Portland Transport

Author: Chris Smith

  • Someone Came Away Impressed

    The International Downtown Association conference was here in Portland last week. One delegate from South Africa, Neil Fraser, came away impressed with Portland (including our transportation system) and wrote about it back home. Now if only our local downtown association were as impressed.

  • Commuting in America

    Every 10 years the Transportation Research Board takes a look at the census data and produces a report on the state of commuting in this country. The current report, Commuting in America III (you can buy the report or download the executive summary) was published yesterday. NPR had a piece on Morning Edition, which focused…

  • Flexcar 101

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Fall 2006 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Brodie Hylton, Flexcar Topic: Flexcar 101 When: Friday, October 20, 2006, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center (www.pdx.edu/map.html)

  • Oops…

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  • Organizing the World’s Transit

    Google describes its mission as “organizing the world’s information”. Friday, at the Transit track of GOSCON, Google discussed its plans for Google Transit with the assembled participants. Ultimately, Google intends for the transit planner to be part of its overall multi-modal trip planner (as in get from any point A on the globe to any…