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Research and Development of a Land Use Scenario Modeling Tool, Phase 2
John Gliebe
Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Transportation Planning and Analysis Unit (TPAU) developed a land use modeling tool called the “Land Use Scenario Developer in R” (LUSDR). LUSDR is a modeling tool, written in the “R” language, t ...
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Innovative Bicycle Facility Research and Analysis
Christopher Monsere
Jennifer Dill
Research conducted by Kittelson & Associates, Inc., Portland State University, and Toole Design Group ...
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Development, Deployment and Assessment of a New Paradigm for Transportation Professionals and University Students: a Collaboration of the Region X Transportation Consortium
Christopher Monsere
Traditionally, engineering coursework has been delivered in a lecture-based format with accompanying exercises assigned for time outside of class. The activity-based approach to learning aims to keep students engaged in and responsible for their own ...
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Seismic Retrofit Benefit Considering Statewide Transportation Assessment
Peter Dusicka
The bulk of the bridge inventory in Oregon was built prior to the current understanding of bridge response and prior to current understanding of the expected earthquake demands. While some bridges are being replaced due to other deficiencies, majorit ...
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Bus Safety Performance Monitoring and Analysis
James Strathman
This paper analyzes collision and non-collision incidents that occurred on TriMet’s bus system over a near two-year period. The bus route network was decomposed into stop and line haul segments, and a typology of models was estimated from segment l ...
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Relocation of Homeless People from ODOT Rights-of-Way
Ellen Bassett
Andree Tremoulet
In 2010, the Baldock Restoration Group relocated 37 homeless households from the Baldock Rest Area near Wilsonville. Relocated residents included both situationally homeless households (e.g., someone who had lost his job in the recent recession) as w ...
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Promoting Active School Travel by Making it Cool: a quasi-experimental study using Boltage
Yizhao Yang
Lynn Weigand , Ihab Elzeyadi , Noreen McDonald , William Harbaugh (consultant)
Research on children's school travel suggests two sets of factors critically affect the use of active school commuting modes (i.e., walking or biking) among children. The first involves external factors, such as trip distance, neighborhood walkabilit ...
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Integrated Multimodal Transportation, Air Quality, and Livability Corridor Study Phase II
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
Christopher Monsere , Linda George
The Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) is used to mitigate traffic congestion along urban arterial corridors. Although there has been research on SCATS’ performance, this report combines three different areas of research about SCATS ...
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Tools for Gusset Plate Evaluation, Phase 2: Strengthening
Christopher Higgins
Peter Dusicka
The collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota has raised questions regarding the performance and possibly safety of steel truss bridges. The failure investigation indicated that the collapse was due to a design error in the gusset plates ...
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Improved Pedestrian Safety at Signalized Intersections Operating the Flashing Yellow Arrow
David Hurwitz
Christopher Monsere
In some jurisdictions, protected left-turn phasing has been replaced with the flashing yellow arrow (FYA) for protected/permissive left turns (PPLTs) to reduce delay. However, it is important to have a thorough understanding of the conflict between p ...
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Bluetooth Travel Time Testing
Christopher Monsere
The Oregon Department of Transportation has implemented a travel time reporting system that utilizes wireless technology to estimate travel times along a five mile corridor of OR-99W in Tigard, Oregon. The system calculates the travel time by measuri ...
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Examining Consumer Behavior and Travel Choices
Kelly Clifton
This study represents a first attempt to answer a few of the questions that have arisen concerning multimodal transportation investments and the impacts of mode shifts on the business community. This research aims to merge the long history of scholar ...
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