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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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
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Utilizing High-Resolution Archived Transit Data to Study Before-and-After Travel-Speed and Travel-Time Conditions
Travis B. Glick
10-6-2017
Travel times, operating speeds, and service reliability influence costs and service attractiveness. This research outlines an approach to quantify how these metrics change after a modification of roadway design or ...Read More
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Environmentally Sustainable and Affordable Housing Near Transit in Los Angeles
Marlon Boarnet
6-9-2017
Providing affordable housing and reducing greenhouse gases are common goals in cities worldwide. Transit-oriented development (TOD) can provide an opportunity to make incremental progress on both fronts, by building affordable ...Read More
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China's Motorization Wave and the Place of Emerging Technologies
Christopher Cherry
6-2-2017
E-bikes, E-Cars, Carshare, Bikeshare, and Micro-EVs in China have shaken up the traditional motorization pathways that have occurred in developing countries in the past. The combination of emerging vehicle technologies, ...Read More
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Annual Metro Regional Trail Count and Why Local Extrapolation Factors Matter
Geoff Gibson
5-26-2017
Metro, Portland's regional governing agency, conducts annual two-hour counts along its regional trail every September. This upcoming fall (2017) will be the 10th year that the counts have been held, ...Read More
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Inequities in Urban Mobility in Portland: Understanding Community Vulnerability and Prospects for Livable Neighborhoods
Amy Lubitow
5-19-2017
Gentrification and development are changing the face of many Portland neighborhoods. This talk will draw on data from focus groups and participatory mapping research with residents in SE and North ...Read More
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Behavior-Based Freight Modeling at Metro
Chris Johnson and Bud Reiff
5-5-2017
Chris Johnson and Bud Reiff will present on a behavior-based freight model being used at Oregon Metro. This model will replace Metro’s current truck model with a hybrid freight model ...Read More
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Transport Planning in Delft, Netherlands
Jan Nederveen
4-28-2017
While the Netherlands is known today for the highest bicycling rates in the world, this movement only began in the 1970s. Transportation policy has been one of the critical keys ...Read More
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A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Latent Demand: Accounting for Unrealized Activities and Travel
Kelly Clifton
4-21-2017
Latent demand—the activities and travel that are desired but unrealized because of constraints—have been historically examined from the standpoint of understanding the impacts of proposed capacity or service improvements on ...Read More
