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Acknowledgments This chapter presents some of the results of the ''MEGAREGION'' project
made possible thanks to a 2011-2012 partnership between IFSTTAR, the French Institute of
Sciences and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks, and the University of
Southern California, more specifically the METRANS Research Center headed by Professor
Genevieve Giuliano. ''MEGAREGION'' also included research on Atlanta (Dablanc and Ross
2012 ). Parts of Sect. 1 use an updated version of the Atlanta research. I wish to thank the many
practitioners and experts from Southern California who accepted to be interviewed and to share
their views on logistics issues in Los Angeles during the first semester of 2012. Victoria Farr, a
master's student from USC Price School of Public Policy, contributed to the chapter by col-
lecting, processing and mapping the geographical data in Sect. 3 .
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