Portland's Cycle Track and Buffered Bike Lanes: Are they working?

The video begins at 2:04.

Abstract: Findings will be presented on an evaluation of two innovative bicycle facilities installed in late summer and early fall 2009 in downtown Portland aimed at providing a more separated and comfortable experience for cyclists. The SW Broadway cycle track (near PSU) and the couplet of buffered bike lanes on SW Stark and SW Oak were evaluated to understand how they are functioning on multiple levels. Each facility involved removing a motor vehicle lane by restriping to provide additional roadway space to bicyclists. The facilities were evaluated after they had been in place for approximately one year. Data collected to support this evaluation consisted of surveys of multiple user groups for each facility type, and video data collected by the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation at intersections along each of the routes to understand the facilities' impact on traffic flow, operations and user interactions.

Bicycle & Pedestrian Overcrossings; Carsharing Payment Integration

Two MURP presentations

The video begins at 3:53.

Bike Lanes Can Benefit Local Businesses (!), According to This Study

Linking Fuel Prices, Transportation, Land Use and Economic Activity: A Review of Empirical Findings

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The video begins at 5:38.

PSU Researchers Among Top in the World

Exploring Factors Influencing Perceived Walking Distance to Light Rail Transit Stations -AND- Employer Incentives and Mode Choice

The video begins at 5:35.

PSU Transportation Seminar: Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking About Transportation

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. We've opened up PSU Transportation Seminars to other days of the week, but the format is the same: Feel free to bring your lunch! If you can't join us in person, you can always watch online via Zoom.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

THE TOPIC 

The transportation system in the U.S. has been shaped by a core set of ideas that are embedded in professional practice. These ideas – freedom, speed, mobility, vehicles, capacity, hierarchy, separation, control, and technology – have produced a system in which most people are dependent on driving, with all the negative consequences that entails. Shifting to a system that offers people choices about their daily travel requires a shift in thinking on the part of the transportation profession. In this talk, I take a critical look at...

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Friday Transportation Seminar: Student Presentations from TRB, Week 1

*NEW* LOCATION: Karl Miller Center at PSU, 631 SW Harrison St., Room 465
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SEMINAR VIDEO

Friday Transportation Seminar: Student Presentations from TRB 2018, Week 1


HUAJIE YANG 

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Webinar: Exploring Data Fusion Techniques to Derive Bicycle Volumes on a Network

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

OVERVIEW

Planners and decision makers have increasingly voiced a need for network-wide estimates of bicycling activity. Such volume estimates have for decades informed motorized planning and analysis but have only recently become feasible for non-motorized travel modes.

Recently, new sources of bicycling activity data have emerged such as Strava, Streetlight, and GPS-enabled bike share systems. These emerging data sources have potential advantages as a complement to traditional count data, and have even been proposed as replacements for such data, since they are collected continuously and for larger portions of local bicycle networks. However, the representativeness of these new data sources has been questioned, and their suitability for producing bicycle volume estimates has yet to...

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Friday Seminar at PSU on Oct 26th: Driver Comprehension of Permissive Right-Turns with a Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA) (Chris Monsere and Dave Hurwitz)

Friday Transportation Seminar: Driver Comprehension of Permissive Right-Turns with a Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA)

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. With over 450 seminars presented and recorded (access the archive of seminars here), we host both visiting and local scholars to share the latest in research, technology, and implementation in transportation.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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EVENT OVERVIEW

This research explored driver comprehension and behaviors with respect to right-turn signal displays with a focus on the Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA) in a driving simulator and a comprehension survey. Flashing yellow arrows are used in place of other turn signals, such as solid green or flashing yellow or red circles, to indicate that drivers may turn after yielding to oncoming traffic. These turns are considered “permissive.” Turns where no conflicting traffic is present, such as those indicated with a green arrow, are “protected” turns. The flashing yellow arrow’s inclusion in the...

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