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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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
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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