Genevieve Giuliano

Biography

Dr. Genevieve Giuliano held the Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government in the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California.  She was appointed Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in 2023. Her research spans relationships between land use and transportation, transportation policy analysis, travel behavior, and sustainable transportation.  She has published over 200 papers and has received multiple distinguished scholarship awards, including the Walter Isard Award in regional science, Chester Rapkin Award, and the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship.  She is a Fellow in Regional Science. Dr. Giuliano has been an innovator in her field.  She was among the first to study gender differences in travel behavior and later to partner with computer science and engineering to explore land use and freight transportation relationships.

For more than 20 years, she directed the METRANS Transportation Consortium. She has served in many leadership positions within USC and in professional organizations.  She has served on several National Academy of Sciences policies, including the NAS Committee on Global Climate Change. She participated in the first study of impacts of global climate change on the U.S. transportation system. At the state level, she has worked with Caltrans and the California Air Resources Board on the implementation of California’s Freight Management Plan and subsequent legislation to reduce GHGs associated with California’s freight industry. She lends her expertise to numerous transportation task forces and committees in the Los Angeles region, and in areas as diverse as freight movement, traffic mitigation, and clean vehicle technologies.

Selected Publications 

• Wei. D., G. Giuliano, K. Moffa, Z. Mallett, (2025) Analysis of alternative commercial vehicle road user charges, Transportation Research International Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2025.101519.
  
• Wei, D. and G. Giuliano (2024) Estimating the economic impacts of cargo handling equipment electrification:  A case study of the San Pedro Bay ports,  Research in Transportation Business and Management, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101281.
  
• Lu, Y and G. Giuliano (2022) Understanding mobility changes in response to COVID-19:  A Los Angeles case study, Travel Behavior and Society, 31, 189-201, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2022.11.011
  
• Giuliano, G. and Y. Lu (2021)  “Analyzing traffic impacts of planned major events”. Transportation Research Record.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198121998710.  Also presented at the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting. Winner of best paper prize, TRB Committee ACP10
  
• Giuliano, G. M. Dessouky, S. Dexter, J. Fang, S. Hu. M. Miller (2021) Heavy duty trucks:  The challenge of getting to zero, Transportation Research D, 93 102742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102742.