Exploring Bike Bus Programs in the United States
John MacArthur
Nathan McNeil
Photo by Jonathan Maus, BikePortland
This research report, authored by Evan Howington, John MacArthur, and Nathan McNeil of PSU's Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC), concludes that bike buses have the potential to leverage the las ...
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SAI-P: Overcoming Barriers to User-Centered Infrastructure Planning with System Modeling and Natural Language Processing
Antonie Jetter
Avinash Unnikrishnan , Ameeta Agrawal
Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate humancentered fundamental and potentially transformative research that strengthens America?s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for ...
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E-bike Incentives Programs Study
John MacArthur
The University of Washington and Portland State University will partner to research how e-bike incentive programs change travel choices and their related greenhouse gas emissions using funding from City of Portland PCEF (Portland Clean Energy Communi ...
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A Research Roadmap for Institutionalizing Transportation Equity
Aaron Golub
Nathan McNeil
The American Association of State Highway Transportation (AASHTO) Strategic Plan includes a goal of promoting diversity in all AASHTO activities, collaborating with traditional and nontraditional partners to support equity and social justice objectiv ...
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Mobility and Accessibility Resilience of Transportation Infrastructures
David Yang
The objective is to address practical challenges related to mobility and accessibility following natural disasters. The anticipated outcome of this project will be to provide actionable insights and solutions that can be implemented in real-world tra ...
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Evaluation of Different Curb Extension Treatments for Pedestrian Comfort and Safety at Intersections
Nathan McNeil
Sirisha Kothuri
In a project funded by the The District Department of Transportation (DDOT), Portland State University is partnering with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to document and identify factors associated with road user safety and comfort at ...
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E-commerce Impacts on Oregon Household Level Deliveries, Trips, and VMT
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
The last decade saw double-digit growth of e-commerce sales, both in the US and Oregon, which translates to more delivery vehicles on the roads to meet this demand. However, there is no observed data available to determine the net impacts on system u ...
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Pile-supported Wharves Subjected to Combined Inertial and Lateral Ground Deformation Loads in Earthquakes
Arash Khosravifar
This project will improve the resilience of maritime transportation systems in earthquakes, including ports, terminals, and Navy facilities which are key components of economic prosperity, emergency response, and national security. In addition, ports ...
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Examining the Geotechnical Earthquake Hazard to Transportation Assets in Oregon and Washington: Characterizing Earthquake-Induced Deformations of Silt Soils
Diane Moug
Critical transportation infrastructure in Washington and Oregon is vulnerable to damage during strong earthquake shaking, including the anticipated magnitude 9 Cascadia Subduction Zone event. A major hazard to transportation infrastructure is the fai ...
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Development Of A New Visioneval Land Use Model And Applications To Evaluation Of Climate Strategies In Oregon
Liming Wang
The VisionEval (VE) model system evolved from the successful GreenSTEP suite of analytic tools originated at ODOT and is now widely used by agencies within Oregon and elsewhere. GreenSTEP was developed to provide ODOT and other agencies in Oregon the ...
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Metro Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs) Surveys
Nathan McNeil
Jennifer Dill
Periodically Portland State University (PSU) has worked with Metro to survey resident and other occupants of transit-oriented developments (TODs) in the Portland Metro area. Following up on surveys conducted in 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014, and 2018 this p ...
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Effects of Neighborhood Greenways on Active Transportation Behavior and Perceptions in Portland, Oregon
Jennifer Dill
Nathan McNeil , Katsuya Tanaka
Streets play an important part in the daily lives of most people, serving as vital connections to employment, recreation, socialization and much more. Streets (including sidewalks) also serve as important places in and of themselves, including as loc ...
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