Research Projects | National Institute for Transportation and Communities

Changing attitudes toward sustainable transportation: The impact of meta-arguments

Principal Investigator: David Sanbonmatsu

Co-Investigator: David Strayer

An experiment tested the effects of both communications about the functions of an attitude and communications about the functions of an attitude object on persuasion. Participants received a conventional message about the benefits of public transpor ... Read More

Utilizing Ego-centric Video to Conduct Naturalistic Bicycling Studies

Principal Investigator: Feng Liu

Co-Investigators: Miguel Andres Figliozzi , Wu-chi Feng

Bicycling is enjoying a surge in popularity across the USA but bicycle safety continues to remain a challenge. Cyclists (and pedestrians) are the most vulnerable road users since cyclist-vehicle collisions often result in severe injuries and have hig ... Read More

Tech Transfer: Tools for Assisting Low Income Households With Finding Location-Efficient Housing

Principal Investigator: Andree Tremoulet

Through a previously funded research project, Encouraging Low-Income Households to Make Location-Efficient Housing Choices, our team developed a toolkit to assist households utilizing Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers with finding location-efficient/ ... Read More

Online Non-motorized Traffic Count Archive

Principal Investigator: Krista Nordback

Co-Investigator: Kristin Tufte

Robust bicycle and pedestrian data on a national scale would serve numerous purposes. Access to a centralized nonmotorized traffic count archive can open the door for innovation through research, design and planning; provide safety researchers with a ... Read More

Pedestrian and Transit Oriented Design

Principal Investigator: Keith Bartholomew

This course introduces the theoretical basis and design principles of compact urban development and will review local, national and international TOD’s for the urban design qualities that make a place walkable and encourage multi-modal transportati ... Read More

Active Travel Behavior and Spatial-Temporal Land Use Mixing

Principal Investigator: Steven Gehrke

Urban policies have emphasized the importance of land use mixing as an intervention beholding of lasting planning and public health benefits. Transportation planners have identified potential in efficiency gains achieved by increasing land use mix an ... Read More

Graduate-level Civil Engineering Transportation Course Development-Oregon Tech

Principal Investigator: Roger Lindgren

Co-Investigators: David Thaemert , Charles (C.J.) Riley

The Civil Engineering Department at Oregon Tech began offering an innovative co-terminal BS/MS degrees program in the Fall of 2013. Students who enter as freshmen can complete both degree requirements in as few as five academic years by starting grad ... Read More

Development of a Pedestrian Demand Estimation Tool

Principal Investigator: Kelly Clifton

There is growing support to improve the quality of the walking environment and make investments to promote pedestrian travel. Such efforts often require analytical non-motorized planning tools to estimate levels of pedestrian demand that are sensitiv ... Read More

Disseminating the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) Educational Model to UTC Campuses

Principal Investigator: Nico Larco

Co-Investigator: Marc Schlossberg

The University of Oregon has developed a catalytic learning model that simultaneously meets the needs of both the next generation’s transportation workforce and cities looking for innovative and catalytic ways to advance a new era of transportation ... Read More

UO NITC National Education Project: Advanced GIS: Smart Transportation

Principal Investigator: Christopher Bone

Data sensors are ubiquitous in our daily lives, collecting information about how we move, where we eat, and with whom we communicate. Sensors have also become a strategic and efficient means for collecting data on transportation by recording how peop ... Read More

Multimodal Transportation Planning Curriculum for Urban Planning Programs

Principal Investigator: Kristine Williams

Integrated multimodal transportation and land use planning is critical to advancing mode choice, public health and safety, and livability objectives. Communities across the U.S. are seeking to redefine their planning process accordingly. In response, ... Read More

The Effects of Commuter Rail on Population Deconcentration and Commuting: A Salt Lake City Case Study

Principal Investigator: Joanna Ganning

The Wasatch Front is a rapidly growing metropolitan area situated in a region with natural features that extraordinarily limit growth. The Wasatch Front Mountains constrain growth on one side while the Great Salt Lake and the Oquirrh mountains constr ... Read More

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