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Welcome to Pacific Southwest Region 9 University Transportation Center
The Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (UTC) is the Region 9 UTC funded under the US Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers Program. Established in 2016, the Pacific Southwest Region UTC (PSR) is led by the University of Southern California and includes nine partners:
California State University, Long Beach
Northern Arizona University
Pima Community College
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Hawaii
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Pacific Southwest Region (PSR)
University Transportation Center (UTC) serves Region 9 with a comprehensive, integrated program of research, education and technology transfer built upon the priority needs of the region: 1) supporting an efficient transportation system, 2) increasing efficiency and resilience of the goods movement system, and 3) expanding workforce opportunities.
This is a moment of great change. Technology is enabling new mobility opportunities. We must build a transportation system that leverages new technologies, while supporting the economy, with a workforce that is trained for and connected to new jobs.
Region 9 is the right place for transformative research that will change practice. Region 9 includes Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Nevada, and the Pacific Territories. The region has enormous variation geographically, economically, and socially. It has the second largest metropolitan area in the US (Los Angeles), as well as vast tracts of rural lands. Income disparities are extreme, with concentrations of poverty in central cities as well as remote rural and tribal communities. It includes the center for US maritime trade (the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach) and the inaccessible Pacific islands and territories. We identified five characteristics of Region 9 that frame our research program and inform our research themes.
Uneven transportation resources
across our enormously diverse region
Our region’s
central role in global supply chains
Our region’s particular vulnerabilities
to risks such as wildfires, sea level rise, drought, and extreme weather
Our region’s role as the
global center of the information and communications technology (ICT) revolution
, which is transforming transportation
The
changing nature of transportation work
, placing old jobs at risk but creating new jobs as well, and hence creating needs for focused workforce training
The PSR UTC is structured to have a truly regional focus and is intended to build a strong university-government-industry partnership. Our consortium of universities and community colleges, together with partnerships with state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), forms a region-wide network to guide the development and implementation of the center’s research, education, and technology transfer programs.
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