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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Transportation Undergraduate Research Fellowship (TURF)
Avinash Unnikrishnan
Miguel Andres Figliozzi , Christopher Monsere
The main purpose of the Transportation Undergraduate Research Fellowship (TURF) Program is to expose and equip engineering undergraduate students with critical thinking and research skills and tools through supervised research on topics relevant to transportation engineering and planning with a livability theme under a faculty mentor. The program enables undergraduate students to work with a faculty on a pre-approved research plan. At the end of the research program, the students will be expe...
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