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Webinar: Letting Bike Riders Catch the Green Wave
Stephen Fickas and Marc Schlossberg
12-12-2019
The "Fast Track" project at the University of Oregon focuses on a mode of transportation that is sometimes left out of vehicle-to-infrastructure, or V2I, conversations: Bicycling. NITC researchers developed an ...Read More
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Webinar: Evaluating Urban Arterial Reliability Performance Metrics
Jason Anderson
11-19-2019
With worsening congestion, travel time reliability is increasingly becoming as critical as average travel times in affecting travel choices. Researchers from Portland State University (PSU) partnered with Washington County, Oregon ...Read More
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Webinar: Contextual Guidance at Intersections for Protected Bicycle Lanes
Christopher Monsere and Nathan McNeil
10-8-2019
Separated bike lanes have become increasingly common around the United States as cities seek to attract the new riders, including people who want to ride but limit their riding because ...Read More
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Webinar: Social Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks
Xiaoyue Cathy Liu
9-4-2019
This webinar will present an open-source socio-transportation analytic toolbox (STAT) for public transit system planning. This webinar will consist of a demonstration of the STAT toolbox, for the ...Read More
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Webinar: Aging in Place: Improving Mobility for Older Adults
Alan Kenneth DeLaTorre, Ivis Garcia Zambrana, and Ja Young Kim
7-24-2019
Aging in place can simply be defined as staying in your home as you age; aging in place concerns include mobility, social activities, safety, accessibility, and long term supports and ...Read More
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Webinar: Engaging Youth to Choose Car-Free Mobility
Autumn Shafer
5-22-2019
Today’s youth are tomorrow’s riders, bikers, walkers, voters, and transportation planners. As more transit agencies begin to offer free fare passes to public middle and high school students, it is ...Read More
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Webinar: E-Bikes for Everyone: Electrifying Communities in New Ways
John MacArthur and Sergio Lopez
3-21-2019
Electric bicycle (e-bike) use is a rising phenomenon in North America. In 2018, John MacArthur of Portland State University conducted a national survey to understand issues facing e-bike ...Read More
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Webinar: Rethinking Streets for Bikes: An Evidence Based Guide of Bike-Friendly Street Retrofits
Marc Schlossberg and Roger Lindgren
2-27-2019
There is a growing demand for better infrastructure and fewer barriers to biking and other forms of space-efficient micromobility. Tackling daily trips by bike is easier on the environment, healthier ...Read More
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Webinar: Words Matter: Recognizing and Addressing Modal Assumptions to Shift Transportation Culture
Barb Chamberlain
2-22-2019
Search #DriverNotCar or #CrashNotAccident on Twitter and you’ll find a vigorous discussion about the power of word choices to shape our understanding of what happens on the street and who’s ...Read More
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Webinar: Modeling Freeway Traffic in a Mixed Environment: Connected and Human-Driven Vehicles
Xianfeng Terry Yang
1-24-2019
Although connected vehicles (CVs) will soon go beyond testbeds, CVs and human-driven vehicles (HVs) will co-exist over a long period. Hence, it is critical to consider the interactions between these ...Read More
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Webinar: Segmenting the Market for Transportation Demand Management Campaigns
Philip L. Winters and Amy Lester
11-28-2018
Social marketing seeks to develop and integrate marketing concepts with other approaches to influence behaviors that benefit individuals and communities for the greater social good. It is a useful transportation ...Read More
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Webinar: Addressing Bicycle-Vehicle Conflicts with Alternate Signal Control Strategies
Sirisha Kothuri
10-16-2018
There is nationwide interest in supporting sustainable and active transportation modes such as bicycling and walking due to the many benefits associated with them, including reduced congestion, lower emissions and ...Read More
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TREC/OAPA Webinar: Authentic Community Engagement
Eryn Kehe and Wendy Serrano
8-30-2018
This webinar will provide practical tools for designing effective and authentic community engagement for transportation projects. Too often, we can forget to ask ourselves who, what and why for our ...Read More
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Webinar: Meeting & Exceeding Mobility User Expectations with Real-Time Transit Information
Sean J. Barbeau and Derek Fretheim
8-9-2018
Every day transit riders ask the same question: when’s the next one coming? To answer this question, transit agencies are transitioning to providing real-time transit information through smartphones or displayed ...Read More
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Webinar: Firsthand Data Collection: Students Get Behind the Wheel of Vehicle Dynamics
Roger Lindgren and Jordan Preston
6-11-2018
Vehicle operating dynamics data have a fundamental impact on the design of roadways, but collecting this type of data is not part of your typical college curriculum. Instead, engineering students ...Read More
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Webinar: Tools and Techniques for Teaching Collaborative Regional Planning and Enhancing Livability and Sustainable Transportation in Gateway & Natural Amenity Regions
Danya Rumore
4-26-2018
Small towns and cities outside of national parks and other major natural amenities throughout the western United States are becoming increasingly popular places to visit and live. As a result, ...Read More
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Webinar: BikePed Portal - National Bicycle and Pedestrian Count Archive
Hau Hagedorn and Sirisha Kothuri
3-7-2018
This project builds on the success of NITC’s first Pooled Fund project that created the first national bicycle and pedestrian traffic count archive, named ...Read More
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Webinar: Pooled Fund Grant 2018 - Tackling Transportation Together
Eva-Maria Muecke
2-28-2018
Information session on the Pooled Fund Research Grant
One champion identifies a problem that is common to other agencies, cities, or MPOs and then recruits other partners who are willing ...Read More
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Webinar: An Accessible Approach to Shared Streets
Jim Elliott, Janet Barlow, and Dan Goodman
1-25-2018
In October 2017 the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) unveiled a groundbreaking new resource on planning and designing shared streets to accommodate people with vision disabilities. The first report of its ...Read More
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Webinar: Transportation Benefits of Parking Cash-Out, Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits, and Parking Surtaxes
Allen Greenberg, James Choe, Sonika Sethi, and Colleen Stoll
10-30-2017
The vast majority of employers provide their employees free parking at work, which encourages employees to drive alone. Multiple strategies exist to level the playing field between travel modes and ...Read More
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Webinar: Racial Bias in Driver Yielding Behavior at Crosswalks
Kimberly Barsamian Kahn
10-26-2017
This webinar discusses research exploring how social identity factors (race and gender) influence drivers’ behavior in interactions with pedestrians at crosswalks. One dangerous potential point of conflict for pedestrians within ...Read More
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Webinar: The Effects of Demand-Responsive Parking on Transit Usage and Congestion: Evidence from SFpark
Nicole Ngo
9-26-2017
Parking is a serious issue in many urban areas, especially those experiencing rapid population growth. To address this problem, some cities have implemented demand-responsive pricing programs, where parking prices vary ...Read More
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Webinar: Breaking Barriers to Bike Share: Insights on Equity
Nathan McNeil, Jennifer Dill, and John MacArthur
8-22-2017
While the number of public bike share systems in the United States grew considerably in recent years, early evidence indicated that many systems were not serving the diverse populations of ...Read More
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Webinar: Land Use Mix and Pedestrian Travel Behavior: Advancements in Conceptualization and Measurement
Steven R. Gehrke
7-25-2017
Smart growth policies have often emphasized the importance of land use mix as an intervention beholding of lasting urban planning and public health benefits. Past transportation-land use research has identified ...Read More
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Webinar: Developing Practical Dynamic Evaluation Methods for Transportation Structures
Charles Riley
5-25-2017
Deteriorating transportation infrastructure is constantly in the news. Government agencies at all levels are pursuing methods to monitor structural health, so that they can prioritize repairs. In Oregon, the Cascadia ...Read More
The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University (PSU) is first and foremost an interdisciplinary center. Our research initiatives pull together the voices and expertise of a wide range of backgrounds that collectively shape the ways we move through the world. We support collaborative research and education that provide a unique lens on transportation insight for vibrant communities. TREC is home to the U.S. DOT funded National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) consortium, the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation grants and programs. We produce impactful research for transportation decision makers, and support the education of future transportation professionals through curriculum development and student participation in research.
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