology, Discourse and Regulation in the Delhi Metro Rail." The award is given by the Global Planners Educators Interest Group at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
October 17, 2009
The New Planner, an online publication for and by student members of the American Planning Association, featured an article in its Fall 2009 issue written by Alan Huynh, a senior in the urban planning program at SPPD. His article is titled "The Importance of Transportation Demand Management."
October 14, 2009
KPCC-FM interviewed SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little in a story on the feasibility of a tunnel for the 710 freeway through Mt. Washington. "The tunnel is feasible from an engineering and financial standpoint, and if by taking the surface route off the table you could make that move forward, it seems to me to be a good thing to do," said Little, who directs the USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy. "I think tunnel-boring has come a long way. This isn't the old excavation method. It's a very elaborate but well established process."
October 3, 2009
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal quoted USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and USC Viterbi School of Engineering Professor James Moore in a story about Metrolink. The transit system began service in 1991 as an effort to uncork bottleneck traffic on Southern California roadways, though the history of the transit system dates back to the early 1980s, Moore said. Metrolink used a patchwork of existing freight lines instead of building a dedicated commuter rail system like those in New York and San Francisco, which would have been prohibitively expensive, he explained. "It would be hard to name any other place in the world that has more intensive use of freight line than Los Angeles," Moore said.
October 1, 2009
The Wall Street Journal mentioned SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers in a story about efforts to revive a national Registered Traveler program. According to the story, the resurrection of such a program could depend on Southers, who was recently nominated to head the Transportation Security Administration. Southers would have to support the decision to implement such a program, the story noted.
September 28, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education featured SPPD Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Kodama and his work in transportation planning. Kodama was recently named executive director of the Orangeline Development Authority, charged with planning a high-speed rail system that will link 14 cities through Southern California. The story highlighted Kodama's transportation planning class, in which he requires his students to travel an assigned route on a commuter train and write an essay about the experience. Kodama also requires his students to develop their own public transit projects, which they discuss with transportation professionals and present to the class. Board members viewed Kodama's teaching background as a plus when they chose him to direct the project, said the development authority's chairman. "I've been involved with a lot of different transportation projects and they all find their ways back into the classroom," Kodama said. "Teaching is enjoyable and rewarding -- and I get to see where some of the students end up. I still run into quite a few of them."
September 16, 2009
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development hosted members of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce this summer in the first stop of the Texas delegation's three-day Los Angeles tour aimed at exchanging information with local civic leaders and experts.
September 16, 2009
Erroll Southers MPA '98 has been nominated by the Obama administration to run the Transportation Security Administration. Southers is an adjunct professor at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and he also serves as associate director of the USC Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.
August 10, 2009
The Daily Breeze reported that the Obama administration plans to appoint SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers as head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). In the position, Southers, MPA '98, would oversee a workforce of 50,000 airport screeners. Southers is a former FBI agent and previously served as deputy director of the California Department of Homeland Security, the story noted.
August 3, 2009
More than 160 leading experts, ranging from USC faculty to government officials and business executives, gathered at USC to address pressing infrastructure challenges facing the Southwest Megaregion, which encompasses Southern California and portions of Nevada and Northern Baja, Mexico. The conference was part of an America 2050 forum, sponsored by the Regional Plan Association, the USC Bedrosian Center and the USC Keston Institute.
July 17, 2009
La Opinion quoted Assistant Professor Lisa Schweitzer and Professor James Moore about Los Angeles traffic. The public transit system should be expanded to provide more capacity, Moore said. Schweitzer believes that the best strategy would be to invest in more light-rail lines and carpool lanes, the article noted.
July 7, 2009
The Orange County Register noted that SPPD Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Kodama has been named executive director of the project to develop a maglev train system for Southern California. Planners envision an elevated, 110-mile train line between Irvine and Palmdale, with overall costs estimated in the $12 billion range, the story stated.
June 30, 2009
The New York Times noted that Professor Genevieve Giuliano of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and USC doctoral student Mohja Rhoads selected the finalists for a Times essay contest on the worst roads in America.
June 28, 2009
The Las Vegas Review-Journal quoted SPPD Senior Fellow Richard Little about a proposed high-speed train from Southern California to Las Vegas. Some have criticized the plan for locating the terminus in Victorville, 80 miles from Los Angeles, the story noted. "I don't think the Victorville connection is anybody's first priority for doing California's high-speed rail," he said. Little is director of the USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy.
June 15, 2009
The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by Professor Peter Gordon about congestion pricing. "The fairest and most cost-effective option in urban transportation is rational pricing of highway space," Gordon wrote. "[P]eople in all walks of life value the time they save if and when they choose to pay the toll."
June 9, 2009
The New York Times reported that Professor Genevieve Giuliano and SPPD doctoral student Mohja Rhoads will select the finalists for a Times essay contest on the worst roads in America. "I'm bringing in a couple of celebrity judges from the outstanding transportation program at UCLA's crosstown rival, the University of Southern California," the columnist wrote. "P.S.: Don't tell them we think so highly of them, we don't want them getting big heads."
May 2, 2009
The Age (Australia) quoted Assistant Professor Elizabeth Currid about the fading luster of the Hummer car brand. "In the 2000s, we saw the Hummer as the epitome of glamour and excessive living," Currid said. "Now, if they're not scorned, they're laughed at. I think the Hummer is considered quite gauche among the set that used to drive them."
April 2, 2009
Los Angeles' "transportation transformation" was the subject of a recent panel discussion hosted by the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development. The event took place at the downtown headquarters of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It was the third event in the SPPD Dean's Speaker series, which has focused on the revitalization of Los Angeles.
January 26, 2009
The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development marked its 80th anniversary by hosting a special colloquium Jan. 16 at the Davidson Conference Center. During the conference, Dean Jack H. Knott noted that SPPD remains dedicated to advancing academic theory and making a vital impact in the world.
December 21, 2008
The Los Angeles Times quoted Professor Genevieve Giuliano about the expected departure of L.A.'s Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Roger Snoble. "The next person is going to have to be hardheaded about the market for some of these capital investments," Giuliano said. If not, the cost of running and building rail could drain agency coffers, she noted. Guiliano is senior associate dean for research and technology at SPPD and director of the METRANS Transportation Center.
December 12, 2008
Eight USC students conducting research on transportation projects ranging from toll roads to airport runway incursions have been recognized with scholarships from two Southern California chapters of the Women's Transportation Seminar. Two of those students are from the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
November 6, 2008
Dr. Louise Nelson Dyble, associate director for research at the USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, recently received the American Public Works Association (APWA) Michael Robinson Award for her article, "Revolt Against Sprawl: Transportation and the Origins of the Marin County Growth-Control Regime."
October 29, 2008
During an Oct. 21 panel hosted by the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry said that the goal of downtown's revitalization effort is to restore "the excitement of an earlier time." The changing downtown landscape was the focus of the panel discussion, which took place inside City Hall. The event was part of the SPPD Dean's Speaker Series.
October 28, 2008
The Los Angeles Times quoted Assistant Professor Elizabeth Currid about double-decker tourist buses in Los Angeles. The buses are a gambit by L.A.'s biggest tour operator to broaden the areas in which tourists roam, the story stated. "The double-decker buses aren't the silver bullet," Currid said. "But great cities are great cities because of all the little things adding up. The cumulative effect of all the little things actually adds up to something important."
October 22, 2008
METRANS celebrates 10 years of research and education on metropolitan transportation. For the past decade, the center has aimed at "generating the highest quality basic and applied research," according to METRANS Director Genevieve Giuliano, professor and senior associate dean at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
September 8, 2008
SPPD Associate Professor Catherine Burke wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times about improving mass transit with "podcars." These personal rapid transit vehicles would provide on-demand, private, nonstop travel on small, overhead guideways above existing roads, Burke wrote. "Podcars offer a new kind of service, providing the convenience of an auto without the negatives for the individual - costly to purchase plus high costs for gasoline, insurance, maintenance and parking. For society, podcars would reduce the use of petroleum as well as pollution, congestion, accidents, injuries and deaths," she noted. "With governments in Europe and South Korea already supporting this development, the U.S. needs to get onboard and begin test runs on the podcar designs being created in this country."
August 14, 2008
SPPD Assistant Professor Lisa Schweitzer was quoted in a widely carried story about Americans driving less. People are driving less not only because of high gas prices, but because the things they do at the destination have also become more expensive, Schweitzer said.
August 14, 2008
SPPD Assistant Professor Lisa Schweitzer was quoted in the Seattle Time about the recent dip in American gas consumption. Gas prices aren't the only deterrent to driving, Schweitzer said. "Not only is it expensive to get anywhere, but you have to pay more for whatever you do when you get there," she noted.
June 11, 2008
A study by Genevieve Giuliano was cited in a Los Angeles Times story on traffic congestion in southern California. "People say they want less traffic, but they don't want to be forced to alter their habits," the story stated. The mandatory changes required for the 1984 Olympics worked because the changes required were temporary, according to Giuliano's study.
May 2, 2008
Prof. Peter Gordon wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about the future of Los Angeles transportation. "As more people drive, they will have more range and more options. Origins and destinations disperse. And as they disperse, more people want their autos," Gordon wrote. "There is only one intervention that will slow it down: Make driving and parking more expensive, which brings us back to tolling and pricing."
Genevieve Giuliano, senior associate dean at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and director of the METRANS Transportation Center, discussed changes in federal transportation policy during the Eno Center for Transportation's 15th annual policy forum in Denver. The Eno Center is a nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based think tank that promotes policy innovation and provides professional development opportunities in the transportation field. "The federal role is changing in really fundamental ways, and I'm not sure this is being done in any deliberate way," Giuliano said.
A great attitude will get you far in life -- and it will also get you far on the Expo Line, according to research presented at a recent USC Sol Price School of Public Policy's METRANS seminar. "Which Matters More for Transit Use: Access or Attitudes? Insights from Data from the Exposition Light Rail Corridor" featured new research by Professor Marlon Boarnet and two colleagues from UC Irvine, Doug Houston and Steve Spears. The researchers took advantage of the opening of the Expo Line to conduct the first quasi-experimental before-after study of a major rail transportation project in California.
USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Professor Marlon Boarnet spoke at a recent informational hearing of the California State Assembly Select Committee on Rail Transportation, sharing his expertise on rail transit in Los Angeles. The purpose of the hearing was to discuss the Los Angeles Metro Rail transit plans, as well as to provide the committee an opportunity to hear and address local concerns about these plans.
Over the summer, dozens of students from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy went the extra mile through internships and international lab experiences across the globe. Price students took part in
International labs in Brazil and China; worked with key organizations like the Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Design, Hong Kong-America Center, Shanghai Center for Sustainability; and interned at the U.S. State Department in Armenia.
A contingent of professors, researchers and alumni from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy visited Sao Paulo in August to participate in a two-day workshop on metropolitan development. The group from USC Price shared experiences and research regarding land use, transportation planning, housing, economic development and infrastructure with local academics and officials from the state government. The workshop was an outgrowth of Dean Jack H. Knott's visit to Brazil in December, when he met with Edson Aparecido, secretary of metropolitan development for the State of San Paulo.
Los Angeles has a reputation of being an unplanned city, a sprawling metropolis that evolved spontaneously. Urban planners, of course, know better. USC Sol Price School of Public Policy professor David Sloane discussed his book Planning Los Angeles during a recent panel hosted by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Planning Association. For the book, Sloane enlisted more than 40 prominent essayists to detail the history, contemporary issues and current policy questions regarding planning in L.A. Two of those contributors -- Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Ken Bernstein -- joined him on the panel to discuss their chapters and address economic development.
With the opening of the Metro Expo Line, Los Angeles' ambitious program of rail transit construction has made USC transit accessible. Appropriately, USC hosted the Los Angeles Urban Land Institute's third annual Transit-Oriented Development -- co-sponsored by the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy -- on June 7, bringing expertise from across the region and the campus to spotlight the opportunities and challenges involved in building transit developments in what was once the nation's prototypical auto metropolis.
With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy believed it was time to address the challenges of urbanization. To that end, USC Price dean Jack H. Knott moderated the discussion "Cities of the Future: Community, Creativity, Culture and Technology" on April 23. The panel featured Michael Antonovich, Los Angeles County supervisor; Hilda Blanco, USC Price research professor and interim director of the Center for Sustainable Cities; Hsi-Wei Chou, former governor of Taipei County, Taiwan; and Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, USC Price associate professor.
The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy was well represented at the American Planning Association's national planning conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center on April 14-17. To coincide with the conference, David Sloane, professor and director of undergraduate programs for USC Price, edited the book Planning Los Angeles, published by the American Planning Association, using contributions from many USC Price faculty and alumni to catalog the history and trends that impact planning in the city.
Rapid urbanization has created a need for sustainable funding and financial strategy for infrastructure renewal in China, said Richard Little, a senior fellow at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, in a seminar offered on March 7 by USC Price and the METRANS Transportation Center. In 1980, China's population was just 20 percent urbanized. Today, that number has reached about 50 percent. To support this unprecedented growth, the country has invested enormous sums to provide transportation, power, communications, sanitation and other basic infrastructure.
The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy was among several USC schools and programs that ascended in the latest national rankings released by U.S. News & World Report . The Price School climbed to sixth place (from seventh in 2008) in the newest edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools" for public affairs.
Genevieve Giuliano, professor and transportation researcher at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, has been chosen to receive the Distinguished Researcher Award, an honor that includes two Nobel Prize winners among its past recipients, from the Transportation Research Forum. Giuliano, senior associate dean of research and technology at USC Price, is the first woman to receive the award in its 35-year history.
City planners long have debated how to get people on their feet and cars off the road. But encouraging urban dwellers to go pedestrian could require different strategies depending on their attitudes toward walking, according to USC Sol Price School of Public Policy professor Marlon Boarnet. The research comes at a time when scholars from multiple disciplines tout the value of walking for health and environmental benefits as much as to alleviate congestion.
How can an online game educate Californians about carbon emissions? What's the best way for the California government to prepare for the baby boomer retirement? Can private canine companies provide an effective and reasonably priced screening method to enhance airline security? These are a few of the real-world issues that USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development MPP students tackled during the 2011 Policy Analysis Practicum.