Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online at 11:30 AM.

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. This seminar is part one of a two-part series on Vision Zero. See part two with Matt Kelly.

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THE TOPIC

Vision Zero was adopted unanimously by Portland City Council in 2015 with the goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries on Portland streets in a way that is equitable, accountable, and data-driven. But what does it mean to be data-driven? And should we stop there? 

In this presentation, learn how Portland’s Vision Zero Action Plan was developed and how the Vision Zero team is using data to move into a future where all Portlanders can travel safely, regardless of the travel mode they use. Explore the datasets used in Vision Zero implementation and the challenges that come with them. Learn about the projects where creativity and innovation play a critical role by stretching beyond what is traditionally thought of as transportation safety, including automated enforcement and citywide crash analysis. 

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• What it means to be data-driven vs data-informed, especially in a long-term program setting
• What datasets the PBOT Vision Zero team uses for program implementation
• Data limitations and how to stay aware of them

SPEAKER

Anamaria Perez, Portland Bureau of Transportation

Anamaria Perez is a Vision Zero Data Analyst at the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). She conducts crash and safety analysis to advance the Vision Zero program, supports planners and project managers on safety, and creates innovation around how PBOT thinks about data. Leading her work with integrity as one of her core values, Anamaria is an advocate for transportation, environmental, and mobility justices. She holds a B.S. in Meteorology from San Jose State University and an M.S. in Environmental Management and a GIS Certification from the University of San Francisco.

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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.

We are committed to making decisions that promote the success and well-being of our campus community. Like an increasing number of universities nationwide, Portland State is taking steps to respond to the global pandemic. Until further notice, all live events hosted by TREC will be online only.

Friday Transportation Seminars at Portland State University have been a tradition since 2000. You can join us online at 11:30 AM.

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THE TOPIC

Portland State University's Portals - also known as PORTAL and BikePed Portal - together form a publicly available multimodal transportation archive. The presenters will share their experiences creating and managing the Portals. They will present an overview of the freeway, travel time, and vehicle length information available on PORTAL and will demonstrate how you can get valuable information on these data sources from PORTAL. Finally, the team will include a sneak peek at the new BikePed Portal web site and an analysis of the impact of coronavirus on Portland area traffic done with PORTAL data.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Learn what data is readily available in PORTAL.
• Learn how to use the basic visualization tools provided on the PORTAL website.
• Learn what will be available in the new BikePed Portal website.
• See an example of analysis using PORTAL data.

SPEAKERS

Tammy Lee, Transportation Data Program Administrator, TREC

Tammy is working on a variety of projects for TREC, including documentation, data synthesis, analysis, and visualization supporting ongoing work with PORTAL and Bike-Ped Portal. Prior to joining TREC, she worked as a data scientist for a political digital media consulting firm.

Kristin Tufte, Research Assistant Professor, Portland State University

Kristin Tufte has 25+ years experience in data management research and implementation. She was a team member on the design and implementation of three novel research data management systems, including one sold to NCR Corporation. For the past 15 years, she has collaborated with Portland-area public sector agencies on PORTAL, the Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA regional transportation data archive and more recently on Smart Cities efforts. In addition, Kristin teaches courses in database systems and implementation, cloud data management and data science.

THE PORTALS

PORTAL provides a centralized, electronic database that facilitates the collection, archiving, and sharing of data and information for public agencies within the region. The data stored in PORTAL includes 20-second granularity loop detector data from freeways in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region, arterial signal data, travel time data, weather data, incident data, VAS/VMS message data, truck volumes, transit data, and arterial signal data. Many of these data feeds are received by PORTAL in real time or on a daily basis and for most, the retrieval and archiving process is fully automated.

BikePed Portal: Jurisdictions around the country are collecting non-motorized traffic count data, but the lack of a centralized database inhibits data sharing and greatly reduces the utility of this important and growing dataset. In response, we created a national online non-motorized traffic count archive. This archive allows users to upload, view and download data.  Access to a centralized non-motorized traffic data archive opens the door to innovation in research, design, and planning.

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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 online at 11:30 AM.

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THE TOPIC

Prior studies show that transit-oriented developments (TODs) increase property values and raise property tax revenue. Property owners reap economic benefit from TODs and public officials use it as evidence to justify the high cost of rail transit. However, renters, who rely on transit more than homeowners, may have to pay higher rent to live in TODs. The location affordability index at the neighborhood level suggests that renters can also benefit from TOD by saving money on transportation costs. Recent studies at the individual level, however, found little evidence that living in TODs reduces transportation expenditure. Using rental data scraped from Craigslist listings and travel data from 2010-12 California Household Travel Survey, this ongoing study contributes to this debate by quantifying and comparing the rental premium and transportation-cost saving for renters in TODs in eight Californian metropolitan areas. To address the potential self-selection bias, I estimate propensity score to match renters in TODs with similar renters outside of TODs. The findings from this study will inform transportation planning and practice that aim to promote more equitable TODs.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• The positive property-value effect of TOD is well known but the affordability implication of TOD for renters is more complicated.
• This ongoing study quantifies and compares the rental premium and transportation-cost saving for renters in TODs in eight Californian metropolitan areas.
• Findings from this study will inform transportation planning and practice that aim to promote more equitable TODs.

SPEAKER

Hongwei Dong, Associate Professor, California State University, Fresno

Dr. Hongwei Dong is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at California State University, Fresno. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Portland State University in 2010. His research lies at the intersection of transportation, housing, and urban health. His research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and California SB1 Grant. His research findings appear in top-notch planning Journals such as Journal of the American Planning Association and Journal of Planning Education and Research.

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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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OVERVIEW

The "Fast Track" project at the University of Oregon focuses on a mode of transportation that is sometimes left out of vehicle-to-infrastructure, or V2I, conversations: Bicycling. NITC researchers developed an app based on a new technology being integrated into modern cars: GLOSA, or Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory. GLOSA allows motorists to set their speed along corridors to maximize their chances of catching a "green wave" so they won't have to stop at red lights.

This project demonstrates how GLOSA can be used by bicyclists in the same way it is used by motorists, with a test site on a busy car and bike corridor feeding the University of Oregon campus: 13th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. Researchers developed a smartphone app that tells a cyclist whether they should adjust their speed to stay in tune with the signals and catch the next green. The project demonstrates how university researchers, city traffic engineers, and signal-controller manufacturers can come together to help bicyclists be active participants in a smart transportation system.

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: Riding the Green Wave: Researchers Test "Green Light Optimized Speed" App for Bicyclists.

SPEAKERS

Stephen Fickas, University of Oregon

Dr. Stephen Fickas is a professor in the department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. Fickas received a B.S. degree from Oregon State University in Math, an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Irvine in 1983. From 1978 to 1983, Fickas worked at USC Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, California. In 1983, Fickas joined the faculty at U of Oregon. In 1988 he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Researcher position at Cambridge University. In 1991 he was selected as a Fulbright Research Scholar to the Hungarian Academy of Science. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1996. Professor Fickas has a general interest in software engineering. His recent focus has been on how software engineering concepts can be applied to non-tech domains, e.g., education, the humanities, and urban planning.

Marc Schlossberg, University of Oregon

Dr. Marc Schlossberg is a professor of city & regional planning and co-director of the Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) at the University of Oregon. He works on the interconnected and interdisciplinary issues around sustainable cities, with particular focus on active transportation, urban design, public health, participatory mapping, and social change. Schlossberg's applied research focuses on redesignining cities so that more people can walk and bike more of the time. This work has ranged from bottom-up, participatory GIS planning to more standard analysis of urban form and transportation. He was a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom in 2009-10, and a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Israel in 2015-16. He is a member of the NITC executive committee and is the faculty advisor for LiveMove, the University of Oregon's transportation and livability student group.

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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.

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THE TOPIC

It has been more than two years since shared scooters first appeared in Santa Monica, California and more than four years since the first dockless bikeshare bikes appeared in China. As shared micromobility has experimented in its deployment and operations across the globe, cities have also been experimenting with ways to regulate and manage this phenomenon in a way that best achieves public outcomes. But how do we best protect individual rights' while still protecting the right-of-way?

This seminar will discuss experiences from cities with micromobility programs and considerations for agency staff and elected officials when launching and overseeing a program, including: data sharing and privacy, goal setting, approval approach, equity targets, caps, fees, safety, and approaches for minimizing negative impacts.

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

William Henderson, CEO, Ride Report

William Henderson is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Ride Report, a tool that helps cities manage micromobility. Ride Report empowers cities to bring new, clean forms of transportation to life. The company handles data for cities and operators around the world. Henderson also co-founded Business for a Better Portland (BBPDX) and Knock Software, Inc.

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Photo Credit: Cait McCusker, Portland State University

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

With worsening congestion, travel time reliability is increasingly becoming as critical as average travel times in affecting travel choices. Researchers from Portland State University (PSU) partnered with Washington County, Oregon to offer data-driven strategies in prioritizing funding for travel time reliability improvements on their urban arterials. The vast majority of existing research on travel time reliability has focused exclusively on freeways. Avinash Unnikrishnan, Sirisha Kothuri and Jason C. Anderson leveraged Bluetooth sensors provided and deployed by Bluemac Analytics to identify problem areas in the county. Set up at intersections throughout Washington County, the sensors are able to calculate travel time from one intersection to another by matching Bluetooth signals from devices in people's cars. The researchers evaluated the Bluetooth travel time data to understand the temporal variation in travel time reliability metrics on these urban arterials, including factors related to time of day, weather, and holidays. They also provided the County with an automated process to clean up their data and remove outliers.

The researchers determined that Tualatin-Sherwood Road has the lowest travel time reliability of the three corridors. Now that Tualatin-Sherwood Road has been identified as having the most unreliable travel times out of the three arterials studied, the County is in a position to focus its efforts in that area. This work sets the groundwork for future work of identifying corridors with high unreliability, thus enabling transportation system engineers to prioritize funding in projects. This webinar will provide an overview of the project, its findings and methodology, and key takeaways for transportation engineers and policymakers.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Importance of data quality through outlier detection.
• Travel time reliability can be contingent on direction, day of the week, time, and various exposure-based characteristics (i.e., transit stops, number of entrances and exits, being close to major highways, etc.).
• The temporal effects of expected average travel time and travel time variability are also contingent on temporal-related factors, such as morning peak hours, evening peak hours, off-peak hours, and weekend peak hours.
• The proposed methods can identify corridors with low reliability and high increases in expected travel time and travel time variability.

THE RESEARCH

This webinar is based on a study funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) and conducted at Portland State University. Read more about the NITC research: Exiting the Freeway: Travel Time Reliability on Urban Arterials.

SPEAKERS

Jason Anderson, Portland State University

Jason Anderson is a research associate at Portland State University. Dr. Anderson’s current area of research include: transportation safety modeling, spatial econometrics and statistics, and big data analysis focusing on various concepts (e.g., traffic flow, travel time, freight commodity analyses, methodological approaches, etc.). Dr. Anderson’s methodological expertise offers unique opportunities to conduct research in various fields, including water resources and waste management, construction management, structural engineering, and social/behavior sciences. He is especially interested in emerging technologies and data fusion techniques as it pertains to smart vehicles, infrastructure, cities, and their impacts on safety. Dr. Anderson also loves his Sacramento Kings and NASCAR.

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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.

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THE TOPIC

Seattle is experiencing transformational changes with record-breaking population growth among large scale urban renewal and redevelopment. These changes are occurring in a constrained transportation system that is being reconfigured to meet the mobility needs of vibrant and thriving community. Learn about the policies that provide the roadmap for managing City’s growth, plans that guide where transportation investments are made, and how Seattle will reach the safety goals of Vision Zero.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Learn about Seattle's comprehensive planning that guides city decisions on where to build for jobs, housing, and transportation investments.
• Street typologies used in Seattle that balances access and mobility needs of everyone who uses and travel in the city.
• Project examples that challenge and change how streets serve our communities to reflect their values.

SPEAKER

Dongho Chang, City of Seattle

Dongho Chang is the City Traffic Engineer for Seattle. He has worked over 27 years in the transportation engineering field focused on improving safety and mobility for all travel modes. Dongho has worked as the Traffic Engineer for City of Everett and Area Engineer for Washington State Department of Transportation where he was responsible for traffic signals group, traffic analysis and channelization review, and traffic safety program. Dongho is active with Institute of Transportation Engineers and NACTO. Dongho drove a Zamboni during high school, which he considers as his “coolest” job ever!

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Photo Credit: Dongho Chang

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.

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THE TOPIC

E-commerce is growing—it is estimated that e-commerce sales now account for more than 10% of total retail sales in the U.S. The continued maturation of the e-commerce market is fueling a significant growth in warehousing, changing the nature of brick-and-mortar retail, and creating a surge in parcel volumes, which means deliveries are up. Way up. The New York Times recently reported that 1.5 million packages are delivered daily in New York City. In order to meet this demand for delivery, businesses are looking for new and creative ways to deliver packages to consumers, including attempting to automate the last mile. What does this growth in e-commerce and urban freight mean for our transportation system? What are the land use implications? What kinds of strategies are being employed to manage the influx of deliveries? This seminar will explore these questions, as well as touch on local research efforts to better understand urban freight trip generation.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Gain an understanding about the growth of e-commerce and its impacts on urban freight.
• Learn about the latest developments in automated trucking and last mile delivery efforts.
• Hear about the ways that businesses are changing their delivery models to meet consumer demand.
• Learn more about the land use and transportation implications of these changes and hear about strategies to reduce delivery-related congestion.

SPEAKER

Amanda Howell, Project Manager, Urbanism Next, University of Oregon

Amanda Howell is a Project Manager for the Urbanism Next Center at University of Oregon. She conducts research on the impacts of emerging technologies—new mobility, e-commerce, and AVs—on cities. She holds a Master's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University and was the project manager for an affordable housing transportation study sponsored by the California Department of Transportation during her studies. Before moving to Portland for graduate school, she provided programmatic support to the Prison University Project, a Bay Area nonprofit that operates an on-site, degree-granting program for people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison.

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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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INFO SESSION ON JAN 8th FOR THE TWO-WEEK STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM

This summer we're hosting two study abroad programs in the Netherlands. Our two-week program focuses on university students, and our one-week program is geared towards professionals in their career.

Join us for our first information session (in person only) on the two-week student study abroad program to learn more about the day-to-day activities and tours in the Netherlands. After a twenty-minute presentation from the program instructor John MacArthur, there will be plenty of time to ask any questions you have about the program, application process, and travel plans. Applications are now open!

OVERVIEW OF THE TWO-WEEK STUDENT STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM (JUNE 21 - JULY 4, 2020)

Hosted by TREC, this four-credit PSU study abroad program (CE 495 / 595) presents an introduction to sustainable transportation and land use applications in the Dutch context. The course creates an immersive experience to explore the Dutch approach to cycling, transit, innovative mobility and land use. The curriculum will feature material that provides a comparison between U.S. and the Netherlands problems, priorities, and solutions. Specific emphases on planning and engineering principles, policy, and practice will be explored through field trips, tours and guest lectures, while visiting Utrecht, Amsterdam, Delft, and Houten. Students completing this course will develop a broader understanding of sustainable transportation issues and expand their toolkit for context-sensitive solutions. This study abroad program will examines how the urban areas and transportation systems of that nation have been designed to promote transportation by foot, bicycle, and public transportation. READ THE FULL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION HERE.

UPCOMING INFO SESSIONS IN LATE JANUARY 2020

If you can't attend this info session for students, or are looking to learn more about the one-week program for professionals --> ADD YOUR EMAIL TO THIS LIST. We'll be hosting two more info sessions in late January that will be both streamed online and recorded.

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OVERVIEW

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), e-commerce and the sharing economy are rapidly changing land use and transportation in cities. City leaders and professional planners are wondering how these technologies will change how they plan and operate cities. For the past year, the University of Oregon’s Urbanism Next Center and Sustainable Year Program focused staff and students on helping the cities of Gresham and Eugene better understand the potential impacts of a wide-range of topics and  study a variety of potential responses to address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities. These topics include issues related to safety, social equity, active transportation, sustainability and environmental impacts, design and management of the right-of-way, and the metropolitan footprint. In addition, the cities thought about city operations and budgeting and how they can inform decision-making, manage innovation, and consider the fiscal impacts and new mobility revenue.

During this webinar, the Urbanism Next researchers will discuss the research they conducted to help the cities navigate new mobility and emerging technologies. Researchers will discuss how cities are preparing for new mobility and autonomous vehicles in a way that supports goals around land use, active transportation, more equitable forms of travel, and greenhouse gas emissions.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

Audience will learn:

• The potential impacts of AVs and new mobility on medium-sized cities,
• How medium-sized cities are preparing for the impacts of AVs and new mobility,
• How to apply a framework for new mobility policy and strategy in cities.

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: Emerging Technologies in Mid-Size Cities: Managing New Mobility. The research team has also created a comprehensive policy report on these findings: Navigating New Mobility: Policy Approaches for Cities.

SPEAKERS

Becky Steckler, University of Oregon

Becky Steckler, AICP, is the Program Director for Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. In this role, Ms. Steckler manages and conducts technical research on the secondary impacts of emerging technologies – autonomous vehicles (AVs), new mobility, and e-commerce – on land use, urban design, building design, transportation, and real estate and the implications of these changes on equity, health and safety, the economy, the environment, and governance. She is a member of the Oregon Legislative Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles that will make recommendations to the Oregon Legislature on enabling legislation for autonomous vehicles and is a member of the Santa Monica 2050 Advisory board. She has over 20 years of project management experience, with a focus on land use, transportation, economic development, and strategic planning projects.

Rebecca Lewis, University of Oregon

Rebecca Lewis, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon, the Co-Director of Research for the Institute of Policy Research and Engagement, and the director of the Community and Regional Planning graduate program. She holds a master of public policy and PhD in urban and regional planning and design, both from the University of Maryland.  She studies state land use policy, transportation finance, and housing affordability in rural areas.  Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of the American Planning Association and Land Use Policy, and has been funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, National Science Foundation, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, and the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. Dr. Lewis has worked with Urbanism Next on projects that help cities anticipate revenue impacts of autonomous vehicles on transportation budgets and to prepare for the impacts of new mobility.

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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.