Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): The Southwest Corridor Light Rail Project
Friday, February 28, 2020, 11:30am to 12:30pm PSTFriday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us in person at 11:30 AM, or you can also watch online.
Periodically, we're teaming up with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to bring you special editions—featuring guest speakers from PBOT—merging our seminar series and the long-standing PBOT Lunch & Learn.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
THE TOPIC
The Southwest Corridor Light Rail Project is an expansion of the MAX light rail system into Southwest Portland, Tigard and Tualatin. Not only will the...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar (Double Feature): E-Grocery Home Delivery and the Freight & Travel Demands of Multifamily Dwellings
Friday, February 14, 2020, 11:30am to 12:30pm PSTFriday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us in person at 11:30 AM, or you can also watch online.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
- Watch the video
- View Katherine Keeling's presentation slides: E-Grocery Home Delivery Impacts on Food Access and Equity
- View Gabby Abou-Zeid's presentation slides: A Preliminary Overview of Freight and Travel Demand at Multifamily Apartment Buildings in Portland, OR
THE TOPICS
Katherine Keeling, Portland State University
Katherine Keeling is a first-year MSCE student and graduate research assistant for Dr. Miguel Figliozzi in civil & environmental engineering at Portland State University. Her research topics...
Read moreWebinar: New Travel Demand Modeling for our Evolving Mobility Landscape
Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 10:00am to 11:00am PSTPRESENTATION ARCHIVE
OVERVIEW
Conventional four-step travel demand models are used by nearly all metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), state departments of transportation, and local planning agencies, as the basis for long-range transportation planning in the United States. A flaw of the four-step model is its relative insensitivity to the so-called D variables. The D variables are characteristics of the built environment that are known to affect travel behavior. The Ds are development density, land use diversity, street network design, destination accessibility, and distance to transit. In this seminar, we will explain how we developed a vehicle ownership model (car shedding model), an intrazonal travel model (internal capture model), and mode choice model that consider all of the D variables based on household travel surveys and built environmental data for 32, 31, and 29 regions, respectively, validates the models, and demonstrates that the models have far better predictive accuracy than Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC)/Mountailand Association of Governments’ (MAG) current models.
In this webinar, researchers Reid Ewing and Sadegh Sabouri will...
Read moreTRB Aftershock! PSU Student Transportation Research + Social
Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 5:30pm to 7:30pm PSTJoin us for our annual tradition: TRB Aftershock! Portland State University students will presenting posters on the transportation research they brought to the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting this Januaryin Washington D.C. — the largest gathering of transportation professionals in North America.
This event is hosted by PSU's ITE student group, Students in Transportation Engineering & Planning (STEP), and sponsored by:
- Portland Chapter of Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT)
- Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC)
Don't miss this exciting once-a-year event! Light refreshments will be provided.
Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
TREC at PSU is home to the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation programs. TREC produces research and tools for transportation decision makers, develops K-12 curriculum to expand the diversity and capacity of the workforce, and engages students and young professionals through education.
Friday Transportation Seminar (cancelled)
Friday, January 31, 2020, 11:30am to 12:30pm PSTPlease note that this PBOT seminar will NOT be held on January 31st. Stay tuned to find out about the next iteration of the PBOT Lunch n' Learn series in February 2020.
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The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University is home to the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation programs. TREC produces research and tools for transportation decision makers, develops K-12 curriculum to expand the diversity and capacity of the workforce, and engages students and professionals through education.
Info Session on the Summer Study Abroad Program: Sustainable Transportation in the Netherlands
Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 5:00pm to 6:00pm PST
INFO SESSION ON JAN 28th FOR THE TWO-WEEK STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM
This summer we're hosting two study abroad programs in the Netherlands. Our two-week program focuses on university students, and our one-week program is geared towards professionals in their career.
Join us for an information session (this session can be attended in person or via online broadcast, and will also be recorded for later viewing) on the two-week student study abroad program to learn more about the day-to-day activities and tours in the Netherlands. After a twenty-minute presentation from the program instructor John MacArthur, there will be plenty of time to ask any questions you have about the program, application process, and travel plans. Applications are now open!
JOIN IN PERSON: Attend the info session in person on the Portland State campus in the Karl Miller Center: KMC-605 OIA Classroom (30)
JOIN ONLINE: This session will be recorded and posted online afterwards. It will also be streamed live here: ...
Read moreWebinar: Assessing the Impacts of New Mobility on Cities
Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 10:00am to 11:00am PSTPRESENTATION ARCHIVE
OVERVIEW
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), e-commerce and the sharing economy are rapidly changing land use and transportation in cities. City leaders and professional planners are wondering how these technologies will change how they plan and operate cities. For the past year, the University of Oregon’s Urbanism Next Center and Sustainable Year Program focused staff and students on helping the cities of Gresham and Eugene better understand the potential impacts of a wide-range of topics and study a variety of potential responses to address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities. These topics include issues related to safety, social equity, active transportation, sustainability and environmental impacts, design and management of the right-of-way, and the metropolitan footprint. In addition, the cities thought about city operations and budgeting and how they can inform decision-making, manage innovation, and consider the fiscal impacts and new mobility revenue.
During this webinar, the Urbanism Next researchers will discuss the research they conducted to help the cities navigate new mobility and emerging technologies. Researchers will...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: Bicycling Toward Equity: Opportunities, Barriers, and Policies for Vulnerable Groups
Friday, January 17, 2020, 11:30am to 12:30pm PSTFriday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us in person at 11:30 AM, or you can also watch online.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
- View Jennifer Dill's presentation slides (Women of Color on Two Wheels)
- View John MacArthur's presentation slides (Adaptive Bikeshare)
- Watch the video
THE TOPIC
This seminar will include two papers that will be presented earlier in the week at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, DC.
Adaptive Bikeshare: Expanding Bikeshare to People with Disabilities and Older Adults
Bike share systems are expanding efforts to be more equitable and accessible...
Read moreNITC Reception at TRB 2020
Monday, January 13, 2020, 8:00pm to 10:30pm PST8:00 PM – 10:30 PM EST
The National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) invites you to join us for our annual reception at the 99th Annual TRB Meeting for a night of networking, fun, and bingo made especially for you transportation wonks.
And once again, we've bought out the whole bar (Fadó Irish Pub)! We had over 300 folks join us last year, and we're looking forward to it again.
We'll be running networking bingo (transportation style*), and handing out big and small prizes - provided by our research consortium of six NITC universities (Portland State University, University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah, University of Arizona and University...
Read moreInfo Session on the Summer Study Abroad Program: Sustainable Transportation in the Netherlands
Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm PSTPRESENTATION ARCHIVE
Watch the recording of this info session
INFO SESSION ON JAN 8th FOR THE TWO-WEEK STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM
This summer we're hosting two study abroad programs in the Netherlands. Our two-week program focuses on university students, and our one-week program is geared towards professionals in their career.
Join us for our first information session (in person only) on the two-week student study abroad program to learn more about the day-to-day activities and tours in the Netherlands. After a twenty-minute presentation from the program instructor John MacArthur, there will be plenty of time to ask any questions you have about the program, application process, and travel plans. Applications are now open!
OVERVIEW OF THE TWO-WEEK STUDENT STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM (JUNE 21 - JULY 4, 2020)
Hosted by TREC, this four-credit PSU study abroad program (CE 495 / 595) presents an introduction to sustainable...
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