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

Periodically, 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)

Pedestrian safety and access is an equity issue. In Portland, inadequate pedestrian infrastructure and traffic safety concerns disproportionately impact low-income communities and people of color. The City is attempting to rectify these inequities through PedPDX, Portland’s new citywide pedestrian plan (anticipated for adoption in Spring 2019). PedPDX prioritizes sidewalk and crossing improvements and other investments, policies, strategies and tools to make walking safer and more comfortable across the city. 

Come learn about the strategies PedPDX is using to address transportation equity in Portland, including establishing a data-based prioritization for citywide pedestrian investments, identifying roadway and behavioral characteristics most closely correlated with pedestrian crashes in order to prioritize needs before crashes happen, using pro-active outreach to engage disproportionately impacted residents, and applying innovative pedestrian design and policies to address pedestrian infrastructure needs. 

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Learn data-based approaches to addressing equity in transportation
• Learn personal-narrative approaches to elevate public understanding of needs
• Discover new approaches to equity in community engagement for impacting process and outcomes
• Learn about proposed pedestrian design and policies 

SPEAKERS

Michelle Marx, Pedestrian Coordinator, Portland Bureau of Transportation

Michelle Marx is the City of Portland’s Pedestrian Coordinator with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). She is the PBOT lead on pedestrian policy and design and manages the City’s Pedestrian Network Completion Program. She is currently leading the development of PedPDX (to be adopted Spring 2019), Portland’s Citywide Pedestrian Plan. Prior to joining the City of Portland, Michelle managed the Complete Streets program at the Seattle Department of Transportation and led the update to the Seattle Pedestrian Master Plan. Michelle received her Master’s in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin.

Francesca Patricolo, Transportation Planner, Portland Bureau of Transportation

Francesca Patricolo is a Planner in the Policy Innovation and Regional Collaboration section of the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation. She specializes in addressing complex and contentious planning and public policy issues, as well as designing and advising on community engagement plans and processes for the bureau. She served as Deputy Project Manager for PedPDX: Portland’s Citywide Pedestrian Plan and is President of the Cascade Chapter of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). Francesca is a Master of Community and Regional Planning and a Master of Conflict and Dispute Resolution, both received from the University of Oregon.

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

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

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

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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THE TOPIC

This seminar will present ongoing research into how integrated social, natural, and engineered systems can improve life safety under threat of multi-hazards. The targeted scenario is a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, threatening communities along 1,000 miles of the US Pacific Northwest coastline. 

Since the mid-1980’s scientific evidence has underscored the possibility of such an extreme event, and it has taken at least another decade or more before public attitudes and policy have begun to adapt to this new hazard. Life safety is a pressing issue for the near-field CSZ tsunami hazard for several reasons.

• First, there is limited time from the start of the earthquake to when the tsunami arrives to the shore–20 to 30 minutes depending on location–compared to several hours for the case of a distant tsunami across the Pacific Ocean.
• Second, evacuations will be self-initiated, relying on an individual’s perception of risk and knowledge of correct course of action.
• And third, unlike other natural disasters such as river floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes which are more easily imagined, the rarity of tsunami events in the U.S. make the tsunami scenario difficult to visualize.

This seminar will present the results of an agent-based tsunami evacuation model to explore how decisions on when to leave, route choice, mode (on foot or by car) and unplanned disruptions affect life safety. This work is applied to case studies: one in Seaside, Oregon and a second at Oregon's South Beach State Park. These projects developed close collaboration with a number of organizations responsible for public safety during the response to extreme natural hazards, including the Oregon Department of Transportation, Oregon Office of Emergency Management, Oregon Parks and Recreation, Oregon Sea Grant, and internationally.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• A magnitude 9 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and near-field tsunami will happen in the future.
• There is only 20-30 minutes of warning time for coastal communities to respond to the tsunami hazard.
• We will not be able to prevent this event, but we can help prepare our communities to be ready for this event.
• Real impacts on community and people will be what matters.

SPEAKER

Haizhong Wang, Oregon State University

Dr. Haizhong Wang is an Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering within the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Dr. Wang received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Applied Mathematics and Civil Engineering (Transportation), and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Hebei University of Technology and Beijing University of Technology, China. Dr. Wang’s research interests include (1) Interdisciplinary Disaster Resilience: use the ABM framework to evaluate the impacts of heterogeneous decision-making behavior on life safety under unplanned infrastructure network disruptions; (2) Critical Resilient Interdependent Lifeline and Infrastructure Networks: system resilience characteristics and dependency/interdependency modeling; (3) Heterogeneous Traffic Flow Modeling and Simulation: deterministic and stochastic fundamental diagram of traffic flow, hysteresis, and stochastic capacity analysis; and (4) Connected Automated Vehicle (CAV): mobility and safety analysis in a mixed traffic flow environment under varying levels of market penetrations. 

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Haizhong Wang 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 young professionals through education.

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

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

Due to technical issues, no recording is available for this seminar.

• View the presentation slides

THE TOPIC

With the on-going disruption of the transportation industry and rapid advancement in ITS technologies; emerging smart cities, navigation systems and autonomous transportation, the need for highly accurate geospatial localization has never been more crucial. These technologies demand that we have more granular location information of vehicles not just on a road, but to a specific lane on the road. 

This presentation will give a pedagogical style summary and overview of some of the on-going research work at HERE Technologies and how we have pushed the state-of-the-art in lane-localization of noisy GPS probe data using novel Machine Learning Algorithms and how some of these innovations is being applied to power new products for real-time traffic, routing and navigation systems, maps for autonomous vehicles, incidents and safety services.

An example of such product is Split Lane Traffic (SLT)

Split Lane Traffic (SLT) detects divergent traffic speeds at highway junctions with exit ramps. It is the first traffic product that provides lane maneuver guidance information to drivers based on lane-level traffic conditions ahead thereby giving better navigation experience and a more accurate routing and ETA.

Other related products are: HD Live Map, Hazard Warnings and Navigation and Infotainment.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• Highlight the critical need for lane-level localization to enable the autonomous driving future
• Understand how Machine Learning Algorithms can be applied to GPS probe sensor analytics
• Opportunities on how to leverage HERE Technologies products and developer API platforms to power innovations for smart cities, mobility and ITS

SPEAKER

James Fowe, Principal Research Engineer, HERE Technologies

James Fowe is a Principal Research Engineer in the Connected Vehicle Services division at HERE Technologies. As part of the Advanced Engineering Team, he leads the design and implementation of Mathematical models and Machine Learning Algorithms for location intelligence as related to real-time traffic flow, location-based AdTech, safety services and HD Maps for Autonomous driving. More recently James has been pioneering cutting edge research focused on deriving lane-level granularity from noisy GPS probe data. This includes lane-level map-matching, lane-level traffic, lane-closures and lane-connectivity in high definition maps. James has been involved with ITS research for over a decade and has invented several key technologies in the field with over 50 US patents filed and a few academic research paper publications.

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James Fowe 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 young professionals through education.

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

PRESENTATION ARCHIVE

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• Watch the recorded video
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THE TOPIC

Are the Biketown bikes too heavy? Does better gear motivate people to cycle more? How much faster will someone go on an e-bike?

Although urban cycling is widely known as physically active transportation, the actual physics of cycling have been given little attention in transportation engineering and planning. In contrast, the field of sports science has developed detailed data and models of road bicycle performance, but only for sport and racing cyclists.

What can we learn about utilitarian cycling by integrating knowledge of the physical attributes of bicycles and cyclists?

This seminar examines the ways in which bicycle physics, and the physiology of cyclists, can influence outcomes of interest to transportation professionals, from speed and stopping distance to cycling frequency and health benefits. Findings will be presented from recent and ongoing studies aiming to quantify these relationships and enhance travel analysis tools with an understanding of the physical aspects of cycling. 

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

• What are the key physical attributes of bicycles and cyclists that are relevant for transportation analysis?
• How do these attributes vary among cyclists?
• How do these attributes relate to travel habits and preferences?

SPEAKER

Alex Bigazzi, University of British Columbia

Dr. Bigazzi is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil Engineering and the School of Community and Regional Planning. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Portland State University in 2014, investigating urban bicyclists' uptake of traffic-related air pollution. His primary research areas are transportation emissions and air quality, active travel behavior, and traffic management and modeling.

Learn more about Alex in our PSU Alumni Spotlight interview.

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Alex Bigazzi 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 young professionals through education.

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PRESENTATION SLIDES

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THE SEMINAR

The session will focus on the past, present, and future of transit fare payments, with an emphasis on emerging technologies and new service models. We'll address three basic questions:

How did our current model for fare payments evolve?

Where are we going to be in five or ten years?

And what is the point of worrying so much about fare payments?

THE SPEAKER

Adam McGavock, Director of Business Development, moovel North America

Adam McGavock currently serves as the Director of Business Development for moovel North America, a transportation technology company working to bring seamless mobility to cities worldwide. Before joining moovel, Adam worked as a senior project manager at the IBI Group, where he provided expertise in the area of fare payment and customer service. Previously, Adam worked as the Director of Customer Service, Sales and Fare Media at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, where he was responsible for (among other things) the customer experience of over 1.3 million daily fare payment and purchase transactions. Prior to that, Adam served as the Director of Planning at the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, where he was responsible for the SmarTrip deployment to bus agencies in Northern Virginia, managing FTA grants on behalf of member jurisdictions, managing demonstration projects, and overseeing the NVTC data collection efforts. Mr. McGavock has over eighteen years of public and private sector experience in mobile ticketing, electronic fare payment, ITS implementations, transportation planning, project management, grants management, data collection, statistical analysis of transportation data, analysis using Geographic Information Systems, and transportation issues involving the elderly, persons with disabilities, and residents of rural areas.

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

EDUCATION LIBRARY ARCHIVE

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David Soto Padín
Graduate Research Assistant at Portland State University, and President of the Students in Transportation Engineering & Planning (ITE-STEP

David Soto Padín is pursuing a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering at Portland State University. David was awarded the Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship to pursue research regarding the synergies between bike share and transit. In addition to working as a researcher, David served as President of the Students in Transportation Engineering and Planning (ITE-STEP), Portland State University’s ITE Student Chapter. On weekends and breaks, David enjoys exploring nature reserves, hiking trails and bicycling off-road paths as well as traveling to cities and new places. He is passionate about photographing architecture and transportation systems.

Examining the Effects of Bike Share and Rail Transit Integration in the United States

Modern bike sharing is present in almost every major city in the United States and has become an essential application in the toolkit for promoting active transportation. Bike share provides an additional number of benefits when considered in the context of public transportation services including expanded station catchment areas and flexibility during rail transit service interruptions. This project, the first of its kind to aggregate data from multiple cities, attempts to analyze how rail station boardings affect and are influenced by bike share trips at bike share docks near rail transit stations, after controlling for other socioeconomic and built environment variables.

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Michael Harpool
Graduate Research Assistant, Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at PSU

Michael Harpool received his BA in Geography at Keene State College in southern New Hampshire. Through his experiences and studies he developed a passion for active transportation research which brought him to the Master of Urban Studies program at Portland State University. As a Graduate Research Assistant at TREC he has worked on various research projects topically focused on sustainable transportation issues. Through his thesis research on utilitarian skateboarding, Michael hopes to advocate for more inclusive transportation networks which accommodate the needs and desires of diverse users.

Utilitarian Skateboarding: Insight Into an Emergent Mode of Mobility

In recent years research and planning efforts to enhance the conditions and opportunities for active transportation modes have increased significantly; however, these efforts have primarily focused on pedestrians and bicyclists. Skateboarding and other resourceful modes of transportation remain an untapped potential for healthy and sustainable travel. This research focuses on the motivations and barriers behind utilitarian skateboarding to provide a better understanding of the needs and desires of those who choose to travel by skateboard.

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PRESENTATION SLIDES

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TEACHING MODULE

Looking for a simple lesson plan outline? Here's a snapshot of the curriculum developed by this project, for faculty who might be interested in incorporating it into their transportation courses.

OVERVIEW

Vehicle operating dynamics data have a fundamental impact on the design of roadways, but collecting this type of data is not part of your typical college curriculum. Instead, engineering students are handed a textbook, leaving them without a firsthand experience of how accelerations and decelerations “feel” to the driver, the ultimate consumer of their designs. Seeking to change this norm, Roger Lindgren and C.J. Riley, civil engineering professors at the Oregon Institute of Technology, undertook a NITC education project to incorporate more real-world data collection and analysis into transportation courses. This webinar will offer a detailed look at the recently published project "Instructional Modules for Obtaining Vehicle Dynamics Data with Smartphone Sensors" and how you can implement it into your coursework.

SPEAKER

Roger Lindgren, Oregon Institute of Technology

Dr. Roger Lindgren is a native of Edmonton, Canada and has over twenty years of engineering and teaching experience. His research interests include traffic flow theory, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), microscopic simulation of urban and rural traffic, as well as pavement design and construction. Dr. Lindgren's doctoral research included empirical studies of freeway traffic data in an effort to extend the knowledge and understanding of traffic features in queued and congested flow. Dr. Lindgren joined the faculty at Oregon Tech. in 1999 and teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in transportation engineering as well as lower-division courses in engineering fundamentals.

Jordan Preston, Oregon Institute of Technology

Jordan Preston is finishing a co-terminal BS/MS in civil engineering with a minor in GIS at Oregon Tech. Her graduate project is a Complete Streets corridor study that includes design principles from a summer bicycle transportation course in Europe. The development of these instructional modules with smartphone technology was the first of her two NITC research projects. Second, she is on the multi-institutional team with “Rethinking Streets for Bikes,” assisting in development of a visual, evidence-based book focused on excellent bicycle-oriented street retrofits, which will be completed this year. Jordan has accepted a position with HLA Engineering and Land Surveying in Yakima, WA, which is a small, private firm specializing in municipal engineering projects, which she will start in July.

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PRESENTATION SLIDES

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OVERVIEW

TREC is co-hosting this event with the Portland chapter of Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT Portland). Listen to how the fastest growing city in the Netherlands is planning to absorb its growth by urbanization within the existing urban area. Between 2018 and 2030, the city of Utrecht is expecting its population to increase by 17% to 400,000. Visiting scholar Lucas van der Linde, Urban Mobility Traffic and Transport Policies Consultant at Goudappel Coffeng, will be sharing key strategies of the city’s growth plan, including mobility as a service (MaaS) and their focus on multimodal accessibility through mobility hubs in the inner city. 

3:30 - 4:30 PM: Summer Seminar is in Parsons Gallery Room 212 at the PSU College of Urban and Public Affairs. This seminar is an in-person only event; there will not be an online component.

SPEAKER

Lucas van der Linde, Gouddapel Cofeng

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

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PRESENTATION SLIDES

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OVERVIEW

Every day transit riders ask the same question: when’s the next one coming? To answer this question, transit agencies are transitioning to providing real-time transit information through smartphones or displayed at transit stops. 

The proliferation of transit planning and real time arrival tools that have hit the market over the past decade is staggering. Yet with transit ridership on the decline, agencies can’t afford to ignore the importance of providing accurate, real time information to their customers. Real-time transit information improves the reliability and efficiency of passenger travel, but barriers have prevented some transit agencies from adopting the GTFSrealtime v1.0 technology. A new NITC-funded study in May led by Sean Barbeau of the University of South Florida seeks to remove some of these barriers to make real-time transit info a universal amenity. As a public agency partner, moovel focuses on delivering simple, frictionless and accurate information through mobile applications. From mobile ticketing to multi/intermodal trip planning, booking and payment, moovel’s mobile apps take a customer-first approach to enhance the customer experience through an intuitive mobile solution.

This webinar will discuss the lessons learned from using GTFS and GTFS-realtime data in real-world applications and how these experiences lead to the development of the GTFS Best Practices (http://gtfs.org/best-practices/), GTFS-realtime v2.0 (https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime/), and the open-source GTFS-realtime Validator tool (https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/gtfs-realtime-validator).  These new tools and standards will help reduce the time needed to develop, test, deploy, and maintain GTFS and GTFS-realtime feeds, which will in turn lead to better quality real-time information for transit riders and better operational and analytics information for transit agencies going forward. The presentation will also discuss the challenges and experiences faced by moovel as a vendor in working with agency data to meet modern, customer expectations in delivering accurate, real-time transportation data.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understanding of how customer expectations shape the delivery of information/data
• Understanding of how transit agencies and their vendors can follow GTFS Best Practices and use the new GTFS-realtime v2.0 specification when implementing and maintaining data feeds, including putting in RFP requirements
• Challenges of working with multiple transportation providers to provide accurate real-time information
• Lessons learned from numerous focus groups and feedback studies
• Learn how to run the GTFS-realtime Validator tool on data regularly to maintain high-quality feeds
• Where the future of smart apps will take us and how we need to prepare for it

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SPEAKERS

Sean Barbeau, University of South Florida

Sean Barbeau is the Principal Mobile Software Architect for R&D in CUTR at the University of South Florida. He is part of the CUTR Transportation Demand Management group, and leads a group of software engineers in its Location-Aware Information Systems lab to create prototype location-based services and intelligent mobile apps as part of government and industry-sponsored research. His research interests include intelligent location-based services for cell phones, lightweight data communication frameworks for mobile devices, and mobile application optimization to conserve battery life.

Derek Fretheim, Moovel

As the Director of Business Development at moovel North America, Derek is responsible for building and strengthening partnerships with third party service providers, transportation network companies and various mobility providers. Additionally, Derek is instrumental in moovel’s MaaS strategy, Smart Cities initiatives and developing strategies to expand reach of moovel products and services including moovel’s On-Demand microtransit platform. Prior to joining moovel, Derek maintained a successful consulting practice, working with cities and transit agencies to develop customer technology plans and implementations within the transportation space. A champion of customer facing solutions, Derek has pioneered mobility hub development strategies for the City of Los Angeles, developed multimodal trip planners and digital wayfinding, managed real-time traffic initiatives, on-demand microtransit services and more. Derek has likewise launched bike share, EV car share programs and secured over $250M in grant funding for a variety of clients. He started his career in transportation at the Orange County Transportation Authority in 1990.

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This free webinar is hosted by TREC in partnership with the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association (OAPA).

PRESENTATION SLIDES

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OVERVIEW

This webinar will provide practical tools for designing effective and authentic community engagement for transportation projects. Too often, we can forget to ask ourselves who, what and why for our engagement processes.  Authentic community engagement requires us to think through exactly why we need to involve the public, how they can influence project decisions and who the most impacted people may be.  This session will walk you through the steps to plan a unique engagement approach for each project and share examples of what can happen when these tools are used correctly and what can go wrong when they are not.

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

These three important steps will make your community engagement more authentic and effective:

• Identifying your audience. This is the first step because you can’t know how to reach people until you know which people you want to reach.
• Developing goals and a strategy. You need a clear goal for your outreach. Understand why you need engagement and how that engagement will (or won’t) impact upcoming decisions, and use that to build a goal for what you want to achieve with your outreach. Your strategy is just a plan for activities to achieve your goal(s).
• Meeting people where they are. Once you understand who you want to engage, why you are engaging them and how what you learn will be part of the decision-making process, you are ready to plan some activities/events. Understand your audience and figure out how to engage them the way they want to be engagement. This will make your activities most successful. Engagement should be easy, comfortable, safe, and if possible, fun.

SPEAKERS

Eryn Deeming Kehe, AICP; Senior Communications Specialist, Metro

Since 1999, Eryn Kehe has served as a liaison between government agencies and the people they serve. Ms. Kehe has extensive experience facilitating small groups, large events and collaboration between public agencies. She brings a strong passion for working with divergent groups through collaborative processes. She has designed and implemented public involvement and outreach programs for numerous visioning, land use, redevelopment/urban renewal and transportation projects in Oregon, Washington and California. Eryn earned her Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has served on the National Planning Accreditation Board and is a Board member for the Carleton College Alumni Annual Fund. She has volunteered as a mediator with Resolutions Northwest and Clackamas County Small Claims Court.

Wendy Serrano, Trimet 

Raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, Wendy is bilingual and bicultural. She immigrated to Milwaukie, Oregon with her family as an 11 year old, having to learn English and adjust to a different community structure. Wendy is passionate about advocacy and community engagement of underrepresented groups and has worked in Oregon over the last decade with various nonprofits, government leaders and public agencies in efforts to engage Latino and immigrant community groups in policy planning/implementation, education, economic development, affordable housing and transportation efforts. Wendy earned her Bachelor’s in Communication Studies at Portland State University and a Master’s in Business Administration from George Fox University. She serves as a board commissioner for Home Forward (formerly known as the Housing Authority of Portland).

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