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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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
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DASH: The Portland Region's Next-Generation Activity-Based Model
Richard Walker
4-17-2015
DASH is the next generation activity based model being developed by the Metro Research Center. Upon completion, it will be one of the most advanced in the nation. This model ...Read More
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Geometric Design, Speed, and Safety
Richard J. Porter
4-10-2015
In this seminar, Dr. Porter will explore the interactions of geometric design decisions, speed, and safety. A performance-based approach to this topic will be considered given the availability of several ...Read More
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Self-Organizing Signals: A Better Framework for Transit Signal Priority
Peter G. Furth
3-13-2015
Actuated traffic signal control logic has many advantages because of its responsiveness to traffic demands, short cycles, effective use of capacity leading to and recovering from oversaturation, and amenability to ...Read More
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Empirical Evaluation of Transit Signal Priority through Fusion of Heterogeneous Transit and Traffic Signal Data and Novel Performance Measures
Wei Feng
3-6-2015
Transit signal priority (TSP) is designed to reduce delay for transit vehicles through signalized intersections. For an existing TSP system, it is important to assess how timely and effective TSP ...Read More
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Active Transportation Research at Northern Arizona University
Edward J. Smaglik
2-27-2015
Dr. Smaglik is currently working on three separate transportation research projects at Northern Arizona University. This talk will touch briefly on each of the three projects, the concepts behind them, ...Read More
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Crowdsourcing Cycling Safety and Route Data with the “ORcycle” Smartphone App
Miguel Figliozzi
2-19-2015
ORcycle is a new smartphone application (for both Android and iOS) developed by Transportation, Technology, and People (TTP) lab researchers at Portland State University as part of an Oregon Department ...Read More
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Transportation System Impacts on Bicyclists' Air Pollution Risks: Considerations for System Design and Use
Alexander Y. Bigazzi, Miguel Figliozzi, James F. Pankow, and Wentai Luo
2-13-2015
Health risks associated with air pollution uptake while bicycling are often cited as a potential drawback to increased bicycling in cities. This seminar will provide an overview of how roadway ...Read More
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Factors Associated with the Bicycle Commute Use of Newcomers: Analysis of the 70 Largest U.S. Cities
Ryan Dann
1-30-2015
Bicycling is known to produce benefits for cities, in regards to reducing levels of congestion, generating positive health outcomes, and providing affordable transportation options to low-income families. Conventional analysis of ...Read More
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The Theory of Travel Decision-Making: A Conceptual Framework of Active Travel Behavior
Patrick Allen Singleton
1-30-2015
We present a unifying conceptual framework of active travel behavior called the theory of travel decision-making. It integrates seminal travel-related concepts from economics, geography, and psychology with active travel behavior ...Read More
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Leveraging Signal Infrastructure for Non-Motorized Counts in a Statewide Program: A Pilot Study
Bryan Philip Blanc
1-16-2015
Transportation agencies are beginning to explore and develop non-motorized counting programs. This paper presents the results of a pilot study testing the use of existing signal infrastructure – 2070 signal ...Read More
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Who Uses Peer-to-Peer Carsharing? Early Exploration
Anaïs Mathez
1-16-2015
Peer-to-peer (P2P) carsharing is a system where a facilitating company connects car owners to car renters. Such systems are relatively new in the U.S. This paper aims to understand who ...Read More
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Influential Vectors in Fuel Consumption by an Urban Bus Operator
João de Abreu e Silva
1-9-2015
In an era of reduced government funding, transit operators struggle to reduce operating costs and increase revenues. Energy costs account for an important share of the total costs of urban ...Read More
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Evaluating the Planning and Implementation of Major Transit Capital Projects in the Portland Region
Joseph Recker
12-5-2014
The Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) discretionary New Starts program is the federal government's largest discretionary funding program. From heavy to light rail, from commuter rail to bus rapid transit systems, ...Read More
