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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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
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Exploring the Determinants of Vulnerable Road Users’ Crash Severity in State Roads
Álvaro Caviedes
1-19-2018
Part of the Student Presentations from TRB
Pedestrians and bicyclists are the most vulnerable road users and suffer the most severe consequences when crashes take place. An extensive literature is ...Read More
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Development of a Multi-modal Travel Demand Module for the Regional Strategic Planning Model
Huajie Yang
1-19-2018
Part of the Student Presentations from TRB
Integrated land use and transportation models have evolved along a spectrum with simplistic sketch planning models on one end and sophisticated microsimulation models ...Read More
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Exploring Bicycle Accessibility and Equity in Portland, Oregon
Jenny H. Liu
1-12-2018
As urban areas across the country are investing in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure to promote environmentally sustainable transportation and to develop livable communities, many have pointed to improvements in environmental ...Read More
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New Probe Data Sources to Measure Cycling Behavior and Safety
Christopher Cherry
12-1-2017
Emerging probe data sources from smartphones on on-board devices are able to measure behavior of cyclists with very high resolution. From this, for the first time, we are able to ...Read More
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California's Paradigm Shift from LOS to VMT as a Transportation Impact Metric: Policies, Politics, and Possibilities
Robert Liberty and Lynn Peterson
11-17-2017
As part of California's effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the state has passed a law leading to a radical shift in how it analyzes the traffic impacts of new ...Read More
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Countywide Bluetooth System: Use Cases & Performance Measures
Shaun Quayle
11-3-2017
Washington County has 124 permanent roadside Bluetooth readers, which passively and in an anonymous fashion collect travel time, speed, and origin-destination information across the major arterials in the urban County. ...Read More
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Municipal Co-Distribution of Goods – Business Models, Stakeholders and Driving Forces for Change
Olof Moen
10-27-2017
The presentation provides background information and illustrates driving forces of the development of municipal co-distribution of goods in Sweden. The business model is “somewhat unique” to Sweden, given the country’s ...Read More
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Advisory Bike Lanes in North America
Michael Williams
10-23-2017
Despite being used successfully for decades in Europe, Advisory Bike Lanes are an emerging facility type in North America and can be an effective tool for communities wishing to provide ...Read More
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Safety Effectiveness of Pedestrian Crossing Treatments
Christopher Monsere
10-13-2017
Over the last decade, the transportation agencies in Oregon have systematically enhanced many pedestrian crossings at mid-block locations with Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFBs), Flashing Yellow Beacons (Flash), and high ...Read More