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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E-Grocery Home Delivery and the Freight & Travel Demands of Multifamily Dwellings
Katherine Keeling and Gabby Abou-Zeid
2-14-2020
Double Feature: E-Grocery Home Delivery and the Freight & Travel Demands of Multifamily Dwellings
E-Grocery Home Delivery Impacts on Food Access and Equity
The adoption of e-grocery home delivery (HD) ...Read More
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Bicycling Toward Equity: Opportunities, Barriers, and Policies for Vulnerable Groups
Jennifer Dill, John MacArthur, and Nathan McNeil
1-17-2020
This seminar includes two presentations: Bicycling and Bikeshare Among Women of Color in Three U.S. Cities: Barriers and Opportunities, by Jennifer Dill and Adaptive Bikeshare: Expanding Bikeshare to People with ...Read More
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Exploring the Transportation and Land Use Impacts of E-Commerce
Amanda Howell
12-6-2019
E-commerce is growing—it is estimated that e-commerce sales now account for more than 10% of total retail sales in the U.S. The continued maturation of the e-commerce market is fueling ...Read More
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Building Healthy Communities Through Seattle's Growth Policy
Dongho Chang
11-22-2019
Seattle is experiencing transformational changes with record-breaking population growth among large scale urban renewal and redevelopment. These changes are occurring in a constrained transportation system that is being reconfigured to ...Read More
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From Confrontation to Partnership: City Regulation of Micromobility
William Henderson
11-15-2019
It has been more than two years since shared scooters first appeared in Santa Monica, California and more than four years since the first dockless bikeshare bikes appeared in China. ...Read More
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PDX Next: Redesigning Portland International Airport
Mike Coleman and Sean Loughran
11-8-2019
If you like PDX now, wait till you see PDX Next. We’re outgrowing our current digs. In the coming years, we expect our annual passengers to jump from 20 million ...Read More
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Next Steps for Portland’s Neighborhood Greenways
Scott Cohen
11-1-2019
Portland's neighborhood greenways are a key component of the city's transportation system and future. Join PBOT's new neighborhood greenway coordinator to learn how this facility type developed, near-term plans for ...Read More
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Congestion Pricing Efficiency and Equity
Michael Manville
10-25-2019
Congestion pricing is effective, and efficient, but is it fair? One of the biggest concerns surrounding dynamic road charges is that they will harm low-income people. This seminar examines the ...Read More
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Walking Research and Opportunities from the National Cancer Institute
David Berrigan
10-18-2019
Lack of physical activity is well established as a modifiable risk factor for cancer at multiple sites. Because walking (and rolling) are among the most common forms of physical activity ...Read More
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The Safe System Approach: Considerations for Developing a Multi-Layered System
Offer Grembek
10-11-2019
While the overarching objective of the transportation system is to provide mobility, it should be developed and operated under the framework of a safe system with the aspirational goal to ...Read More
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Transforming an Urban 'Burb: Transportation Innovations in Vancouver, Washington
Anna Dearman
10-4-2019
From Complete Streets policy implementation to stronger community engagement, bus rapid transit expansion to waterfront redevelopment—and so much more!—Vancouver, Washington, is on the move. Directly across the river from Portland, ...Read More
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Our Young People and the Gateway to Opportunity
Jonnie Ling
9-27-2019
The Community Cycling Center has been working with youth through the "Big Jump: Gateway to Opportunity" project. We'll be discussing our exploratory educational model and the ways the project can ...Read More
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The Datafication of Cycling – Effects and Opportunities at the Intersection of Industry and Transport Policy
Shaun Williams
8-16-2019
This seminar will provide a brief overview to Shaun Williams’ "Datafication of Cycling" PhD project. The main aim is to understand how volunteered app data, provided by cyclists, are used ...Read More
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Enhanced Transit Corridors in Portland's Central City
Gabe Graff and Kelly Betteridge
7-26-2019
Over the past two years, the Portland Bureau of Transportation and TriMet have joined forces to identify, design and build capital and operational treatments to help buses move more quickly ...Read More
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Can Ridehailing Deliver Equity? Lessons for New Mobility Planning
Anne Brown
5-31-2019
Modes including ridehailing, bikeshare, and e-scooters offer the potential to revolutionize how people travel. But as cities and agencies work to integrate these new services into the existing transportation landscape, ...Read More
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Making the Seemingly Impossible Project Real through Local Improvement Districts
Andrew H. Aebi
5-17-2019
The planning process identifies community needs but often needs the creative use of financial leverage to make those projects a reality on the ground. Timing is important on Local Improvement ...Read More
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How AV Could Shape Our Cities - Research from the Netherlands
Gonçalo H. A. Correia
5-10-2019
Automated driving has become a hot topic of research in different fields of science. Despite the great advancements in the vehicle technology itself, researchers are now concerned in figuring out ...Read More
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That Bike is Too Heavy: Merging Bicycling Physics, Human Physiology and Travel Behavior
Alexander Y. Bigazzi
5-3-2019
Are the Biketown bikes too heavy? Does better gear motivate people to cycle more? How much faster will someone go on an e-bike?
Although urban cycling is widely known as ...Read More
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An Agent-Based Evacuation Model to Improve Safety in the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Haizhong Wang
4-19-2019
This seminar will present ongoing research into how integrated social, natural, and engineered systems can improve life safety under threat of multi-hazards. The targeted scenario is a magnitude 9.0 earthquake ...Read More
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Deriving Lane-level Insight from GPS Data: Innovations for Traffic & Autonomous Driving
James Fowe
4-5-2019
With the on-going disruption of the transportation industry and rapid advancement in ITS technologies; emerging smart cities, navigation systems and autonomous transportation, the need for highly accurate geospatial localization has ...Read More
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PedPDX: Addressing Equity through Citywide Pedestrian Planning
Michelle Marx and Francesca Patricolo
3-15-2019
Pedestrian safety and access is an equity issue. In Portland, inadequate pedestrian infrastructure and traffic safety concerns disproportionately impact low-income communities and people of color. The City is attempting to ...Read More
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Public Transportation and New Mobility
Chris Pangilinan
3-8-2019
New mobility options such as bike share, scooters, and transportation network companies (e.g. Uber) are proliferating across the United States and beyond. Early research has shown that while the private ...Read More
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The Success of an Integrated Mobility Strategy: Lessons from the Netherlands for the Pacific West Coast
Lucas van der Linde
2-15-2019
The Netherlands sets the standard for their multimodal connectivity. It has world's highest use of cycling and an integrated mobility network with an efficient transport system. During this seminar, Lucas ...Read More
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The Portland E-Scooter Experience
Briana Orr, John MacArthur, and Jennifer Dill
2-1-2019
Portland's E-Scooter Pilot made national news for its proactive and data-driven approach to exploring the role of e-scooters in our transportation system. One of the first cities to implement a ...Read More
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The Influence of Shared Mobility and Transportation Policies on Vehicle Ownership
Edgar Bertini Ruas
11-30-2018
With the emergence of several new providers of shared mobility services, such as Uber, Biketown and Car2go, there has been the promise of changes to the traditional way of owning ...Read More