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Spring 2008 Transportation Seminar Series
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Seminar Topic |
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| Apr 4 |
200th Seminar!
Travel Time Estimation for Traffic Management and Traveler Information [presentation slides] |
Robert L. Bertini, Portland State University |
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| Apr 11 |
Behavioral Responses to Oregon's Mileage Fee Experiment |
Anthony Rufolo, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University |
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| Apr 18 |
Traffic Choices Study: Findings from a Road Pricing Experiment |
Matthew Kitchen, Puget Sound Regional Council |
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| Apr 25 |
Older Drivers in Oregon: Factors Associated with Continuing or Ceasing to Drive [presentation slides] |
Margaret Neal, Director, Institute on Aging, Portland State University |
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| May 2 |
Transit-Oriented Development: Findings from Recent Research [Dr. Dill's presentation slides]
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GB Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking and Jennifer Dill, PSU |
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| May 9 |
Long Before Airline Deregulation |
Alan R. Bender, Associate Professor of Aeronautics, Worldwide Campus, Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL |
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| May 16 |
Where Do People Bicycle? The Role of Infrastructure in Determining Bicycling Behavior |
Jennifer Dill, Associate Professor, School of Urban Studies and Planning, PSU |
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| May 23 |
Using the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Program Products and Database |
Antonio Nieves Torres,
Federal Highway Administration |
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| May 30 |
Imagine 82nd |
InSight Visioning and Planning, PSU MURP Workshop Project team |
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| Jun 6 |
Public Health and Active Living |
Dr. James Sallis, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University; Director, Active Living Research
Co-sponsored by the School of Community Health |
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| * Speaker sponsored by Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium Visiting Scholar Program |
Tentative Schedule: speakers and topics subject to change
Seminars are free and open to the public, and may be taken for credit.
Please join us: 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in Room 204 of the Distance Learning Center Wing of the Urban Center on the Portland State University campus [click for campus MAP], at the corner of SW Mill Street and Sixth Avenue in downtown Portland.
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- Download archived file by right-clicking on the -Download- links. [STATISTICS]. June 2007 : 180 seminars since 2000, 145 archived (streaming) and for download since 2002.
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- You may be able to earn Professional Development Hours (PDHs) toward your Oregon engineering licensure. See rules.
- Further information or to suggest speakers: Jennifer Dill [email]
503-725-5173, Robert L. Bertini [email]
503-725-4249, Chris
Monsere [email]
FUTURE: Fall 2008 Transportation Seminar Series
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TBA |
Michael Berman, AICP,
Senior Strategic Planner,
ICx Transportation |
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Oregon's Statewide
Work Zone Traffic Analysis Program |
Smith Siromaskul, P.E., Mobility Coordinator, Oregon Bridge Delivery Partners |
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| Nov 28 |
No Seminar - Happy Thanksgiving |
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ARCHIVE: Winter 2008 Transportation Seminar Series
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Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
Archive |
| Jan 11 |
Bicycling in London: Innovations, Outreach, and Progress |
Steve Durrant, Alta Planning + Design |
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| Jan 18 |
Psychological Insights on Transportation Mode Choice [presentation slides] |
Brent Zenobia,
Adjunct Professor, Software Engineering, Portland State University |
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| Jan 25 |
Portland Aerial Tram Update |
Art Pearce, Project Manager,
City of Portland, Office of Transportation |
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| Feb 1 |
An Analysis of the Efficiency of Urban Commercial Vehicle Tours |
Miguel Figliozzi, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Portland State University |
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| Feb 8 |
Strategies for Operating Closely Spaced Traffic Signals |
Zong Tian, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno |
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| Feb 15 |
Where the Rubber Leaves the Road: A Snapshot of Two Current Efforts to Manage Parking Issues in Regional Centers |
Marc Guichard, Metro |
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| Feb 22 |
Transportation Careers: Working Together to Move Forward |
Brian Ray and Jamie Parks, Kittelson and Associates, Inc. |
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| Feb 29 |
Sustainable Urban Logistics: SeuLo |
Erkki Timmerbacka, Senior Consultant, Establish United Logistics Group (Finland Oy) |
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| Mar 7 |
Taming the Dragon: Reducing the Climate Impact of the Transportation System
[presentation slides; paper] |
Lewison Lem, Principal Consultant, PB |
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| Mar 14 |
Children's School Travel |
Yizhao Yang, Assistant Professor, Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon |
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* Speaker sponsored by Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium Visiting Scholar Program |
ARCHIVE: Fall 2007 Transportation Seminar Series
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Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
Archive |
| Sep 28 |
Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling
to Improve Public Health: Lessons from Europe [presentation slides] |
*John Pucher, Professor, Rutgers University |
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| Oct 5 |
On-line Calibration for Dynamic Traffic Assignment [presentation slides] |
Constantinos Antoniou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
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| Oct 12 |
Freight Railroad Capacity Alternatives in the Pacific Northwest: An Analysis of Class I Cooperation in the Columbia River Corridor [presentation slides] |
Zachary Horowitz, David Evans & Associates |
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| Oct 19 |
BridgeStories |
Sharon Wood Wortman, author of The Portland Bridge Book, www.bridgestories.com |
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| Oct 26 |
Transportation Infrastructure Investment: Past, Present and Future |
Congressman Earl Blumenauer |
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| Nov 2 |
Portland's Green Dividend [presentation slides] |
Joe Cortright, Vice President/Economist,
Impresa, Inc. |
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| Nov 9 |
Urban Roadside Safety -- Is There Anything We Can Do To Improve Safety Performance?
[presentation slides] |
Karen Dixon, Associate Professor, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University |
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| Nov 16 |
Transit's Dirty Little Secret: Analyzing Patterns of Transit Use [presentation slides] |
*Brian Taylor, Professor, Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles |
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| Nov 23 |
No Seminar - Happy Thanksgiving |
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| Nov 30 |
The Wheels of Fortune: Weather Prophet Pague, Governor Geer, & Portland's Original Network of Cycle Paths [presentation slides] |
Eric Lundgren, Fortunaerota
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| * Speaker sponsored by Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium Visiting Scholar Program |
ARCHIVE: Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series
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Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
Archive |
| Apr 6 |
Development of the Bellevue Real Time Arterial Traffic Flow Map |
Fred Liang, P.E., City of Bellevue, Washington |
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| Apr 13 |
Making Transportation Concurrency More Multimodal: Lessons from Washington and Florida. |
Ruth Steiner, Associate Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
University of Florida |
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| Apr 20 |
Portland SmartTrips: Results from the Northeast Hub project [presentation slides]
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Dan Bower, City of Portland Department of Transportation, Transportation Options Policy Group |
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| Apr 27 |
Combining Climate, Crash, and Highway Data for Improved Ranking of Speed and Winter-Weather Related Crash Locations in Oregon |
Christopher Monsere, Assistant Professor, Portland State University |
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| May 4 |
Bicycling in Davis , CA : A Critical Look at Policy and Behavior in the First Platinum Bicycle City in the U.S. |
*Susan Handy, Professor, UC Davis |
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| May 11 |
Socio-economic Impacts of a Vehicle-Mile Tax |
B. Starr McMullen, Professor of Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University |
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| May 18 |
Using a GPS Panel to Evaluate Travel Behavior Changes |
*Peter Stopher, Professor of Transport Planning, Institute of Transport & Logistics Studies, University of Sydney |
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| May 25 |
Bicycle & Pedestrian Overcrossings
Carsharing Payment Integration
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Rory Renfro, PSU MURP candidate
Max Coffman, PSU MURP candidate |
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| Jun 1 |
Travel Time Reliability
Pedestrian Crossing Behavior |
Kate Lyman, PSU MURP candidate
Delia Chi, PSU MURP candidate |
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| Jun 8 |
Spatial Analysis of Bicycling Behavior
Parking at Transit-oriented Multi-family Housing |
Kim Voros, PSU MURP candidate
Joe Recker, PSU MURP candidate |
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| Jun 15 |
SPECIAL SEMINAR: News from the ITS America Annual Meeting, hosted by ITS Oregon |
Jon Makler, Dean Deeter, Galen McGill |
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| * Speaker sponsored by Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium Visiting Scholar Program |
ARCHIVE: Winter 2007 Transportation Seminar Series
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Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
Archive |
| Jan 12 |
Supply Chain Environmental Performance: Analysis and Optimization |
Kumar Venkat, Surya Technologies, Inc. |
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| Jan 19 |
How Portland is Taking America Back to the Future: the National Streetcar Movement and the Changing Urban Landscape |
Charlie Hales, HDR, Inc. |
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| Jan 26 |
Factors Affecting Bicycling Demand: Initial Survey Findings from Portland Region |
Jennifer Dill and Kim Voros, Portland State University |
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| Feb 2 |
The High Cost of Free Parking |
*Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA |
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| Feb 9 |
Air Quality: Toxics and Transportation
[presentation slides] |
Gregg Lande
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
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| Feb 16 |
The Portland Mall Revitalization: Designing a Great Street |
Bob Hastings, TriMet Project Architect, and Brian McCarter, ZGF Portland Mall Project Architect |
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| Feb 23 |
State and Federal Freight Issues |
Julie F. Rodwell, Freight Mobility Section Manager, Oregon Department of Transportation |
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| Mar 2 |
Microsimulating Land Development with the Land Use Scenario DevelopeR (LUSDR) |
Brian Gregor, Oregon Department of Transportation |
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| Mar 9 |
Where Transportation is Going: Transportation in the CLIOS System Era [presentation slides] |
*Joseph M. Sussman, JR East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Mar 16 |
PORTAL: Lessons from Developing an Archived Data User Service in Portland, Oregon |
Robert L. Bertini, Portland State University and the PORTAL Team |
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| * Speaker sponsored by Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium Visiting Scholar Program |
ARCHIVE: Fall 2006 Transportation Seminar Series
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Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
Archive |
| Sep 29 |
A Generic Approach to Real-time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance |
Yibing Wang, Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece |
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| Oct 6 |
The Future of Advanced Travel Demand Modeling: Positive Theory, Behavioral Model, and Process Data |
Lei Zhang, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University |
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| Oct 13 |
The Future is NOW: Biofuels for Air Quality, Energy Security and Economic Development |
Tomas Endicott, SeQuential Biofuels |
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| Oct 20 |
Flexcar 101 |
Brodie Hylton, Flexcar |
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| Oct 27 |
The End of Commuting [presentation slides] |
*Alan E. Pisarski |
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| Nov 3 |
Understanding the Impact of Variability in Border Crossing Times on Regional Supply Chains |
Anne Goodchild, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington |
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| Nov 10 |
No Seminar - Veterans Day |
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| Nov 17 |
Quantifying Walkability - Toward an Objective and Reliable Measure of the Pedestrian Environment |
Jamie Parks, Kittleson Associates, Inc. |
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| Nov 24 |
No Seminar - Happy Thanksgiving |
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