Portland State University

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

• Video
• PDH Certificate

OVERVIEW

Transportation systems play a critical role in maintaining supply chains for effective post-disaster recovery. Modeling the potential economic impact of transportation-related disruptions, therefore, is an important step to promoting pre-event communitywide recovery and resilience planning. But existing supply chain and economic impact models are cost prohibitive and overly sophisticated for use by public sector entities with limited resources. There is also limited understanding of how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adjust to post-disaster transportation disruption and how this experience influences their future preparedness for similar events. Since SMEs make up a majority of businesses within the US, post-disaster transportation loss can significantly affect the local economy and the recovery trajectory for the entire community.

This project has two objectives:

1. To develop a collaborative university-community partnership framework for analyzing the economic impact due to transportation disruptions in earthquake country
2. To examine SME preparedness to such managing such disruptions...

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

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

• Media coverage of this seminar:
  • How To Save the Lives of Unhoused Pedestrians (Streetsblog USA, June 13, 2022)
  • PSU planning students share ‘promising practices’ to reduce crashes near homeless camps (Bike Portland, June 7, 2022)
• View the final report: "Safety Interventions for Houseless Pedestrians" (PDF). 
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Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online at 11:30 AM. All presentations are recorded and shared on the event page afterwards.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

• Video
• Slides
• PDH Certificate
• TREC Twitter thread
• Downtown Portland Car Master Plan (PDF)

THE TOPIC 

In 2022, cars are ubiquitous and completely embedded into America’s economy and social fabric. American cities don’t make car plans, but all transportation plans – whether they are for people who walk, bike, take transit, run freight or delivery businesses – are all written in response to cars. Transportation planning is all...

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

• Video
• Slides
• PDH Certificate

OVERVIEW

With findings from a mixed methods research study, this interdisciplinary webinar will present results from a historical public document analysis, a GIS spatial analyses, client surveys and interviews, and interviews with professionals and service providers. In 2019, the delivery of homeless sheltering services in Salt Lake County transitioned from a centralized emergency shelter to a scattered site model with multiple resource center locations, operated by multiple service providers. To understand the degree to which “proximity” to public transportation and other needed services was achieved, this study examined:

1. how the decentralization of homeless services influenced transportation demand and mobility patterns for persons experiencing homelessness; and
2. how transportation and mobility changes affected access to services.

Findings reveal that while the region’s homelessness services system changed, the...