Portland Transport

Category: Transportation Technology

  • There Must be a Pony in there Somewhere

    A few weeks ago I attended a presentation on the Open Street Map project. It’s essentially the open source equivalent of Google Maps, where community members go out with GPS units (an iPhone will do) and map key feature (streets, buildings, etc.). This is often done in “mapping parties”, community events where many people go…

  • Speed Signs: Limits or Useful Information?

    Via Hard Drive: the How We Drive blog asks whether speed signs should tell us the limit of how fast we can can, or how fast we should go to optimize our trip?

  • Two Special Transportation Seminars at PSU

    Peter Furth from Northeastern is visiting PSU this week, leading to a couple of extra Transportation Seminars: Speaker: Peter Furth Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University Topic: Aggressive Signal Priority with Compensation: Maximizing the Transit Benefit Without Disrupting Traffic When: Tuesday, May 26, 12:00 – 1:00 Where: ITS Lab (Room 315 in the…

  • Transit and Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Winter 2009 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: David Crout, Analyst, Trimet Topic: ITS at Trimet: Improving Service & Saving Money When: Friday, March 6, 2009, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204

  • LA Auto Show: Nissan announces electric car partnership with Oregon

    From AutoBlogGreen: At the keynote speech this morning at the LA Auto Show, the president and CEO of Nissan/Renault, Carolos Ghosn, announced a new alliance with the start of Oregon to bring electric vehicles there in 2010. The deal will see “a supply” of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) available to the city of Portland, Oregon and…