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

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OVERVIEW

Gresham recently completed its first Active Transportation Plan. With the support of Multnomah County Health Department, the City integrated health and equity into the plan’s development from the earliest stages. The project team used a racial equity framework to guide its process and to evaluate the plan’s milestones; the equity lens influenced the project’s goals, data analysis, how the public process was conducted and how the final project list was prioritized. The session will share how the equity lens was applied and the steps the City took to include health and equity considerations in the plan. We’ll talk about how Liaisons hired from the community were central to community engagement and the training that enhanced their communication and leadership skills. We’ll also review the types of data, including community engagement findings, that were used in plan development and how data supported equitable outcomes in project prioritization.

This presentation was recently given at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit in March 2018. We're excited to bring it to Portland State University students.

THE SPEAKERS

Jay Higgins is a Transportation Planner at City of Gresham and Project Manager for the Active Transportation Plan. Jay’s work in Gresham focuses on long-range transportation planning, walking and biking programs and current planning.

Mike Sellinger is a Transportation Planner at Alta Planning + Design. He works on a range of active transportation projects, from Safe Routes to School programs to bike share planning.

Becky Bodonyi is a Program Specialist with Multnomah County Health Department. An urban planner by training, she found her way to the public health sector where she focuses on how neighborhoods influence community health, particularly through transportation systems and food access.

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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.

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OVERVIEW

Utrecht is a bustling, bicycle-friendly city in the Netherlands. Every day, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., over 125,000 cyclists ride to their work, school, university, public transport, shops or home through the city centre.

The municipality wants to make cycling even more attractive for these and other cyclists. Consequently, the bicycle is given precedence in the mobility policy of the municipality of Utrecht. We want to be the most bike-friendly city in the world. We want to keep our growing city livable, accessible and economically strong, and we are convinced that the bicycle can and should play a major role in this.

This presentation will give insight in the biking policy, bicycle parking and enforcement, bicycle infrastructure and routes, construction and detours, economics, and safety in Utrecht.

SPEAKER

Martijn Rietbergen, International Visiting Scholar at Portland State University

Martijn Rietbergen is a researcher, lecturer and project leader at the Center Of Expertise for Smart Sustainable Cities (University of Applied Science - Utrecht) in the Netherlands. He is appointed as visiting scholar at PSU in May 2018.

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In less than a decade, the ride-hailing industry, led by Uber and Lyft, has dramatically transformed the way we travel in our metro regions. Rider adoption of these on-demand mobility services has proceeded much quicker than our understanding of their impacts to our urban transportation systems. Planning for this transformation in personal mobility, which will have unintended consequences, has been made more difficult by the scarcity in meaningful data made available by these ride-hailing companies. Public agencies responsible for managing congestion and transit services are hindered in their ability to successfully plan for the integration of this emergent travel mode without access to these valuable data.

In response, Boston’s Metropolitan Area Planning Council conducted an intercept survey of nearly 1,000 passengers to understand who uses ride-hailing services, what types of trips are performed using these new mobility options, and how these services impact more established travel modes. Perhaps expectedly, most ride-hailing passengers were under the age of 35, use ride-hailing on a weekly basis, and do not own a car. Remarkably, however, 59-percent of surveyed ride-hailing trips added new vehicles to the region’s already congested roadways, with 42-percent of respondents stating they would have used public transit if ride-hailing was unavailable. These and other important findings provide a window of insight into the extent of ride-hailing utilization in the Boston Region and help to foster a greater dialogue about the need for data provision mandates to guide effective policy decisions.

THE SPEAKER

Steven Gehrke, Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Steve Gehrke is a Senior Research Analyst at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the regional planning agency serving the people who live and work in Metropolitan Boston. Prior to joining MAPC, Steve worked as a research analyst in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University, as well as a graduate research assistant in the Department Civil and Environmental Engineering. In these roles, he contributed to applied research projects investigating the transportation outcomes of residential location choices, public dissemination of disaggregate travel survey data, trip generation rates at affordable multifamily housing sites, and public transit system performance. He has also served as a graduate research assistant for the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education at the University of Maryland and as a transportation analyst for KFH Group, Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland.

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EDUCATION LIBRARY ARCHIVE

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RESOURCES

Adkins, A., Makarewicz, C., Scanze, M., Ingram, M., & Luhr, G. (2017). Contextualizing Walkability: Do Relationships Between Built Environments and Walking Vary by Socioeconomic Context?. Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(3), 296-314. [open access]

Ingram, M., Adkins, A., Hansen, K., Cascio, V., & Somnez, E. (2017). Sociocultural Perceptions of Walkability in Mexican American Neighborhoods: Implications for Policy and Practice. Journal of Transport & Health, 7. [Paywall unless accessed through a university or library]

Qualitative Pedestrian Environments Database website—Still under construction; sign up to be notified when tools are posted in late 2018 or early 2019: http://qped.org/

OVERVIEW

Walking is a crucial part of living in any urban setting. It facilitates access to the places and things people need to live their lives (employment, services, social networks, transit, etc.). Walking also improves individual and population level health. Walking is the primary source of physical activity for most Americans and is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, and some types of cancer. In many urban areas, however, people must walk in environments that are not supportive. This prevents many people from walking and puts those who do walk in uncomfortable, unpleasant, stressful, and often dangerous situations. This is especially true for low-income and pedestrians of color who, nationally, face higher pedestrian fatality rates. 

In this webinar, we will:

1. Review the evidence-base of the many intersecting characteristics of social and built environments that contribute to the overall walkability of a place;
2. Highlight recent research on differences in conceptions of walkability across neighborhood contexts; and
3. Share a data collection toolkit developed by the Arizona Physical Activity Policy Research Network (PAPRN) that can be used by researchers, practitioners, and community groups to establish more holistic, context-specific walkability metrics and objectives based on the lived experiences of pedestrians. 

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Overview of evidence-base for the importance of walkable neighborhood environments for addressing health and safety disparities
• Overview of various social and built environment contributors to walkability
• Evidence and examples of how environmental contributors to walkability vary across neighborhood contexts in ways that have important equity implications
• Introduction to a data collection toolkit that can help researchers, practitioners, and community groups better understand how to make meaningful and lasting walkability improvements 

SPEAKER

Arlie Adkins, University of Arizona

Arlie Adkins is an assistant professor of urban planning in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on understanding relationships between transportation, urban design, public health, and social equity. He has a Ph.D. from Portland State University and a master’s degree in city planning from UC Berkeley. He is currently the lead researcher on a multi-year CDC-funded project investigating barriers to active transportation and perceptions of walkability in Latino neighborhoods in Pima County, Arizona. This research is currently being expanded to other cities through a grant from NITC. Other research includes an ongoing national investigation of location efficiency within two of the largest federal affordable housing programs in the U.S. and experimental research on racial bias in driver yielding to pedestrians at crosswalks. Before his academic career Arlie worked for TriMet, the transit agency in Portland, Oregon, and at Flexcar, a pioneer of car sharing in North America.

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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.

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EVENT OVERVIEW

This research explored driver comprehension and behaviors with respect to right-turn signal displays with a focus on the Flashing Yellow Arrow (FYA) in a driving simulator and a comprehension survey. Flashing yellow arrows are used in place of other turn signals, such as solid green or flashing yellow or red circles, to indicate that drivers may turn after yielding to oncoming traffic. These turns are considered “permissive.” Turns where no conflicting traffic is present, such as those indicated with a green arrow, are “protected” turns. The flashing yellow arrow’s inclusion in the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices sped up the signal’s adoption to indicate a permissive turn.

Results from a counter-balanced, factorial design were chosen to explore three independent variables separately: signal indication type and active display, length of the right-turn bay, and presence of pedestrians. Driver decision making and visual attention were collected and analyzed.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• An overview of research exploring driver comprehension to various traffic signal displays for permissive right turns
• Guidance for using FYA's at different intersection types
• An understanding of drivers' visual attention at intersections

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.

David Hurwitz, Oregon State University

Dr. David Hurwitz conducts research in the areas of transportation human factors, transportation safety, traffic control devices, and engineering education. In particular, Dr. Hurwitz is interested in the consideration of user behavior in the design, evaluation, and innovation of surface transportation systems. Additionally, his program contributes to advancing the state of the practice in transportation engineering education through the development of research based curricula, assessment tools, and learning theories. Dr. Hurwitz leverages the OSU Driving and Bicycling Simulator Laboratory and a significant array of traffic data collection tools to provide a more detailed understanding of how and why transportation systems perform the way they do.

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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.

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EVENT OVERVIEW

Too often, there is a gap between research and action. For researchers, peer-reviewed scientific evidence is the benchmark of success, while for policy makers and practitioners, success is being able to apply findings in the ‘real world’.

Dr Marilyn Johnson is both a senior researcher at Monash University and a practitioner at the Amy Gillett Foundation, Australia’s not-for-profit cycling safety organisation. The seminar will be a speed-dating style presentation of the latest research studies on cycling in Australia, current cycling safety campaigns and programs and the intersection between research, policy and effective action.

Content will include: 

• Cyclist safety on-boarding at Deliveroo, review, recommendations and actions;
• Engaging with experts on e-bikes;
• Changing the road rules to improve safe cycling;
• Cycling skills for girls and women;
• Vulnerable road user safety training (read: putting truck drivers on bicycles), and;
• A major research study analysing coronial death investigations of fatal road crashes in Australia using public health and road safety theoretical frameworks.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Key findings of current cycling research
• Successes and lessons from failures in cycling safety practice
• Research and practice are part of the same feedback loop. Each needs to inform the other to create impact

SPEAKER

Marilyn Johnson, Monash University

Dr Marilyn Johnson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Transport Studies, in the Department of Civil Engineering. Marilyn is also the Research and Policy Manager at the Amy Gillett Foundation. Her research expertise is in cycling including cyclist safety, cyclist-driver interactions and electric bike use in Australia. Marilyn currently holds a DECRA Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. She is a Vice-President of the Australasian College of Road Safety and Chapter Chair (Victoria).

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Marilyn Johnson is a visiting scholar, brought to Portland State University with support from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC). The NITC program is a Portland State-led partnership with the University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah and new partners University of Arizona and University of Texas at Arlington. We pursue our theme — improving mobility of people and goods to build strong communities — through research, education and technology transfer.

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

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EVENT OVERVIEW

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

KEY LEARNING TAKEAWAYS

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

SPEAKER

Sarah Goforth, Portland Bureau of Transportation

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

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

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

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EVENT OVERVIEW

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

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

SPEAKERS

Justin Beaudoin, University of Washington Tacoma

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

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

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

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

SPEAKER

Edgar Bertini Ruas, Portland State University

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

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• Access the Excel-based Market SEGMENT prediction tool

OVERVIEW

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

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

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

THE RESEARCH

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

SPEAKERS

Philip Winters, University of South Florida

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

Amy Lester, University of South Florida

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

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