OLIS Sustainable Transportation Class
Vicki Elmer
This paper describes a pilot graduate sustainable transportation course developed at the University of Oregon to provide hands-on project experience for students studying sustainability. New approaches to sustainability and transportation pedagogies ...
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Addressing Homeless Encampments on Public Right-of-Way: A Knowledge Transfer Project
Andree Tremoulet
This technology transfer project provided practical information about how to address homeless encampments on public right-of-way to transportation professionals, including Federal Highway Administration officials, Oregon public works directors, trans ...
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Activity-Based Learning Module for Human Factors in the Introductory Transportation Engineering Course
David Hurwitz
The development of the transportation engineering workforce at the university level is typically promoted through civil engineering programs. Nearly all of the nation’s 224 civil engineering programs have one or two required transportation courses ...
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Enhancing Bicycle and Pedestrian Education through Curriculum and Faculty Development
Lynn Weigand
This project was intended to provide relevant curriculum on bicycle and pedestrian transportation that can be used by planning and engineering faculty to integrate these topics into their course offerings. We developed a module-based curriculum for b ...
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Development, Deployment, and Assessment of a New Educational Paradigm for Transportation Professionals and University Students
Ashley Haire
This project summary report describes the execution of OTREC Project #298 (Development, Deployment and Assessment of a New Educational Paradigm for Transportation Professionals and University Students). The project is one facet of a multiyear collabo ...
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Bicycle and Pedestrian Engineering Design Curriculum Expansion
Ashley Haire
Bicycle and pedestrian issues are gaining nationwide attention in transportation curricula. More programs seek to offer courses specifically geared towards bicycle and pedestrian planning and design goals, although fewer than 20 known courses are cur ...
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Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Community Needs Assessment
Robert Parker
John Rowell
Dependence on fossil fuels, climate change, and degraded air quality are forcing the auto industry and consumers to seek alternative solutions to the current transportation system. Significant technical breakthroughs are allowing automakers to develo ...
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designBridge: Integrating Transportation into Service Learning Design/Build Projects
Nico Larco
John Rowell
This proposal develops transportation-related projects through the work of designBridge. This active, student-based organization is composed of members from the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts working cooperatively wit ...
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Trail Planning & Community Service Curriculum
Lynn Weigand
The objective of this project was to develop a new trail planning curriculum and conduct a regional trail research project in the Portland metropolitan area. The curriculum was created for a community service-based, University Capstone course at Port ...
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designBridge: Integrating Transportation into Service Learning Design/Build Projects
Nico Larco
John Rowell
This OTREC educational project joins transportation related issues with community oriented projects through the interdisciplinary work of designBridge, a student-based organization focused on service learning design/build projects. designBridge is ba ...
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Rural Young Women Transportation Education Outreach
Roger Lindgren
Katie Edwards , William Mac Brock
Introduction
The proposed pilot project would provide an experience-based, transportation focused, residential education experience to at least 20 middle and early high school aged female students. Expertise in transportation would be provided by fa ...
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Expanding Service Learning Models in Transportation
Robert Parker
Terry Moore
This OTREC education project links experiential education with local transportation planning through a collaborative partnership between the University of Oregon, the Lane Transit District, and the cities of Eugene and Springfield. The Community Plan ...
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