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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Scenarios for Adoption of Autonomous Vehicle Technologies in Freight
Sabya Mishra
11-16-2018
Innovation adoption research has largely ignored organizational adoption, and little work has been done to understand or predict the adoption of innovations by freight organizations. Among the existing innovation adoption ...Read More
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Portland’s Transportation Wallet: How Pricing Parking Can Create New Mobility Options
Sarah Goforth
11-9-2018
The Transportation Wallet is one of Portland’s newest parking and transportation demand management (TDM) strategies, designed to reduce parking demand while simultaneously offering new mobility options by bundling transit and ...Read More
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Is Public Transit's 'Green' Reputation Deserved?
Justin Beaudoin
11-2-2018
While public transit has a reputation as a potential means to ameliorate the adverse environmental effects of automobile travel, there have been very few empirical studies of the marginal effect ...Read More
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Driver Comprehension of Permissive Right-Turns with a Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA)
Christopher Monsere and David Hurwitz
10-26-2018
This research explored driver comprehension and behaviors with respect to right-turn signal displays with a focus on the Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA) in a driving simulator and a comprehension survey. ...Read More
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Cycling Research and Practice in Australia: Insights from a Hybrid Approach
Marilyn Johnson
10-19-2018
Too often, there is a gap between research and action. For researchers, peer-reviewed scientific evidence is the benchmark of success, while for policy makers and practitioners, success is being able ...Read More
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Transportation Behavior Change...Now With SCIENCE!
Jessica Roberts
10-12-2018
How can we encourage people to make use of the transportation systems in place - to improve transit ridership and, in turn, to improve the health and happiness of our ...Read More
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Spatial Correlation: Statistical and Econometric Analyses of Heavy-Vehicle Hard Braking and Crash Frequency
Jason Anderson
10-5-2018
In heavy-vehicles (a truck with a gross vehicle weight rating of greater than 10,000 pounds), a hard braking event is described as an event that prompts the vehicle’s “black box” ...Read More
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Barriers to “New Mobility”: A Community-Informed Approach to Smart Cities Technology
Aaron Golub and Vivian Satterfield
9-28-2018
There is an active debate about the potential costs and benefits of emerging “smart mobility” systems, especially in how they will serve communities already facing transportation challenges. This presentation will ...Read More
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A Survey of Ride-Hailing Passengers
Steven Gehrke
5-25-2018
In less than a decade, the ride-hailing industry, led by Uber and Lyft, has dramatically transformed the way we travel in our metro regions. Rider adoption of these on-demand mobility ...Read More
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Utrecht, Bike Capital of the World
Martijn Rietbergen
5-18-2018
Utrecht is a bustling, bicycle-friendly city in the Netherlands. Every day, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., over 125,000 cyclists ride to their work, school, university, public transport, shops or ...Read More
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Analysis of the Contribution of Transportation and Land Use to Citizen Perceptions of Livability
Rebecca Lewis
5-4-2018
What is livability? How does the built environment influence resident perceptions of livability? Although livability is a broadly used term and a key goal in land use and transportation plans ...Read More
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Intersection: Orientation and Mobility as Interdisciplinary Conversation
Amy T. Parker and Prateek Dujari
4-27-2018
Knowing where one wants to go and how to get there are essential life skills for all people. Community access and travel skills are not only important rites of passage ...Read More
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FHWA Guidebook for Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity
Joseph Broach
4-20-2018
In 2016 the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published a Guidebook for Developing Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance Measures that presents methods for measuring walking and ...Read More
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How Sustainable Are Drone (UAV) Deliveries?
Miguel Figliozzi
4-13-2018
Private companies and public officials are seeking sustainable and cost effective ways to green supply chains and freight deliveries. There is enthusiasm regarding the potential benefits that innovative technologies such ...Read More
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Transportation Impacts of Affordable Housing: Informing Development Review with Travel Behavior Analysis
Amanda Howell
4-6-2018
Planning for affordable housing is challenged by development policies that often do not differentiate between the travel patterns of residents of market-rate housing and those living in affordable units. The ...Read More
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Insights on Walkability and Walking in Lisbon with the IAAPE Method
Filipe Moura
3-16-2018
Walkability and walking are being intensively researched today and the literature provides a wealth of references and examples on how to measure walkability of the built environment. IAAPE is one ...Read More
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Transit Demand Analysis and User Classification Using Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) Data
Alireza Khani
3-9-2018
Development of origin-destination demand matrices is crucial for transit planning. The development process is facilitated by transit automated data, making it possible to mine boarding and alighting patterns on an ...Read More
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Citizen Advocacy for Safe Streets in Bremen, Germany
Anne Kirkham
3-2-2018
Although Germany may be known internationally for its environmentalism, over the past 20 years German cities have chronically underinvested in transportation networks, both for public transport as well as non-motorized ...Read More
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Bicycles & Business Success - A San Francisco Examination
Joseph Poirier
2-23-2018
This presentation will review research regarding the economic impact of bicycle infrastructure on local businesses. Three case study corridors in San Francisco, CA are examined, and a robust discussion of ...Read More
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Road Diet V2.0 - Road Diet with Roundabouts
Michael Williams
2-16-2018
How can we go one step, or one lane, further than the standard road diet? Roundabouts allow a road diet to reduce the final number of lanes from three to ...Read More
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Urban Transportation Planning and TOD Research in Japan
Fumihiko Nakamura
2-9-2018
Presentation on Urban Transportation Planning and Transit-oriented development (TOD) Research in Japan.
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Evaluation of Route Changes Utilizing High-Resolution GPS Bus Transit Data
Travis Bradley Glick
2-2-2018
Congestion and travel delay on urban roadways can influence operating costs and service attractiveness. This research uses high resolution bus data to examine sources of delay on urban arterials. A ...Read More
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Valuing Bicycle Infrastructure in Portland, Oregon
Wei Shi
2-2-2018
Investments into active transportation infrastructure are often promoted as a strategy for sustainable transportation, better public health, environmental quality, and economic development. Although empirical evidence generally points toward positive property ...Read More
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Density Differences: Exploring Built Environment Relationships with Walking Between and Within Metropolitan Areas
Jamie Orrego
1-26-2018
Part of the Student Presentations from TRB
To explore the relationships between measures of density and walking within and between urban areas, we present an analysis of the travel survey ...Read More
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Defining Place: A Review of How Place Type Is Measured and Constructed
Kelly Rodgers
1-26-2018
Part of the Student Presentations from TRB
Researchers have been parsing which components of the built environment contribute to outcomes of interest and to what degree, particularly the effects on ...Read More