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How Smart Can a Truck Get?
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2009 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Robert DeKoning, President and CEO, Routeware, Inc. Topic: 21st Century Smart Truck and Smart Back Office Technologies When: Friday, February 6, 2009. 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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Let Google Hail You a Cab
Passed on by a reader, here’s a Google Maps mashup that will find you a taxi company and estimate the fare for your trip. Portland is one of a couple of dozen supported cities.
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Construction Update
Earlier this week, I was invited out to Oregon Iron Works to check out progress on our first locally produced Streetcar. With a little bit of luck, you’ll see this out on the streets of Portland in March for burn-in testing. More after the jump…
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WES Preview Rides
TriMet has limited space for members of the public on Westside Express (WES) preview rides: In addition to free WES rides on January 30 as part of the WES Commuter Rail Grand Opening Celebration, we’re now offering a limited number of preview rides on January 23, 26, 27 and 28 between 3:30 p.m. and 6…
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How Do We Protect Pedestrians?
Lynn Lindgren-Schreuder is executive director of the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition Do we need better infrastructure for pedestrians? Should new infrastructure spending be primarily on roads? What do we tell the young girl whose mother died on January 7th while walking along Columbia Boulevard in an area that is dark, with no sidewalks or crosswalks? Where…