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Road Ecology Course and Seminar Series
Mark Sytsma
The American road network is a major economic investment that is a major organizing force for human activity. The road system has profoundly altered ecological processes and, as a result, it is also an important organizing force for ecosystems. Under ...
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Improving Travel Information Products via Robust Estimation Techniques
David Maier
Kristin Tufte
Traffic-monitoring systems, such as those using loop detectors, are prone to coverage gaps, arising from sensor noise, processing errors and transmission problems. Such gaps adversely affect the accuracy of Advanced Traveller Information Systems. Thi ...
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Application of LRFD Principles for Deep Foundations in Oregon: Phase 1
Trevor Smith
Peter Dusicka
Project Sponsor Champion: Bruce Johnson, ODOT State Bridge Engineer .
The Oregon DOT has routinely relied on the use of the Wave Equation Analysis of Piles (WEAP) software to dynamically model the bridge pile driving installation operation. Either ...
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Needs, Costs, and Funding Alternatives for Transportation Services for Older Adults and People with Disabilities in Oregon
Jennifer Dill
Margaret Neal
Portland State University’s Institute on Aging and Center for Transportation Studies, along with the Population Research Center, were contracted by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), via the Association of Counties, to project the tran ...
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Evaluation of Metro's Regional Travel Options Program, 2004-2005
Jennifer Dill
The Metro Regional Travel Options (RTO) program has gone through significant changes in the past
three years and will continue to do so over the next few years. This is an important time to assess
past accomplishments to help shape the program in t ...
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Road User Fee Pilot Project Research Evaluation
Anthony Rufolo
The 2001 Oregon Legislature established the Road User Fee Task Force “to develop a design for revenue collection for Oregon’s roads and highways that could replace the current system for revenue collection.” After considering 28 different fundi ...
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Travel Choices at TransitOriented Developments: Survey Results from Portland’s Eastside
Jennifer Dill
This report presents results from surveys of residents at several transit-oriented developments (TODs) in the cities of Portland and Gresham, along the MAX blue line between downtown Portland and Gresham. The research complements survey work done in ...
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Evaluation of the Driver Improvement Program
James Strathman
This report provides an evaluation of the Oregon Department of Transportation-Driver and Motor Vehicle (DMV) Services Driver Improvement Program (DIP), which was substantially changed in 2002. Prior to 2002, the DIP was organized around four progress ...
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Transportation Financing Opportunities for the State of California
Asha Weinstein Agrawal
Jennifer Dill
Significant investments will be required to maintain, operate, upgrade, and expand California's transportation infrastructure if the state is to retain its economic position in the global economy and accommodate a projected near doubling of the curre ...
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Estimating the Impacts of TODs on Travel and Transit Use
Jennifer Dill
In recent years there has been a growing interest in using land use planning to reduce reliance on the automobile long-term, through ideas such as smart growth, New Urbanism, pedestrian pockets, and transit-oriented development (TODs). Many growing r ...
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An Evaluation of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Environmental Streamlining Efforts: A Focus on CETAS
Connie Ozawa
Jennifer Dill
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) responded to the federal call in the late 1990s to streamline the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by (1) implementing organizational and procedural changes internal to the agency, (2) funding OD ...
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