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Transportation research at USC is frequently completed in cooperation
with one of several research consortia. Research relating to transportation
systems and new technologies is often done in association with the California
Partnership for
Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH), established by the California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans) in 1986 to support research
on advanced technologies for transportation; or the Center for Commercial
Deployment of Transportation Technology (CCDoTT), a university/industry
consortium formed by USC, the California State University at Long Beach,
and several industrial partners in 1995. Research relating to transportation
infrastructure and is often done in association with the Southern California
Earthquake Center (SCEC), a university consortium formed in 1991 with
the U.S. Geological Survey; the California Universities for Research
on Earthquake Engineering (CUREe), or the Center for Pacific Earthquake
Engineering Research (PEER), an university/industry consortium formed
in 1996.
Transportation
research at USC is sponsored by a variety of sources, including the
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the US Department
of Defense (DOD), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal
Transit Administration (FTA), the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority (MTA), the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
(NCEER), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and other organizations.