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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Realistic or Utopian? Coordinating Transit and Land Use to Achieve Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
Ian Carlton
11-18-2016
Equitable transit-oriented development (E-TOD)—the prioritization of social equity as an outcome of TOD implementation—has become a U.S. DOT policy stance, an objective of many other government bodies, and part of ...Read More
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Lessons from the Development of a Guidebook on Pedestrian and Bicycle Connections to Transit
Nathan McNeil, Allison Boyce Duncan, and Drew DeVitis
11-4-2016
To improve safety and increase transit use, transit agencies and the jurisdictions they serve have to approach transit service as door-to-door not just stop-to-stop.
Walking and bicycling are key modes ...Read More
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Smart Cities: Improving the Roadside Environment with Distributed Sensor Systems
Christine M. Kendrick
10-28-2016
The City of Portland is exploring how distributed "Internet of Things" (IoT) sensor systems can be used to improve the available data that is usable by city engineers, planners, and ...Read More
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Congestion Modeling and Mitigation in the National Airspace System
David Lovell
10-25-2016
Dr. Lovell will talk about three projects funded by NASA and the FAA, addressing congestion in the National Airspace System. Dr. Lovell's team developed diffusion-based queuing models of individual airports ...Read More
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Development of the Idaho Statewide Travel Demand Model Trip Matrices Using Cell Phone OD Data and Origin Destination Matrix Estimation
Ben Stabler
10-24-2016
As part of the initial phase of development for the Idaho Statewide Travel Demand Model, Parsons Brinckerhoff developed a base year auto and truck trip matrix using AirSage cell phone ...Read More
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Planning Transportation for Recreational Areas
Anne Dunning
10-21-2016
Population growth and increased accessibility of formerly remote destinations have created new needs for planning mobility to and within recreational areas.
Transportation planners studying recreational travel face unusual travel-demand peaks, ...Read More
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Understanding Where We Live and How We Travel
Kristina Marie Currans
10-17-2016
Understanding changing residential preferences—especially as they are represented within land use and travel demand models—is fundamental to understanding the drivers of future housing, land use and transportation policies. As communities ...Read More
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Can Location Value Capture Pay for Transit? Organizational Challenges of Transforming Theory Into Practice
Deborah Salon
10-14-2016
Successful public transit systems increase the value of locations they serve. Capturing this location value to help fund transit is often sensible, but challenging.
This presentation will define location value ...Read More
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The Bridge and the City
Daniel Biau
10-7-2016
Daniel Biau, international consultant, civil engineer and author of The Bridge and the City: A Universal Love Story, will share insights on urbanization and bridges.
Across countries and centuries, the ...Read More
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Integrative Public Transport in a Segmented City: Reflections from Jerusalem
Galit Cohen-Blankshtain
9-30-2016
Jerusalem is perhaps an extreme case of residential and travel market segmentation. It is comprised of four different 'cities', which partially overlap in space: The Jewish-Zionist city; the Palestinian city; ...Read More
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The Cycling Gender Gap: What Can We Learn From Girls?
Jennifer Dill
6-5-2016
In the U.S., women are far less likely to bicycle for transportation than men. Explanations include, among others, safety concerns (traffic and crime), complex travel patterns related to household responsibilities, ...Read More
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Pursuing Vision Zero in Seattle – Results of a Systemic Safety Analysis
Rebecca Sanders
6-3-2016
Many cities are considering pursuing Vision Zero to eliminate traffic deaths, but may not know how to move beyond addressing past crash locations toward preventing future crashes. Systemic analysis, which ...Read More
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Hilltop Planning Workshop Team
Lea Anderson
5-27-2016
"Oregon Health & Science University Night Access Plan"
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a nationally renowned academic, research and health institution. At its current capacity, OHSU sees over ...Read More
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Delta Planning Workshop Team
Curtis Fisher
5-27-2016
"The Value Of Place in Tigard, Oregon"
The Tigard Triangle in Tigard, OR is an area defined by highways and auto-oriented land uses that does not represent the City of ...Read More
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Connected Vehicles and Rural Road Weather Management
Rhonda Young
5-20-2016
Changing weather patterns and increases in extreme weather events has led to the deployment of more weather responsive traffic management strategies. As the transportation system moves towards a connected vehicle ...Read More
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Is It Working? Are the Region's and City's Transportation Policies and Actions Moving Us in Their Desired Directions?
Roger Geller
5-13-2016
The City of Portland and the Metropolitan Region have strong policies in place to encourage transportation through means other than the single-occupancy vehicle. Both governments have numeric goals for the ...Read More
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Measuring What We Value: Using Performance Measures to Achieve Goals
Chris Rall
5-6-2016
Performance measures are commonly used in transportation planning, but how effectively are public agencies using them, and to what ends?
Metro, ODOT and many cities use performance measures to evaluate ...Read More
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Track Time and Monetary Costs of Transportation as a Comprehensive Performance Measure: Development and Application of Transportation Cost Index
Liming Wang
4-29-2016
As federal and state policies place increasing emphasis on using comprehensive transportation performance measures to guide transportation decision making, there is a gap in such measures of transportation and land ...Read More
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Putting the Fun Before the Wonk: Using Bike Fun to Diversify Bike Ridership
Lillian Karabaic
4-22-2016
The Community Cycling Center has been at the business of broadening access to bicycling for 22 years. Far before anyone was talking about "equity" in the world of bike commuting ...Read More
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Understanding Transportation in Urban China - Local Residents vs Migrant Workers
Jenny H. Liu
4-15-2016
With rapid urbanization in China and other developing economies around the world, it has become imperative to understand household transportation behavior and expenditures in these urban areas. The objective of ...Read More
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The Myth of Oregon's "Freight Dependent" Economy
Joe Cortright
4-8-2016
Although it is widely claimed that Oregon's economy is dependent on freight movement, economic activity in Oregon has decoupled from physical goods movement. Truck traffic per unit of gross state ...Read More
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Rerouting Mode Choice Models: How Including Realistic Route Options Can Help Us Understand Decisions to Walk or Bike
Joseph Broach
4-1-2016
For a number of reasons—congestion, public health, greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, demographic shifts, and community livability to name a few—the importance of walking and bicycling as transportation options will ...Read More
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Measuring and Modeling Cyclists’ Comfort and Stress Levels
Miguel Figliozzi
3-11-2016
Some researchers have tried to categorize cyclists’ levels of traffic stress utilizing facility or traffic data that can be readily measured in the field, such as motorized travel lanes, travel ...Read More
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Edged Out: Location Efficient Housing and Low Income Households in the Portland Region
Andrée Tremoulet and Ryan Dann
3-4-2016
Transportation costs are typically a household’s second largest expense after housing. Low income households are especially burdened by transportation costs, with low income households spending up to two times as ...Read More
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Parking Infrastructure: A Constraint on or Opportunity for Urban Redevelopment?
Mikhail Chester
2-26-2016
Many cities have adopted minimum parking requirements, but we have relatively poor information about how parking infrastructure has grown.
In this research, using building and roadway growth models, we estimate ...Read More