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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Safety Interventions for Houseless Pedestrians
Peter Domine, Sean Doyle, Asif Haque, Angie Martinez Sulvaran, Nick Meusch, and Meisha Whyte
6-3-2022
Cities across the U.S. are facing alarming increases in traffic fatalities, especially among the number of pedestrians who are struck and killed by drivers. Last year, 70 percent of all ...Read More
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Prioritizing Transit in Portland: Checking in on the Rose Lanes Project
Nathan McNeil, April Bertelsen, Jaime Jeffrey, and Jaime Snook
5-20-2022
Transit priority lanes restrict access to certain lanes, prioritizing transit movement, while sometimes allowing for other users or specific actions - for example shared bus and bike lanes, or shared ...Read More
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Why Your City Needs a Car Master Plan
Cathy Tuttle
5-13-2022
In 2022, cars are ubiquitous and completely embedded into America’s economy and social fabric. American cities don’t make car plans, but all transportation plans – whether they are for people ...Read More
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Using E-Bike Incentive Programs to Expand the Market – Trends and Best Practices
John MacArthur and Cameron Bennett
5-6-2022
John MacArthur and Cameron Bennett of Portland State University will be presenting the findings and recommendations from their recent white paper "Using E-Bike Incentive Programs to Expand the Market – ...Read More
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Addressing Gendered Harassment and Women's Travel Needs
Madeline Brozen
3-18-2022
This presentation will cover experiences, disparities, and solutions to gendered travel differences. Madeline will discuss research from a worldwide survey of harassment on public transit with specific insights from Los ...Read More
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Stories from the Bike Equity Network
Adonia Lugo
3-4-2022
In late 2013, cultural anthropologist Lugo launched an email list called the Bike Equity Network (BEN). The purpose of the list was to create a space for connection among bike ...Read More
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Systemic Opportunities to Improve Older Pedestrian Safety
Jason C. Anderson and Sirisha Kothuri
2-18-2022
This presentation provides a framework for improving older pedestrian safety in regard to serious (fatal and incapacitating) crashes, using Oregon as a case study. Upon review of state and federal ...Read More
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Reckoning with Induced Vehicle Travel
Jamey Volker
2-4-2022
Empirical research shows that expanding roadway capacity induces more driving - the so-called "induced travel" phenomenon. However, environmental impact assessments and cost-benefit analyses of roadway capacity expansion projects have historically ...Read More
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PSU Student Research from the TRB 2022 Annual Meeting: Drone Facility Location Considering Coverage Reliability: Application to Emergency Medical Scenarios
Darshan Chauhan
1-21-2022
Public service agencies like hospitals, fire, rescue, and police departments are required to maintain a high level of service. These service standards often come as reliability constraints. For example, fire-related ...Read More
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PSU Student Research from the TRB 2022 Annual Meeting: Effect of COVID-19 on Property Value Premium of Light Rail Transit
Sangwan Lee
1-21-2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted health and transformed many aspects of our lives, such as travel behavior and residential location preference. For instance, since the outbreak, there was a sharp ...Read More
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A New Approach to Transportation Pricing: Lessons from the POEM Project
Shoshana Cohen and Emma Sagor
12-3-2021
In October 2021, Portland City Council accepted the Pricing Options for Equitable Mobility (POEM) report. This was the culmination of 18 months of work by the POEM ...Read More
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The Urban Freight System and Its Supporting Infrastructure
Gabriela Girón-Valderrama
11-19-2021
The urban freight system is essential for the livability of any city. In the last decade, densification, the growth of e-commerce, and the changing mobility ecosystem have amplified commercial vehicles' ...Read More
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Vehicular Design and Resource Allocation Policies for Equitable Road Safety
Alyssa Ryan
11-12-2021
The diversity of road users is not equitably accounted for in vehicular and infrastructure design and funding allocation policies, among other areas that impact mobility. This impedes the ability for ...Read More
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Economic Impacts of Street Improvements: Findings from Portland Area
Jennifer Dill and Jenny H. Liu
11-5-2021
The Active Transportation Return on Investment (ATROI) study aimed to provide a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the economic benefits of active transportation infrastructure in the Portland, ...Read More
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Pedestrian Safety and Social Equity in Oregon
Josh Roll and Nathan McNeil
10-29-2021
Past research and planning has highlighted the existence of pedestrian injury disparities throughout the US and some local agencies have performed cursory analysis in Oregon. However, no statewide analysis of ...Read More
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Transportation Planning in Tribal Communities: From Plan Development to Implementation
Cole Grisham
10-22-2021
Existing studies surveying transportation planners in Tribal communities have recognized two challenges: (1) that existing planning analysis tools do not always align with Tribal community context and needs, and (2) ...Read More
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Retention of a Diverse Construction Workforce
Maura Kelly
10-15-2021
Having a strong pipeline of workers will be critical for ongoing efforts to improve transportation infrastructure, such as roads, highways, and bridges. This talk first provides an overview of the ...Read More
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An Assessment of Bicycle Detection Confirmation and Countdown Devices
Christopher Monsere, Sirisha Kothuri, and David S. Hurwitz
10-8-2021
For a person on a bicycle at intersections, trail crossings, or midblock locations that are signalized, knowing that they have been detected and how long they must wait to receive ...Read More
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Turning Streets Into Housing
Adam Millard-Bell
10-1-2021
Wide residential streets in US cities are both a contributor to homelessness and a potential strategy to provide more affordable housing. In residential neighborhoods, subdivision ordinances typically set binding standards ...Read More
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Transportation and Gentrification: Impacts on Low-income Black Households in Portland
Steven Howland
5-7-2021
Portland’s Black population has been heavily impacted by gentrification in the historic Albina community. Nearly half of Portland’s Black population lives in the area east of 82nd Ave, known as ...Read More
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Oregon Walks Pedestrian Crash Report: Causes, Effects, and Recommendations
Ashton Simpson, Scott Kocher, and Brandon Summers
4-23-2021
Perhaps you’ve seen a public meeting about pedestrian safety (or infrastructure projects) deteriorate into speculation about texting pedestrians or drunk drivers. What do the data say? The Oregon Walks Pedestrian ...Read More
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Evaluation of a Transportation Incentive Program for Affordable Housing Residents
Roshin Kurian, Huijun Tan, Nathan McNeil, and John MacArthur
4-16-2021
This seminar presents the results from the Transportation Wallet for Residents of Affordable Housing (TWRAH) pilot program launched by the City of Portland’s Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). The program provided ...Read More
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Racial Bias in Driver Yielding Behavior at Crosswalks
Kimberly Kahn, Peter Koonce, and George Stern
4-2-2021
This seminar discusses how pedestrian race and gender can influence drivers’ behavior in interactions with pedestrians at crosswalks. Three speakers will present different lenses to look at this topic. Kimberly ...Read More
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Forging Equity in Cities: Using Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD) as a Blueprint for Policy and Practice
Roberto Requejo
3-5-2021
Racial equity, wealth building, public health and climate resilience goals are only possible through cross sectional engagement that includes city, state, and regional governments, community-based organizations, and private sector partners. ...Read More
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Multnomah County REACH Transportation Crash and Safety Report: At the Intersection of Transportation, Health, Race and Justice
Tameka Brazile, Brendon Haggerty, and Charlene McGee
2-26-2021
This seminar will discuss how transportation agencies are in a unique position to reduce health disparities in the African American, African Immigrant & Refugee communities through sustainable policy, systems, and ...Read More