Podcasts about metrans

Jak fungují kontejnerové terminály v Česku a jak jezdí kontejnerové vlaky v Evropě, o tom je nejnovější díl podcastu Cesty Zdopravy.cz. Pozvání do našeho studia přijal Martin Hořínek, jednatel dopravce Metrans Rail a provozní ředitel a člen představenstva společnosti Metrans. Zároveň je de facto prezidentem sdružení nákladních dopravců na železnici ŽESNAD.CZ. V Česku provozuje Metrans dva velké hub terminály – jeden v Praze-Uhříněvsi a druhý v České Třebové, kde se kontejnery nejen vykládají, ale i překládají na vlakové linky do dalších destinací. Menší terminály Mentransu v Nýřanech, Ústí nad Labem, v Lípě nad Dřevnicí a v Havířově jsou pak cílové, kde si kontejnery vyzvedávají zákazníci. „Terminálů máme v Evropě 21 a máme železniční dopravce, kteří jsou ve všech zemích, kde máme terminály. Pravidelné linky pak spojují naše terminály a jezdí do všech velkých přístavů nebo do velkých průmyslových center, jako je německé Porůří,“ říká v podcastu Martin Hořínek s tím, že týdně má celá skupina Metrans na evropské síti 670 vlaků s kontejnery. Páteřní linkou z Česka je pro Metrans relace Praha-Hamburk, která vyjela poprvé v roce 1992. Dnes jede mezi Českem a Hamburkem v průměru osm párů kontejnerových vlaků každý den. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ředitel českého a slovenského Alstomu, někdejší šéf Českých drah a také profesionální basketbalový trenér Daniel Kurucz je hostem nového dílu podcastu Cesty Zdopravy. Alstom má v Česku českolipskou továrnu, kde pro zahraniční závody zajišťuje především svařování ocelových a nerezových konstrukcí kolejových vozidel a také jejich lakování. „Máme teď v České Lípě pět velkých projektů. Třeba RER, který vozí lidi z Letiště Charlese de Gaulla do centra Paříže, vyrábíme také tramvaje pro Vídeň, regionální vlaky pro Francii a Německo a nově máme i tramvaje pro Austrálii,“ vypočítává Daniel Kurucz projekty, na kterých 1300 zdejších zaměstnanců aktuálně pracuje.  Česká republika rozhodně nepatří mezi země, kde by bylo možné vlaky Alstomu vídat zatím ve velkém. Poslední dobou se to však začíná měnit s dodávkami lokomotiv Traxx. Aktuálně jich v Česku jezdí více než 90, velkými zákazníky Alstomu jsou ČD Cargo, Metrans a Regiojet.  Alstom patří ale také mezi největší výrobce automatizovaného metra na světě a Daniel Kurucz v podcastu potvrdil, že zakázka na automatické metro D v Praze, a s tím související projekt automatizace linky C, ho velmi zajímají. „Podle našeho názoru to budou desítky miliard korun,“ odhaduje ředitel velikost zakázky na automatizaci pražského metra a očekává, že se o ni bude chtít poprat 5 až 6 velkých firem.  „Alstom je pionýrem v alternativních pohonech,“ tvrdí v podcastu ředitel Kurucz, a v případě vývoje vodíkových vlaků je to bezpochyby pravda. Alstom vsadil s vodíkem na zelenou Evropu a první vodíkové vlaky vozí v Německu cestující v pravidelném provozu úspěšně. Otázkou však je, zda nastupující energetická krize nezamíchá kartami úplně jinak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NÉVNAPOK, SZÜLETÉSNAPOK, ÉVFORDULÓK. LAPSZEMLE, TŐZSDEI HELYZETKÉP. BUDAPEST TE CSODÁS: hírek a fővárosból és környékéről. ÉBRESZTŐ TÉMA: Hidegzuhany? Elindult a strandszezon Jelentős költségemelkedést kellett elkönyvelniük a fürdőknek, a belépők árai azonban nem követték a kiadásokat, átlagosan 20-25 százalékkal drágultak a fürdőjegyek, ennél nagyobb mértékű emelést nem mertek meglépni Balogh Zoltán, a Magyar Fürdőszövetség főtitkára ÉSZJÁTÉK: Energia drágulás, konténer hiány, háború - A logisztika logisztikája Hogyan alakultak az elmúlt időszakban a vontatási energiaárak, és hogyan hatott mindez a vasúti ágazatra? A tengeri hajózás aktuális helyzete: fennállnak-e jelenleg is azok az extrém kikötői helyzetek, amik a 2020-2021-es évet jellemezték? Hogyan lehet a túlzsúfoltságot, a tengeri hajózás kiszámíthatatlanságát vasúti operátorként és terminálüzemeltetőként tompítani? Az ukrajnai háború hogyan érinti a vasúti-közúti áruszállítást? Hogyan reagálnak erre a piaci szereplők és a METRANS? Nagyjából fél éve a Millásreggeliben szó volt róla, hogy a METRANS és a Win Capital jóvoltából munkába állt Magyarország első elektromos meghajtású konténerszállító kamionja. A villamosenergia hatásai befolyásolják-e ezt a fejlesztést? Zahalka Attila, a METRANS kereskedelmi igazgatója

MNB: Mit tud tenni a jegybank a brutális infláció megfékezésének érdekében? A rekordmagas infláció ellen a jegybanknak kell fellépnie, de nagyon nehéz jól küzdeni egy igen kiélezett globális helyzetben. Mit tudnak mégis tenni a jegybankárok és mire számítanak? Balatoni András, az MNB igazgatója. ARANYKÖPÉS: Nádasdy Ádám. ÉSZJÁTÉK: Itt az elektromos konténeres áruszállítás: e-kamionnal erősít a METRANS. Kigördült Magyarország első elektromos meghajtású konténerszállító kamionja a METRANS csepeli vasúti termináljáról. A környezetbarát e-kamion a konténeres vasúti szállítással foglalkozó METRANS Csoport közúti fuvarozó partnere, a WIN Capital Kft. flottájának részeként áll forgalomba. Az új elektromos kamion segítségével elsőként válik lehetővé Magyarországon a konténeres áruk vasúti-közúti kombinált szállításának teljesen karbonsemleges formája. Zahalka Attila, a METRANS Kft. kereskedelmi igazgatója.

Die Intermodaltochter der Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) feiert in diesem Monat 30-jähriges Bestehen. Sie hat sich im wettbewerbsintensiven Seehafen-Hinterlandverkehr ganz nach oben gekämpft. Im DVZ-Podcast verrät CEO Peter Kiss, was ihn gerade besonders beschäftigt und wie er Metrans strategisch aufstellen will.

Over the past 20 years, local and regional governments in the Los Angeles metropolitan area have invested significant resources in building rail transit infrastructure that connects major employment centers. One goal of transit infrastructure is to catalyze the development of high density, mixed-use housing and commercial activity within walking distance of rail stations, referred to as Transit Oriented Development (TOD). This project examines the quantity, type, and mix of economic activity that has occurred around newly built rail stations in Los Angeles over the past 20 years. Specifically, have the number of jobs or housing market characteristics changed near stations? We use establishment-level data on employment and property-level data on housing transactions to analyze changes in several employment and housing outcomes. Results suggest that new rail stations were located in areas that, prior to station opening, had unusually high employment density and mostly multifamily rental housing. There is no evidence of changes in employment density, housing sales volume, or new housing development within five years after station opening. Regressions suggest that a subset of stations saw increased employment density within five to ten years after opening. Speakers: Genevieve Giuliano Director, METRANS Transportation Center Professor, Margaret & John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government Eun Jin Shin Ph.D. candidate, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Genevieve Giuliano, Ph.D., is Professor and Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, and Director of the METRANS joint USC and California State University Long Beach Transportation Center. She conducts research on relationships between land use and transportation, transportation policy analysis, and information technology applications in transportation. Her current research includes examination of relationships between land use and freight flows, and development of applications for transportation system analysis using archived real-time data, and analysis of commercial and residential development around transit stations. Eun Jin Shin is a Ph.D. candidate at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, with an academic focus on urban spatial structure and transportation. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil, Urban, and Geosystem Engineering from Seoul National University, and her Master’s degree in Urban Planning from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focuses on the travel behavior of transportation-disadvantaged populations.

Traffic congestion impedes our mobility, pollutes the air, wastes fuel, and hampers economic growth. While physical bottlenecks, overpopulation, weather, and construction can all lead to congestion, a key contributor to traffic congestion is road accidents - events that disrupt the normal flow of traffic. Reducing the impact of traffic accidents has been one of the primary objectives for transportation policy makers. In this talk, we present a novel machine learning framework to forecast how travel-time delays - caused by accidents - occur and progress in the transportation network. This research is conducted by correlating 4 years of historical traffic sensor and accident data archived under ADMS project developed - by METRANS and IMSC centers of USC - for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). Speakers: Ugur Demiyurek Associate Director, Integrated Media Systems Center USC Viterbi Dingxiong Deng Ph. D student, Computer Science Department University of Southern California Ugur Demiryurek is Associate Director of Research at IMSC, and has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from USC. His research is focused on fundamental and applied data management with special interest in Geospatial Databases, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning. He has been supported by grants from both government agencies (NSF, Caltrans, Metro) and industry partners (Microsoft Research, Oracle Labs, Intel, HP Labs). Demiryurek authored two book chapters and more than forty research articles since 2010 and holds three US patents. Prior to IMSC, Demiryurek worked for fortune 500 companies in database technology development and data scientist positions. He regularly serves on the program committee of various major database conferences including ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGSPATIAL, IEEE ICDM, DASFAA, SSTD, and MDM, and is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Hosted by the METRANS Transportation Center Join us for an industry perspective on the future transportation professional. The transportation industry is changing rapidly, amid the emergence of new technologies, services and information systems, public policy goals aimed at improving the environment, and changing consumer behaviors. How should tomorrow’s industry professionals – public and private – be trained? What skills are most important? Are our universities providing the right knowledge or degree programs? Our industry panelists will tell us what they need and expect in new hires. Our academic leaders will discuss how universities are responding to these needs and expectations. The panel discussion will be followed by audience questions. Industry Panelists: Michael Christensen Senior Executive for Supply Chain Optimization, Port of Long Beach CJ Nord Institute for Supply Management Arthur Leahy CEO, Metrolink Jake Racker Senior Director, Network Strategy and Engineering, Kroger, Inc. Educators: Elizabeth Graddy Vice Dean, University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy Ingrid Martin Professor, California State University, Long Beach, College of Business Administration James Moore Vice Dean, University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering Moderator: Thomas O’Brien Interim Executive Director, Center for International Trade and Transportation, California State University, Long Beach and Associate Director, METRANS

Presented by METRANS and the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation. Robert Sampson demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place on a wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, teen birth altruism, leadership networks, and immigration. Join us to discuss the implications of this research for revitalizing neighborhoods portrayed in his book, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. Robert J. Sampson is a Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. Sampson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He served as President of the American Society of Criminology in 2011-2012 and in June 2011 he and his colleague John Laub received eh Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Professor Sampson's research and teaching cover a variety of areas including crime, disorder, the life course, neighborhood effects, civic engagement, inequality, "econometrics," and the social structure of the city.

Presented by the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and METRANS. Robert Sampson demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place on a wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, teen birth altruism, leadership networks, and immigration. Join us to discuss the implications of this research for revitalizing neighborhoods portrayed in his book, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. Robert J. Sampson is a Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. Sampson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He served as President of the American Society of Criminology in 2011-2012 and in June 2011 he and his colleague John Laub received eh Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Professor Sampson's research and teaching cover a variety of areas including crime, disorder, the life course, neighborhood effects, civic engagement, inequality, "econometrics," and the social structure of the city.

This special, invitation only event with Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa is part of the Leading from the West series, and sponsored by the Bedrsoian Center on Governance, METRANS, and the Sol Price School of Public Policy. Bedrosian Center Director Raphael Bostic and METRANS center Director Gen Giuliano will talk with Mayor Villaraigosa about the unique challenges and opportunities for transportation in the city.

Presented by the METRANS transportation center based at USC and CSULB featuring Cen Feng Ng, assistant professor of economics at California State University Long Beach. Gasoline prices vary wildly throughout the world, with some countries imposing high taxes while others provide subsidies. After examining worldwide price differences in detail, this paper focuses on whether the differences in gasoline price affects border crossings between the U.S. and Mexico, which currently subsidizes gasoline. This paper finds that even though there is evidence that some U.S. residents may be incentivized to visit Mexico when the price difference is large, this is offset by the decrease in travel due to higher U.S. gasoline prices. Control variables include State Department travel warnings, the unemployment rate and other factors. The results also suggest that there is some substitution between modes, as an increase in gasoline prices is associated with an increase in pedestrian border crossings. Chen Feng Ng received her Ph.D. from UC Irvine in 2008, and her main fields of interest are urban and transportation economics. Her papers have been published in the Journal of Urban Economics and Transportation - as well as other journals. She is currently working on research related to highway design, gasoline subsidies, and the link between housing prices and consumption amenities.

The METRANS Transportation Center, housed at both USC and Cal State Long Beach, presents a METRANS seminar featuring Seiji Steimetz, is a Associate Professor of Economics at the California State University Long Beach. He develops a simple but modern stated-preference (SP) choice experiment to analyze the impact of traffic images on the estimated value of travel time savings (VTTS). Our results indicate that traffic images, however rudimentary, can substantially influence travel-time valuation, thus compelling further research on incorporating them into SP experimental design. Seiji Steimetz is Associate Professor of Economics at the California State University, Long Beach, and a faculty affiliate of the METRANS Transportation Center. His research interests include transportation, urban and environmental economics, and applied economics. Dr. Steimetz has published his research in leading economic and interdisciplinary journals.

Freight transportation has been immensely successful in meeting the needs of today’s urban economies, delivering an increasing number of goods to businesses and households while operating in congested, complex urban environments. More than one million deliveries are made every day in the Paris region. But this has come at a cost, as the environmental impact of urban freight is high. Truck and van trips make up 15% of urban traffic, but generate between a quarter and half of motor traffic pollution in cities. This is due to the old age of urban commercial vehicles and the predominance of diesel vehicles, the stops and goes that goods’ deliveries and pickups generate, the increased distances from distribution terminals to final destinations. In this presentation, three recent CO2 emission assessments for freight transportation at different scales will be compared, leading to a discussion on urban freight environmental challenges and the often unsuccessful efforts by local decision-makers to deal with them. SPEAKER BIO: Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, is a visiting scholar at the Sol Price School of Public Policy. She is a senior scientist from the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR). Her areas of research are freight transportation, freight and the environment, freight policies. She has authored many books and articles on urban freight issues. She received a PhD in transportation planning from Ecole des Ponts-Paris Tech, and a Master’s degree in city and regional planning from Cornell University. Professor Dablanc was initially trained in policy analysis and economics at Science Po Paris. With the financial support of IFSTTAR and ADEME, she is currently working on logistics sprawl issues and freight transport planning in U.S. and European mega-regions. She researched at the Georgia Institute of Technology before joining METRANS.

In this project METRANS performs a cost / benefits analysis of EDI and XML based communication between shipping lines, terminal operators, government agencies, trucking companies, rail operators and other agents at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. We analyze the suitability of (1) XML/EDI, (2) EDIINT (Web EDI), (3) Collaboration EDI, (4) The language M and (5) Web Services for use as communication platforms at the ports.

METRANS 10th Anniversary year-long celebration

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