Ann Niles Active Transportation Luncheon 2019: "The Pedestrian Safety Crisis in America" featuring Angie Schmitt
Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT
SAVE THE DATE! Every year the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State brings a world-class speaker to speak on active transportation - with the support of the Ann Niles endowment. This year Angie Schmitt of Streetsblog will deliver the lecture at a luncheon on October 15, 2019. Save the date, registration opens in September!
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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- Watch the recorded video
- View the presentation slides (PDF)
- Check out photos from the event
- Read the great recap from Jonathan Maus at BikePortland.org
THE SPEAKER
Angie Schmitt is the editor of Streetsblog USA. Streetsblog is a daily news site that connects people to information about how to reduce dependence on cars and improve conditions for walking, biking, and transit. Since 2006, their reporters have broken important stories about efforts to prevent...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: The Safe System Approach: Considerations for Developing a Multi-Layered System
Friday, October 11, 2019, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDT
Friday 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
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THE TOPIC
While the overarching objective of the transportation system is to provide mobility, it should be developed and operated under the framework of a safe system with the aspirational goal to establish a system on which no road user can be severely or fatally injured. To accomplish such a safe system, it is necessary to effectively harness all the core protective opportunities provided by the system. This includes the street design and operations, user behavior, vehicle design, protection systems, and EMS. The common thread across these layers is speed. This is directly driven by the quadratic relationship between velocity and kinetic energy, and the necessity to...
Read moreWebinar: Contextual Guidance at Intersections for Protected Bicycle Lanes
Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 10:00am to 11:00am PDT
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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OVERVIEW
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 they do not feel comfortable riding with motor vehicle traffic. Planners and engineers are working to identify contextually appropriate, safe, and comfortable designs for intersection locations, where bicyclist paths cross the paths of turning vehicles as well as cross-traffic. This research employed a combination of user surveys and simulations to anticipate expected bicyclist and turning vehicle interactions and bicyclist comfort based on design type and volumes. Findings examine which types of intersection designs, ranging from protected intersection and bike signals to mixing zones, are most comfortable for a range of cyclists, while taking into account expected motor vehicle traffic. This project will provide valuable information to cities as they seek to include comfort-based factors into design selection...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: Transforming an Urban 'Burb: Transportation Innovations in Vancouver, Washington
Friday, October 4, 2019, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDT
Friday 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.
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THE TOPIC
From Complete Streets policy implementation to stronger community engagement, bus rapid transit expansion to waterfront redevelopment—and so much more!—Vancouver, Washington, is on the move. Directly across the river from Portland, Oregon, the City of Vancouver serves as the southern gateway to Washington State; the City encompasses over 50 square miles, and, with a population of nearly 185,000, Vancouver is the fourth largest city in Washington (behind Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma and just ahead of Bellevue).
As Vancouver embarks on an update to the 15-...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): Our Young People and the Gateway to Opportunity
Friday, September 27, 2019, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDT
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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THE TOPIC (PBOT EDITION)
The Community Cycling Center has been working with youth through the "Big Jump: Gateway to Opportunity" project. We'll be discussing our exploratory educational model and the ways the project can increase accessibility and opportunity for the youth living and learning in the Gateway neighborhoods.
KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS
- How exploration can drive learning and retention
- The current conditions and barriers youth face when using active transportation in the neighborhood
- What existing infrastructure exists
- How the Gateway to Opportunity can connect the existing infrastructure and improve access for our young people
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...Transportation & Communities Summit 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 8:00am PDT to Friday, September 20, 2019, 5:00pm PDT
See archived materials from this Summit, held in September 2019.
Join us at the 11th annual Transportation and Communities Summit 2019 (see full schedule)! This annual event at Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon connects national mobility-focused research to local practice through breakout panel presentations, PechaKucha, posters, and networking between academics and practitioners.
The conference will center around three themes: Intersection of Transportation and Housing / Land Use; New Mobility in Active Transportation; and Multimodal Data: Collecting, Processing, Analyzing, and Using.
This year we’re excited to welcome our keynote Ben Wellington—a data scientist and policy analyst from New York, NY. The founder of I Quant NY, his data analysis has influenced local government policy including changes in NYC street infrastructure, the way New Yorkers pay for cabs and the design of NYC subway vending machines, and his talk on urban data was featured on TEDTalks. He...
Read moreWebinar: Social Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks
Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm PDT
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OVERVIEW
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 primary purpose of getting feedback from transit agencies on the tool's usefulness. We are especially interested in hearing about any improvements that would aid transit agencies in implementing it.
The STAT toolbox was created in an effort to integrate social media and general transit feed specification (GTFS) data for transit agencies, to aid in evaluating and enhancing the performance of public transit systems. The toolbox enables the integration, analysis, and visualization of two major new open transportation data sources—social media and GTFS data—to support transit decision making. In this webinar, we will introduce how we...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: The Datafication of Cycling – Effects and Opportunities at the Intersection of Industry and Transport Policy
Friday, August 16, 2019, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDT
Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. With the start of 2019, we're changing it up a bit! The seminar will be delivered 11:30 am (sharp) - 12:30 pm, with additional discussion over coffee and donuts afterwards. You can also watch online.
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THE TOPIC
This seminar will provide a brief overview to Shaun Williams’ "Datafication of Cycling" PhD project. The main aim is to understand how volunteered app data, provided by cyclists, are used to inform transportation planning practice and policy.
There is an emerging body of academic work calling for digital aspects of cycling – such as...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): Enhanced Transit Corridors in Portland's Central City
Friday, July 26, 2019, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDT
Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. With the start of 2019, we're changing it up a bit! The seminar will be delivered 11:30 am (sharp) - 12:30 pm, with additional discussion over coffee and donuts afterwards. 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
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... Read moreWebinar: Aging in Place: Improving Mobility for Older Adults
Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 10:00am to 11:00am PDT
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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OVERVIEW
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 services in one’s neighborhood and society. In order to facilitate aging in place, organizations in Salt Lake County, Utah and the City of Portland, Oregon, provided home modifications to income-qualified older adults that intended to enable aging in place. Such modifications alter individuals’ life-space mobility – a concept recently used by gerontologists and that we introduced to planners – from within one’s home to the broader community. A unique methodological approach taken by researchers merged several existing data collection instruments with additional interview questions of residents who recently received home modifications.
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Attendees will better understand the concepts of life space mobility and aging in place as it pertains to home modifications.
- Attendees...