The Friday Transportation Seminar series at Portland State University began in the fall of 2000.
Archived materials are not available for seminars earlier than the Spring term of 2002.
Below are the dates, topics and speakers for the first two years of the Friday Transportation Seminar.
Spring 2002
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Date |
Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
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Apr 5 |
Alternative Transportation Finance |
Rep. Bruce Starr, Oregon House of Representatives |
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Apr 12 |
European Tour on Transportation and Land Use |
Lynn Peterson, Tri-Met |
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Apr 19 |
Portland/Oregon: Need For New Transit Direction |
Bob Behnke, Transportation Consultant |
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Apr 26 |
Pay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance |
Chris Hagerbaumer, Program Director, Oregon Environmental Council |
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May 3 |
Accessible Pedestrian Signals |
Bill Kloos, City of Portland |
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May 10 |
Supply Chain Management: State of the Art |
Lee Buddress, Professor, Supply and Logistics Management, School of Business Administration, Portland State University |
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May 17 |
Re-visiting the Field of Dreams: Assessing Portland's Transit Oriented Developments |
John Charles, Environmental Policy Director, Cascade Policy Institute |
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May 24 |
Transportation Demand Management at OHSU |
Louis A. Ornelas, P.E., Transportation Planner for OHSU |
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May 31 |
Measuring Street Connectivity |
Shimon Israel, MURP Candidate, School of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University |
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Jun 7 |
Interstate 5 Trade Corridor Report |
Metro Councilor Rod Monroe |
Winter 2002
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Date |
Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
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Jan 18 |
Car Sharing in Portland |
Dave Brook, General Manager, Flexcar Portland |
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Jan 25 |
Transportation Demand Management |
Tony Mendoza, Tri-Met |
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Feb 1 |
Transportation Research Board 2002 Annual Meeting Discussion |
Members of the Transportation Research Group will discuss the TRB Annual Meeting: most compelling issues, best presentations, exciting committee meetings, etc. |
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Feb 8 |
Pedestrian and Bicycle Programs at ODOT |
Michael Ronkin, Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Manager, Oregon Department of Transportation |
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Feb 15 |
Driving the agenda: Assessment of health and environment in Detroit |
Stephanie Farquhar, Assistant Professor, School of Community Health, Portland State University |
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Feb 22 |
Downtown Parking Studies and Phenomena: A Corvallis Case Study |
Beth Wemple, Kittleson and Associates |
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Mar 1 |
Oregon's Vehicle Inspection Program |
Ted Kotsakis, Program Manager, Vehicle Inspection Program, Oregon DEQ |
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Mar 8 |
Modeling at METRO |
Keith Lawton, METRO |
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Mar 15 |
Past, Present and Future Research Using Tri-Met Bus Dispatch Data |
Jim Strathman, Professor, and Thomas Kimpel, Research Associate, Center for Urban Studies, Portland State University |
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Mar 19 |
SPECIAL SEMINAR AT 3 PM (Note special time): Some issues in valuing travel time for freight movements: some recent Australian experience |
Marcus Wigan, Professor of Transport Systems, Transport Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Fall 2001
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Date |
Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
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Oct 5 |
GIS Applications in Transportation |
Earl Bossard, San Jose State University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning |
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Oct 12 |
An Intelligent Transportation/Decision Support System for Alexandria, Egypt |
Ahmed El Geneidy, Ph.D. Student, Portland State University, School of Urban Studies and Planning |
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Oct 19 |
Land Use and Women's Travel - Exploring Relationships |
Jennifer Dill, Assistant Professor, Portland State University, School of Urban Studies and Planning |
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Oct 26 |
Adaptive Traffic Signal Control in Vancouver, Washington |
Ali Eghtedari, City of Vancouver |
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Nov 2 |
Pedestrian Trauma Research |
Mary D. Gunnels, OHSU Department of Emergency Medicine |
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Nov 9 |
Transit Priority |
Peter Koonce, Kittelson & Associates |
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Nov 16 |
A Statewide Freight Demand Forecasting Model: An Iowa Case Study |
Chris Monsere, ODOT |
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Nov 30 |
Transit Mobility, Jobs Access, And Low-Income Labor Participation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas |
Tom Sanchez, Portland State University, School of Urban Studies and Planning |
Fall 2000
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Date |
Seminar Topic |
Speaker |
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Oct 5 |
Benefits of Archived ITS Data: Measuring Capacity at a Freeway Bottleneck |
Robert Bertini, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, PSU |
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Oct 12 |
The Decline of Mass Transit |
Martha Bianco, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, PSU |
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Oct 19 |
Transportation Planning in the Context of Growth Management: A Case Study of Portland |
Kenneth Dueker, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, PSU |
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Oct 26 |
Use of Bus Dispatch System Data for Operations Planning |
Steve Callas, TriMet |
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Nov 2 |
A Solid Waste Flow Simulation Model: Theory and Applications |
Doug Anderson, Metro |
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Nov 9 |
Integrated Land Use-Transportation Model for Planning in the Willamette Valley |
Brian Gregor, ODOT |
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Nov 16 |
Discussion of content for revising the course on Urban Transportation Planning |
Ken Dueker, PSU; Mike Hoglund, Metro; Lynn Peterson, TriMet; Joel Freedman, PB |