The seminars are supported by the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC).
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That Bike is Too Heavy: Merging Bicycling Physics, Human Physiology and Travel Behavior
Alexander Y. Bigazzi
5-3-2019
Are the Biketown bikes too heavy? Does better gear motivate people to cycle more? How much faster will someone go on an e-bike?
Although urban cycling is widely known as ...Read More
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An Agent-Based Evacuation Model to Improve Safety in the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Haizhong Wang
4-19-2019
This seminar will present ongoing research into how integrated social, natural, and engineered systems can improve life safety under threat of multi-hazards. The targeted scenario is a magnitude 9.0 earthquake ...Read More
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Deriving Lane-level Insight from GPS Data: Innovations for Traffic & Autonomous Driving
James Fowe
4-5-2019
With the on-going disruption of the transportation industry and rapid advancement in ITS technologies; emerging smart cities, navigation systems and autonomous transportation, the need for highly accurate geospatial localization has ...Read More
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PedPDX: Addressing Equity through Citywide Pedestrian Planning
Michelle Marx and Francesca Patricolo
3-15-2019
Pedestrian safety and access is an equity issue. In Portland, inadequate pedestrian infrastructure and traffic safety concerns disproportionately impact low-income communities and people of color. The City is attempting to ...Read More
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Public Transportation and New Mobility
Chris Pangilinan
3-8-2019
New mobility options such as bike share, scooters, and transportation network companies (e.g. Uber) are proliferating across the United States and beyond. Early research has shown that while the private ...Read More
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The Success of an Integrated Mobility Strategy: Lessons from the Netherlands for the Pacific West Coast
Lucas van der Linde
2-15-2019
The Netherlands sets the standard for their multimodal connectivity. It has world's highest use of cycling and an integrated mobility network with an efficient transport system. During this seminar, Lucas ...Read More
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The Portland E-Scooter Experience
Briana Orr, John MacArthur, and Jennifer Dill
2-1-2019
Portland's E-Scooter Pilot made national news for its proactive and data-driven approach to exploring the role of e-scooters in our transportation system. One of the first cities to implement a ...Read More
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The Influence of Shared Mobility and Transportation Policies on Vehicle Ownership
Edgar Bertini Ruas
11-30-2018
With the emergence of several new providers of shared mobility services, such as Uber, Biketown and Car2go, there has been the promise of changes to the traditional way of owning ...Read More
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Scenarios for Adoption of Autonomous Vehicle Technologies in Freight
Sabya Mishra
11-16-2018
Innovation adoption research has largely ignored organizational adoption, and little work has been done to understand or predict the adoption of innovations by freight organizations. Among the existing innovation adoption ...Read More
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Portland’s Transportation Wallet: How Pricing Parking Can Create New Mobility Options
Sarah Goforth
11-9-2018
The Transportation Wallet is one of Portland’s newest parking and transportation demand management (TDM) strategies, designed to reduce parking demand while simultaneously offering new mobility options by bundling transit and ...Read More
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Is Public Transit's 'Green' Reputation Deserved?
Justin Beaudoin
11-2-2018
While public transit has a reputation as a potential means to ameliorate the adverse environmental effects of automobile travel, there have been very few empirical studies of the marginal effect ...Read More
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Driver Comprehension of Permissive Right-Turns with a Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA)
Christopher Monsere and David Hurwitz
10-26-2018
This research explored driver comprehension and behaviors with respect to right-turn signal displays with a focus on the Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA) in a driving simulator and a comprehension survey. ...Read More
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Cycling Research and Practice in Australia: Insights from a Hybrid Approach
Marilyn Johnson
10-19-2018
Too often, there is a gap between research and action. For researchers, peer-reviewed scientific evidence is the benchmark of success, while for policy makers and practitioners, success is being able ...Read More
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Transportation Behavior Change...Now With SCIENCE!
Jessica Roberts
10-12-2018
How can we encourage people to make use of the transportation systems in place - to improve transit ridership and, in turn, to improve the health and happiness of our ...Read More
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Spatial Correlation: Statistical and Econometric Analyses of Heavy-Vehicle Hard Braking and Crash Frequency
Jason Anderson
10-5-2018
In heavy-vehicles (a truck with a gross vehicle weight rating of greater than 10,000 pounds), a hard braking event is described as an event that prompts the vehicle’s “black box” ...Read More
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Barriers to “New Mobility”: A Community-Informed Approach to Smart Cities Technology
Aaron Golub and Vivian Satterfield
9-28-2018
There is an active debate about the potential costs and benefits of emerging “smart mobility” systems, especially in how they will serve communities already facing transportation challenges. This presentation will ...Read More
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A Survey of Ride-Hailing Passengers
Steven Gehrke
5-25-2018
In less than a decade, the ride-hailing industry, led by Uber and Lyft, has dramatically transformed the way we travel in our metro regions. Rider adoption of these on-demand mobility ...Read More
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Utrecht, Bike Capital of the World
Martijn Rietbergen
5-18-2018
Utrecht is a bustling, bicycle-friendly city in the Netherlands. Every day, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., over 125,000 cyclists ride to their work, school, university, public transport, shops or ...Read More
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Analysis of the Contribution of Transportation and Land Use to Citizen Perceptions of Livability
Rebecca Lewis
5-4-2018
What is livability? How does the built environment influence resident perceptions of livability? Although livability is a broadly used term and a key goal in land use and transportation plans ...Read More
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Intersection: Orientation and Mobility as Interdisciplinary Conversation
Amy T. Parker and Prateek Dujari
4-27-2018
Knowing where one wants to go and how to get there are essential life skills for all people. Community access and travel skills are not only important rites of passage ...Read More
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FHWA Guidebook for Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity
Joseph Broach
4-20-2018
In 2016 the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published a Guidebook for Developing Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance Measures that presents methods for measuring walking and ...Read More
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How Sustainable Are Drone (UAV) Deliveries?
Miguel Figliozzi
4-13-2018
Private companies and public officials are seeking sustainable and cost effective ways to green supply chains and freight deliveries. There is enthusiasm regarding the potential benefits that innovative technologies such ...Read More
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Transportation Impacts of Affordable Housing: Informing Development Review with Travel Behavior Analysis
Amanda Howell
4-6-2018
Planning for affordable housing is challenged by development policies that often do not differentiate between the travel patterns of residents of market-rate housing and those living in affordable units. The ...Read More
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Insights on Walkability and Walking in Lisbon with the IAAPE Method
Filipe Moura
3-16-2018
Walkability and walking are being intensively researched today and the literature provides a wealth of references and examples on how to measure walkability of the built environment. IAAPE is one ...Read More
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Transit Demand Analysis and User Classification Using Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) Data
Alireza Khani
3-9-2018
Development of origin-destination demand matrices is crucial for transit planning. The development process is facilitated by transit automated data, making it possible to mine boarding and alighting patterns on an ...Read More