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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Transportation Safety Culture: Where we are and what it means
Tara Beth Goddard
2-16-2023
Like any healthy professional community, the transportation safety community is not homogenous or without constructive conflict. The increased attention on systems thinking – most commonly known, if not necessarily well ...Read More
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Transforming Commercial Arterials into Bicycle Highways: Using Count Data
Nicholas Smith
2-9-2023
Count data for cyclists and pedestrians is considered an essential tool for city builders to inform, justify and manage active transportation infrastructure. When automated bike counters are strategically deployed across ...Read More
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The Next Wave of Abolishing Parking Mandates
Catie Gould and Jeannette Lee
12-2-2022
The movement to eliminate parking mandates is having a big moment. This summer, both Oregon and California took statewide action to roll back minimum off-street parking requirements, relegalizing homes and ...Read More
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Moving from Probabilistic to Time-Based On-Time Performance (for practitioners)
Miles James Allen Crumley
11-18-2022
On-Time Performance (OTP) is a probabilistic measure that tells the customer the likelihood that the trip they are about to take will arrive "on-time." However, this metric forces the customer ...Read More
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System-level Risk Management of Transportation Structures and Networks
David Y. Yang
11-4-2022
Conventional risk assessment approaches in infrastructure management do not fully capture the system-level impact of structural failure or service disruption. As a result, the priorities of preservation projects may be ...Read More
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Freight Moves the Oregon Economy
Becky Knudson
10-28-2022
This presentation provides a broad overview of work conducted by the Oregon Department of Transportation in the field of freight analysis supporting long range planning. The information shared will touch ...Read More
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How COVID-19 Changed Our Cities: Evidence from a National Survey
Deborah Salon
10-21-2022
Human behavior is notoriously difficult to change, but a disruption of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to bring about long-term behavioral changes. During the pandemic, people ...Read More
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Bringing Complete Streets to Reality in State Transportation Projects
Celeste Gilman
10-14-2022
In order to improve the safety, mobility, and accessibility of state highways, the Washington State legislature directed Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to incorporate the principles of complete streets ...Read More
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Speed Management and Speed Reduction in Portland, OR
Jason C. Anderson and Clay Veka
10-7-2022
In 2015, the Portland City Council unanimously passed a resolution committing Portland to Vision Zero, the goal to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries. An underpinning of Vision Zero is ...Read More
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Port of Portland’s Marine Terminal 6 Contribution to Regional Economic Development
Lewison Lem
9-30-2022
Container cargo shipping service returned to the Port of Portland in Oregon in January 2020 with the regular weekly SM Line service, following more than three years of no container ...Read More
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Impacts of City-Level Parking Cash-Out and Commuter Benefits Ordinances
Gabriella Abou-Zeid and Allen Greenberg
9-16-2022
For many workers, the decision to drive to work is an economically rational one that minimizes their commute costs. The vast majority of employers offer free workplace parking, with few ...Read More