California State University Long Beach

Caltrans 2024 Sustainable Freight Academy

  • Principal Investigator Thomas O'Brien, Ph.D.
  • California State University Long Beach
The Caltrans Sustainable Freight Academy is a four-day in-person training for professional development for Caltrans staff to be held in the fall of 2024 in California’s Central Valley. It is designed to build capacity within department staff, allowing them to gain knowledge of current trends and issues affecting the movement of freight throughout the state.
Project Status
Complete

Caltrans Sustainable Freight Academy

  • Principal Investigator Thomas O'Brien, Ph.D.
  • California State University Long Beach
This project will involve the design and implement two four-day in-person Sustainable Freight Academies for Caltrans during calendar year 2021.
Project Status
Complete

Dynamic Scheduling of Chassis Movements with Chassis Processing Facilities in the Loop

  • Principal Investigator Anastasios Chassiakos, Ph.D.
  • California State University Long Beach
This work studies the optimization of scheduling of chassis and container movements at the operational level for individual trucking companies when Chassis Processing Facilities (CPFs) are available for use in the vicinity of a container port within a major metropolitan area.
Project Status
Complete

Freight and Environmental Policy Case Studies & Videos

  • Principal Investigator Thomas O'Brien, Ph.D.
  • California State University Long Beach
In this project, CSULB will develop a series of case studies designed to evaluate the impacts of freight-related environmental policies. The team will then produce brief videos to accompany the case studies research, in order to reach a wider audience.
Project Status
Complete

Implementing Industry-Supported and Demand-Driven Talent Pipelines for the Trade and Transportation Sector

  • Principal Investigator Tyler Reeb, Ph.D.
  • California State University Long Beach
This project will produce a Talent Pipeline Blueprint report that identifies the necessary steps required to build cross-campus CSU talent pipelines that target the most in-demand trade and transportation occupations requiring specific degrees, certificates, and non-credit professional development.
Project Status
Complete

Introduction to GIS High School Workshop & White Paper

  • Principal Investigator Thomas O'Brien, Ph.D.
  • California State University Long Beach
The CSULB Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT) will write a white paper on introducing GIS technology to high school students. CITT will then develop the introductory GIS workshop for high school students with a focus on sustainable transportation.
Project Status
Complete

Online Training for the Transit Industry

  • Principal Investigator Thomas O'Brien, Ph.D.
  • California State University Long Beach

In partnership with the Southern California Regional Transit Training Consortium (SCRTTC, a consortium of Southern California-based community colleges and transit operators), CSULB expanded potenti

Project Status
Complete