Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • NY Times Editorializes for Infrastructure Spending

    Read the whole thing here. Nearly seven months after a highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, a federal commission put a jaw-dropping price tag on starting to attend to America’s crumbling foundations: $225 billion a year for the next 50 years just to maintain and upgrade surface transportation.

  • Sustainable Urban Logistics

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2008 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Erkki Timmerbacka, Senior Consultant, Establish United Logistics Group (Finland Oy) Topic: Sustainable Urban Logistics (SeuLo) When: Friday, February 29, 2008, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • One Block at a Time

    The Daily Journal of Commerce has a nice article on Tad Savinar’s efforts to tailor the urban design of the transit mall block-by-block to the needs of the local land uses. I blogged about this more than a year ago.

  • Clever Commute Beta Test

    The cat’s out of the bag now. The transit tool we’ve been recruiting beta testers for is Clever Commute, which I posted about last month. It’s a peer-to-peer information sharing tool, by which transit users can inform each other about up-to-the-minute conditions. They are evaluating Portland for expansion of their service to the West Coast…

  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Intersections

    From PSU: The Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (ibpi) is sponsoring an upcoming professional development course on intersection design. This course, developed and taught by engineers for engineers, teaches participants how to design intersections that provide safety and mobility for bicyclists and pedestrians. Participants will learn the principles and process of good intersection design…