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).
-
Building Oregon's Statewide Multimodal Transportation Inventory with AI and Interagency Collaboration
Ben Stabler and Theresa Conley
11-7-2025
ODOT and 48+ local agencies are collaborating on the development of a multimodal data set for transportation planning within metropolitan areas. Revisions to Oregon's Transportation Planning Rules (TPR) set in ...Read More
-
Reducing Motor Vehicle – Bicycle Conflicts at Controlled Intersections
Jason C. Anderson and Sirisha Kothuri
10-31-2025
One of the most common locations for fatal motor vehicle-bicyclist crashes is at intersections, which inherently have a large number of turning conflicts. Reducing these conflicts is a key objective ...Read More
-
The Realities of Roadkill: Challenges and Opportunities for Wildlife Transportation Mitigation
Rachel Wheat
10-24-2025
Transportation infrastructure is critical for our communities and economies, but the roadways we depend on for travel have significant negative impacts on wildlife populations. Roadkill is the most visible consequence, ...Read More
-
Transit-Oriented Development and Affordable Housing: Lessons from Portland
Nathan McNeil
10-17-2025
The seminar will cover surveys of residents at recently built Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs) focused on affordable housing sites. This study builds off of an ongoing partnership between Portland State University ...Read More
-
Walk Portland: A Downtown Pedestrian Wayfinding Strategy And Pilot
Gena Gastaldi, Gwen Sullivan, and Ryan Sullivan
10-3-2025
Walk Portland, a partnership between the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and Travel Portland, seeks to make it easier than ever for pedestrians to explore the city. In 2024, PBOT ...Read More
-
Active Transportation Data Fusion: Incorporating Big Data to Estimate Volumes
Joeseph Broach, Sirisha Kothuri, and Nathan McNeil
3-14-2025
Planners and decision-makers have increasingly voiced a need for network-wide estimates of bicycling and walking. Such volume estimates have for decades informed motorized planning and analysis but have only recently ...Read More
-
Preventing Carbon Emissions With Imaging-Based Civil Infrastructure Assessment And Evaluation
Thomas Schumacher
2-21-2025
For concrete bridges without existing plans, simplified and highly conservative load rating (structural evaluation) methods may be used, which can lead to unnecessary load restrictions, unjustifiable strengthening, or in the ...Read More
-
Piloting a Zero-Emission Delivery Zone in Downtown Portland
Art Pearce, Sarah Pullman, and Jacob Sherman
12-6-2024
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) was awarded a nearly $2 million Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grant by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) in Fall 2023 to ...Read More
-
EV Charging at Multifamily Properties: Moving Beyond Barriers
Whit Jamieson, Anna Guida, and Connor Herman
11-22-2024
Transportation is the top contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in the US and light-duty vehicles are the #1 contributor to transportation emissions. Mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is key ...Read More
-
Addressing Transportation Emissions through State Climate and Energy Policy
Amy Schlusser
11-15-2024
Oregon has adopted policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transportation sectors. This presentation will provide some background on these policy frameworks and explore how these policies ...Read More
-
Fast-Tracking Transit: Unveiling Portland's First Bus Rapid Transit Line and Signal Optimization Strategies
Mark Haines and Jesse Stemmler
11-8-2024
This presentation on the Division Transit Project will provide an overview of the project elements including roadway design, bus station design, traffic signal timing and operations and the Next Gen ...Read More
-
Let Knowledge Serve the City! A Decade of Better Block PSU Projects
Ryan Hashagen
11-1-2024
Better Block PSU works with Planning and Civil Engineering students to bring community ideas to life! Over the last 10 years, the pathway has resulted in many real ...Read More
-
Bike Buses: An Evaluation of An Emerging Active Transportation to School Intervention
Evan Howington, John H. MacArthur, and Nathan W. McNeil
10-25-2024
Bike Buses are a relatively new form of Active Transportation to School (ATS) that have gained popularity in Europe and the United States in recent years. Generally, a bike bus ...Read More
-
GHG Inventory from Building Washington State Department of Transportation Roadways
Milad Ashtiani
10-18-2024
State departments of transportation (DOTs) are increasingly focusing on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially with new regulations like the Buy Clean Acts in California, Oregon, and Washington. This project, ...Read More
-
The Impacts of a Multimodal Safety Project on North Lombard Street in Portland, Oregon
Jason Anderson
10-11-2024
North Lombard Street/US-30 Bypass is a critical corridor in North Portland, serving both commercial and residential interests. This corridor is also ranked 11th in terms of fatal and serious injury ...Read More
-
Transportation Decarbonization: A State Perspective
Tara Weidner
10-4-2024
Oregon continues to be a leader in Transportation Decarbonization efforts nationally. The webinar will outline the state’s transportation GHG reduction roadmap, developed in 2012 to tackle legislatively mandated GHG reduction ...Read More
-
Streets are for People! Livable Streets 2.0 and Five Decades of the Conflict, Power and Promise of our Streets
Bruce Appleyard
5-31-2024
Streets constitute the majority of our urban public spaces, yet we struggle everyday with how they should be designed and operated for travel, safety, and livability. In 1969, when Dr. ...Read More
-
Oregon in Motion: Shaping Communities Through State Transportation Legislation
Cassie Wilson
5-23-2024
About every eight years, the Oregon state legislature passes a large state transportation funding package. Transportation funding packages in Oregon have historically included funding mechanisms such as the gas tax, ...Read More
-
Forest Service Engineering, Lessons and Opportunities
Joe Totten
5-17-2024
Working in the Forest Service Engineering has different challenges and benefits than other common organizations for Civil Engineers or Transportation Planners. This presentation should provide a perspective on how we ...Read More
-
Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking About Transportation
Susan Handy
4-26-2024
The transportation system in the U.S. has been shaped by a core set of ideas that are embedded in professional practice. These ideas – freedom, speed, mobility, vehicles, capacity, hierarchy, ...Read More
-
Driving the Future: Intersection of Emerging Transportation Technologies and Energy Consumption
Tanmoy Bhowmik
12-1-2023
The world of transportation is in a constant state of evolution, with emerging technologies offering greater efficiency and safety in our daily lives. However, these innovations at the same time ...Read More
-
Oregon Transportation Plan: Innovations in the Exploratory Scenario Planning Approach
Adam Argo and Jonathan Slason
11-17-2023
This seminar reviews the recently-adopted Oregon Transportation Plan and the process and innovations that underpinned the analysis to identify a preferred set of investments and actions to support the vision ...Read More
-
Active Transportation Counts From Existing On-Street Signal And Detection Infrastructure
Sirisha Kothuri
11-3-2023
The goal of agencies is to provide a safe and reliable multimodal transportation system that connects people and helps communities and economy thrive. In order to fulfill this mission, it ...Read More
-
Incorporating Equity into Planning for Operations and Transportation System Management
Caleb Winter and Pamela Vasudeva
10-27-2023
How do cities, counties, transit agencies, regions and states apply processes, partnerships and tools to modernize our transportation system? What is behind the scenes that makes up a growing digital ...Read More
-
TriMet & TOD – Opportunities for Growth
Miles Anderson and Fiona Lyon
10-20-2023
Staff of the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) will present TriMet's recently published Regional Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plan, explaining its inception, creation, and delivery. The team will explain ...Read More