Research Projects | National Institute for Transportation and Communities

From Knowledge to Practice: Rethinking Streets for People on Bikes

Principal Investigator: Marc Schlossberg

Co-Investigators: John Rowell , Roger Lindgren

This project is a follow up to a highly successful previous NITC project and subsequent nationally distributed book, called “Rethinking Streets: An Evidence Based Guide to 25 Street Transformations. The success of the first book demonstrates a need ... Read More

Bicycle Planning GIS Tool

Principal Investigator: Joe Broach

Although currently only about one percent of US trips are done by bicycle, there is significant geographic variation. Differences across communities, along with much higher cycling rates observed in other places around the world, indicates large pote ... Read More

Contextual Guidance at Intersections for Protected Bicycle Lanes

Principal Investigator: Christopher Monsere

Co-Investigator: Nathan McNeil

Protected, or separated, bike lanes have become increasingly common around the United States. Studies have consistently found that people prefer bike facilities that are separated from traffic, such as off-street paths and protected bike lanes, with ... Read More

Life-Space Mobility and Aging in Place

Principal Investigator: Ivis Garcia

Co-Investigator: Alan DeLaTorre

Research on older adults frequently explores the notion of “aging in place”—providing older adults the opportunity to continue to live in their own homes and communities. However one’s ability to stay or leave, particularly in old age, often ... Read More

How Will Autonomous Vehicles Change Local Government Budgeting and Finance? A Case Study of Solid Waste, Drop-off/Pick-up Zones, and Parking

Principal Investigator: Benjamin Clark

This project specifically seeks to study the secondary effects of AVs (not the innovation themselves but how innovations impact our lives), with a specific focus on local government fiscal impacts. The breadth of impacts are wide ranging and were out ... Read More

How Can Interdisciplinary Teams Leverage Emerging Technologies to Respond to Transportation Infrastructure Needs? A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Civil Engineers, Urban Planning, and Social Workers’ Perspectives

Principal Investigator: Noelle Fields

Co-Investigators: Courtney Cronley , Kate Hyun , Stephen Mattingly

This study explores strengthening collaboration between disciplines, to build a transportation system that better serves everyone. Transportation planners and engineers often struggle to serve at-risk communities and environmental justice (EJ) pop ... Read More

A Decentralized Network Consensus Control Approach for Urban Traffic Signal Optimization

Principal Investigator: Gerardo Lafferriere

The main contribution of this project is the simulation platform that allows for comparison between the proposed consensus approach and a standard traffic signal control protocol. The main features of the mathematical model and the simulation tools a ... Read More

How Technology Can Affect the Demand for Bicycle Transportation: The State of Technology and Projected Applications of Connected Bicycles

Principal Investigator: John MacArthur

The term “connected vehicle (CV)” refers to vehicles equipped with devices, which enable wireless communication between internal and external entities, supporting vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-everything ... Read More

Diversity Grant, Cronley

Principal Investigator: Courtney Cronley

Co-Investigators: Noelle Fields , Stephen Mattingly

This proposal seeks to support one female social-work doctoral student to work on the NITC research project titled, Evaluating Improved Transit Connections for Ladders of Opportunity, which is a collaboration between NITC partner institutions, The Un ... Read More

Evaluating Effects of Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction on Bridge Foundations and Transportation Network Using CDSS

Principal Investigator: Arash Khosravifar

Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) is expected to produce a Magnitude 9 earthquake that can adversely affect the transportation networks in the Pacific Northwest (PACNW). This includes highway bridges specifically the ones crossing the Columbia and Willa ... Read More

Bridge Seismic Retrofit Feasibility Case Study Utilizing Ductile Fuses

Principal Investigator: Peter Dusicka

In an effort to increase the seismic resiliency of our transportation network, a performance centric retrofit measure has been developed as part of State funded research and evaluated through to large scale laboratory setting. With an eye toward impl ... Read More

Evaluation of landslide susceptibility in Portland’s West Hills

Principal Investigator: Diane Moug

Portland’s West Hills in the Tualatin Mountains are home to approximately 22,200 residents and 10,000 households, with supporting roads, utilities, and businesses (2010 Census data). The Tualatin Mountains are covered in wind deposited soils (“lo ... Read More

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