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How The Madrid Metro Passport Works May 15, 2026 Transportation 4 min ride The Madrid Metro has this interesting thing called the "Pasaporte de los Museos de Metro de Madrid", or roughly the Madrid Metro Museums Passport. It's an little booklet where you can visit a selected eight out of the… Read the post

2025

  1. The Many Valid Transit Fares in Toronto Jan 6 Transportation 9 min ride The Toronto Transit Commission is quite unique in many ways - it operates solid overnight service (including - theoretically - sub-10 minute frequencies on some bus and streetcar routes, which most North American cities…

2024

  1. Discovering San Diego’s Multimodal Transportation System Dec 24 Transportation 7 min ride This is a post I originally wrote for the USC ITE website. In December 2024, eight USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Sol Price School of Public Policy students embarked on USC ITE’s second-ever technical study trip…
  2. 2024 ITE Student Leadership Summit at Cal Poly Feb 28 Transportation 8 min ride A little under a year after my most recent trip to San Luis Obispo, I've just come back from another visit - this time for the ITE Western District Student Leadership Summit (SLS), which (like the IISE conference I…

2023

  1. What's Up With California's Highway Mile Markers? Dec 27 Transportation 4 min ride I recently took a long road trip in California. On the way, I noticed that California's mile markers look very different than most other states. Let's take a look. The left image is a typical mile marker, while the…
  2. Ultra Cheap Pacific Surfliner to San Diego Oct 16 Transportation 4 min ride One of the busiest intercity rail services in the US is the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. It runs between San Luis Obispo on the Central Coast and San Diego in California, with many trains short-turning at Los Angeles…
  3. USC ITE Tours Fullerton Road Grade Separation Project Oct 13 Transportation 3 min ride Members of the Institute of Transportation Engineers at USC (USC ITE) toured the Fullerton Road grade separation project in the City of Industry, CA, on September 29th, 2023. Led by the San Gabriel Valley Council of…
  4. Hosting SCAG Executive Director Kome Ajise Sep 28 Transportation 3 min ride On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, the Institute of Transportation Engineers at USC (USC ITE) and the METRANS Transportation Research Consortium co-hosted Mr. Kome Ajise, Executive Director of the Southern California…
  5. 2023 ITE Annual Meeting in Portland Sep 20 Transportation 3 min ride I'm grateful to receive one of two Student Travel Scholarships from the ITE Western District. This scholarship helped fund my travel to the combined ITE Western District and International annual meetings in Portland…
  6. Touring the Port of San Diego and SANDAG Apr 17 Transportation 8 min ride Foreword: This is a longer version of my press release which was published on the website of METRANS, a transportation research partnership between the University of Southern California, California State University Long…
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