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
A Proactive Approach to Examining Transportation Safety and Equity
Aaron Golub
The PSU team will be a core contributor to the literature review focused on equity analysis approaches and best practices. This contribution will complement the expertise on safety and geographical analysis brought to the project from other team members.
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Measuring the Impacts of Social Media on Advancing Public Transit
Jenny Liu
(Jeff) Xuegang Ban
This project is a collaboration between Portland State University (PSU) and the Center for Infrastructure Transportation & Environment (CITE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seeking to develop performance measures for assessing the impacts of social media on promoting public transit. Revolutionary changes have occurred in the communication landscape, and there has been a rapid diffusion of social media use as a means of communicating transit information to the public. Significant resource...
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