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E-commerce Impacts on Oregon Household Level Deliveries, Trips, and VMT
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
The last decade saw double-digit growth of e-commerce sales, both in the US and Oregon, which translates to more delivery vehicles on the roads to meet this demand. However, there is no observed data available to determine the net impacts on system u ...
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Pile-supported Wharves Subjected to Combined Inertial and Lateral Ground Deformation Loads in Earthquakes
Arash Khosravifar
This project will improve the resilience of maritime transportation systems in earthquakes, including ports, terminals, and Navy facilities which are key components of economic prosperity, emergency response, and national security. In addition, ports ...
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Examining the Geotechnical Earthquake Hazard to Transportation Assets in Oregon and Washington: Characterizing Earthquake-Induced Deformations of Silt Soils
Diane Moug
Critical transportation infrastructure in Washington and Oregon is vulnerable to damage during strong earthquake shaking, including the anticipated magnitude 9 Cascadia Subduction Zone event. A major hazard to transportation infrastructure is the fai ...
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Development Of A New Visioneval Land Use Model And Applications To Evaluation Of Climate Strategies In Oregon
Liming Wang
The VisionEval (VE) model system evolved from the successful GreenSTEP suite of analytic tools originated at ODOT and is now widely used by agencies within Oregon and elsewhere. GreenSTEP was developed to provide ODOT and other agencies in Oregon the ...
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Metro Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs) Surveys
Nathan McNeil
Jennifer Dill
Periodically Portland State University (PSU) has worked with Metro to survey resident and other occupants of transit-oriented developments (TODs) in the Portland Metro area. Following up on surveys conducted in 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014, and 2018 this p ...
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Effects of Neighborhood Greenways on Active Transportation Behavior and Perceptions in Portland, Oregon
Jennifer Dill
Nathan McNeil , Katsuya Tanaka
Streets play an important part in the daily lives of most people, serving as vital connections to employment, recreation, socialization and much more. Streets (including sidewalks) also serve as important places in and of themselves, including as loc ...
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Framework and Methodology for Risk-Based Bridge and Tunnel Asset Management
David Yang
Arash Khosravifar , Diane Moug , Avinash Unnikrishnan
Bridges and tunnels need to address the daily transportation needs of the traveling public and provide capacity and emergency service before/during/after extreme events. States may achieve the best possible transportation network performance through ...
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Understanding Human-centered AI through Data Integration and Analytics
David Yang
Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) is an approach to developing and implementing Artificial Intelligence technology applications that focuses on the needs of individuals and communities who utilize these applications. This project intends ...
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Division Street Transit Project: FX2 Shared Bicycle & Pedestrian Platform Evaluation
Nathan McNeil
Sirisha Kothuri , Christopher Monsere , Jennifer Dill
FX2-Division is TriMet's high-capacity bus service along Division Street in Southeast Portland. The primary objective of this project is to assess conflicts between users of the shared bicycle and transit stations along this corridor, with a particul ...
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Working Towards Operationalizing Equity into the Research Process
Aaron Golub
While our researchers are experts in various aspects of transportation research, not all researchers have the tools to address equity topics in their research or conduct their work following good equity practices, ranging from data collection and ana ...
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Statewide Active Transportation Count Database (SATDB-003)
Sirisha Kothuri
Knowing how many people use walking and bicycling infrastructure is crucial for transportation planning. Active transportation projects can help cities and states achieve multiple climate- and public-health-related targets, and a new project launchin ...
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Expanding Transmobilities: An Art-Informed Methodology For Genderdiverse Travel Behavior
Nicholas Puczkowskyj
There is a significant gendered travel behavior research gap in the transportation literature. A plethora of transportation literature identifying and contrasting cisgender disparities exists, but more inclusive approaches to genderdiverse identities ...
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