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

Congestion pricing is effective, and efficient, but is it fair? One of the biggest concerns surrounding dynamic road charges is that they will harm low-income people. This seminar examines the equity implications of congestion charging, and argues that road pricing can satisfy the demands of both equity and efficiency.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• The best programs reflect true private / public collaboration built on trust and respect.
• Different actors have different definitions of success, but there is significant overlap.
• Equity is complicated.
• Your analysis is only as good as the data you rely on. 

SPEAKER

Michael Manville, University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Manville is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. He is a faculty affiliate of UCLA's Institute of Transportation Studies, and its Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Both his research and teaching focus on the relationships between transportation and land use, and on local public finance. Much of his research concerns the tendency of local governments to hide the costs of driving in the property market, through land use restrictions intended to fight traffic congestion. These land use laws only sometimes reduce congestion, and can profoundly influence the supply and price of housing. Dr. Manville’s research has been published in journals of planning, economics, urban studies, and sociology. He has received research funding from University Transportation Centers, from the John Randolph Haynes Foundation, and the TransitCenter, among others. He has consulted for developers, environmental groups, local governments, and the United Nations. Dr. Manville has an MA and PhD in Urban Planning, both from UCLA Luskin. Prior to joining Luskin as a faculty member, he was Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell 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 professionals through education.

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 

Lack of physical activity is well established as a modifiable risk factor for cancer at multiple sites. Because walking (and rolling) are among the most common forms of physical activity in the United States, the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences of the US National Cancer Institute has supported a range of data resources, methods research and development and funding opportunities related to physical activity and cancer control across the entire cancer control continuum. In this seminar, Dr. Berrigan will share about emerging results from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Walking and Perceptions of the Walking Environment Module, resources and data related to youth physical activity including results from the FLASHE and NHTS surveys and new tools for teaching and measurement supported by NCI. Together these materials will help expand transportation researcher and practitioner knowledge of links between physical activity and cancer as well a variety of research results and resources.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Lack of physical activity is a risk factor for cancer at multiple sites
• There is substantial spatial and demographic variability in self-reported walking prevalence and reported prevalence of barriers and facilitators to walking
• Newly released tools are available for collecting data about physical activity and for teaching and learning about measurement of physical activity in children and youth
• Despite strong data concerning links between physical activity and health, evidence is incomplete concerning best intervention and policy approaches to increasing PA 

SPEAKER

David Berrigan, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute

David Berrigan, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been a biologist in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences since 2003. He joined the Health Behaviors Research Branch (HBRB) in 2015. Previously, he served as a Cancer Prevention Fellow with funding from the Division of Cancer Prevention from 1999-2003. Before coming to NCI, he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Washington and at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, with funding from the National Science Foundation and USDA.

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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.

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

Miss the seminar or want a look back? 

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THE TOPIC

While the overarching objective of the transportation system is to provide mobility, it should be developed and operated under the framework of a safe system with the aspirational goal to establish a system on which no road user can be severely or fatally injured. To accomplish such a safe system, it is necessary to effectively harness all the core protective opportunities provided by the system. This includes the street design and operations, user behavior, vehicle design, protection systems, and EMS. The common thread across these layers is speed. This is directly driven by the quadratic relationship between velocity and kinetic energy, and the necessity to provide safe and structured dispersion of kinetic energy at the onset of a safety-critical event. The presentation will describe ongoing research that examines what happens when we no longer design each of the individual safety components to provide a desirable level of protection for a certain circumstance, but that it can contribute to a larger joint entity (i.e., the system) and can exhibit the required level of safety.

SPEAKER

Offer Grembek, Co-Director, UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC)

Dr. Offer Grembek is a researcher and lecturer at the University of California Berkeley. He serves as the Co‐Director at the university’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), a research center affiliated with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies. Dr. Grembek is an also Associate Director of the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety, a National UTC led by the University of North Carolina, and a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation Safety Management Systems (ANB10). Dr. Grembek received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010.

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Offer Grembek 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.

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OVERVIEW

Separated bike lanes have become increasingly common around the United States as cities seek to attract the new riders, including people who want to ride but limit their riding because they do not feel comfortable riding with motor vehicle traffic. Planners and engineers are working to identify contextually appropriate, safe, and comfortable designs for intersection locations, where bicyclist paths cross the paths of turning vehicles as well as cross-traffic. This research employed a combination of user surveys and simulations to anticipate expected bicyclist and turning vehicle interactions and bicyclist comfort based on design type and volumes. Findings examine which types of intersection designs, ranging from protected intersection and bike signals to mixing zones, are most comfortable for a range of cyclists, while taking into account expected motor vehicle traffic. This project will provide valuable information to cities as they seek to include comfort-based factors into design selection criteria – an endeavor that may be essential to attracting the coveted Interested but Concerned riders.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the design selection options for separated bike lanes at intersections.
• Understand the research team’s approach to assessing the anticipated comfort of current cyclists and non-cyclists, were they to ride through a variety of intersection types, with and without interactions with motorists.
• Understand the options and choices available to cities in selecting intersection treatments.

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: Contextual Guidance at Intersections for Protected Bicycle Lanes. This research is also featured in the newly released (May 2019) NACTO addendum to their Urban Bikeway Design Guide: Don't Give Up at the Intersection.

SPEAKERS

Chris Monsere, Portland State University

Dr. Christopher M. Monsere is Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science at Portland State University. Dr. Monsere's primary research interests are in design and operation of multimodal transportation facilities including user behavior, comprehension, preferences, and the overall safety effectiveness of transportation improvements. Dr Monsere is a member of ANF20, the Bicycle Transportation Committee, the past co-chair of the Transportation Research Board's Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation committee (ANB20) and a past member of the TRB Task Force to develop the Highway Safety Manual (ANB25T). Monsere received his BCE from the University of Detroit Mercy; his MSCE and Ph.D.with an emphasis in transportation from Iowa State University. Dr. Monsere is licensed professional engineer in the state of Oregon.

Nathan McNeil, Portland State University

Nathan McNeil is a research associate at the Center for Urban Studies at Portland State University. He conducts research around impacts of new bicycle infrastructure and programs on travel behavior and attitudes towards cycling, shared-use mobility programs including carsharing and bike-share, and the connection between land-use and transportation. Nathan received a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University, and studied history at Columbia University as an undergraduate. Prior to PSU, McNeil worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City as a performance auditor where he evaluated capital programs and contractors.

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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. 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.

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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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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.