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Research Highlights
Data and Methodological Issues in Assessing Multimodal Transportation Impacts for Urban Development
Kristina Currans
In 1976, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) compiled their first Handbook of guidelines and methods for evaluating development-level transportation impacts, specifically vehicular impacts (Institute of Transportation Engineers 1976). Decades later, these methods— essentially the same as when they were originally conceived—are used ubiquitously across the US and Canada. Only recently, with the guidelines in its third edition of the ITE’s Trip Generation Handbook (Institute of Tran...
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S.T.E.A.M. TRAINing: Engaging High School Girls in Transportation and Equity Issues through GIS
Randy Morris
Nancee Hunter
The Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies’ Community Geography program wishes to apply for a grant to develop the curriculum for a 1-2 week lab course in transportation-focused mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to be held in the summer of 2019. The course will be geared towards girls of middle school and high school age, and would teach digital mapping and analysis, as well as spatial and geographic concepts, all relating to themes around transportation and transportati...
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