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

The Transportation Wallet is one of Portland’s newest parking and transportation demand management (TDM) strategies, designed to reduce parking demand while simultaneously offering new mobility options by bundling transit and bike share passes into one consumer product. Two of Portland’s managed parking districts have elected to add a surcharge to the cost of on-street parking permits, a portion of which is used to subsidize the cost of the Transportation Wallet. Residents and employees in the parking districts are eligible to purchase the Transportation Wallet at a fraction of the retail cost. As an added incentive to increase parking supply, people can trade in their on-street parking permits in exchange for free Transportation Wallets. Since the program’s full implementation in the past year, the number of parking permits issued in the districts has noticeably declined. Wallet holders report they are taking transit and bike share trips more, some of whom are new riders altogether, and many report driving less. The impact of the Transportation Wallet on the overall transportation system is promising, as people are replacing car trips throughout the city, with the highest concentration being in the two parking districts. Planning is already underway to expand the Transportation Wallet to offer more mobility options to a greater audience in more Portland neighborhoods.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Understand the intersection of priced parking and TDM strategies
• Learn how bundling mobility options reduces barriers to access and creates new and more frequent users of transit and bike share
• Analysis of survey data showing efficacy of the Transportation Wallet 

SPEAKER

Sarah Goforth, Portland Bureau of Transportation

Sarah is a TDM Specialist in the Active Transportation & Safety Division at PBOT. She specializes in developing strategies for both employer and residential TDM programs and is currently the project manager for Portland’s Transportation Wallet program. Sarah also manages Portland’s on-street bike parking. She earned her MA in Education from Portland State University.

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The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University is home to the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation programs. TREC produces research and tools for transportation decision makers, develops K-12 curriculum to expand the diversity and capacity of the workforce, and engages students and young professionals through education.

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

While public transit has a reputation as a potential means to ameliorate the adverse environmental effects of automobile travel, there have been very few empirical studies of the marginal effect of transit supply on air quality. We explore whether any of the substantial improvement in air quality observed in the U.S. from 1991 to 2011 can be attributed to increased public transit supply by developing an equilibrium model of transit and automobile travel volumes as a function of the level of transit supplied. We then empirically analyze the effects of the level of transit supply on observed ambient pollution levels by applying an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the potential endogeneity of public transit investment to a panel dataset of 96 urban areas across the U.S. over the years 1991-2011. We analyze the effects of the level of transit supply on the following criteria pollutants: carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide. We find that—at the margin, and given existing urban travel regulations in place—there is no evidence that increased transit supply improves air quality; in fact, transit appears to lead to a small deterioration in overall air quality.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Public transit appears to be less "environmentally friendly" than typically thought.
• The effect of transit supply on air quality varies by region and pollutant.
• Environmental impacts should be a relatively minor consideration when evaluating potential transit investments.

SPEAKERS

Justin Beaudoin, University of Washington Tacoma

Justin Beaudoin is an Assistant Professor of economics in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. He earned his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis in 2015. His research focuses on the intersection of urban and environmental economics, with a particular interest in the evaluation of public transit investments.

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The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University is home to the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation programs. TREC produces research and tools for transportation decision makers, develops K-12 curriculum to expand the diversity and capacity of the workforce, and engages students and young professionals through education.

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.

EDUCATION LIBRARY ARCHIVE

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EVENT OVERVIEW

With the emergence of several new providers of shared mobility services, such as Uber, Biketown and Car2go, there has been the promise of changes to the traditional way of owning and using a vehicle. One potential consequence of the new mobility services is the reduction in vehicle ownership. At the same time, cities are trying to anticipate these changes by reducing the amount of space dedicated to parking. This thesis aims to asses the extent to which new shared mobility and transportation policy strategies (especially parking requirements and transit pass availability) relate to vehicle ownership among residents of multifamily dwellings. To do this we use a web-based survey targeted to residents of multifamily apartments from Portland, Oregon.

SPEAKER

Edgar Bertini Ruas, Portland State University

Edgar Ruas is a civil and environmental engineering masters student at Portland State University. He is a graduate research assistant, and is currently working with a team of researchers to assess the transportation needs of affordable housing residents in California, a project sponsored by the California Transportation Department. He provides strategic guidance to the team by managing funds, monitoring key milestones, providing statistical analysis & model building, as well as presenting findings and policy suggestions to stakeholders.

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PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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• Access the Excel-based Market SEGMENT prediction tool

OVERVIEW

Social marketing seeks to develop and integrate marketing concepts with other approaches to influence behaviors that benefit individuals and communities for the greater social good. It is a useful transportation demand management (TDM) planning approach to promote travel behavior change. The purpose of this study was to explore a consumer market segmentation technique successfully used in Europe for its applicability to marketing efforts in the United States. Attitudinal and demographic data were collected from 1900 individuals in Florida, Oregon, and Virginia modeled after the European approach. Clustering analysis was applied to divide the sample into segments so that members of the same group share similar attitudes. These include attitudes about various modes, car use, and congestion and environment. A classification model was built to predict group membership. The most stable and distinctive segmentation resulted in 7 segments. From this list of over 100 attitudinal questions, 17 questions were found to separate segments most significantly and predict group membership with high level of accuracy. Attitudinal profiles for each group were developed based on thee mean responses to these “golden questions”. This webinar will discuss the method and results.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this webinar, the learner will be able to:

• Describe at least 2 potential benefits of market segmentation;
• Explain differences between the European results and US results;
• Identify 2 potential applications of the segmentation; and
• Describe how to use the spreadsheet tool to identify a commuter’s segment.

THE RESEARCH

This webinar is based on a study funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) and conducted at the University of South Florida (USF). Read more about the research: SEGMENT: Applicability of an Existing Segmentation Technique to TDM Social Marketing Campaigns in the United States.

SPEAKERS

Philip Winters, University of South Florida

Philip L. Winters is Director, Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Program at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida (USF). He has nearly 38 years’ experience in TDM, including 10 years managing a regional TDM program in Virginia and over 25 years at CUTR conducting research and providing training/technical assistance. He is an emeritus member of the Committee on TDM of the Transportation Research Board. Phil also received the prestigious Association for Commuter Transportation’s Bob Owens TDM Champion Award in 2007.

Amy Lester, University of South Florida

Amy Lester is a Faculty Research Associate at the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida. Dr. Lester earned her PhD in Public Health concentrating on Social Marketing in 2014 from the University of South Florida, College of Public Health. Dr. Lester holds additional undergraduate and graduate degrees in Public Health, Anthropology, and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Lester has strong methodological expertise, and her research interests focus on qualitative formative research, social marketing, social determinants of health, and program evaluation. In addition to research, Dr. Lester has extensive teaching experience at both the college and high school levels.

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This webinar is hosted by the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University. The research was funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), a program of TREC and one of five U.S. Department of Transportation national university transportation centers. The NITC program is a Portland State-led partnership with the University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah and new partners University of Arizona and University of Texas at Arlington. We pursue our theme — improving mobility of people and goods to build strong communities — through research, education and technology transfer.

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.

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EVENT OVERVIEW

Innovation adoption research has largely ignored organizational adoption, and little work has been done to understand or predict the adoption of innovations by freight organizations. Among the existing innovation adoption theoretical and methodological approaches this seminar will explore which are most appropriate methods for freight organizational adoption. The seminar will present a disaggregate market penetration model for freight transportation organizations adopting connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology and demonstrate an application using a case study area in Memphis, TN. The seminar will highlight ongoing and future organizational adoption research for CAVs, and other innovations.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• What are some of the evolving technologies affecting freight transportation?
• Overview of adoption models for organizations
• Analysis of organizational adoption considering one example innovation

SPEAKERS

Sabya Mishra, University of Memphis

Sabya Mishra is an assistant professor in the department of civil engineering at the University of Memphis. Before joining the University of Memphis, he worked as a research assistant professor at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland College Park. He is involved with a number of national and state transportation projects from Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Maryland State Highway Administration, Maryland Department of Transportation, and Michigan Department of Transportation. His areas of expertise include Travel Demand Modeling, Transportation Planning, and Policy, Econometric Modeling, Transportation Economics, and Finance. He is a member of Transportation Economics Committee (ABE20) and Freight Transportation Economics and Regulation Committee (AT010) of the Transportation Research Board.

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Sabya Mishra is a visiting scholar, brought to Portland State University with support from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC). The NITC program is a Portland State-led partnership with the University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah and new partners University of Arizona and University of Texas at Arlington. We pursue our theme — improving mobility of people and goods to build strong communities — through research, education and technology transfer. The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University is home to the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation programs. TREC produces research and tools for transportation decision makers, develops K-12 curriculum to expand the diversity and capacity of the workforce, and engages students and young professionals through education.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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OVERVIEW

Although connected vehicles (CVs) will soon go beyond testbeds, CVs and human-driven vehicles (HVs) will co-exist over a long period. Hence, it is critical to consider the interactions between these two types of vehicles in traffic flow modeling. In this study, we aim to develop a macroscopic model to understand how CVs would impact HVs in the traffic stream. Grounded on the second-order traffic flow model, we study the relationships among flow, density, and speed by two sets of formulations for the groups of CVs and HVs, respectively. A set of friction factors, which indicate CVs' impact to HVs, are introduced to the speed equation for accounting CV speed impacts. Then extended Kalman Filter is employed to update both model parameters and friction factors in real-time. By using CVs trajectory data as measurements, the difference between CV average speed and overall traffic mean speed will be fully accounted. The proposed model will serve as a basis for designing CV-based traffic control function, such as speed harmonization, on highways. 

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this webinar, the learner will be able to:

• Understand speed interactions between connected vehicles and human-driven vehicles.
• Implement the new macroscopic traffic flow model which models connected vehicles and human-driven vehicles as distinguished groups.
• Utilize extended Kalman Filter for estimation corrections.
• Use the modeling framework to support real-time traffic operations with connected vehicles.

THE RESEARCH

This webinar is based on a study funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) and conducted at the University of Utah. Read more about the research: Vehicle Sensor Data (VSD) Based Traffic Control in Connected Automated Vehicle (CAV) Environment.

SPEAKERS

Xianfeng (Terry) Yang, University of Utah

Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering at the University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park. His current research areas include traffic operations with connected automated vehicles, evacuation planning and operation, big data applications in transportation, traffic safety, and network flow modeling. His researches are sponsored by NSF, USDOT, UDOT, and MSHA. He is the member of TRB Traffic Signal System and Emergency Evacuations committees. He is also an editorial board member of ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development and panelist of NSF and NCHRP.

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This webinar is hosted by the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University. The research was funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), a program of TREC and one of five U.S. Department of Transportation national university transportation centers. The NITC program is a Portland State-led partnership with the University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah and new partners University of Arizona and University of Texas at Arlington. We pursue our theme — improving mobility of people and goods to build strong communities — through research, education and technology transfer.

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. With the start of 2019, we're changing it up a bit! The seminar will be delivered 11:30 am (sharp) - 12:30 pm, with additional discussion over coffee and donuts (protect the planet—bring a mug!) from 12:30 to 1:00 pm. You can also watch online.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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LEARN MORE: STUDY IN THE NETHERLANDS

• Professional Study Abroad in the Netherlands, June 23–30, 2019
• Student Study Abroad in the Netherlands, June 23–July 6, 2019

THE TOPIC

The Netherlands sets the standard for their multimodal connectivity. It has world's highest use of cycling and an integrated mobility network with an efficient transport system. During this seminar, Lucas will tell more about the Dutch Approach and how this could be applied to the American transportation context. 

Lucas will use the case of the Bay area to show this. The Bay Area in California currently faces massive challenges in transportation because of the enormous growth of the region. With the use of a new innovative modelling tool, the Move Meter (http://www.movemeter.com/), Lucas will show the potential of an integrated multi-modal mobility strategy for the Bay Region: it results in less congestion and a more sustainable mobility pattern. The realization of mobility hubs are important in this. During this presentation the results of the study will be presented. Moreover, a short preview is shown of what the application of this approach would mean for Portland. 

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• The successes and important elements of the Dutch multimodal integrated mobility strategy;
• The application of a multimodal mobility strategy in the American context results in a healthier, more sustainable and more equitable transport system;
• Mobility hubs offer possiblities for a more sustainable mobility pattern in Portland.

SPEAKER

Lucas van der Linde, Goudappel

Lucas van der Linde is a Consultant in Urban Mobility, working for Goudappel, the leading consultancy firm in urban mobility policies from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He obtained his Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Utrecht in 2014, Cum Laude, and has worked in the field for four years. As a generalist, he works on a wide range of projects for governmental agencies and developers within the field of mobility in the Netherlands, Unitd and Sweden. This includes designing complete streets, bicycle planning and traffic modeling. In the past years he has specialized in ‘multimodal mobility hubs’, i.e. the concept for new major urban developments within current city boundaries in which high quality bicycle and public transport infrastructure in combination with low parking norms ensures that future inhabitants of those new neighborhoods have a sustainable mobility pattern.

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Lucas van der Linde is a visiting scholar, brought to Portland State University with support from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC). The NITC program is a Portland State-led partnership with the University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah and new partners University of Arizona and University of Texas at Arlington. We pursue our theme — improving mobility of people and goods to build strong communities — through research, education and technology transfer. The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University is home to the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation programs. TREC produces research and tools for transportation decision makers, develops K-12 curriculum to expand the diversity and capacity of the workforce, and engages students and young professionals through education.

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. With the start of 2019, we're changing it up a bit! The seminar will be delivered 11:30 am (sharp) - 12:30 pm, with additional discussion over coffee and donuts (protect the planet—bring a mug!) from 12:30 to 1:00 pm. You can also watch online.

Periodically, as part of this new format, we're teaming up with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to bring you special editions—featuring guest speakers from PBOT—merging our seminar series and the long-standing PBOT Lunch & Learn.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

Miss the seminar or want a look back?

• Watch the recorded video
• View John MacArthur's presentation slides: The Portland E-Scooter Experience
• View Briana Orr's presentation slides: The Portland E-Scooter Experience (PBOT)
• View Jennifer Dill's presentation slides: E-Scooter Users

THE TOPIC (PBOT EDITION)

Portland's E-Scooter Pilot made national news for its proactive and data-driven approach to exploring the role of e-scooters in our transportation system. One of the first cities to implement a comprehensive data sharing agreement with e-scooter providers, Portland now has a lot of findings to share. This Friday Seminar will dive into both the data collected and the experiences of Portlanders during the pilot. We’ll discuss what worked well, unexpected findings, and considerations for future new mobility pilots. Download the E-Scooter Findings Report (released Jan 2019) here.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Understand the potential of e-scooters to help meet Portland transportation goals
• Learn about barriers and challenges Portlanders experienced during the pilot
• See analysis of trip, observation, and survey data and the connection between Portland's low-stress street network and e-scooter route choice

SPEAKERS

Briana Orr, Portland Bureau of Transportation

Briana Orr is the E-Scooter Pilot Project Manager and Bike Share Coordinator at the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). Briana’s work centers on making active transportation convenient, fun, and normal. Prior to PBOT, Briana worked in Seattle as Cascade Bicycle Club’s Communication Manager, and secured seed funding for bike share in Eugene as University of Oregon’s first professional Bike Coordinator.

John MacArthur, Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC)

John MacArthur is the Sustainable Transportation Program Manager for the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University. He currently manages a complex Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant to Develop and Test an Emergency Transportation Recovery Plan for the Portland, Oregon Region. This project requires close coordination and collaboration with a variety of public agency partners including city of Portland emergency management and transportation bureaus in addition to transit and other agencies critical to the region’s emergency transportation recovery efforts. In addition, this project is creating national training program that will be tested in six cities in early 2018. MacArthur is the Principal Investigator for TREC's electric bicycle research initiatives.

Jennifer Dill, PhD, Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC)

Director of TREC and the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), Jennifer is also a professor of urban studies and planning. Currently serving as Interim Vice President of Research at Portland State University, she is an internationally cited researcher on sustainable transportation. Among her research projects are Lessons from the Green Lanes: Evaluating Protected Bike Lanes in the U.S., Understanding Types of Cyclists Nationally, Pedestrian Observation and Data Collection Curriculum and more.

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The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is a community partner in shaping a livable city. They plan, build, manage and maintain an effective and safe transportation system that provides people and businesses access and mobility. PBOT keeps Portland moving.

The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University is home to the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation programs. TREC produces research and tools for transportation decision makers, develops K-12 curriculum to expand the diversity and capacity of the workforce, and engages students and young professionals through education.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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OVERVIEW

There is a growing demand for better infrastructure and fewer barriers to biking and other forms of space-efficient micromobility. Tackling daily trips by bike is easier on the environment, healthier for users and non-users alike, uses precious urbanized public and private land more efficiently, costs taxpayers less to build and maintain infrastructure, and when routes are safe and comfortable, moving by bike is also fun! Complete Streets policies are being adopted across the country, and there is an active conversation around the safety imperative of a Complete Streets approach. Yet, local officials often need both design guidance and the confidence on how to retrofit streets for people on bikes that will actually work.

To fill this gap, an interdisciplinary team of NITC researchers, including Marc Schlossberg and John Rowell of the University of Oregon, Roger Lindgren of the Oregon Institute of Technology, and Dave Amos of UC Berkeley (behind the popular City Beautiful video series) created this new public resource. Rather than using hypothetical designs or artistic renderings, the team showcases proven, high-quality, completed projects from a diversity of communities and contexts and does so in a visual way that can help communicate to a diverse set of stakeholders in any community. This new guide was funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, and is now available for FREE download, in full or by chapter.

DOWNLOAD THE FULL GUIDEBOOK (PDF)

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this webinar, the learner will be able to:

• Become aware of this new publicly available resource;
• Understand how to appeal to a broader range of community stakeholders when proposing street retrofit projects;
• Learn how to share bicycle infrastructure design ideas—with policymakers, neighborhood curmudgeons, planners and urban designers, local chambers of commerce, transportation planners, economic development experts, and engineers—so that everyone can engage at the same level of base knowledge;
• Put this knowledge into action and create streets that encourage bicycle transportation.

THE RESEARCH

This webinar is based on a study funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) and conducted at the University of Oregon. Read more about the research: From Knowledge to Practice: Rethinking Streets for People on Bikes.

SPEAKERS

Marc Schlossberg, University of Oregon

Marc Schlossberg is a professor of city and regional planning and Co-Director of the Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) at the University of Oregon. He is a 2-time Fulbright Scholar who focuses on sustainable transportation and ways to catalyze social change. This summer he will be leading his fifth study abroad class on redesigning cities for people on bike.

Roger Lindgren, Oregon Institute of Technology

Roger Lindgren is professor of civil engineering at the Oregon Institute of Technology. His research interests include traffic flow theory, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), microscopic simulation of urban and rural traffic, as well as pavement design and construction. Dr. Lindgren joined the faculty at Oregon Tech. in 1999 and teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in transportation engineering as well as lower-division courses in engineering fundamentals.

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This webinar is hosted by the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University. The research was funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), a program of TREC and one of five U.S. Department of Transportation national university transportation centers. The NITC program is a Portland State-led partnership with the University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah and new partners University of Arizona and University of Texas at Arlington. We pursue our theme — improving mobility of people and goods to build strong communities — through research, education and technology transfer.

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. With the start of 2019, we're changing it up a bit! The seminar will be delivered 11:30 am (sharp) - 12:30 pm, with additional discussion over coffee and donuts (protect the planet—bring a mug!) from 12:30 to 1:00 pm. You can also watch online.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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• Watch the recorded video
• View the presentation slides

THE TOPIC

Search #DriverNotCar or #CrashNotAccident on Twitter and you’ll find a vigorous discussion about the power of word choices to shape our understanding of what happens on the street and who’s responsible. When we directly examine and discuss the language we use, we acknowledge its power both to reflect existing attitudes and to shape developing attitudes. This presentation will uncover embedded biases or assumptions in common transportation terminology and provide tips and tools to help us broaden our inclusion of everyone we are supposed to serve as transportation professionals.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Learn some simple tests to uncover modal bias in descriptions of projects, programs or activities
• Learn specific terms to use and to avoid to provide more clarity around who is--and who isn’t--affected by a transportation project or program
• Understand the importance of providing specifics and context, particularly around traffic collisions, to contribute to transportation literacy

SPEAKER

Barb Chamberlain, Active Transportation Division Director, Washington Department of Transportation

Barb Chamberlain started March 1, 2017, as Director of the new Division of Active Transportation at WSDOT--a division created to reflect the agency’s commitment to multimodal transportation in the #1 Bicycle Friendly State. Barb previously served as the Executive Director of Washington Bikes and in 2015 was named Nonprofit Professional of the Year by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Coordinators. Prior to working professionally in transportation she led communications and public affairs at Washington State University Spokane for nearly 15 years and served on a number of boards including the Spokane Regional Transportation Council and the Spokane Bicycle Advisory Board. She got her start as an active transportation volunteer working on the North Idaho Centennial Trail Committee, then spent four years in the Idaho state legislature, the youngest woman ever elected to both the House and Senate. Find Barb’s bike writing at bikestylelife.com; follow @barbchamberlain on Twitter for active transportation research, resources and commentary.

Stay up-to-date with WSDOT news on active transportation programs, policies, events and more in the PNW and nationally with Walk and Roll: WSDOT Active Transportation Update - subscribe here.

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The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University is home to the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation programs. TREC produces research and tools for transportation decision makers, develops K-12 curriculum to expand the diversity and capacity of the workforce, and engages students and young professionals through education.