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Using High-Resolution Bus Detection Data to Improve Travel Time Prediction and Identify Urban Congestion Spots
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
Robert Bertini
Transit travel time, operating speed and reliability all influence service attractiveness, operating cost and system efficiency. These metrics have a long-term impact on system effectiveness through a change in ridership. As part of its bus dispatch ...
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Utilizing Ego-centric Video to Conduct Naturalistic Bicycling Studies
Feng Liu
Miguel Andres Figliozzi , Wu-chi Feng
Bicycling is enjoying a surge in popularity across the USA but bicycle safety continues to remain a challenge. Cyclists (and pedestrians) are the most vulnerable road users since cyclist-vehicle collisions often result in severe injuries and have hig ...
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Tech Transfer: Tools for Assisting Low Income Households With Finding Location-Efficient Housing
Andree Tremoulet
Through a previously funded research project, Encouraging Low-Income Households to Make Location-Efficient Housing Choices, our team developed a toolkit to assist households utilizing Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers with finding location-efficient/ ...
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Online Non-motorized Traffic Count Archive
Krista Nordback
Kristin Tufte
Robust bicycle and pedestrian data on a national scale would serve numerous purposes. Access to a centralized nonmotorized traffic count archive can open the door for innovation through research, design and planning; provide safety researchers with a ...
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Investigation of Bicycle and Pedestrian Continuous and Short Duration Count Technologies in Oregon
Krista Nordback
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
While motorized traffic counts are systematic and comprehensive, bicycle and pedestrian traffic is often unknown, which results in lack of planning or infrastructure for active transportation modes. Although there are many emerging technologies to co ...
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Active Travel Behavior and Spatial-Temporal Land Use Mixing
Steven Gehrke
Urban policies have emphasized the importance of land use mixing as an intervention beholding of lasting planning and public health benefits. Transportation planners have identified potential in efficiency gains achieved by increasing land use mix an ...
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Development of a Pedestrian Demand Estimation Tool
Kelly Clifton
There is growing support to improve the quality of the walking environment and make investments to promote pedestrian travel. Such efforts often require analytical non-motorized planning tools to estimate levels of pedestrian demand that are sensitiv ...
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Impact of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake on the Seismic Evaluation Criteria of Bridges
Peter Dusicka
ODOT project page: http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP_RES/docs/stage1/2014stageone/14_087_Seismic_Evaluation_Criteria.pdf
Under our current seismic design code, bridge designers ...
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Understanding Types of Cyclists Nationally
Jennifer Dill
Nathan McNeil
Transportation professionals who are developing plans and projects that aim to change people’s travel behavior – such as getting more people to bicycle – need to understand the people they are targeting. To do so, planners and researchers have ...
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Impact of Bike Facilities on Residential Property Prices
Jenny Liu
Wei Shi
As many cities are investing in street improvement or transportation infrastructure upgrade projects to provide better bike access or more complete bike networks, the economic value of bike infrastructure and bike facilities remains an area where man ...
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Transportation Leadership Education
Nathan McNeil
The Portland Traffic and Transportation course serves a number of different purposes. On one hand, it is designed to develop citizens who are informed about the transportation system, including how it got where it is today, what agencies and actors p ...
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Do TODs Make a Difference?
Arthur C. Nelson
Jenny Liu , Reid Ewing
The United States is moving into a new era of metropolitan development and form. The demographic, economic and finance drivers that made America a suburban nation may have run their course. America will see a shift toward infill and redevelopment. Fa ...
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