Authors

Jon Makler

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Date

2-14-2014

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Where and when does overcrowding happen on TriMet's bus network? Which routes have the best on-time performance? Portland State University and TriMet have collaborated to make this kind of data available to anybody through Portal, PSU's transportation data archive for the Portland/Vancouver region. This presentation will cover the use of General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data for mapping TriMet’s performance data and the development of Portal’s innovative transit application. In the MAP-21 era of performance management, see how tools like Portal can support enhanced agency decision-making as well as community engagement.

Biographical Information

Jon Makler researches and teaches about transportation planning and engineering at Portland State University. His research portfolio centers on intelligent transportation systems, including how they can be harnessed to benefit the environment and how the data they generate can support operational strategies and planning decisions. Since moving to Oregon 9 years ago, he has worked at Metro, the City of Portland and OTREC, the federally-funded research center housed at PSU. His previous employers were the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, the Harvard Kennedy School, IBI Group and Sarah Siwek & Associates. He earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a master of science in transportation from MIT. He has been a certified planner (AICP) since 2004 and serves on the board of the Oregon chapter of the American Planning Association.

Subjects

Traffic surveys -- Oregon -- Portland, Traffic patterns -- Oregon -- Portland, Vehicle detectors, Automatic data collection systems -- Application to transit planning, Transportation -- Planning -- Citizen participation

Disciplines

Transportation | Urban Studies and Planning

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18385

A Recipe for an Online, Geospatial Transit Performance Archive

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