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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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
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Getting to Know the Data: Understanding Assumptions, Sensitivities, Uncertainty, and Being "Conservative" While Using ITE's Trip Generation Data in the Land Development Process
Kristina Marie Currans
4-14-2017
Many agencies rely on trip generation estimates to evaluate the transportation impacts of land development in urban and suburban areas alike. Over the past decade, substantial attention has been paid ...Read More
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Urbanism Next: How Technology is Changing Our City
Nico Larco
4-7-2017
Advances in technology such as the advent of autonomous vehicles (AV’s), the rise of E-commerce, and the proliferation of the sharing economy are having profound effects not only on how ...Read More
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Dynamic Assignment Models and their Application in the Portland Metro Region
Peter G. Bosa
3-17-2017
Metro's Research and Modeling Services Program is responsible for the development, maintenance, and application of travel demand models for application in long-range planning efforts in the Portland metropolitan region.
Representation ...Read More
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Addressing Data Challenges for Bicycle Crash Analysis
Eleni Christofa
3-10-2017
Although an increasing number of separated bicycle facilities have been appearing across the US over the last few years, the majority of bicyclists are still traveling on roadways shared with ...Read More
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Big Data and the Future of Travel Modeling
Greg Macfarlane
3-3-2017
New technologies such as smart phones and web applications constantly collect data on individuals' trip-making and travel patterns. Efforts at using these "Big data" products, to date, have focused on ...Read More
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Impact of Bike Facilities on Residential Property Prices
Wei Shi
2-24-2017
As many cities are investing in street improvement or transportation infrastructure upgrade projects to provide better bike access or more complete bike networks, the economic value of bike infrastructure and ...Read More
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Exploring the Positive Utility of Travel and Mode Choice
Patrick Allen Singleton
2-24-2017
Why do people travel? We traditionally assume traveling is a means to an end, travel demand is derived (from the demand for activities), and travel time is to be minimized. ...Read More
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Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Model Policy Issues in the face of Uncertainty and Limited Data
Brian Gregor
2-17-2017
Planners and policymakers are often faced with the need to make decisions about issues for which there is uncertainty and limited data. For example, transportation planners are now faced with ...Read More
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Individual Decision Making in Online Public-Participation Transportation Planning
Martin Swobodzinski
2-10-2017
The empirical evaluation of complex decision support systems is often limited to the self-reported satisfaction of the systems’ users.
Such an approach is problematic due to the conflation of the ...Read More
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Estimating Reliability Indices and Confidence Intervals for Transit and Traffic at the Corridor Level
Travis B. Glick
1-27-2017
As congestion worsens, the importance of rigorous methodologies to estimate travel-time reliability increases. Exploiting fine-granularity transit GPS data, this research proposes a novel method to estimate travel-time percentiles and confidence ...Read More
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Current Efforts to Make Bike Share More Equitable: A Survey of System Owners and Operators
Steven Howland
1-27-2017
The number of public bike share systems has been increasing rapidly across the United States over the past five to ten years. To date most academic research around bike share ...Read More
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Measuring Stress Levels for Real-World On-Road Cyclists: Do Bicycle Facilities, Intersections and Traffic Levels Affect Cyclists' Stress?
Álvaro Caviedes
1-20-2017
This research effort presents a novel approach to measure cyclists’ stress: real-world, on-road measurements of physiological stress as cyclists travel across different types of bicycle facilities in various traffic volumes. ...Read More
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A Pathway Linking Smart Growth Neighborhoods to Home-Based Pedestrian Travel
Steven R. Gehrke and Kelly J. Clifton
1-20-2017
Land development patterns, urban design, and transportation system features are inextricably linked to pedestrian travel. Accordingly, planners and decision-makers have turned to integrated transportation-land use policies and investments to address ...Read More
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Avoiding Bus Bunching: From Theory to Practice
Ricardo Giesen
1-13-2017
The problem of bus bunching in a high frequency service has been largely studied in the literature.
This phenomenon is produced by three main factors
(i) the variability in travel ...Read More
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Peak Pedaling: Has Portland Bicycling reached the Top of the Logistic Curve?
Robert McCullough
12-6-2016
The recent City Club report on bicycling provided an opportunity to collect and analyze a number of data sets including the new Hawthorne Bridge data. One question is where Portland ...Read More
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Pricing and Reliability Enhancements in the San Diego Activity-Based Travel Model
Joel Freedman
12-2-2016
The estimation of demand for priced highway lanes is becoming increasingly important to agencies seeking to improve mobility and find alternative revenue sources for the provision of transportation infrastructure.
However, ...Read More
