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Congestion Revisited
Following up on Rex’ post yesterday, here’s yet another perspective on congestion. Todd Litman up at the VTPI has produced two complimentary reports that revisit a lot of assumptions about how to cope with congestion (hint: widening roads isn’t necessarily the answer). Both are well worth the read. Smart Congestion Reductions: Reevaluating The Role Of…
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Faster Streetcar?
Over at Transit Sleuth, Adron has published his thoughts on how to make the Portland Streetcar faster. Signal pre-emption at every intersection. That’s a pretty clear statement about priorities!
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PSU Transportation Seminars Return
The Fall seminar series is starting this Friday: Speaker: Yibing Wang, Technical University of Crete Topic: A Generic Approach to Real-time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance When: Friday, September 29, 2006, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center (www.pdx.edu/map.html)
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The Real Cause of Congestion?
Jonathan Schlueter of the Westside Economic Alliance passed out some interesting information at this month’s transportation committee meeting, showing the increase in motor vehicle registration over the past 30 years. In 1975, there were about 2.3 million people living in Oregon. They owned about 386 Thousand cars. That’s one vehicle for every 6 people. In…
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Transportion Options Job
Transportation Options is hiring for a limited term Transportation Demand Management Specialist I to work on our Portland Smart Trips – Downtown program. This program is modeled after our successful individualized marketing programs called the Eastside Hub and Northeast Hub. We will be working with downtown employers and their employees to encourage more people to…