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
Improving Accuracy and Precision of Pedestrian Volume Estimates Using Advanced Machine Learning Approaches
Sirisha Kothuri
Banafsheh Rekabdar
Counts provide the foundation for measuring nonmotorized travel along a link or a network and are also useful for monitoring trends, planning new infrastructure, and for conducting safety, health, and economic analyses. Most agencies still use manual counting methods, however over the last decade, several automated technologies have been developed to count bicyclists and pedestrians. Due to cost and other resource considerations, permanent counts are still limited to small subsets of networks...
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Investigations in Transportation
Carol BiskupicKnight
William Becker
The Investigations in Transportation program is an elementary school partnership and curriculum development project to engage science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals in school-based activities and projects to bring real-world applications to elementary classrooms for grades 3-5. The Portland Metro STEM Partnership (PMSP) provided leadership and facilitation to a team of educators from Portland State University, Beaverton School District and Hillsboro School Distr...
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