Mobility Matters Breakfast
Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 9:00am to 10:00am PDT
Are you unable to join the Mobility Matters Summit? Join us for coffee and a light breakfast with the below guest speakers to hear how their transportation technology innovations are advancing travel, accessibility and wayfinding for all.
- John Lannutti, Ohio State University will share his smart paint technology that detects crossings with a cane for people with vision impairments.
- Eric Sinagra, PathVu, created an application to detect sidewalk roughness. The app collects data and then can create a shared map for display and analysis.
- Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon, created an intersection phone-based app for safe crossing (ability to integrate with adaptive traffic signal control) for users who need additional time to cross the intersection.
- Robert Wall Emerson, Western Michigan University, professor in the Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies and certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist.
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Mobility Matters 2019
Monday, March 11, 2019, 8:00am to 5:00pm PDT
Event Overview
Portland State University's College of Education and the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) are excited to reprise this 2nd annual interdisciplinary event in 2019. We invite disability specialists, urban planners, engineers, transportation professionals, students, and community members to discuss the nexus between design, innovation, technology, and access. Conference themes will examine technological innovations that improve accessibility and wayfinding; smart cities; interdisciplinary approaches for intersections; unequal access to safe roads for those with disabilities who are persons of color; and opportunities for regional coordination across adjacent metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on Cascadia.
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Schedule of the Day
This an overview of the day, see the full program and speaker profiles here. We are submitting these sessions for continuing education credit consideration with both ACVREP and AICP.
- 8:00 AM - Breakfast and Networking ...
GIS Online Story Mapping: One-Day Workshop for High School Girls
Saturday, March 9, 2019, 10:00am to 4:00pm PST
This annual event is hosted at Portland State University by event partners Transportation Research and Education Center at PSU and ChickTech
OVERVIEW
Mapping and spatial analysis has been evolving as an important field of study for centuries. In contemporary times, we refer to it as “GIS”, which stands for Geographic Information Science. Join us at this one-day workshop for high school girls to become familiar with creating and interpreting maps and doing spatial analysis, by working with vehicle crash data from the City of Portland.
The workshop, held in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) lab of PSU’s Engineering Building, consists of a morning instruction session and an afternoon applied activity using your newfound GIS skills. Students will be introduced to the basic elements of ArcGIS — including importing data, exploring spatial databases, and visualizing data in different ways through map design. Students will get to make their own interactive web maps using data from their city and neighborhoods.
The day also includes a walking tour of the Portland State University campus to get a real world look at how the transportation issues we learn about in class play out on the ground. By the end of the day you will have a working understanding of GIS and mapping and new ideas for how...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: Public Transportation and New Mobility
Friday, March 8, 2019, 11:30am to 1:00pm PST
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 (protect the planet—bring a mug!) from 12:30 to 1:00 pm. You can also watch online.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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THE TOPIC
New mobility options such as bike share, scooters, and transportation network companies (e.g. Uber) are proliferating across the United States and beyond. Early research has shown that while the private automobile continues to be the main competition for transit, new mobility options may also be siphoning off some riders. In this seminar, we will explore what the role of public transportation should be in this era of rapidly expanding private transportation...
Read moreWebinar: Rethinking Streets for Bikes: An Evidence Based Guide of Bike-Friendly Street Retrofits
Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 10:00am to 11:00am PST
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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OVERVIEW
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 for users and non-users alike, uses precious urbanized public and private land more efficiently, costs taxpayers less to build and maintain infrastructure, and when routes are safe and comfortable, moving by bike is also fun! Complete Streets policies are being adopted across the country, and there is an active conversation around the safety imperative of a Complete Streets approach. Yet, local officials often need both design guidance and the confidence on how to retrofit streets for people on bikes that will actually work.
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Friday, February 22, 2019, 11:30am to 1:00pm PST
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 (protect the planet—bring a mug!) from 12:30 to 1:00 pm. You can also watch online.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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THE TOPIC
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 responsible. When we directly examine and discuss the language we use, we acknowledge its power both to reflect existing attitudes and to shape developing attitudes. This presentation will uncover embedded biases or assumptions in common...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: The Success of an Integrated Mobility Strategy: Lessons from the Netherlands for the Pacific West Coast
Friday, February 15, 2019, 11:30am to 1:00pm PST
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 (protect the planet—bring a mug!) from 12:30 to 1:00 pm. You can also watch online.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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LEARN MORE: STUDY IN THE NETHERLANDS
- Professional Study Abroad in the Netherlands, June 23–30, 2019
- Student Study Abroad in the Netherlands, June 23–July 6, 2019
THE TOPIC
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Read moreTRB Aftershock! PSU Student Transportation Research + Social
Thursday, February 7, 2019, 5:30pm to 7:30pm PST
Join us for our annual tradition: TRB Aftershock! Portland State University students will presenting posters on the transportation research they brought to the TRB Annual Meeting this past 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 Reseach and Education Center (TREC)
Don't miss this exciting once-a-year event! Light refreshments and a cash bar 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 (PBOT Edition): The Portland E-Scooter Experience
Friday, February 1, 2019, 11:30am to 1:00pm PST
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 (protect the planet—bring a mug!) from 12:30 to 1:00 pm. You can also watch online.
Periodically, as part of this new format, 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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- Watch the recorded video
- View John MacArthur's presentation slides:...
Webinar: Modeling Freeway Traffic in a Mixed Environment: Connected and Human-Driven Vehicles
Thursday, January 24, 2019, 10:00am to 11:00am PST
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
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OVERVIEW
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 two types of vehicles in traffic flow modeling. In this study, we aim to develop a macroscopic model to understand how CVs would impact HVs in the traffic stream. Grounded on the second-order traffic flow model, we study the relationships among flow, density, and speed by two sets of formulations for the groups of CVs and HVs, respectively. A set of friction factors, which indicate CVs' impact to HVs, are introduced to the speed equation for accounting CV speed impacts. Then extended Kalman Filter is employed to update both model parameters and friction factors in real-time. By using CVs trajectory data as measurements, the difference between CV average speed and overall traffic mean speed will be fully accounted. The proposed model will serve as a basis for designing CV-based traffic control function,...
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