Transportation Webinars

One of the ways in which we seek to inform transportation decision making is through the education of current and future transportation professionals. To that end, we host one or more webinars per month, covering a wide range of research topics that advance mobility for people and goods

These webinars are supported by a variety of grants and partners, primarily funded by our National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) - one of seven national University Transportation Centers (UTC) of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

All of our webinars are provided to the public for free, and recorded and archived on our site for anyone to access. To get notifications of upcoming seminars and webinars, sign up for our monthly newsletter here.

Upcoming Transportation Seminars

TOPIC DATE SPEAKERS
Ann Niles Active Transportation Lecture featuring Tamika Butler Tamika Butler, Executive Director, Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
Friday Transportation Seminar: California's Paradigm Shift from LOS to VMT as a Transportation Impact Metric: Policies, Politics, and Possibilities Robert Liberty, Director, Institute for Sustainable Solutions at PSU -AND- Lynn Peterson, Transportation Consultant
Friday Transportation Seminar: New Probe Data Sources to Measure Cycling Behavior and Safety Chris Cherry, University of Tennessee
Friday Transportation Seminar: Exploring Bicycle Accessibility and Equity in Portland, Oregon Jenny Liu, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Student Presentations from TRB, Week 1 Portland State University Students
Friday Transportation Seminar: Student Presentations from TRB, Week 2 Portland State University Students
Friday Transportation Seminar: Student Presentations from TRB, Week 3 Portland State University Students
Friday Transportation Seminar: Urban Transportation Planning and TOD Research in Japan Fumihiko Nakamura, Yokohama National University, Japan
Friday Transportation Seminar: Road Diet V2.0 - Road Diet with Roundabouts Michael Williams, Michael Williams Company
Friday Transportation Seminar: Bicycles & Business Success - A San Francisco Examination Joseph Poirier, Nelson\Nygaard
Friday Transportation Seminar: Citizen Advocacy for Safe Streets in Bremen, Germany Anne Kirkham, University of Bremen
Webinar: BikePed Portal - National Bicycle and Pedestrian Count Archive Hau Hagedorn, TREC; Sirisha Kothuri, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Transit Demand Analysis and User Classification Using Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) Data Alireza Khani, University of Minnesota
Friday Transportation Seminar: Insights on Walkability and Walking in Lisbon with the IAAPE Method Filipe Moura, Instituto Superior Técnico
Friday Transportation Seminar: Transportation Impacts of Affordable Housing: Informing Development Review with Travel Behavior Analysis Amanda Howell, University of Oregon
Friday Transportation Seminar: How Sustainable Are Drone (UAV) Deliveries? Miguel Figliozzi, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: FHWA Guidebook for Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity Joe Broach, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Intersection: Orientation and Mobility as Interdisciplinary Conversation Amy Parker, Portland State University; Prateek Dujari, Intel
Friday Transportation Seminar: Analysis of the Contribution of Transportation and Land Use to Citizen Perceptions of Livability Rebecca Lewis, University of Oregon
Friday Transportation Seminar: Impacting Health and Racial Equity through Gresham’s Active Transportation Plan Jay Higgins, City of Gresham; Mike Sellinger, Alta Planning + Design; Becky Bodonyi, Multnomah County Health Department
Friday Transportation Seminar: Utrecht, Bike Capital of the World Martijn Rietbergen, Utrecht University
Friday Transportation Seminar: A Survey of Ride-Hailing Passengers Steven Gehrke, Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Friday Transportation Seminar (Double Feature): Bike Share and Transit Integration & Utilitarian Skateboarding David Soto Padín and Michael Harpool, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: The Future of Transit Fare Payments Adam McGavock, Moovel North America, LLC
Utrecht Mobility Hubs: TREC and YPT Summer Seminar Lucas van der Linde, Gouddapel Cofeng
Friday Transportation Seminar: Barriers to “New Mobility”: A Community-Informed Approach to Smart Cities Technology Aaron Golub, Portland State University; Vivian Satterfield, Verde
Friday Transportation Seminar: Unobserved Heterogeneity and Spatial Correlation: Statistical and Econometric Analyses of Heavy-Vehicle Hard Braking and Crash Frequency Jason Anderson, Oregon State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Transportation Behavior Change...Now With SCIENCE! Jessica Roberts, Alta Planning + Design
Friday Transportation Seminar: Cycling Research and Practice in Australia: Insights from a Hybrid Approach Marilyn Johnson, Monash University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Driver Comprehension of Permissive Right-Turns with a Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA) Chris Monsere Portland State University; David Hurwitz, Oregon State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Is Public Transit's 'Green' Reputation Deserved? Justin Beaudoin, University of Washington Tacoma
Friday Transportation Seminar: Portland’s Transportation Wallet: How Pricing Parking Can Create New Mobility Options Sarah Goforth, Portland Bureau of Transportation
Friday Transportation Seminar: Scenarios for Adoption of Autonomous Vehicle Technologies in Freight Sabya Mishra, University of Memphis
Webinar: Segmenting the Market for Transportation Demand Management Campaigns Philip Winters and Amy Lester, University of South Florida
Friday Transportation Seminar: The Influence of Shared Mobility and Transportation Policies on Vehicle Ownership Edgar Ruas, Portland State University
Webinar: Modeling Freeway Traffic in a Mixed Environment: Connected and Human-Driven Vehicles Xianfeng (Terry) Yang, University of Utah
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): The Portland E-Scooter Experience Briana Orr, Portland Bureau of Transportation; John MacArthur, TREC at Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: The Success of an Integrated Mobility Strategy: Lessons from the Netherlands for the Pacific West Coast Lucas van der Linde, Goudappel Coffeng
Friday Transportation Seminar: Words Matter: Recognizing and Addressing Modal Assumptions to Shift Transportation Culture Barb Chamberlain, Washington Department of Transportation
Webinar: Rethinking Streets for Bikes: An Evidence Based Guide of Bike-Friendly Street Retrofits Marc Schlossberg, University of Oregon; Roger Lindgren, Oregon Tech
Friday Transportation Seminar: Public Transportation and New Mobility Chris Pangilinan, Uber
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): PedPDX: Addressing Equity through Citywide Pedestrian Planning Michelle Marx and Francesca Patricolo, Portland Bureau of Transportation
TREC / Forth Partner Webinar: E-Bikes for Everyone: Electrifying Communities in New Ways John MacArthur, TREC; Sergio Lopez, Forth
Friday Transportation Seminar: Deriving Lane-level Insight from GPS Data: Innovations for Traffic & Autonomous Driving James Fowe, HERE Technologies
Friday Transportation Seminar: An Agent-Based Evacuation Model to Improve Safety in the Cascadia Subduction Zone Haizhong Wang, Oregon State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: That Bike is Too Heavy: Merging Bicycling Physics, Human Physiology and Travel Behavior Alex Bigazzi, University of British Columbia
Friday Transportation Seminar: How AV Could Shape Our Cities - Research from the Netherlands Dr. Gonçalo Correia, TU Delft University
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): Making the Seemingly Impossible Project Real through Local Improvement Districts Andrew H. Aebi, City of Portland
Webinar: Engaging Youth to Choose Car-Free Mobility Autumn Shafer, University of Oregon
Friday Transportation Seminar: Can Ridehailing Deliver Equity? Lessons for New Mobility Planning Anne Brown, University of Oregon
Friday Transportation Seminar: Challenges and Considerations for Travelers Who Have Visual Impairments: What Can You Do to Support Their Independence? L. Penny Rosenblum, Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona
Webinar: Aging in Place: Improving Mobility for Older Adults Alan DeLaTorre, Portland State University; Ivis Garcia Zambrana and Ja Young Kim, University of Utah
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): Enhanced Transit Corridors in Portland's Central City Gabe Graff, Portland Bureau of Transportation; Kelly Betteridge, TriMet
Friday Transportation Seminar: The Datafication of Cycling – Effects and Opportunities at the Intersection of Industry and Transport Policy Shaun Williams, School of Applied Social Science, Brighton University
Webinar: Social Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks Xiaoyue (Cathy) Liu, University of Utah
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): Our Young People and the Gateway to Opportunity Jonnie Ling, Community Cycling Center
Friday Transportation Seminar: Transforming an Urban 'Burb: Transportation Innovations in Vancouver, Washington Anna Dearman, City of Vancouver, Washington
Webinar: Contextual Guidance at Intersections for Protected Bicycle Lanes Chris Monsere and Nathan McNeil, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: The Safe System Approach: Considerations for Developing a Multi-Layered System Offer Grembek, Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC)
Friday Transportation Seminar: Walking Research and Opportunities from the National Cancer Institute David Berrigan, National Institutes of Health
Friday Transportation Seminar: Equity and Congestion Pricing Michael Manville, University of California, Los Angeles
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): Next Steps for Portland’s Neighborhood Greenways Scott Cohen, Portland Bureau of Transportation
Friday Transportation Seminar: PDX Next: Redesigning Portland International Airport Sean Loughran and Mike Coleman, Port of Portland
Friday Transportation Seminar: From Confrontation to Partnership: City Regulation of Micromobility William Henderson, Ride Report
Friday Transportation Seminar: Building Healthy Communities Through Seattle's Growth Policy Dongho Chang, City of Seattle
Friday Transportation Seminar: Exploring the Transportation and Land Use Impacts of E-Commerce Amanda Howell, Project Manager, Urbanism Next, University of Oregon
Friday Transportation Seminar: Bicycling Toward Equity: Opportunities, Barriers, and Policies for Vulnerable Groups Jennifer Dill and John MacArthur, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar (Double Feature): E-Grocery Home Delivery and the Freight & Travel Demands of Multifamily Dwellings Katherine Keeling and Gabby Abou-Zeid, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): The Southwest Corridor Light Rail Project Fiona Cundy, TriMet; Patrick Sweeney, PBOT
Friday Transportation Seminar (APBP Oregon Edition): Bus-Bike Designs for the Division Transit Project Derek Abe, Alta Planning + Design; Jesse Stemmler, TriMet
Friday Transportation Seminar: Moving Toward Equitable Transit-Oriented Developments by Integrating Transit and Housing Hongwei Dong, Cal State, Fresno
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): A No-Crash Course in Vision Zero Data Anamaria Perez, Portland Bureau of Transportation
Friday Transportation Seminar: Creating And Using A Publicly Available Multimodal Transportation Data Archive Tammy Lee and Kristin Tufte, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar (PBOT Edition): Safe Speeds Save Lives: How Portland is Managing Speeds for Safety Matt Kelly, Portland Bureau of Transportation
Friday Transportation Seminar: Biking While Black: How Planning Contributes to Unjust Policing Jesus Barajas, UC Davis
Friday Transportation Seminar: Dignity Infused Community Engagement in Los Angeles Caro Vera, Fehr & Peers; Kevin Ocubillo, LADOT
Friday Transportation Seminar: Tribal Mobility, Accessibility and Social Equity Margo Hill, Eastern Washington University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Case Studies of Travel Demand Analysis on Transport Disadvantaged Communities Tierra Bills, Wayne State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: At the Intersection of Safety + Race + Transportation Charlene McGee, Multnomah County
Friday Transportation Seminar: Curating Equitable Transportation Nikotris Perkins, Oregon DOT
Friday Transportation Seminar: Racial Disparities in Traffic Enforcement Mike Dolan Fliss, UNC-CH Injury Prevention Research Center
Friday Transportation Seminar: Winning the Fight for Better Bus Service Steven Higashide, Author, Better Buses Better Cities
Friday Transportation Seminar: Multnomah County REACH Transportation Crash and Safety Report: At the Intersection of Transportation, Health, Race and Justice Tameka Brazile, Brendon Haggerty and Charlene McGee; Multnomah County
Friday Transportation Seminar: Forging Equity in Cities: Using Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD) as a Blueprint for Policy and Practice Roberto Requejo, Elevated Chicago
Friday Transportation Seminar: Racial Bias in Driver Yielding Behavior at Crosswalks Kimberly Kahn, PSU; Peter Koonce, PBOT; George Stern, Deafblind Citizens in Action
Friday Transportation Seminar: Evaluation of a Transportation Incentive Program for Affordable Housing Residents Roshin Kurian, PBOT; Huijun Tan, Nathan McNeil and John MacArthur, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Oregon Walks Pedestrian Crash Report: Causes, Effects, and Recommendations Ashton Simpson and Scott Kocher, Oregon Walks; Brandon Summers, Forum Law Group
Friday Transportation Seminar: Transportation and Gentrification: Impacts on Low-income Black Households in Portland Steven Howland, Portland State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Turning Streets Into Housing Adam Millard-Ball, UCLA
Friday Transportation Seminar: An Assessment of Bicycle Detection Confirmation and Countdown Devices Chris Monsere and Sirisha Kothuri, PSU; David Hurwitz, OSU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Retention of a Diverse Construction Workforce Maura Kelly, PSU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Transportation Planning in Tribal Communities: From Plan Development to Implementation Cole Grisham, FHWA
Friday Transportation Seminar: Pedestrian Safety and Social Equity in Oregon Josh Roll, ODOT; Nathan McNeil, PSU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Economic Impacts of Street Improvements: Findings from the Portland Metro Area Jennifer Dill and Jenny Liu, PSU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Vehicular Design and Resource Allocation Policies for Equitable Road Safety Alyssa Ryan, University of Arizona
Friday Transportation Seminar: The Urban Freight System and Its Supporting Infrastructure Gabriela Girón-Valderrama, PBOT
Friday Transportation Seminar: A New Approach to Transportation Pricing: Lessons from the POEM Project Shoshana Cohen and Emma Sagor, PBOT
Transportation Data Webinar: Current Landscape of Probe Data and a Look into Vendors Providing Access Scott Lee and Mark Skaggs, IDAX
Friday Transportation Seminar: PSU Student Research from the TRB 2022 Annual Meeting Darshan Chauhan and Sangwan Lee, PSU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Reckoning with Induced Vehicle Travel Jamey Volker, UC Davis
Friday Transportation Seminar: Systemic Opportunities to Improve Older Pedestrian Safety Jason Anderson and Sirisha Kothuri, PSU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Stories from the Bike Equity Network Adonia Lugo, Antioch University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Addressing Gendered Harassment and Women's Travel Needs Madeline Brozen, UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Webinar: Exploring Data Fusion Techniques to Derive Bicycle Volumes on a Network Sirisha Kothuri and Joe Broach, PSU; Kate Hyun, UTA
Friday Transportation Seminar: Using E-Bike Incentive Programs to Expand the Market – Trends and Best Practices John MacArthur and Cameron Bennett, PSU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Why Your City Needs a Car Master Plan Cathy Tuttle, Urban Design & Planning Consultant
Friday Transportation Seminar: Prioritizing Transit in Portland: Checking in on the Rose Lanes Project Nathan McNeil, PSU; Jamie Jeffrey and April Bertelsen, PBOT; Jamie Snook, TriMet
Friday Transportation Seminar: Safety Interventions for Houseless Pedestrians Street Perspective (PSU MURPs): Peter Domine, Nick Meusch, Asif Haque, Angie Martinez, Sean Doyle, and Meisha Whyte
Webinar: Scooting to Healthy and Safe Mode Choices Kristi Currans and Nicole Iroz-Elardo, UA; John MacArthur, PSU
Webinar: Assessing Economic Impact of Disaster-Induced Transportation Disruptions Using a University-Community Partnership Framework Divya Chandrasekhar, University of Utah
Friday Transportation Seminar: Rideshare Practices in Developing Countries vs Developed Countries Francis Wambalaba, USIU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Impacts of City-Level Parking Cash-Out and Commuter Benefits Ordinances Gabby Abou-Zeid, ICF; Allen Greenberg, FHWA
Friday Transportation Seminar: Port of Portland’s Marine Terminal 6 Contribution to Regional Economic Development Lewison Lem, Port of Portland
Friday Transportation Seminar: Speed Management and Speed Reduction in Portland, OR Jason Anderson, PSU; Clay Veka, PBOT
Friday Transportation Seminar: Bringing Complete Streets to Reality in State Transportation Projects Celeste Gilman, WSDOT
Friday Transportation Seminar: How COVID-19 Changed Our Cities: Evidence from a Multi-Wave National Survey Deborah Salon, Arizona State University
Friday Transportation Seminar: Freight Moves the Oregon Economy Becky Knudson, ODOT
Friday Transportation Seminar: System-level Risk Management of Transportation Structures and Networks David Yang, PSU
Friday Transportation Seminar: Moving From Probabilistic to Time-Based On-Time Performance Miles Crumley, TriMet
Friday Transportation Seminar: The Next Wave of Abolishing Parking Mandates Catie Gould and Jeannette Lee, Sightline Institute
PSU Transportation Seminar: Transportation Safety Culture: Where we are and what it means Tara Goddard, Texas A&M
Webinar: Improving Recreational Trail Accessibility with a Volcanic Ash Treatment Charles (C.J.) Riley and Ashton Greer, Oregon Institute of Technology
PSU Transportation Seminar: The Use And Influence Of Health Indicators In Municipal Transportation Plans​​ Kelly Rodgers, Portland State University
PSU Transportation Seminar: Explore Regional Variation in the Effects of Built Environment on Driving with High Resolution U.S. Nationwide Data Liming Wang, Portland State University
PSU Transportation Seminar: Celebrating 20 years of PORTAL Basem Elazzabi and Tammy Lee, Portland State University
PSU Transportation Seminar: Confessions of a Traffic Engineer: How the MUTCD Impacts Everything Peter Koonce, Portland Bureau of Transportation
PSU Transportation Seminar: Geotechnical Reconnaissance Following the 2023 Türkiye/Syria Earthquake Diane Moug, Portland State University
PSU Transportation Seminar: Transportation Planning in an Aging Society Shengxiao (Alex) Li, University of Oregon
PSU Transportation Seminar: TriMet & TOD – Opportunities for Growth Fiona Lyon and Miles Anderson, Trimet
PSU Transportation Seminar: The Green New Deal and Transit Investment Eric Bruun, Author of "Sustainable Infrastructure Investment"
PSU Transportation Seminar: Incorporating Equity into Planning for Operations and Transportation System Management Caleb Winter, Metro; Pamela Vasudeva, WSDOT
PSU Transportation Seminar: Active Transportation Counts From Existing On-Street Signal And Detection Infrastructure Sirisha Kothuri, Portland State University
PSU Transportation Seminar: Oregon Transportation Plan: Innovations in the Exploratory Scenario Planning Approach Adam Argo, ODOT; Jonathan Slason, RSG Inc
PSU Transportation Seminar: Driving the Future: Intersection of Emerging Transportation Technologies and Energy Consumption Tanmoy Bhowmik, Portland State University
PSU Transportation Seminar: Transforming Commercial Arterials into Bicycle Highways: Using Count Data Nicholas Smith, Eco-Counter
Webinar: Marginalized Populations’ Access to Transit Marisa Zapata, Portland State University
PSU Transportation Seminar: Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking About Transportation Susan Handy, UC Davis
PSU Transportation Seminar: Forest Service Engineering, Lessons and Opportunities Joe Totten, USDA Forest Service
PSU Transportation Seminar: Oregon in Motion: Shaping Communities Through State Transportation Legislation Cassie Wilson, 1000 Friends of Oregon
PSU Transportation Seminar: Streets are for People! Livable Streets 2.0 and Five Decades of the Conflict, Power and Promise of our Streets Bruce Appleyard, San Diego State University
PSU Transportation Seminar: Transportation Decarbonization: A State Perspective Tara Weidner, Oregon DOT
PSU Transportation Seminar: The Impacts of a Multimodal Safety Project on North Lombard Street in Portland, Oregon Jason Anderson, PSU
PSU Transportation Seminar: GHG Inventory from Building Washington State Department of Transportation Roadways Milad Ashtiani, University of Washington
PSU Transportation Seminar: Bike Buses: An Evaluation of An Emerging Active Transportation to School Intervention Evan Howington, John MacArthur and Nathan McNeil; PSU
PSU Transportation Seminar: Let Knowledge Serve the City! A Decade of Better Block PSU Projects Ryan Hashagen, Better Block PDX
PSU Transportation Seminar: Fast-Tracking Transit: Unveiling Portland's First Bus Rapid Transit Line and Signal Optimization Strategies Mark Haines, PBOT; Jesse Stemmler, TriMet
PSU Transportation Seminar: Addressing Transportation Emissions through State Climate and Energy Policy Amy Schlusser, Oregon DOE
PSU Transportation Seminar: EV Charging at Multifamily Properties: Moving Beyond Barriers Whit Jamieson, Anna Guida, and Connor Herman; Forth Mobility
PSU Transportation Seminar: Piloting a Zero-Emission Delivery Zone in Downtown Portland Art Pearce, Sarah Pullman & Jacob Sherman, PBOT
PSU Transportation Seminar: Preventing Carbon Emissions With Imaging-Based Civil Infrastructure Assessment And Evaluation Thomas Schumacher, PSU
PSU Transportation Seminar: Active Transportation Data Fusion: Incorporating Big Data to Estimate Volumes Joe Broach, Sirisha Kothuri, and Nathan McNeil; PSU
PSU Transportation Seminar: Walk Portland: A Downtown Pedestrian Wayfinding Strategy And Pilot Gena Gastaldi, PBOT; Gwen Sullivan and Ryan Sullivan, sparks+sullivan