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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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
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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