OTREC research shines on national stage: TRB 2014

OTREC research played a prominent role at this year’s Transportation Research Board annual meeting, the preeminent national conference for transportation researchers. An estimated 12,000 transportation professionals from around the world are attending the conference.

A total of 75 affiliated researchers from three campuses of OTREC’s NITC program present their research in 64 lectern and poster sessions Jan. 12-16. Faculty and students presided or presented at an additional 16 workshops, committee meetings and sessions.

Potential presenters at TRB submit full research papers for peer review; only around half of the submitted papers are chosen for presentation at the annual meeting. Portland State University researchers had 41 papers accepted for presentation; University of Oregon, 3; University of Utah, 20. Portland State, University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology and the University of Utah are partners in the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, or NITC, program. (New NITC partner University of South Florida had an additional 37 papers accepted for presentation.)

Student researchers from OTREC programs always have a strong presence at TRB, and this year was no exception. For Portland State alone, 27 students had their work as lead or secondary authors accepted for presentation. A full 25 papers had Portland State students as lead authors.

To show the extent of OTREC involvement at TRB, we compiled a day-by-day guide to presentations, available to download at:

http://theotrec.org/files/NITC_TRB_guide.pdf

We also showcase individual research efforts that were presented during the conference.

• Krista Nordback presents a paper titled “Measuring Traffic Reduction from Bicycle Commuting.” Read about that research here:
  • http://theotrec.org/news/entry/does_driving_drop_when_cycling_spikes
• Steven Farber presents a paper titled: "Social Equity in Distance-Based Transit Fares." Read about that research here:
  • http://theotrec.org/news/entry/nitc_research_on_transit_fare_equity
• Sirisha Kothuri presents a paper titled "Insights into Pedestrian Attitudes and Perceptions of Delay, Safety and Crossing Decisions at Signalized Intersections." Read about that research here:
  • http://theotrec.org/news/entry/pedestrian_attitudes_explored
• Andree Tremoulet presents a paper titled "Urban Campgrounds on Public Rights-of-Way: How State Departments of Transportation Are Stepping Up to the Challenge." Read about that research here:
  • http://theotrec.org/news/entry/urban_campers_and_transportation_trb_2014
• Susan Petheram presents a paper titled "Beyond Transit-Oriented Development: Establishing Upper Bounds of Transit-Supportive Neighborhoods." Read about that research here:
  • http://theotrec.org/news/entry/rethinking_transit_oriented_development
• Jon Makler presents a paper titled "Arriving Next on Track 1: An Online Geospatial Transit Performance Data Archive." Read about that project here:
  • http://theotrec.org/news/entry/portal_transit_trb_2014

In addition:

• Portland State student researchers presented their work for those unable to attend the conference:
  • http://theotrec.org/news/entry/psu_students_and_transportation_professionals_celebrate_with_post_trb
• Nordback won the Outstanding Paper award from the Transportation Research Board's Bicycle Transportation Committee:
  • http://theotrec.org/news/entry/otrec_researcher_wins_top_honors_from_transportation_research_board

The annual meeting of the Transportaion Research Board of the National Academies ran from Jan. 12 to Jan. 16 at three convention sites in Washington, D.C. More information on the conference and TRB is at http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting2014.

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