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Webinar: Scooting to Healthy and Safe Mode Choices
Kristina M. Currans, Nicole Iroz-Elardo, and John MacArthur
6-7-2022
Shared electric scooters (e-scooters) are fast becoming a mobility option in cities across the United States. This new micromobility mode has the potential to replace car usage for certain trips, ...Read More
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Webinar: The Impact of Decentralizing Homeless Services on Transportation and Mobility
Sarah Canham, Ivis Garcia, Shannon Jones, and Jeff Rose
4-20-2022
With findings from a mixed methods research study, this interdisciplinary webinar will present results from a historical public document analysis, a GIS spatial analyses, client surveys and interviews, and interviews ...Read More
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Webinar: Exploring Data Fusion Techniques to Derive Bicycle Volumes on a Network
Sirisha Kothuri, Joe Broach, and Kate Hyun
3-10-2022
Planners and decision makers have increasingly voiced a need for network-wide estimates of bicycling activity. Such volume estimates have for decades informed motorized planning and analysis but have only recently ...Read More
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Webinar: Is Transit-Oriented Development Affordable for Low and Moderate Income Households?
Reid Ewing and Justyna Kaniewska
2-15-2022
Transportation and land use planning, as a field, is shifting away from segregated uses connected by highways and streets to more compact, mixed-use developments connected by high-quality transit. This new ...Read More
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Webinar: Mobility, Accessibility, and Resiliency of Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Kate Hyun, Kathy Lee, and Caroline Krejci
1-26-2022
Mobility disparities among older adults affect their ability to travel and access services. This project seeks to understand challenges, barriers, and gaps that older adults experience and to develop forms ...Read More
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Webinar: Radar Point Cloud Segmentation using GMM in Traffic Monitoring
Siyang Cao
11-9-2021
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) change our communities by improving the safety and convenience of people’s daily mobility. The system relies on multimodal traffic monitoring, that needs to provide reliable, efficient ...Read More
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Webinar: The Impact of Transportation-Related Barriers on Self-Perceived Physical Health among Adults in the US
Philip Baiden and Godfred Boateng
10-12-2021
Drawing from the framework of social determinants of health, the objective of this study is to investigate the cross-sectional association between transportation-related factors and self-perceived physical health among adults in ...Read More
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Webinar: Data-Driven Mobility Strategies for Multimodal Transportation
Yao-Jan Wu, Abolfazl Karimpour, and Xianfeng Terry Yang
9-15-2021
Multimodal transportation systems (e.g., walking, cycling, automobile, public transit, etc.) are effective in increasing people’s travel flexibility, reducing congestion, and improving safety. Therefore, it is critical to understand what factors ...Read More
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Webinar: The Impact of Ride Hail Services on the Accessibility of Nonprofit Services
Dyana Mason
7-13-2021
Nonprofit organizations are responsible for providing human services across the United States, often in partnership with government agencies. In this work, they address some of the most pressing social issues ...Read More
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Webinar: Electric Bus Deployment: Cost and Environmental Equity
Cathy Liu
6-8-2021
This presentation introduces an innovative spatiotemporal analytical framework and web-based visualization platform developed by researchers at the University of Utah to assist transit agencies in identifying optimal deployment strategies for ...Read More
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Webinar: Eliminating Cash Options for Public Transit Fares: Costs, Benefits and Equity Impacts
Aaron Golub
5-11-2021
Many transit agencies plan to automate their fare collection and limit the use of cash, with the goals of improving boarding and data collection while lowering operating costs. Yet about ...Read More
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Webinar: Rethinking Streets During COVID
Clare Haley, John Larson-Friend, Marc Schlossberg, and Aliza Whalen
4-4-2021
Re-allocating space on streets to accommodate new uses – particularly for walking, biking, and being – is not new. However, COVID-era needs have accelerated the process that many communities use ...Read More
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Webinar: Transit Impacts on Jobs, People and Real Estate
Arthur C. Nelson, Kristina Currans, and Robert Hibberd
3-23-2021
This webinar has six elements: Introducing themes related to how transit should affect the location of jobs and people, and how real estate should respond; Creating a research typology of ...Read More
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Webinar: Land Use and Transportation Policies for a Sustainable Future
Liming Wang
2-9-2021
Even though there are tremendous uncertainties in the timing and evolution path of the Autonomous Vehicles (AV) technology, it may become a likely reality within most MPOs' long-range regional transportation ...Read More
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Webinar: Transportation Benefits of Polycentric Urban Form
Reid Ewing and Sadegh Sabouri
1-19-2021
A “polycentric” region consists of a network of compact developments connected with each other through high-quality transportation options. Rather than continuing the expanse of low-density development radiating from an urban ...Read More
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Webinar: Bus Stops: Access and Equity
Keith Bartholomew
11-10-2020
Improving bus stops by providing shelters, seating, signage, and sidewalks is relatively inexpensive and popular among riders and local officials. Making such improvements, however, is not often a priority for ...Read More
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Webinar: Economic and Business Outcomes of Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements
Jenny H. Liu
10-6-2020
The National Street Improvements Study, conducted by PSU in conjunction with PeopleForBikes and consulting firm Bennett Midland, researched the economic effects of bicycle infrastructure on 14 corridors ...Read More
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Webinar: A National Scan of Bike Share Equity Programs: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Nathan McNeil, John MacArthur, and Adriel Thornton
9-16-2020
Connecting with cities and bike share operators from across the United States, Portland State University conducted a nationwide scan on what programs and initiatives were running to address equity in ...Read More
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Webinar: Findings From 15 Years Of Travel Surveys At Portland Area Transit-oriented Developments (TODs)
Jennifer Dill and Nathan McNeil
6-2-2020
Since 2005, Portland State University has periodically surveyed occupants of recently developed higher-density and mixed-use projects near transit, often referred to as Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs). The general objectives of the ...Read More
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Webinar: Natural Pozzolans in the Pacific Northwest and their Beneficial Uses
Matthew D. Sleep
5-19-2020
The eruption of Mt. Mazama approximately 7,700 years ago created what is now known as Crater Lake. This eruption blanketed the Pacific Northwest with volcanic ash. This volcanic ash has ...Read More
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Webinar: Connected Vehicle System Design for Signalized Arterials
Xianfeng Terry Yang
5-12-2020
It can be expected that connected vehicles (CVs) systems will soon go beyond testbed and appear in real-world applications. To accommodate a large number of connected vehicles on the roads, ...Read More
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Webinar: Visual Exploration of Trajectory Data
Nikola Markovic, Mark Franz, and Seth Miller
4-7-2020
This webinar will demonstrate the tremendous value of GPS trajectory data in understanding statewide travel patterns and measuring performance. First, Dr. Markovic (U of Utah) will conduct visual exploration of ...Read More
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Webinar: When Growth Outpaces Infrastructure: A Community-Engaged Assessment of Transportation Gaps
Jandel Crutchfield and Kate Hyun
3-17-2020
This study used a community-engaged interdisciplinary approach to assess the gaps between economic growth and transportation infrastructure development, and the impact of potential gaps on access to opportunities for environmental ...Read More
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Webinar: New Travel Demand Modeling for our Evolving Mobility Landscape
Reid Ewing and Sadegh Sabouri
2-11-2020
Conventional four-step travel demand models are used by nearly all metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), state departments of transportation, and local planning agencies, as the basis for long-range transportation planning in ...Read More
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Webinar: Assessing the Impacts of New Mobility on Cities
Rebecca Steckler and Rebecca Lewis
1-22-2020
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), e-commerce and the sharing economy are rapidly changing land use and transportation in cities. City leaders and professional planners are wondering how these technologies will change how ...Read More
The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University (PSU) is first and foremost an interdisciplinary center. Our research initiatives pull together the voices and expertise of a wide range of backgrounds that collectively shape the ways we move through the world. We support collaborative research and education that provide a unique lens on transportation insight for vibrant communities. TREC is home to the U.S. DOT funded National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) consortium, the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation grants and programs. We produce impactful research for transportation decision makers, and support the education of future transportation professionals through curriculum development and student participation in research.
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