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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Evaluating the Level-of-Service of Protected Bike Lanes
Nick Foster
11-21-2014
Summary: The most recent edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) contains analysis procedures for measuring the level-of-service (LOS), also referred to as quality of service, provided by an urban ...Read More
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Accessory Dwelling Units in Portland, Oregon: Evaluation and Interpretation of a Survey of ADU Owners
Jordan Palmeri
11-14-2014
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are booming in Portland, Oregon. ADUs are small separate living units on single family lots that are often called granny flats or mother-in-law units. Over the ...Read More
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Links Between Public Transportation and Physical Activity
Brian Saelens
11-7-2014
This seminar will explore the empirical evidence regarding the links between the use of public transportation and physical activity, with a specific focus on using integrated device and self-report methods ...Read More
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Trick or Treat(ment)? : Impact of Route-level Features on Walk and Bike Decisions
Joseph Broach
10-31-2014
Trick or Treatment? Impact of Route-Level Features on Decisions to Walk or Bike Summary: Some travel routes attract people walking and cycling, while others may scare them away. What features ...Read More
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Development of the Idaho Statewide Travel Demand Model Trip Matrices Using Cell Phone OD Data and Origin Destination Matrix Estimation
Ben Stabler
10-24-2014
As part of the initial phase of development for the Idaho Statewide Travel Demand Model, Parsons Brinckerhoff developed a base year auto and truck trip matrix using AirSage cell phone ...Read More
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Examining the Role of Internal Planning Decisions in Improving Transit Performance and Economic Outcomes
Michal Jaroszynski
10-10-2014
Scholars and practitioners continuously seek best practices to increase transit ridership, efficiency, and modal share. The ongoing suburbanization and decentralization of U.S. metropolitan regions brings new challenges for accomplishing these ...Read More
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Using "Big Data" for Transportation Analysis: A Case Study of the LA Metro Expo Line
Mohja L. Rhoads
10-3-2014
Access to a comprehensive historical archive of real-time, multi-modal multi-agency transportation system data has provided a unique opportunity to demonstrate how “big data” can be used for policy analysis, and ...Read More
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Seminar #294: Transforming Transportation Through Connectivity
Robert L. Bertini
6-6-2014
The transportation system is the backbone of the United States' economy, and transportation is an essential part of everyday life for American citizens. It is essential that the transportation system ...Read More
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GIS Tools for Bicycle Network Analysis and Planning
Mike Lowry
5-30-2014
This presentation is a showcase of various GIS tools developed for bicycle network analysis and planning. The showcase includes a tool for assessing community-wide bikeability, a tool for forecasting bicycle ...Read More
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Capturing the Ride: Exploring Low-Density Flexible Transit Alternatives in Salem-Keizer
Darwin Moosavi
5-23-2014
Current fixed-route transit service provided by Salem-Keizer Transit is inefficient in the low-density neighborhoods of West Salem, South Salem, and Keizer. The lack of sidewalks, non-gridded circuitous streets, and large ...Read More
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Pedestrian Safety and Culture Change
Ron Van Houten
5-16-2014
This session will describe the process and results of a NHTSA study that showed a change in driver culture of yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks on a citywide basis. The ...Read More
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Analytical Efficiencies Through the Integration of Modeling and Simulation Tools
Steve Perone
5-9-2014
Linking planning and operations is vital to improving transportation decision making and the overall effectiveness of transportation systems. In this seminar Steve will discuss data and modeling methods supported by ...Read More
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Highlights from the Green Lane: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Protected Cycling Facilities
Christopher Monsere and Jennifer Dill
5-2-2014
Cycling is on the rise across the U.S. and its popularity has grown beyond the usual leaders - Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Davis, CA, Minneapolis, MN and Boulder, CO. New ...Read More
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Assessing Impacts of Time Use on Children's Physical Fitness in Relation to Risk for Obesity and Diabetes
Jessica Guo
4-25-2014
Researchers from the transportation, planning and health fields share the common goal of promoting physically active lifestyle. One challenge that researchers often face is the measurement of physical activity, particularly ...Read More
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Transportation and Road Weather
Rhonda Young
4-18-2014
Weather has a tremendous impact on the transportation system and is one of the largest contributors to non-recurring delay and increased crashes. Road weather is the a multidisciplinary area involving ...Read More
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Transit Planning Practice in the Age of Transit-Oriented Development
Ian Carlton
4-11-2014
Transit serves as backbone infrastructure for many regional and local visions for sustainable urban development. Also, many modern policies predicate transit funding on the potential for transit-oriented development (TOD) near ...Read More
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An Introduction to the NACTO Urban Street Design: Changing the DNA of City Streets
Peter Koonce
4-4-2014
In this seminar Peter will summarize his contributions to the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide, a guidebook focused on a paradigm shift in transportation, pulling away from the traditional bias ...Read More
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Federal Transit Administration's Impact on Public Transportation in the United States
Amy Changchien
3-14-2014
The Federal Transit Administration invests in building the capacity and improving the quality of public transportation throughout the United States of America. Under FTA's leadership, public rail, bus, trolley, ferry, ...Read More
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10 Tips to Tell Your Story in a Thought-Provoking and Technically Truthful Way
Dave Johnson
3-7-2014
How do you explain complex ideas? What do you say when reporters ask you to guess about the future? ODOT spokesperson and public affairs manager Dave Thompson will share tips ...Read More
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Measuring Urban Bicyclists' Uptake of Traffic-Related Pollution
Alexander Y. Bigazzi
2-28-2014
Urban bicyclists’ uptake of traffic-related air pollution is still not well quantified, due to a lack of direct measurements of uptake and a lack of analysis of the variation in ...Read More
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Bike Planning Methods in Oregon Communities
Tara Weidner
2-21-2014
In this seminar, Tara Weidner will discuss changes in the works to the State Analysis Procedures Manual (APM) to include three graduated levels of bike planning methods for use in ...Read More
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A Recipe for an Online, Geospatial Transit Performance Archive
Jon Makler
2-14-2014
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 ...Read More
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Regional Planning, Greenhouse Gases, and UrbanFootprint Open Source Software
Garlynn Woodsong
1-31-2014
Since about 2008, the planning world has been experiencing a paradigm shift that began in places like California and Oregon that have adopted legislation requiring the linking of land use ...Read More
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Modeling Injury Outcomes of Crashes involving Heavy Vehicles on Texas Highways
Salvador Hernandez
1-24-2014
A growing concern related to large-truck crashes has increased in the State of Texas in recent years due to the potential economic impacts and level of injury severity that can ...Read More
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Identficaton and Characterization of Pollutant Hot Spots Integratng Probe Vehicle, Traffic and Land Use Data
Katherine Eleanor Bell and Miguel Figliozzi
1-17-2014
Identification and Characterization of PM2.5 and VOC Hot Spots on Arterial Corridor by Integrating Probe Vehicle, Traffic, and Land Use Data: The purpose of this study is to explore the ...Read More