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PSU Transportation Seminars

 

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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  • Active Transportation Data Fusion: Incorporating Big Data to Estimate Volumes by Joeseph Broach, Sirisha Kothuri, and Nathan McNeil

    Active Transportation Data Fusion: Incorporating Big Data to Estimate Volumes

    Joeseph Broach, Sirisha Kothuri, and Nathan McNeil

    3-14-2025

    Planners and decision-makers have increasingly voiced a need for network-wide estimates of bicycling and walking. Such volume estimates have for decades informed motorized planning and analysis but have only recently ...Read More

  • Preventing Carbon Emissions With Imaging-Based Civil Infrastructure Assessment And Evaluation by Thomas Schumacher

    Preventing Carbon Emissions With Imaging-Based Civil Infrastructure Assessment And Evaluation

    Thomas Schumacher

    2-21-2025

    For concrete bridges without existing plans, simplified and highly conservative load rating (structural evaluation) methods may be used, which can lead to unnecessary load restrictions, unjustifiable strengthening, or in the ...Read More

  • Piloting a Zero-Emission Delivery Zone in Downtown Portland by Art Pearce, Sarah Pullman, and Jacob Sherman

    Piloting a Zero-Emission Delivery Zone in Downtown Portland

    Art Pearce, Sarah Pullman, and Jacob Sherman

    12-6-2024

    The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) was awarded a nearly $2 million Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grant by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) in Fall 2023 to ...Read More

  • EV Charging at Multifamily Properties: Moving Beyond Barriers by Whit Jamieson, Anna Guida, and Connor Herman

    EV Charging at Multifamily Properties: Moving Beyond Barriers

    Whit Jamieson, Anna Guida, and Connor Herman

    11-22-2024

    Transportation is the top contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in the US and light-duty vehicles are the #1 contributor to transportation emissions. Mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is key ...Read More

  • Addressing Transportation Emissions through State Climate and Energy Policy by Amy Schlusser

    Addressing Transportation Emissions through State Climate and Energy Policy

    Amy Schlusser

    11-15-2024

    Oregon has adopted policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transportation sectors. This presentation will provide some background on these policy frameworks and explore how these policies ...Read More

  • Fast-Tracking Transit: Unveiling Portland's First Bus Rapid Transit Line and Signal Optimization Strategies by Mark Haines and Jesse Stemmler

    Fast-Tracking Transit: Unveiling Portland's First Bus Rapid Transit Line and Signal Optimization Strategies

    Mark Haines and Jesse Stemmler

    11-8-2024

    This presentation on the Division Transit Project will provide an overview of the project elements including roadway design, bus station design, traffic signal timing and operations and the Next Gen ...Read More

  • Let Knowledge Serve the City! A Decade of Better Block PSU Projects by Ryan Hashagen

    Let Knowledge Serve the City! A Decade of Better Block PSU Projects

    Ryan Hashagen

    11-1-2024

    Better Block PSU works with Planning and Civil Engineering students to bring community ideas to life! Over the last 10 years, the pathway has resulted in many real ...Read More

  • Bike Buses: An Evaluation of An Emerging Active Transportation to School Intervention by Evan Howington, John H. MacArthur, and Nathan W. McNeil

    Bike Buses: An Evaluation of An Emerging Active Transportation to School Intervention

    Evan Howington, John H. MacArthur, and Nathan W. McNeil

    10-25-2024

    Bike Buses are a relatively new form of Active Transportation to School (ATS) that have gained popularity in Europe and the United States in recent years. Generally, a bike bus ...Read More

  • GHG Inventory from Building Washington State Department of Transportation Roadways by Milad Ashtiani

    GHG Inventory from Building Washington State Department of Transportation Roadways

    Milad Ashtiani

    10-18-2024

    State departments of transportation (DOTs) are increasingly focusing on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially with new regulations like the Buy Clean Acts in California, Oregon, and Washington. This project, ...Read More

  • The Impacts of a Multimodal Safety Project on North Lombard Street in Portland, Oregon by Jason Anderson

    The Impacts of a Multimodal Safety Project on North Lombard Street in Portland, Oregon

    Jason Anderson

    10-11-2024

    North Lombard Street/US-30 Bypass is a critical corridor in North Portland, serving both commercial and residential interests. This corridor is also ranked 11th in terms of fatal and serious injury ...Read More

  • Transportation Decarbonization: A State Perspective by Tara Weidner

    Transportation Decarbonization: A State Perspective

    Tara Weidner

    10-4-2024

    Oregon continues to be a leader in Transportation Decarbonization efforts nationally. The webinar will outline the state’s transportation GHG reduction roadmap, developed in 2012 to tackle legislatively mandated GHG reduction ...Read More

  • Streets are for People! Livable Streets 2.0 and Five Decades of the Conflict, Power and Promise of our Streets by Bruce Appleyard

    Streets are for People! Livable Streets 2.0 and Five Decades of the Conflict, Power and Promise of our Streets

    Bruce Appleyard

    5-31-2024

    Streets constitute the majority of our urban public spaces, yet we struggle everyday with how they should be designed and operated for travel, safety, and livability. In 1969, when Dr. ...Read More

  • Oregon in Motion: Shaping Communities Through State Transportation Legislation by Cassie Wilson

    Oregon in Motion: Shaping Communities Through State Transportation Legislation

    Cassie Wilson

    5-23-2024

    About every eight years, the Oregon state legislature passes a large state transportation funding package. Transportation funding packages in Oregon have historically included funding mechanisms such as the gas tax, ...Read More

  • Forest Service Engineering, Lessons and Opportunities by Joe Totten

    Forest Service Engineering, Lessons and Opportunities

    Joe Totten

    5-17-2024

    Working in the Forest Service Engineering has different challenges and benefits than other common organizations for Civil Engineers or Transportation Planners. This presentation should provide a perspective on how we ...Read More

  • Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking About Transportation by Susan Handy

    Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking About Transportation

    Susan Handy

    4-26-2024

    The transportation system in the U.S. has been shaped by a core set of ideas that are embedded in professional practice. These ideas – freedom, speed, mobility, vehicles, capacity, hierarchy, ...Read More

  • Driving the Future: Intersection of Emerging Transportation Technologies and Energy Consumption by Tanmoy Bhowmik

    Driving the Future: Intersection of Emerging Transportation Technologies and Energy Consumption

    Tanmoy Bhowmik

    12-1-2023

    The world of transportation is in a constant state of evolution, with emerging technologies offering greater efficiency and safety in our daily lives. However, these innovations at the same time ...Read More

  • Oregon Transportation Plan: Innovations in the Exploratory Scenario Planning Approach by Adam Argo and Jonathan Slason

    Oregon Transportation Plan: Innovations in the Exploratory Scenario Planning Approach

    Adam Argo and Jonathan Slason

    11-17-2023

    This seminar reviews the recently-adopted Oregon Transportation Plan and the process and innovations that underpinned the analysis to identify a preferred set of investments and actions to support the vision ...Read More

  • Active Transportation Counts From Existing On-Street Signal And Detection Infrastructure by Sirisha Kothuri

    Active Transportation Counts From Existing On-Street Signal And Detection Infrastructure

    Sirisha Kothuri

    11-3-2023

    The goal of agencies is to provide a safe and reliable multimodal transportation system that connects people and helps communities and economy thrive. In order to fulfill this mission, it ...Read More

  • Incorporating Equity into Planning for Operations and Transportation System Management by Caleb Winter and Pamela Vasudeva

    Incorporating Equity into Planning for Operations and Transportation System Management

    Caleb Winter and Pamela Vasudeva

    10-27-2023

    How do cities, counties, transit agencies, regions and states apply processes, partnerships and tools to modernize our transportation system? What is behind the scenes that makes up a growing digital ...Read More

  • TriMet & TOD – Opportunities for Growth by Miles Anderson and Fiona Lyon

    TriMet & TOD – Opportunities for Growth

    Miles Anderson and Fiona Lyon

    10-20-2023

    Staff of the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) will present TriMet's recently published Regional Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plan, explaining its inception, creation, and delivery. The team will explain ...Read More

  • Transportation Planning in an Aging Society by Shengxiao (Alex) Li

    Transportation Planning in an Aging Society

    Shengxiao (Alex) Li

    10-13-2023

    By 2030, all Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) will be 65 and older in the U.S. However, the understanding of how Baby Boomers travel differently from the ...Read More

  • The Green New Deal and Transit Investment by Eric Bruun

    The Green New Deal and Transit Investment

    Eric Bruun

    10-6-2023

    I have spent much of my professional life advocating for high quality transit infrastructure even if it takes a long time to build. I now believe we must focus on ...Read More

  • Confessions of a Traffic Engineer: How the MUTCD Impacts Everything by Peter Koonce

    Confessions of a Traffic Engineer: How the MUTCD Impacts Everything

    Peter Koonce

    5-25-2023

    Pete Buttigieg, USDOT Secretary of Transportation has described the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) as “notorious”… and for cities, it has been a challenging document to navigate to ...Read More

  • Explore Regional Variation in the Effects of Built Environment on Driving with High Resolution U.S. Nationwide Data by Liming Wang

    Explore Regional Variation in the Effects of Built Environment on Driving with High Resolution U.S. Nationwide Data

    Liming Wang

    5-4-2023

    There have been numerous studies on the relationship between travel behavior and built environment over the last few decades. Prior studies have mostly focused on producing point estimates of model ...Read More

  • The Use And Influence Of Health Indicators In Municipal Transportation Plans​​ by Kelly Rodgers

    The Use And Influence Of Health Indicators In Municipal Transportation Plans​​

    Kelly Rodgers

    4-20-2023

    As a social determinant of health, transportation significantly contributes to well-being through several pathways. Researchers and practitioners have called for health indicators as one way to integrate public health concerns ...Read More

 

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