Portland Transport

Category: Transportation Operations

  • PSU Transportation Seminars Return

    The Fall seminar series is starting this Friday: Speaker: Yibing Wang, Technical University of Crete Topic: A Generic Approach to Real-time Freeway Network Traffic Surveillance When: Friday, September 29, 2006, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center (www.pdx.edu/map.html)

  • Carpooling as Social Networking?

    Buried deep at the bottom of the ‘web only’ murmurs at Willamette Week (yes, that’s how far I’ll go to find a blog topic) is a note that Randy White is starting a carpool matching site: carpoolcrew.com But don’t we already have a carpool matching site in our region? Indeed, we do. But Randy apparently…

  • Looking Big Brother in the Eye

    As a result of my recent notariety, and a referral from a fellow neighborhood activist, I received an invitation to host a breakout session at last week’s “Synthetic Portland” conference. You’ll remember that after 9/11, there was much talk of law enforcement and intelligence not exchanging information. This conference was about fixing that, particularly with…

  • Crossing the River on Sunday – 2nd Annual Edition

    It’s Bridge Pedal time again. So if you’re going to be one of the five people not out riding on Sunday, here’s the scoop on the bridge and road closures. There’s also info from TriMet on bus service. The Sellwood Bridge will be closed westbound from 6:30 am to 8:30 am. The Ross Island Bridge…

  • Death, Taxes and Congestion

    Update 19 Jul 2006 A little more data on this. According a post at Price Tags, British Columbia is actually reducing its VMT (it’s actually KMT up there). Original Post 17 Jul 2006 Even the folks suggesting we consider spending an extra $6B on transportation tell us that congestion can only be slowed, not reversed.…