Author: Chris Smith

  • Congestion and the Last Mile

    Hat tip to reader Randy Evans who passed on this link for a European pilot program on managing congestion due to city-center deliveries. What might a similar program look like here in our region?

  • Designing Oregon’s Road User Fee Pilot Test

    Check out the latest thinking on this idea at Friday’s PSU Transportation Seminar. Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2006 Transportation Seminar Series Topic: Designing Oregon’s Road User Fee Pilot Test Speakers: Jill Pearson, Road User Fee Pilot Project Manager, Oregon Department of Transportation; and David Kim, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,…

  • Oregon’s Next Governor?

    Our project to get the candidates for Governor to respond to our questionnaire has gone nowhere. Apparently the campaigns get deluged with these things. Only the Westlund campaign was forthright enough to tell us straight up that they weren’t going to respond. But here’s an opportunity for a little insight. At the Westside Economic Alliance…

  • Watching it Unfold

    We’ve been following the question of where Light Rail might cross the river south of downtown as a case study in how such decisions get made (gradually, not all at once). Another chapter in the story was presented last week, with Commissioner Adams musing in the Tribune about how Light Rail might benefit the South…

  • Milestone

    Barring a server crash, sometime in the next hour or so, Portland Transport is going to log its 50,000th visitor. A few other numbers: 476 posts 3088 comments … oops make that 3089 Wow…