Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us in person at 11:30 AM, or you can also watch online.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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THE TOPIC

From Complete Streets policy implementation to stronger community engagement, bus rapid transit expansion to waterfront redevelopment—and so much more!—Vancouver, Washington, is on the move. Directly across the river from Portland, Oregon, the City of Vancouver serves as the southern gateway to Washington State; the City encompasses over 50 square miles, and, with a population of nearly 185,000, Vancouver is the fourth largest city in Washington (behind Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma and just ahead of Bellevue).

As Vancouver embarks on an update to the 15-year-old Transportation System Plan, learn about how the City is striving to transform the existing transportation system through more collaborative programs and more efficient measures. Smaller and suburban cities face unique challenges in growing metropolitan areas with economic and demographic shifts—and these communities must balance multiple, sometimes differing, expectations that the transportation system will provide everyone with an excellent level of service. In the changing landscape of ever-improving mobility options, advancing technology, and evolving best practices, find out how Vancouver is working to ensure that the transportation system operates as safely, efficiently, and innovatively as possible.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Managing tradeoffs through stronger community engagement in implementing Complete Streets projects
• Partnering with agencies to expand bus rapid transit service in a suburban context
• Supporting waterfront redevelopment while balancing associated shifts in the market and transportation demand

SPEAKER

Anna Dearman, Senior Transportation Planner, City of Vancouver, Washington

Anna Dearman, AICP, is a Senior Transportation Planner with the City of Vancouver, Washington, where she manages the City’s Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program and many transportation grant pursuits. Anna also supports City transportation policy development and plan, program, and project implementation. Since graduating from the Portland State University Master of Urban and Regional Planning program in 2016, Anna has enjoyed working locally as a land use and transportation planner on a variety of projects in different contexts, as well as exploring the Pacific Northwest on foot and on bike (ideally with trekking poles or ice axe in hand).

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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 professionals through education.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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THE TOPIC (PBOT EDITION)

The Community Cycling Center has been working with youth through the "Big Jump: Gateway to Opportunity" project. We'll be discussing our exploratory educational model and the ways the project can increase accessibility and opportunity for the youth living and learning in the Gateway neighborhoods.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• How exploration can drive learning and retention
• The current conditions and barriers youth face when using active transportation in the neighborhood
• What existing infrastructure exists
• How the Gateway to Opportunity can connect the existing infrastructure and improve access for our young people

SPEAKER

Jonnie Ling, Community Cycling Center

Jonnie Ling is the Director of Programs and Enterprise at the Community Cycling Center. He has been with the organization for 11 years. He has worked in bicycle education since 2003 and is committed to working with the community to create a more equitable and multicultural approach to bicycle education.

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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 professionals through education.

See archived materials from this Summit, held in September 2019.

Join us at the 11th annual Transportation and Communities Summit 2019 (see full schedule)! This annual event at Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon connects national mobility-focused research to local practice through breakout panel presentations, PechaKucha, posters, and networking between academics and practitioners.

The conference will center around three themes: Intersection of Transportation and Housing / Land Use; New Mobility in Active Transportation; and Multimodal Data: Collecting, Processing, Analyzing, and Using.

This year we’re excited to welcome our keynote Ben Wellington—a data scientist and policy analyst from New York, NY. The founder of I Quant NY, his data analysis has influenced local government policy including changes in NYC street infrastructure, the way New Yorkers pay for cabs and the design of NYC subway vending machines, and his talk on urban data was featured on TEDTalks. He is a contributor to The New Yorker, and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the City & Regional Planning program at The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

We’ll also be hosting a second day of half and full-day workshops (limited, additional cost), for those wanting a deeper dive into skill building in human-centered design, qualitative pedestrian data, using open-source strategic planning models, and more.

REGISTRATION

See the full schedule and register here.

--Summit Day Pass (Sept 19): $250
------Nonprofit / Student Rate: $75
------Elected Official Rate: $95
--Workshop Half-Day Ticket (Sept 20): $95
--Workshop Full-Day Ticket (Sept 20): $190

If you are a student, elected official, or nonprofit employee - please contact us at asktrec@pdx.edu to access a discounted rate. Let us know if you’re a student interested in volunteering in exchange for complimentary admission, and we’ll be in touch later this summer.

Questions? Contact us at asktrec@pdx.edu.

Hosted by the Transportation Research and Education Center at Portland State University. Supported by our U.S. DOT grant-funded program: the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC). NITC is a Portland State-led partnership with the University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah, University of Arizona, and University of Texas at Arlington.

Requests for reasonable accommodations may be made to Conference & Events Office, (503) 725-CONF, email: conferences@pdx.edu or the Disability Resource Center, (503) 725-4150, e-mail: drc@pdx.edu. In order to ensure that reasonable accommodations can be provided in time for this event, please make your requests as soon as possible.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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OVERVIEW

This webinar will present an open-source socio-transportation analytic toolbox (STAT) for public transit system planning. This webinar will consist of a demonstration of the STAT toolbox, for the primary purpose of getting feedback from transit agencies on the tool's usefulness. We are especially interested in hearing about any improvements that would aid transit agencies in implementing it.

The STAT toolbox was created in an effort to integrate social media and general transit feed specification (GTFS) data for transit agencies, to aid in evaluating and enhancing the performance of public transit systems. The toolbox enables the integration, analysis, and visualization of two major new open transportation data sources—social media and GTFS data—to support transit decision making. In this webinar, we will introduce how we leveraged machine learning and natural language processing techniques to retrieve Twitter data related to public transit systems and to extract sentence structures to geomap those tweets to their corresponding transit lines/stations. Combined with transit accessibility measures computed using GTFS, STAT is able to identify the mismatch between the services that the agency is providing and what the transit users are experiencing. The project uses Salt Lake City and Portland as case studies to demonstrate the usability of the toolbox and how it can support querying, navigating, and exploring the interactions between transit users and services.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Demonstration of the STAT Toolbox
• Understand how to use the STAT Toolbox and its capabilities and limitations
• Discover how you might implement the STAT toolbox at your agency

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 and Portland State University. Read more about the NITC research: Leveraging Twitter and Machine Learning for Real-Time Transit Network Evaluation.

SPEAKERS

Xiaoyue (Cathy) Liu, University of Utah

Dr. Liu is an associate professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Utah. She has a Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of Washington, a master’s degree in transportation planning and management from Texas Southern University, and a bachelor degree in electronics and electrical engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University. She serves as a member on the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Highway Capacity Quality of Service (HCQS) Committee (also Paper Review Cooridnator), Managed Lane Committee and the Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Committee (TCQS). She is also serving as a board member of Utah Model Advisory Committee, and served on Salt Lake City Transportation Advisory Board (from 2013-2016). Dr. Liu is a licensed professional engineer at the State of Utah.

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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 afterwards. You can also watch online.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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THE TOPIC

This seminar will provide a brief overview to Shaun Williams’ "Datafication of Cycling" PhD project. The main aim is to understand how volunteered app data, provided by cyclists, are used to inform transportation planning practice and policy.

There is an emerging body of academic work calling for digital aspects of cycling – such as app data - to be considered by transportation authorities. This project builds upon these contributions and asks: Are new forms of cycling data contributing to increased cycling provision and infrastructure?

The Datafication of Cycling Project runs from 2017 – 2021 and includes visits to Portland (Oregon) and Copenhagen (Denmark). If you would like to find out more about the project, or to get involved, please feel free to contact Shaun directly: s.r.williams@brighton.ac.uk.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Overview of global trends of digital cycling data research
• Discussion of alternative methods of researching the 'experience' of cycling
• A question: Is cycling now an 'online' mode of transportation? 

SPEAKER

Shaun Williams, School of Applied Social Science, Brighton University

As a PhD student with a background in geography and urban planning, Shaun Williams is undertaking research aimed at understanding how crowdsourced app data, provided by cyclists, are used to inform transportation planning and policy. His PhD is funded by the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (Industrial Strategy Steer). He is also a member of the Centre for Digital Media Cultures and Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton. During MSc study at Cardiff University, UK, Williams worked as a Research Assistant on the EPSRC cycleBOOM project – a study that sought to understand cycling among the older population to help people continue cycling into older age.

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Photo Credit: Cait McCusker, Portland State University

Shaun Williams is a visiting scholar, brought to Portland State University with support from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC). 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 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 afterwards. You can also watch online.

Periodically, 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

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THE TOPIC (PBOT EDITION)

Over the past two years, the Portland Bureau of Transportation and TriMet have joined forces to identify, design and build capital and operational treatments to help buses move more quickly and reliably through Portland’s increasingly congested Central City. Already the densest concentration of people and jobs in Oregon, Portland’s Central City is growing fast and increasing the speed and reliability of transit is key to achieving our City and region’s transportation, climate and livability goals. Working in partnership on PBOT’s Central City in Motion plan and TriMet and Metro’s Enhanced Transit Corridor program, the two agencies have identified a series of bus lanes in the Central City that will make transit faster and more reliable throughout the region. Project staff will discuss how projects were identified and trade-offs weighed, share the most recent designs, and discuss the benefits to transit riders and the region, with a focus on approaches to the Hawthorne, Steel and Burnside bridges.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Understand how enhanced transit treatments such as bus lanes and queue jumps can improve the speed and reliability of transit
• Learn how collaborative system-level planning can help ensure improved transit and biking facilities are not in conflict
• Analysis of current transit delay of specific Central City corridors and the benefits of proposed improvements.

SPEAKER

Gabe Graff, Portland Bureau of Transportation

Gabe is the Central City Capital Delivery team manager for the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). He has worked on improving transportation safety and options for the past 13 years. He worked as the Community Cycling Center’s Programs Manager and has served on the Safe Routes to School National Partnership’s Steering Committee. He joined PBOT in 2008, where he managed the Bureau’s safety programs, including High Crash Corridors and Safe Routes to School. Gabe currently manages PBOT’s Central City Capital Delivery team and is leading Central City in Motion, an effort to make streets more efficient with investments in bus lanes, protected bikeways and safer crossings.

Kelly Betteridge, TriMet

Kelly has worked in the transit industry for nearly two decades. A fan of all things public, she has called TriMet home for 14 years. In her tenure with the agency she has been fortunate to hold myriad positions in three departments and two project offices. She was recently awarded a new role as the Program Manager of the Southwest Corridor project, a 12-mile LRT extension between downtown Portland and Tualatin via Tigard. Prior to her current position she served as the Manager of Capital Planning, overseeing the agency’s bus speed and reliability program and early transit corridor development. In her free time she volunteers as a Girl Scout Troop leader and loves to get outside to explore the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her family. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon and a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota.

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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 professionals through education.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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OVERVIEW

Aging in place can simply be defined as staying in your home as you age; aging in place concerns include mobility, social activities, safety, accessibility, and long term supports and services in one’s neighborhood and society. In order to facilitate aging in place, organizations in Salt Lake County, Utah and the City of Portland, Oregon, provided home modifications to income-qualified older adults that intended to enable aging in place. Such modifications alter individuals’ life-space mobility – a concept recently used by gerontologists and that we introduced to planners – from within one’s home to the broader community. A unique methodological approach taken by researchers merged several existing data collection instruments with additional interview questions of residents who recently received home modifications.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Attendees will better understand the concepts of life space mobility and aging in place as it pertains to home modifications.
• Attendees will learn about a unique methodological approach that combined existing instruments with additional interview questions.
• Attendees will hear recommendations for researchers, planners, and policymakers that seek to enhance life space mobility and aging in place.

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 and Portland State University. Read more about the NITC research: Life-Space Mobility and Aging in Place.

SPEAKERS

Alan DeLaTorre, Portland State University

Alan DeLaTorre is a research associate at Portland State University’s Institute on Aging where he coordinates PSU’s Senior Adult Learning Center and Age-Friendly Portland and Multnomah County initiative. Dr. DeLaTorre serves as the chair of the Age-friendly Design committee for the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education, as a board member for the Oregon Gerontological Association, and on several local communities in an effort to shape community livability and accessibility. He is passionate about utilizing research to inform and advance community planning and livability.

Ivis Garcia Zambrana, University of Utah

Ivis Garcia Zambrana is an Assistant Professor in City and Metropolitan Planning (CMP). At CMP she works in close collaboration with the University Neighborhood Partners (UNP) and she is also affiliated with the Metropolitan Research Center (MRC). Her philosophy, methodology, and ethos revolves around conducting research and plans in partnership with stakeholders, being from the grassroots or from institutionalized forms of government. Dr. Garcia is an urban planner with research interests in the areas of community development, housing, and engagement. She has spent time as a community organizer and planner in Albuquerque, New Mexico, San Francisco, California, Springfield, Missouri, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.

Ja Young Kim, University of Utah

Ja Young Kim is a doctoral student in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea and a Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Kim is interested in the issue of race, place, and environmental equity set in the frame of the built environment and urban form. Building upon her previous research on the potential of urban design to improve walkability in relation to the needs of an aging urban population, in Oakland Chinatown, her research aims to better understand the impact of the built environment on the well-being of older populations and assess diverse public needs on the issues to develop feasible planning interventions. Before joining the MRC, she worked as an architect, urban designer and planner in Berkeley and San Francisco, and more recently as a researcher for the Seoul Institute developing policies for energy efficient buildings and towns in Seoul, Korea.

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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 afterwards. You can also watch online.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

Miss the seminar or want a look back?

• Watch the recorded video
• View the presentation slides
• Read a recap from the PSU Vanguard

THE TOPIC

People who have a visual impairment face some unique challenges when it comes to travel. What strategies can they use to bicycle safely? How do they orient and travel in unfamiliar communities? How does signage, lighting and other environmental characteristics affect their use of vision, hearing, and other senses during travel? What do they consider when selecting a travel option? After exploring some of these challenges, we will discuss considerations those designing and supporting travel infrastructures may reflect on so that travel options are user friendly and accessible to those with a variety of visual impairments.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Understand the unique transportation challenges faced by people who have a visual impairment;
• Gain insight into how transportation professionals can help by using inclusive designs;
• Start to collect ideas for good practices in creating user friendly, accessible travel environments.

SPEAKER

L. Penny Rosenblum, Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona

Dr. Rosenblum is a Research Professor in the Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies at the University of Arizona. She has been a teacher of students with visual impairments since 1986. With Dr. Anne Corn in 2000, she co-authored Finding Wheels: A Curriculum for Non-drivers with Visual Impairments for Gaining Control of Transportation. Later this year the two will publish the book Finding Wheels: Strategies to Build Independent Travel Skills for Those with Visual Impairments. As a person with low vision, Dr. Rosenblum is able to share first-hand information with others about the impact of a visual impairment on the lives of children and adults. She lives in Tucson where she rides her bicycle over 3,000 miles a year and is a huge fan of rideshare services.

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Penny Rosenblum is a visiting scholar, brought to Portland State University with support from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC). 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 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 afterwards. You can also watch online.

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

Miss the seminar or want a look back?

• Watch the recorded video
• View the presentation slides

THE TOPIC

Modes including ridehailing, bikeshare, and e-scooters offer the potential to revolutionize how people travel. But as cities and agencies work to integrate these new services into the existing transportation landscape, the equity implications of these modes remain murky.

This talk presents research on ridehail travel and equity from Los Angeles and compares the equity outcomes of ridehailing to the previous status quo embodied by taxis. The research highlights both the promise of new mobility services and the remaining obstacles to delivering equitable access. Findings yields implications for policies that cities and planners can advance to ensure that new travel modes boost mobility for all, not just some, travelers.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Ridehail services extend car access to neighborhoods previously excluded by taxi services.
• Ridehailing nearly eliminates the stark racial discrimination that occurs on taxis.
• Banking and smartphone access remain critical barriers to shared mobility access.
• Equity-first goals, clear metrics, and data are needed to deliver equitable access to new mobility.

THE RESEARCH

Learn more about the research referenced in this presentation:

• Brown, Anne. (2019). Redefining Car Access. Journal of the American Planning Association. DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2019.1603761
• Brown, A. E. (2018). Ridehail Revolution: Ridehail Travel and Equity in Los Angeles. UCLA. 

SPEAKER

Anne Brown, University of Oregon

Anne Brown is an Assistant Professor in the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon. Her research examines equity, shared and innovative mobility, travel behavior, and transportation finance.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This 60-minute seminar is eligible for 1 hour of professional development credit for AICP (see our provider summary). We provide an electronic attendance certificate for other types of certification maintenance.

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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.

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OVERVIEW

Today’s youth are tomorrow’s riders, bikers, walkers, voters, and transportation planners. As more transit agencies begin to offer free fare passes to public middle and high school students, it is important to have good communication strategy in place to encourage transit usage so they don't miss out on the potential to affect behavior change.

Thus, transit agencies need to develop age-appropriate messaging strategies and tactics that promote youth car-free mobility. 

This webinar will present results from a NITC research project that sought to create and evaluate communication messaging that fosters more positive attitudes, intentions, and behaviors related to transit and other car-free transportation options among Portland youth. While there is no "one size fits all" approach, the Portland-based findings may yield insights that could be adapted for application in other regions.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the car-free mobility-related attitudes, intentions, and behaviors of teens in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area;
• Identify communication channels and settings that could be most effective with youth in regards to transportation system information and promotion;
• Study the data to learn how strategic themes promoting car-free mobility were perceived by Oregon youth.

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 NITC research: What Encourages Portland Youth to Choose Car-Free Mobility?

SPEAKERS

Autumn Shafer, University of Oregon

Autumn Shafer is an assistant professor in the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. Her research seeks to address important social, theoretical, and practical issues related to public health promotion and social issues advocacy. She has a student-centered approach to teaching and seeks to create a collaborative and inclusive classroom environment where students feel both challenged and supported as they learn. Her research has included grant-funded projects examining the effects of entertainment education on teen pregnancy, developing a sexual consent awareness campaign, encouraging parents of children with eating disorders to take care of themselves to prevent caregiver fatigue, and cervical cancer prevention through the promotion of HPV vaccines. Shafer’s professional experience includes being a political campaign manager, field director, and legislative aide in Washington state.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This 60-minute webinar is eligible for 1 hour of professional development credit for AICP (see our provider summary). We provide an electronic attendance certificate for other types of certification maintenance.

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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.