Webinar: Eliminating Cash Options for Public Transit Fares: Costs, Benefits and Equity Impacts
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am PDTPRESENTATION ARCHIVE
OVERVIEW
Many transit agencies plan to automate their fare collection and limit the use of cash, with the goals of improving boarding and data collection while lowering operating costs. Yet about 10% of adults in the United States lack a bank account or credit card, and many either rely on restrictive cell-phone data plans or don’t have access to internet or a smartphone.
This webinar will present part of a larger research project exploring these issues in the cities of Denver, Colorado, and Eugene and Portland–Gresham, Oregon. In this part, we explore the tradeoffs between reducing cash acceptance, ridership and the costs of fare collection systems. How much does it save to reduce cash acceptance, verses ridership and equity impacts?
We will also present a cost-effectiveness framework that combines a qualitative and quantitative analysis and use this model to explore case scenarios in our three cities. The model shows that adding a retail network to...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: Transportation and Gentrification: Impacts on Low-income Black Households in Portland
Friday, May 7, 2021, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDTWe are committed to making decisions that promote the success and well-being of our campus community. Until further notice, all live events hosted by TREC will be online only.
Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online at 11:30 AM.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
THE TOPIC
Portland’s Black population has been heavily impacted by gentrification in the historic Albina community. Nearly half of Portland’s Black population lives in the area east of 82nd Ave, known as East Portland. This has...
Read morePartner Event: 2021 Oregon Active Transportation Summit
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 8:00am PDT to Friday, April 30, 2021, 5:00pm PDTOn the tenth anniversary of The Street Trusts's Oregon Active Transportation Summit, the virtual event will consist of diverse virtual workshops, panels, round table discussions, mobile workshops, professional training, and a keynote address from the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Ronnie Matthew Harris with a special introduction from Portland's Transportation Commissioner, Jo Ann Hardesty.
In partnership with the Street Trust, TREC is offering professional development credits for this event through the American Planning Association (APA). Head over to the Street Trust's event page to register for the event, and to claim your AICP credits, see the event on the APA website. For those who self-record their professional development hours, we offer fillable PDF certificates.
The Street Trust is a non-profit membership organization working to promote and improve public transit, walking, and bicycling conditions in Oregon. Since 1990, The Street Trust has worked in partnership with...
Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: Oregon Walks Pedestrian Crash Report: Causes, Effects, and Recommendations
Friday, April 23, 2021, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDTWe are committed to making decisions that promote the success and well-being of our campus community. Until further notice, all live events hosted by TREC will be online only.
Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online at 11:30 AM.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
THE TOPIC
Perhaps you’ve seen a public meeting about pedestrian safety (or infrastructure projects) deteriorate into speculation about texting pedestrians or drunk drivers. What do the data say?
... Read moreFriday Transportation Seminar: Evaluation of a Transportation Incentive Program for Affordable Housing Residents
Friday, April 16, 2021, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDTWe are committed to making decisions that promote the success and well-being of our campus community. Until further notice, all live events hosted by TREC will be online only. Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online at 11:30 AM.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
THE TOPIC
This seminar presents the results from the Transportation Wallet for Residents of Affordable Housing (TWRAH) pilot program launched by the City of Portland’s Bureau of...
Read moreOregon Students in Transportation: The Career Connection
Friday, April 9, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm PDTWe invite all current and incoming university students studying transportation in Oregon (all disciplines!) to meet with some of the local professional organizations of Oregon that offer networking, professional development opportunities, scholarships, mentoring programs and more! Learn how you can start connecting with career professionals now to prepare for what comes after university. We'll begin with a brief introduction from each organization, and then we'll head to breakout rooms where students can hop around and talk with different representatives from each of the professional organizations:
- WTS Portland (Women in Transportation Seminar)
- YPT Portland (Young Professionals in Transportation)
- Oregon ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers)
- Oregon APA (American Planning Association)
This event is co-hosted by the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University and WTS Portland.
The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University 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...
Read moreWebinar: Rethinking Streets During COVID
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am PDTPRESENTATION ARCHIVE
OVERVIEW
Re-allocating space on streets to accommodate new uses – particularly for walking, biking, and being – is not new. However, COVID-era needs have accelerated the process that many communities use to make such street transitions. Many communities quickly understood that the street is actually a public place and a public good that serves broader public needs more urgent than the free flow or the storage of private vehicles. This seminar describes a new case study book that captures some of these quick changes to city streets in response to societal needs during COVID, with two open questions:
- what changes will endure post-COVID?; and
- will communities be more open to street reconfigurations, including quick and inexpensive trials, going forward?
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
- To understand the range of street reconfigurations different cities have undertaken during COVID;
- To reflect on why the changes happened, happened quickly, and what that means for future local decisions about streets;
- To think through...
Friday Transportation Seminar: Racial Bias in Driver Yielding Behavior at Crosswalks
Friday, April 2, 2021, 11:30am to 12:30pm PDTWe are committed to making decisions that promote the success and well-being of our campus community. Until further notice, all live events hosted by TREC will be online only.
Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online at 11:30 AM.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
THE TOPIC
This seminar discusses how pedestrian race and gender can influence drivers’ behavior in interactions with pedestrians at...
Read moreWebinar: Transit Impacts on Jobs, People and Real Estate
Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 10:00am to 11:00am PDTPRESENTATION ARCHIVE
OVERVIEW
This webinar has six elements:
- Introducing themes related to how transit should affect the location of jobs and people, and how real estate should respond;
- Creating a research typology of different landscapes served by transit that is also useful in transit planning;
- Analyzing how transit stations influence shifts in the regional share of jobs, people and housing;
- Investigating how transit station proximity influences mode choice and household transportation budgets;
- Estimating the effect of transit station proximity on real estate rents by type of transit system and type of real estate, and the extent to which outcomes are consistent with theory; and
- Identifying opportunities for transit station planning to unlock the potential to leverage economic benefits of transit to advance social well-being.
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
- How transit influences the location of jobs by major land use group to aid in economic development planning.
- How transit influences the relocation of people and households in ways that will surprise planners, and...
Friday Transportation Seminar: Forging Equity in Cities: Using Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD) as a Blueprint for Policy and Practice
Friday, March 5, 2021, 11:30am to 12:30pm PSTWe are committed to making decisions that promote the success and well-being of our campus community. Until further notice, all live events hosted by TREC will be online only.
Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online at 11:30 AM.
PRESENTATION ARCHIVE
- Watch the video
- View the presentation slides
- Dig deeper into the work of Elevated Chicago and read stories from their communities
- ETOD policy plan
- Community Engagement Principles & Recommendations