The Friday Transportation Seminar series at Portland State University began in the fall of 2000.
Archived materials are not available for seminars earlier than the Spring term of 2002.
Below are the dates, topics and speakers for the first two years of the Friday Transportation Seminar.
Spring 2002
Apr 5
Alternative Transportation Finance
Rep. Bruce Starr, Oregon House of Representatives
Apr 12
European Tour on Transportation and Land Use
Lynn Peterson, Tri-Met
Apr 19
Portland/Oregon: Need For New Transit Direction
Bob Behnke, Transportation Consultant
Apr 26
Pay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance
Chris Hagerbaumer, Program Director, Oregon Environmental Council
May 3
Accessible Pedestrian Signals
Bill Kloos, City of Portland
May 10
Supply Chain Management: State of the Art
Lee Buddress, Professor, Supply and Logistics Management, School of Business Administration, Portland State University
May 17
Re-visiting the Field of Dreams: Assessing Portland's Transit Oriented Developments
John Charles, Environmental Policy Director, Cascade Policy Institute
May 24
Transportation Demand Management at OHSU
Louis A. Ornelas, P.E., Transportation Planner for OHSU
May 31
Measuring Street Connectivity
Shimon Israel, MURP Candidate, School of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University
Jun 7
Interstate 5 Trade Corridor Report
Metro Councilor Rod Monroe
Winter 2002
Jan 18
Car Sharing in Portland
Dave Brook, General Manager, Flexcar Portland
Jan 25
Transportation Demand Management
Tony Mendoza, Tri-Met
Feb 1
Transportation Research Board 2002 Annual Meeting Discussion
Members of the Transportation Research Group will discuss the TRB Annual Meeting: most compelling issues, best presentations, exciting committee meetings, etc.
Feb 8
Pedestrian and Bicycle Programs at ODOT
Michael Ronkin, Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Manager, Oregon Department of Transportation
Feb 15
Driving the agenda: Assessment of health and environment in Detroit
Stephanie Farquhar, Assistant Professor, School of Community Health, Portland State University
Feb 22
Downtown Parking Studies and Phenomena: A Corvallis Case Study
Beth Wemple, Kittleson and Associates
Mar 1
Oregon's Vehicle Inspection Program
Ted Kotsakis, Program Manager, Vehicle Inspection Program, Oregon DEQ
Mar 8
Modeling at METRO
Keith Lawton, METRO
Mar 15
Past, Present and Future Research Using Tri-Met Bus Dispatch Data
Jim Strathman, Professor, and Thomas Kimpel, Research Associate, Center for Urban Studies, Portland State University
Mar 19
SPECIAL SEMINAR AT 3 PM (Note special time): Some issues in valuing travel time for freight movements: some recent Australian experience
Marcus Wigan, Professor of Transport Systems, Transport Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Fall 2001
Oct 5
GIS Applications in Transportation
Earl Bossard, San Jose State University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Oct 12
An Intelligent Transportation/Decision Support System for Alexandria, Egypt
Ahmed El Geneidy, Ph.D. Student, Portland State University, School of Urban Studies and Planning
Oct 19
Land Use and Women's Travel - Exploring Relationships
Jennifer Dill, Assistant Professor, Portland State University, School of Urban Studies and Planning
Oct 26
Adaptive Traffic Signal Control in Vancouver, Washington
Ali Eghtedari, City of Vancouver
Nov 2
Pedestrian Trauma Research
Mary D. Gunnels, OHSU Department of Emergency Medicine
Nov 9
Transit Priority
Peter Koonce, Kittelson & Associates
Nov 16
A Statewide Freight Demand Forecasting Model: An Iowa Case Study
Chris Monsere, ODOT
Nov 30
Transit Mobility, Jobs Access, And Low-Income Labor Participation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Tom Sanchez, Portland State University, School of Urban Studies and Planning
Fall 2000
Oct 5
Benefits of Archived ITS Data: Measuring Capacity at a Freeway Bottleneck
Robert Bertini, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, PSU
Oct 12
The Decline of Mass Transit
Martha Bianco, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, PSU
Oct 19
Transportation Planning in the Context of Growth Management: A Case Study of Portland
Kenneth Dueker, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, PSU
Oct 26
Use of Bus Dispatch System Data for Operations Planning
Steve Callas, TriMet
Nov 2
A Solid Waste Flow Simulation Model: Theory and Applications
Doug Anderson, Metro
Nov 9
Integrated Land Use-Transportation Model for Planning in the Willamette Valley
Brian Gregor, ODOT
Nov 16
Discussion of content for revising the course on Urban Transportation Planning
Ken Dueker, PSU; Mike Hoglund, Metro; Lynn Peterson, TriMet; Joel Freedman, PB
