Research Projects | National Institute for Transportation and Communities

City Design Lecture Series: Linking Transportation and Land Use Planning

Principal Investigator: Mark Gillem

There is a pressing need to provide broadly accessible education on the benefits of integrating transportation and land use planning. In response to this need, the University of Oregon and a variety of co-sponsors hosted a City Design lecture series ... Read More

Bicycle and Pedestrian Education Program

Principal Investigator: Lynn Weigand

Co-Investigators: Karen Dixon , Marc Schlossberg

Since the 1990s, the amount of attention and funding for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure has increased significantly. This, combined with the role of transportation in public health and environmental concerns, has raised expectations for engine ... Read More

Traffic Engineering Training for Rural Communities

Principal Investigator: Roger Lindgren

This is an educational grant proposal. This grant would enable the creation of a dedicated traffic engineering laboratory at the Oregon Institute of Technology. The laboratory would consist of a series of computer workstations equipped with softwa ... Read More

From Arterial to Asset: Examining the Role of the Multi-Way Boulevard in Coordinated Transportation and Land Use Planning

Principal Investigator: Mark Gillem

Cities that were once considered the most-desired places to live or for businesses to locate are now seeking ways to unclog their increasingly congested roadways and regain their quality of life. U.S. Department of Transportation Strategic Plan Ba ... Read More

Overlooked Density: Re-Thinking Transportation Options in Suburbia

Principal Investigator: Nico Larco

Co-Investigator: Marc Schlossberg

Suburban multifamily housing is an often overlooked housing typology that is the fasted growing housing market in the country and holds strong potential for achieving smart growth goals in suburbia. This housing type is ubiquitous throughout all regi ... Read More

Instrumentation for Mechanistic Design Implementation

Principal Investigator: Todd Scholz

The principal objective of the research project was to obtain key information (i.e., engineering properties of the materials used for construction and in-service response of these materials to applied truck loads) to be used to assess the validity of ... Read More

Development of an Open Source Bridge Management System

Principal Investigator: Michael Scott

Seismic analysis is a conventional part of structural analysis (Chopra 2001). All of the finiteelement programs implement it as a basic function, and the effects of moving vehicles are always of special concerns in bridge engineering. Previously, veh ... Read More

Increasing Capacity In Rural Communities: Planning for Alternative Transportation

Principal Investigator: Megan Smith

Co-Investigators: Bethany Steiner , Keavy Cook

This technology transfer proposal linked service learning with rural multimodal transportation planning through a collaborative partnership between University of Oregon (UO) experiential learning programs and three rural Oregon communities. As this p ... Read More

Expanding Development of the Oregon Traffic Safety Data Archive

Principal Investigator: Christopher Monsere

This report describes the preliminary work to develop the Oregon Traffic Safety Data Archive (OrTSDA). The mission of OrTSDA is to “build the knowledge base of traffic safety data in Oregon.” It is hoped the archive will become a valuable traffic ... Read More

Performance Enhancement of Bridge Bracing Under Service and Extreme Loads

Principal Investigator: Peter Dusicka

As truck loads continue to get bigger, the demand on many aging bridges increases. Slender steel structural elements widely used in bridge superstructures and braced substructures to resist these loads are built primarily for tension, however, and ca ... Read More

Understanding Driver Behavioral Changes Associated with Road User Fees

Principal Investigator: Anthony Rufolo

Objective The Oregon Department of Transportation conducted a test of an innovative technology to replace fuel taxes with mileage fees. In the test, some vehicles were charged a flat fee per mile and others were charged differential fees that were ... Read More

Closing the Gap: Developing a Transportation Curriculum for the Oregon Young Scholars Program

Principal Investigator: Carla Gary

Co-Investigators: Bethany Steiner , Chuck Kalnbach

This OTREC educational proposal links experiential and transportation education from the University of Oregon with minority youth during the Summer ‘08 two-week session of the Oregon Young Scholar’s Program (OYSP). The grant provides OYSP an oppo ... Read More