The NITC Guide to the 2018 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Conference
This page serves as a homebase for our coverage of the 2018 Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual conference. Check back here for ongoing updates, as well as our Twitter and Facebook.
- NITC GUIDE TO TRB (print-friendly PDF): our printable schedule of where all of our NITC researchers will be presenting at lectures, poster sessions, and workshops
- NITC RECEPTION AT TRB: Join us for transportation bingo, co-hosted with TransitCenter, on Monday, January 8th (7–10:30pm) nearby at Fado Irish Pub
- NITC STUDENT AWARD AT CUTC BANQUET: We’ll be celebrating our 2017 NITC “Student of the Year”, Jordan Preston of Oregon Tech at the annual CUTC Banquet. She has been working as a graduate research assistant on two NITC-funded projects, learn more about her research work here.
Highlights: NITC Universities at TRB
These are just a few highlights of NITC-funded research at TRB:
- UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
- Updating and Expanding LRT/BRT/SCT/CRT Data and Analysis
- Hear more from the researchers on the patterns they found around jobs and housing concentrating near transit.
- Presented at TRB:
- “Built Environment and Demographic Issues” Lecture on Wed, Jan 10 (2:30pm - 4:00pm) with “Longitudinal Cluster Analysis of Jobs-Housing Balance in Transit Neighborhoods”
- Updating and Expanding LRT/BRT/SCT/CRT Data and Analysis
- UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
- Effectiveness of Transportation Funding Mechanisms for Achieving National, State, and Metropolitan Economic, Health, and Other Livability Goals
- Read previous coverage of this research here
- Presented at TRB:
- “Current Trends and Opportunities in Transportation Funding and Financing” Poster Session on Monday, Jan 8 (1:30pm - 3:15pm) with “Explaining Transportation Funding Ballot Measure Success”
- Effectiveness of Transportation Funding Mechanisms for Achieving National, State, and Metropolitan Economic, Health, and Other Livability Goals
- PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
- Presented at TRB:
- “Cycling and Equity” Poster Session on Wed, Jan 10 (8:00am - 9:45am) with “Bike Share and Equity in Low-Income Communities of Color: What Opportunities are there to Include Older Adults?”
- “Shared Mobility: Equity, Adoption, and Tools for Management” Lecture on Mon, Jan 8 (8:00a - 9:45p) with “People of Color Contemplating Bikeshare: Insights for Marketing and Outreach”
- “Bikeshare Users and System Design” Lecture on Mon, Jan 8 (10:15am - 12pm) with “Bikeshare for Everyone? Views of Residents in Lower-Income Communities of Color”
- Presented at TRB:
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
- As a new NITC partner, this research was not NITC-funded but it’s work like theirs that advances our shared goal of building strong communities through mobility!
- (Link to final research forthcoming)
- Related upcoming NITC research from UTA: How Can Interdisciplinary Teams Leverage Emerging Technologies to Respond to Transportation Infrastructure Needs?
- Presented at TRB:
- “Frontiers in Social and Economic Factors of Transportation” Poster Session on Mon, Jan 8 (3:45pm - 5:30pm) with “Leveraging App Technology to Measure the Impact of Transportation Disadvantage: A methodological case study”
- As a new NITC partner, this research was not NITC-funded but it’s work like theirs that advances our shared goal of building strong communities through mobility!
- UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
- Trip and Parking Generation at Transit-Oriented Developments
- Read about the project's findings on driving trips at TODs
- Presented at TRB:
- Emerging Research in Transportation and Land Development Poster Session on Tues, Jan 9 (8:00am - 09:45am) with “Trip and Parking Generation Rates for Different Housing Types: Effects of Compact Development”
- “Public Transportation: Developing Future Transit” Poster Session on Tues, Jan 9 (1:30pm - 3:15pm) with “Trip and Parking Generation Study of Orenco Station TOD, Portland Region”
- Trip and Parking Generation at Transit-Oriented Developments
Involvement: NITC Researchers in the Program
Numbers represent involvement of NITC researchers, and not necessarily NITC-funded research. Download our printable guide to where our NITC researchers will be presenting here.
- 75+ researchers from NITC-funded universities contributed to the program
- 80 papers were accepted for presentation at the conference, in
- 28 lectern presentations;
- 56 posters; and
- 3 workshops
- NITC staff and researchers will preside over 12 meetings at the conference.
- We're supporting the attendance of over 40 students to the annual meeting. Of the students attending, 20 are presenting work at the conference, 12 of them as lead authors.
The National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), one of five U.S. Department of Transportation national university transportation centers, brings its research to the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board every year. TRB is the nation's largest and most influential event on transportation research, brings together 12,000 people each year in Washington, D.C.
Housed at Portland State University, NITC is a program of the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC). This Portland State-led research partnership includes the University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, University of Utah and new partners University of Arizona and University of Texas at Arlington.