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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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
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Rideshare Practices in Developing Countries vs Developed Countries
Francis Wambalaba
7-29-2022
This project investigated strategies towards development, marketing and implementation of employer programs for reducing single occupancy vehicles to mitigate traffic congestion. It was guided by the following research questions: which ...Read More
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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
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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