Webinar: Planning and Development in Gateway Communities, Post COVID

Thursday, March 16, 2023, 10:00am to 11:00am PDT

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OVERVIEW

Gateway communities are the small towns outside of national parks, forests, scenic rivers, and ski resorts. This presentation will highlight the housing, transportation, and development challenges that these communities faced in the aftermath of the COVID 19 pandemic. Our study...

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Webinar: Improving Recreational Trail Accessibility with a Volcanic Ash Treatment

Thursday, February 23, 2023, 10:00am to 11:00am PST

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OVERVIEW

Recreational trails serve as valuable transportation corridors and support the health of users. Wheelchair accessibility of recreational trails depends on a variety of conditions, including slope, cross-slope, and surface characteristics. This project focused on improving the firmness and stability of a 0.2-mile section of trail that was otherwise accessible. The existing trail surface consisted of loose ¼” off-specification aggregate on native soil. A volcanic ash-Portland cement binder, studied in prior research, was batched, distributed, mixed, wetted, and compacted on site to improve the firmness and stability of the surface resulting in a smoother surface with less rolling resistance. The webinar will present details of the trail conditions, materials, batching, placement, and surface characteristics before and after treatment.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

Attendees will be able to:

  • Describe and differentiate pozzolanic and cementitious...
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PSU Transportation Seminar: Transportation Safety Culture: Where we are and what it means

Thursday, February 16, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm PST

Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. Formerly known as the Friday Transportation Seminar series, we've opened up PSU Transportation Seminars to other days of the week to better accommodate attendance. You can always watch online via Zoom.

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THE TOPIC 

Like any healthy professional community, the transportation safety community is not homogenous or without constructive conflict. The increased attention on systems thinking – most commonly known, if not necessarily well understood, under the “Vision Zero” approach – has sparked debate among engineers, planners, academics, public health professionals, advocates, and others about where our attention should be focused to reduce the epidemic of traffic violence. The built environment? Drivers? Engineers and planners? Car culture? What IS car...

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PSU Transportation Seminar: Transforming Commercial Arterials into Bicycle Highways: Using Count Data

Thursday, February 9, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm PST

Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. Formerly known as the Friday Transportation Seminar series, we've opened up PSU Transportation Seminars to other days of the week to better accommodate in-person attendance. You can also watch online via Zoom.

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THE TOPIC 

Count data for cyclists and pedestrians is considered an essential tool for city builders to inform, justify and manage active transportation infrastructure. When automated bike counters are strategically deployed across an urban area, a clear picture emerges of how cyclists move around the city. This presentation focuses on how count data can be used to illustrate modal shifts in response to improvements made to a city’s bicycle network.

In November 2020, the City of Montreal introduced the Reseau Express Velo...

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NITC Reception at TRB 2023

Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 6:00pm to 9:00pm PST

6:00–9:00 PM EST

The National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) invites our research partners to join us for our annual reception at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) for a night of networking, fun, and transportation bingo.

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 of Texas at Arlington.

Complimentary appetizers (at limited capacity) will be provided. Cash bar. See you there!

QUESTIONS? Contact us at asktrec@pdx.edu

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TRANSPORTATION BINGO

*You might be wondering, "What does 'transportation style' mean?" It means you'll be charged with finding someone who:...

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Webinar: Individual Wayfinding in the Context of Visual Impairment, Blindness, and Deafblindness

Thursday, December 15, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am PST
 

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OVERVIEW

In this presentation we will highlight our past research on human indoor-outdoor wayfinding on an urban college campus. Our work is aimed at facilitating independent travel for people with blindness and low vision. Our research was funded by two successive grants from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities/US Department of Transportation. One of the central research questions sought to capture wayfinding preferences, information needs, and lived experiences of blind and low-vision pedestrian travelers. The projects afforded close collaboration with external partners, and foremost the American Printing House for the Blind. Our focus in the presentation will be on the...

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Friday Transportation Seminar: The Next Wave of Abolishing Parking Mandates

Friday, December 2, 2022, 11:30am to 12:30pm PST

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online or in-person at 11:30 AM. All presentations are recorded and shared on the event page afterwards.

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RELATED ARTICLES FROM THE PRESENTERS:

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Friday Transportation Seminar: Moving From Probabilistic to Time-Based On-Time Performance

Friday, November 18, 2022, 11:30am to 12:30pm PST

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online or in-person at 11:30 AM. All presentations are recorded and shared on the event page afterwards.

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THE TOPIC 

On-Time Performance (OTP) is a probabilistic measure that tells the customer the likelihood that the trip they are about to take will arrive "on-time." However, this metric forces the customer to think in terms of a probability of trip timeliness and not an actual time value for how timely the trip will be. This presentation will explore a new way to examine on-time performance by quantifying the timeliness of trips. Customers can then use this information to determine which trip would be the best to take based on when they need to arrive at their destination. Using a system science approach, this new...

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Friday Transportation Seminar: System-level Risk Management of Transportation Structures and Networks

Friday, November 4, 2022, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDT

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online or in-person at 11:30 AM. All presentations are recorded and shared on the event page afterwards.

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THE TOPIC 

Conventional risk assessment approaches in infrastructure management do not fully capture the system-level impact of structural failure or service disruption. As a result, the priorities of preservation projects may be misidentified, leading to suboptimal maintenance schedules and waste of resources. In this presentation, we will first illustrate why conventional risk assessment is not suitable for transportation structures and networks due to interdependency between assets, and then demonstrate how system-level preservation policies can be devised using novel algorithms adapted from the field of deep...

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Friday Transportation Seminar: Freight Moves the Oregon Economy

Friday, October 28, 2022, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDT

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online or in-person at 11:30 AM. All presentations are recorded and shared on the event page afterwards.

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THE TOPIC 

This presentation provides a broad overview of work conducted by the Oregon Department of Transportation in the field of freight analysis supporting long range planning. The information shared will touch upon the data and tools used to conduct analysis, describe the importance of economic context, and share examples from a range of different analyses. Content will be geared toward building understanding of how analysis is used to guide data-driven decision making in the public transportation sector. The presentation will highlight the importance of testing potential public policy to avoid unintended...

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