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Webinar: Building Capacity in Gateway Communities through the GNAR Academy
Jordan Katcher and Elizabeth Sodja
6-12-2024
Small towns and cities near national parks, public lands, and other natural amenities across the West are experiencing rapid growth and increased tourism. As we have documented via our prior ...Read More
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Webinar: Marginalized Populations’ Access to Transit
Marisa Zapata
4-17-2024
How do people with intersecting marginal identities experience social exclusion as they travel via mass transit? To answer this question, PSU researchers employed a qualitative method less common in transportation ...Read More
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Webinar: Assessing Cool Corridor Heat Resilience Strategies for Human-Scale Transportation
Ladd Keith and Kristina Currans
3-14-2024
Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States, and the implications of heat impacts range from individual transportation users, to emergency management services, and entire transportation networks ...Read More
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Webinar: Developing a New Accessibility Measure to Support Older Adults in a Post-Pandemic World
Andy Hong and Zihao Wen
11-29-2023
Older adults often face challenges with mobility and accessibility, which can limit their independence and quality of life. This seminar will explore these issues and lessons learned from the research ...Read More
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Webinar: Understanding Connections Between Mobility, Transportation, And Quality Of Life In Refugee Communities In Tucson, Arizona
Orhon Myadar
10-30-2023
While resettlement typically allows millions of forcibly displaced persons to escape from unpredictable and often dangerous conditions of displacement, most refugees experience an array of challenges after resettlement as they ...Read More
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Webinar: Transportation Resources And Behaviors Among Older Immigrants And Migrants
Rebecca Mauldin, Stephen Mattingly, and Rupal Parekh
6-8-2023
This presentation reports findings from a cross-sectional survey of older Vietnamese immigrants in the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX metroplex and members of a Hispanic senior center in Hartford, CT. In addition ...Read More
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Webinar: Collecting and Analyzing Pedestrian Behaviors at Intersections Using LiDAR Tracking Technologies
Taylor Li and Sirisha Kothuri
5-18-2023
The aim of this research is to investigate pedestrian behavior at signalized intersections using state-of-the-art LIDAR sensing technologies and to use this data, along with vehicular data, to develop a ...Read More
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Webinar: Planning and Development in Gateway Communities, Post COVID
Philip Stoker
3-16-2023
Gateway communities are the small towns outside of national parks, forests, scenic rivers, and ski resorts. This presentation will highlight the housing, transportation, and development challenges that these communities faced ...Read More
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Webinar: Improving Recreational Trail Accessibility with a Volcanic Ash Treatment
Charles Riley and Ashton Greer
2-23-2023
Recreational trails serve as valuable transportation corridors and support the health of users. Wheelchair accessibility of recreational trails depends on a variety of conditions, including slope, cross-slope, and surface characteristics. ...Read More
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Webinar: Individual Wayfinding in the Context of Visual Impairment, Blindness, and Deafblindness
Amy Parker and Martin Swobodzinski
12-15-2022
In this presentation we will highlight our past research on human indoor-outdoor wayfinding on an urban college campus. Our work is aimed at facilitating independent travel for people with blindness ...Read More
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Webinar: Community Transportation Academies: Rethinking Effective Community Engagement Around Transportation Decision-Making
Nathan McNeil, Keith Bartholomew, Andrea Olson, Laura Hanson, and Thuy Tu
10-20-2022
This webinar will introduce you to the concept of the Community Transportation Academy (CTA), a model which has been operating in Portland for over 30 years in the form of ...Read More
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Webinar: Assessing Economic Impact of Disaster-Induced Transportation Disruptions Using a University-Community Partnership Framework
Divya Chandrasekhar
7-12-2022
Transportation systems play a critical role in maintaining supply chains for effective post-disaster recovery. Modeling the potential economic impact of transportation-related disruptions, therefore, is an important step to promoting pre-event ...Read More
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Webinar: Scooting to Healthy and Safe Mode Choices
Kristina M. Currans, Nicole Iroz-Elardo, and John MacArthur
6-7-2022
Shared electric scooters (e-scooters) are fast becoming a mobility option in cities across the United States. This new micromobility mode has the potential to replace car usage for certain trips, ...Read More
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Webinar: The Impact of Decentralizing Homeless Services on Transportation and Mobility
Sarah Canham, Ivis Garcia, Shannon Jones, and Jeff Rose
4-20-2022
With findings from a mixed methods research study, this interdisciplinary webinar will present results from a historical public document analysis, a GIS spatial analyses, client surveys and interviews, and interviews ...Read More
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Webinar: Exploring Data Fusion Techniques to Derive Bicycle Volumes on a Network
Sirisha Kothuri, Joe Broach, and Kate Hyun
3-10-2022
Planners and decision makers have increasingly voiced a need for network-wide estimates of bicycling activity. Such volume estimates have for decades informed motorized planning and analysis but have only recently ...Read More
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Webinar: Is Transit-Oriented Development Affordable for Low and Moderate Income Households?
Reid Ewing and Justyna Kaniewska
2-15-2022
Transportation and land use planning, as a field, is shifting away from segregated uses connected by highways and streets to more compact, mixed-use developments connected by high-quality transit. This new ...Read More
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Webinar: Mobility, Accessibility, and Resiliency of Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Kate Hyun, Kathy Lee, and Caroline Krejci
1-26-2022
Mobility disparities among older adults affect their ability to travel and access services. This project seeks to understand challenges, barriers, and gaps that older adults experience and to develop forms ...Read More
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Webinar: Radar Point Cloud Segmentation using GMM in Traffic Monitoring
Siyang Cao
11-9-2021
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) change our communities by improving the safety and convenience of people’s daily mobility. The system relies on multimodal traffic monitoring, that needs to provide reliable, efficient ...Read More
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Webinar: The Impact of Transportation-Related Barriers on Self-Perceived Physical Health among Adults in the US
Philip Baiden and Godfred Boateng
10-12-2021
Drawing from the framework of social determinants of health, the objective of this study is to investigate the cross-sectional association between transportation-related factors and self-perceived physical health among adults in ...Read More
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Webinar: Data-Driven Mobility Strategies for Multimodal Transportation
Yao-Jan Wu, Abolfazl Karimpour, and Xianfeng Terry Yang
9-15-2021
Multimodal transportation systems (e.g., walking, cycling, automobile, public transit, etc.) are effective in increasing people’s travel flexibility, reducing congestion, and improving safety. Therefore, it is critical to understand what factors ...Read More
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Webinar: The Impact of Ride Hail Services on the Accessibility of Nonprofit Services
Dyana Mason
7-13-2021
Nonprofit organizations are responsible for providing human services across the United States, often in partnership with government agencies. In this work, they address some of the most pressing social issues ...Read More
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Webinar: Electric Bus Deployment: Cost and Environmental Equity
Cathy Liu
6-8-2021
This presentation introduces an innovative spatiotemporal analytical framework and web-based visualization platform developed by researchers at the University of Utah to assist transit agencies in identifying optimal deployment strategies for ...Read More
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Webinar: Eliminating Cash Options for Public Transit Fares: Costs, Benefits and Equity Impacts
Aaron Golub
5-11-2021
Many transit agencies plan to automate their fare collection and limit the use of cash, with the goals of improving boarding and data collection while lowering operating costs. Yet about ...Read More
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Webinar: Rethinking Streets During COVID
Clare Haley, John Larson-Friend, Marc Schlossberg, and Aliza Whalen
4-4-2021
Re-allocating space on streets to accommodate new uses – particularly for walking, biking, and being – is not new. However, COVID-era needs have accelerated the process that many communities use ...Read More
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Webinar: Transit Impacts on Jobs, People and Real Estate
Arthur C. Nelson, Kristina Currans, and Robert Hibberd
3-23-2021
This webinar has six elements: Introducing themes related to how transit should affect the location of jobs and people, and how real estate should respond; Creating a research typology of ...Read More
The Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University (PSU) is first and foremost an interdisciplinary center. Our research initiatives pull together the voices and expertise of a wide range of backgrounds that collectively shape the ways we move through the world. We support collaborative research and education that provide a unique lens on transportation insight for vibrant communities. TREC is home to the U.S. DOT funded National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) consortium, the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI), and other transportation grants and programs. We produce impactful research for transportation decision makers, and support the education of future transportation professionals through curriculum development and student participation in research.
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