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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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
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Consistent Estimation of Route Choice Models for Dynamic Transit Assignment
Jeff Hood
2-19-2016
Dynamic transit assignment models have the potential to improve local transportation agencies’ capability to forecast the demand for public transit facilities under conditions of limited capacity or varying reliability. In ...Read More
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An Analysis of Cyclist Path Choices Through Shared Space Intersections in England
Allison Boyce Duncan
2-12-2016
Shared space is a traffic calming technique as well as urban design concept. Also known as ‘Naked Streets’, this technique strives to fully integrate the roadway into the urban fabric ...Read More
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Towards Effective Design Treatment for Right Turns at Intersections with Bicycle Traffic
David Hurwitz and Christopher Monsere
2-5-2016
The overall goal of this research was to quantify the safety performance of alternative traffic control strategies to mitigate right-turning-vehicle/bicycle collisions, often called "right-hook" crashes, at signalized intersections in Oregon.
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Cycling by Choice or Necessity? Exploring the Gender Gap in Bicycling in Oregon
Patrick Allen Singleton
1-29-2016
In Oregon, as elsewhere in the US, a greater percentage of men bicycle than women. This study illuminates the gender gap in bicycling by exploring differences in bicycling among women ...Read More
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Evaluation of an Electric Bike Pilot Project at Three Employment Campuses in Portland, Oregon
Nicholas Kobel
1-22-2016
Electric bicycles are growing more popular every year, but little research yet exists on how they might play a role in our transportation systems. Much of the literature on biking ...Read More
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Utilizing High Resolution Bus GPS Data to Visualize and Identify Congestion Hot-spots in Urban Arterials
Nicholas B. Stoll
1-22-2016
The research uses high resolution bus data to examine sources of delay on urban arterials. A set of tools were created to help visualize trends in bus behavior and movement, ...Read More
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Assessing Travel Plans for Residential Developments
Geoff Rose
1-15-2016
A ‘travel plan’ is a travel demand management strategy that contains a package of site-specific measures designed to manage car use and encourage the use of more sustainable transport modes. ...Read More
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Managing User Delay with a Focus on Pedestrian Operations
Andrew Kading
1-13-2016
Across the U.S, walking trips are increasing. However, pedestrians still face significantly higher delays than motor vehicles at signalized intersections due to traditional signal timing practices of prioritizing vehicular movements. ...Read More
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The Importance of Housing, Accessibility, and Transport Characteristic Ratings on Stated Neighborhood Preference
Kristina Marie Currans
1-8-2016
Travel demand models commonly lack the ability to understand how changing residential preferences influence future housing, land use, and transportation policies. As communities struggle to address social challenges related to ...Read More
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An Activity-related Land Use Mix Construct and Its Connection to Pedestrian Travel
Steven R. Gehrke
1-8-2016
Land use mix is a central smart growth principle connected to active transportation. This presentation describes the indicators of local land use mixing and their association with pedestrian travel in ...Read More
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Cargo Cycles for Local and Last Mile Delivery: Lessons from New York City
Alison Conway
12-12-2015
Cities depend on safe and efficient goods movement to support community livability and a healthy economy. However, delivery of goods in an urban environment presents a tremendous challenge. Traditional motorized ...Read More
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Three Bridges
Robert Liberty
11-20-2015
In the last decade, three important new bridges in the Portland area were the subject of intense discussion and analysis: the Tilikum Crossing, the Sellwood Bridge and the Columbia River ...Read More
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Model-Based Analytics and Processes for Transportation Investment Alternatives Analyses: From Least Cost Planning to Multi Criterion Evaluation
Jeff Frkonja
11-6-2015
Many public and private organizations that make decisions regarding whether and how to invest in transportation assets or programs do so via a structured decision-support process. This talk will address ...Read More
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Examining the Right to Bicycle: Synergies and Tensions Between Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Planning for Cycling
Aaron Golub
10-30-2015
Securing and expanding the broad right to bicycle, including the right to adequate and safe street space and related infrastructure for cycling along with other policies and protections for cyclists, ...Read More
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The Trade-offs between Population Density and Households' Transportation-housing Costs
Haizhong Wang
10-23-2015
As metropolitan area governments and others promote density-promoting “smart growth” policies, finer analysis is needed to quantify the impact of such policies on households' transportation and housing costs. Existing research ...Read More
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The Backstory: How LivableStreets Advocates Changed Boston
Jeffrey Rosenblum
10-16-2015
Local grassroots advocacy organizations play a critical role in shaping the future of cities but receive very little attention in research, especially insofar as understanding the most effective tactics that ...Read More