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Pedestrian Observation and Data Collection Curriculum
Jennifer Dill
This guidebook provides a comprehensive set of class exercises suitable for students in courses related to travel behavior, traffic safety, urban planning and design, community health, or civil engineering. Exercises include activities developed thro ...
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Phase 2 Multimodal Transportation Planning Applications Curriculum for Urban Planning Programs
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, ...
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Dynamic Evaluation of Transportation Structures with iPod-Based Data Acquisition
Charles (C.J.) Riley
This grant supported coursework and laboratory development and expanded research capacity, promoting (a) innovative learning activities that expose students to cutting-edge methods of bridge structural health and behavior monitoring and (b) research ...
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Design for an Aging Population
Trygve Faste
Kiersten Muenchinger
Older Americans are increasing in numbers and addressing their needs through better public transportation design will improve their quality of life. This study sought to increase understanding of the obstacles faced by people with impairments in visi ...
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Establishing Graduate Certificates in Sustainable Transportation at US Universities & Colleges
Keith Bartholomew
Aside from cruising State Street on a Saturday night, transportation is not an objective in and of itself, but a means to carry out the functions of daily living, connecting us from where we are to where we need to be. Those functions, which are spat ...
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Investigations in Transportation
Carol BiskupicKnight
William Becker
The Investigations in Transportation program is an elementary school partnership and curriculum development project to engage science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals in school-based activities and projects to bring real- ...
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Pedestrian and Transit Oriented Design
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 ...
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Graduate-level Civil Engineering Transportation Course Development-Oregon Tech
Roger Lindgren
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 ...
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UO NITC National Education Project: Advanced GIS: Smart Transportation
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 ...
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Multimodal Transportation Planning Curriculum for Urban Planning Programs
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, ...
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Transportation Leadership Education
Nathan McNeil
The Portland Traffic and Transportation course serves a number of different purposes. On one hand, it is designed to develop citizens who are informed about the transportation system, including how it got where it is today, what agencies and actors p ...
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Strategic Design and Policy for Improving the Livability and Multi-modal Use of U.S. Urban Arterials and Commercial Highways
Michael Larice
Brenda Scheer
NITC Project Type: This project fits under two NITC project areas: 3.2 Research Projects and 3.4 Education Projects.
Background: The problem of urban arterial street development, design and livability is perhaps the most understudied aspect of ...
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