Portland State University

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...

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

• Video
• Slides
• PDH Certificate

OVERVIEW

Planners and decision makers have increasingly voiced a need for network-wide estimates of bicycling activity. Such volume estimates have for decades informed motorized planning and analysis but have only recently become feasible for non-motorized travel modes.

Recently, new sources of bicycling activity data have emerged such as Strava, Streetlight, and GPS-enabled bike share systems. These emerging data sources have potential advantages as a complement to traditional count data, and have even been proposed as replacements for such data, since they are collected continuously and for larger portions of local bicycle networks. However, the representativeness of these new data sources has been questioned, and their suitability for producing bicycle volume estimates has yet to...

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
• PDH Certificate
• TREC Twitter thread

THE TOPIC 

In late 2013, cultural anthropologist Lugo launched an email list called the Bike Equity Network (BEN). The purpose of the list was to create a space for connection among bike advocates who brought racial and social justice into their mobility work. The email list was a community for the advocates who went on to create the "1.0 Principles of Mobility Justice" as The Untokening, and it continues to expand today. Lugo will share stories from the BEN that define bike equity, mobility justice, and, ultimately, how to open the sustainable transportation and mobility field to more voices and experiences.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Overview...

THE TOPIC

Informal public transport services – services provided without official sanction – can often be difficult to rationalize from a public policy perspective. While these systems provide benefits including on-demand mobility for the transit-dependent, jobs for low-skilled workers, and service coverage in areas devoid of formal transit supply, they also have costs, such as increased traffic congestion, air and noise pollution, and traffic accidents. In this presentation, Prof. Aaron Golub will discuss the range of informal sector experiences worldwide and the costs and benefits of the sector in general. Through the cases of Mexico City, Hong Kong, and Rio de Janeiro, he will explore different policy approaches to regulating them.

If you are interested in this topic, join the meeting at noon. All are welcome!

SPEAKER

Aaron Golub, Associate Professor and Director of the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University

Dr. Golub is an associate professor and director of the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. His work focuses on the social equity impacts of...