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Making Transportation Concurrency More Multimodal
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2007 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Ruth Steiner, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida Topic: Making Transportation Concurrency More Multimodal: Lessons from Washington and Florida When: Friday, April 13, 2007, 12:00-1:30 pm Where: 204 Urban Center
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Cost of Congestion Goes Statewide
The Portland Business Alliance and Oregon Business Council have release a statewide version of the Cost of Congestion study. I haven’t found an online version yet, but according to the coverage (DJC, Trib, O), the pitch is for $350M from the legislature this session (presumably that’s just the beginning) to help fund projects that would…
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Advanced Topics in Congestion
At the last TPAC workshop on the Regional Transportation Plan update, Metro presented their research on roadway conditions (freeways and arterials). There are some very interesting ways to visualize the situation. [Note: click on any slide to see a larger (and clearer) version.] A table showing what portion of our freeway and arterial network is…
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Federal Congestion Policy
At a recent meeting of Commissioner Adams transportation operations group, we had a presentation from an FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) official on USDOT initiatives on congestion. There are four initiatives: Corridors of the Future Urban Partnership Agreements Value Pricing Pilot Program Intelligent Transportation System Operational Tests Corridors of the future is pretty much a capacity…
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Local Congestion 101
It’s congestion day at Portland Transport! All three posts today will be on various aspects of the issue of roadway congestion. Jim Mayer has a niece piece in the Sunday O (“Car-choked highways certain to get worse“) about the current and likely future states of auto congestion in the region. It does a nice job…