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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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
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Affordable Housing as a Prerequisite for a Safe, Healthy, Equitable Transportation System: Evidence from a Nationwide Evaluation of Location Efficiency within the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Program
Arlie Steven Adkins
10-9-2015
Mountains of research over the last several decades show that how we get around and how much physical activity we get are closely linked with the built environment of the ...Read More
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Evaluation of a Shared Space Alternative in Morgantown, WV
Avinash Unnikrishnan
10-2-2015
Pedestrian and vehicle movement conflicts and the associated safety and efficiency issues have always been addressed in traffic engineering based on the principle of separation through bridges, tunnels, or signals. ...Read More
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Transforming a Historic Highway in Small Town Mosier into a Vibrant Main Street
Amanda Davidowitz and Kaleidoscope Student Planners
5-29-2015
Kaleidoscope Student Planners, a group of six students in the Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning program at Portland State University, are working with Mosier, Oregon’s City Council to develop ...Read More
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The Green Loop SWPDX Workshop Project
Brian Gunn, Kate Washington, Jake Adams, Ashley Eaton, and Mohd Meidiansyah
5-29-2015
The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability proposes the construction of the Green Loop, a 10-mile linear public open space proposed in the West Quadrant Plan update that will further link ...Read More
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New FHWA VMT Forecasts Implications for Local Planning
Andrew Mortensen
5-22-2015
A summary of FHWA’s new national traffic trends assessment will be presented, including discussion of varied factors influencing forward-thinking forecasts. Examples of Oregon statewide vehicle miles travelled (VMT) and historic ...Read More
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Development of a Pedestrian Demand Estimation Tool: a Destination Choice Model
Christopher D. Muhs
5-15-2015
There is growing support for improvements to the quality of the walking environment, including more investments to promote pedestrian travel. Planners, engineers, and others seek improved tools to estimate pedestrian ...Read More
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Lighten Everyone's Load: LIDAR Applications to Support Engineers, Planners, Scientists and More
Michael J. Olsen
5-8-2015
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Travel Decisions & Their Implications for Urban Transportation: From Campus Transportation to Statewide Modeling
Gulsah Akar
5-1-2015
The ability to forecast future transportation patterns under a particular land-use scenario or urban form is key to making informed decisions at the local and regional levels.
Although several researchers ...Read More
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Using Multimodal Performance Measures to Prioritize Improvements on US 101 in San Luis Obispo County
Jessica Berry
4-24-2015
The US 101 Corridor Mobility Master Plan in San Luis Obispo was a two-year planning effort that evaluated the 70 mile corridor on 12 performance measures. This collaborative effort was ...Read More