TREC research addresses complex transportation problems by drawing on multiple disciplines, including engineering, planning, economics and design, from across the Portland State University campus. Use the search box at right to search for a specific project.
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Research Highlights
Developing SafeSpot: A New Crowdsourcing Tool for Real-Time Near-Miss Detection and Risk Mapping
Tanmoy Bhowmik
Primal Pappachan
Transportation safety analysis has traditionally relied on police-reported crashes to identify dangerous locations. This reactive approach overlooks the many near-miss incidents and perceived hazards that occur daily but go unrecorded. Understanding such incidents is essential for proactive transportation safety planning, allowing for interventions before injuries or fatalities occur. However, current practice lacks a systematic way to collect and analyze near-miss data, creating a critical g...
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Marginalized Populations’ Access to Transit: Journeys from Home and Work to Transit
Marisa Zapata
Ivis Garcia , Amy Lubitow , Miriam Abelson
Previous scholarship has shown that low-income individuals who also might identify as racial, ethnic, and gender minorities (such as transgender and gender nonconforming) are more likely to be dependent on public transportation. What remains understudied is how these marginalized groups, given their intersectional identities of oppression, might experience transit. The primary research question guiding this project is how do people with intersecting marginal identities experience social exclu...
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