Portland Transport

Category: Talking About Transportation

  • Geeking Out on Facts

    Via Price Tags, the “Pocket Guide to Transportation” (2013 edition – PDF, 4.4M) is now available from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Lots and lots of data for your next transportation trivia night…

  • Mucking with the MUTCD

    Speaker: Gene Hawkins, Texas Transportation Institute Topic: The Future of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices When: Friday, February 8 2013, 12-1 p.m. Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204 Gene Hawkins’ lecture is sponsored by Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium Visiting Scholar Program _____________________________________________________________ Portland State University Winter…

  • A Peek Inside PBOT

    At Friday’s PSU Transportation Seminar: Speaker: Peter Koonce, Portland Office of Transportation Topic: “Confessions of a Traffic Engineer” Get an inside look into Portland’s Office of Transportation!

  • On the Impending Transformation of Transportation

    Brian Davis is Portland Transport’s newest contributor. Brian is a Transportation Analyst at Lancaster Engineering, a MS Candidate at PSU where his research involves strategies for increasing sustainability in urban freight, and a carfree resident of downtown Portland. Welcome, Brian! – Chris I’m excited to be joining the discussion at Portland Transport at the onset…

  • Speaking of Crowdsourcing Apps

    Portland Afoot is endeavoring to make the leap from print to digital and just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund app development. [Full disclosure – I serve on the board of the non-profit parent of Portland Afoot.] Check out the promo video and you’ll even get a brief glimpse of yours truly…