Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • KBOO Bike Show: Traffic Engineers

    Listen to the show (mp3, 26.6MB) Traffic engineers Rob Burchfield and Peter Koonce from the City of Portland and Jim Peters from DKS Associates visit with Tori and Michelle to discuss how our streets are being designed for bikes. Do you know what the MUCTD MUTCD is?

  • Transit Equity: Scale and Correlation

    Yesterday I noted that the ACS 5-year/Census block group demographic correlations were significantly lower than the 2000 Census tract correlations. So let’s look at the differences: Different (newer) data Different areas – we included all Census tracts that touched any part of the service district, while we only used block groups that were substantially inside…

  • One CRC Skeptic Leaving Metro Council, Could Be Replaced by Another

    Metro Councilor Robert Liberty, a leading critic of the current plan for the Columbia River Crossing, has announced that he is resigning mid-month to become the first director of the University of Oregon’s new Sustainable Cities Initiative. Recent Metro President candidate Bob Stacey is a resident of Liberty’s district, and has announced that he will…

  • Are We At “Peak Travel”?

    This article conjectures that we may be…

  • Transit Equity: Starting to Look at ACS Data

    You’ll recall that back in October we did our first correlation between Transit Score and several demographic factors, based on the 2000 Census. We came up with the following correlation coefficients: Transit Score/Density: 0.67 (1.00 would be perfect correlation) Transit Score/Percent non-white: 0.40 Transit Score/Median 1999 Household Income: -0.52 Based on that, we set two…