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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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
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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
