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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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