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  ITS Lab Students and Faculty Active at TRB 2012 - 20 Papers • February 2012 Go Vikings! PSU ITS Lab Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty and students were very active at this year's TRB Annual Meeting, held January 21-26, 2012 in Washington, D.C More than 30 students, shown in the photo with others from Region 10, were funded by STEP, OTREC, PSU AAA and other grants. The following is an impressive list of the 20 papers presented at the 2012 TRB Annual Meeting 2012:
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 ITS Lab / CEE Department Announce Study Abroad "Multimodal Transportation Engineering Applications and Innovations in the Netherlands" • February 2012 The course program presents an introduction to transportation engineering applications in the European context. The course will build on earlier courses with a special emphasis on differences between U.S. and Dutch standards. The curriculum will feature material that provides a contrast between engineering principles and policies focusing on the standards presented in both the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices and the Highway Capacity Manual. Furthermore, specific emphases on engineering principles and practice will be explored through field trips and in guest lectures both while abroad and in Portland. Students completing this course will have a greater understanding of the contrast in policies from the Portland area with communities in the Netherlands. Link to Info | ||||
 FHWA Test Data Set Published • December 2011 The PORTAL FHWA Test Data Set submission has been published on the PORTAL web site. The data set consists of freeway, transit and arterial data for the I-205 Corridor in Portland, OR and documentation for that data. The data set is under review by the FHWA; the data set may be updated in response to their comments. | ||||
 PORTAL NATMEC Presentations • December 2011 Three PORTAL-related presentations and posters will appear at NATMEC 2012. Performance Reporting using the PORTAL Transportation Data Archive, Towards Automated Bicycle and Pedestrian Data Collection, and A Framework for Multimodal Arterial Data Archiving. | ||||
 PORTAL TAC Meeting • December 2011 A PORTAL TAC Meeting was held Dec 19, 2011 at the ITS Lab. Meeting Agenda and Materials. | ||||
 PORTAL Demo Site • December 2011 A demo site for PORTAL is now available. This site shows the latest features in development and provides for agency and user review before the features are published to the main PORTAL web site. | ||||
 ITS Lab's Alex Bigazzi wins Pikarsky Award • December 2011 Alex Bigazzi Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student (advisor Dr. Miguel Figliozzi), won the prestigious 2011 National Student Pikarsky Award in the Science & Technology-MS category. These awards are given annually to graduate students in Transportation for the best PhD Dissertations, MS Theses and MS/ME Reports”. More information about the awards in can be found here | ||||
 Three PORTAL Papers to be presented at TRB • November 2011 Three PORTAL-related papers will be presented at TRB 2012. The papers are: User Needs and Enhancements to PORTAL, Preliminary Development of Methods to Automatically Gather Bicycle Counts and Pedestrian Delay at Signalized Intersections, and A Framework for Multimodal Arterial Data Archiving. | ||||
 Brian Davis Selected to Present at 2012 Eisenhower Research Showcase • October 2011 Research conducted by ITS Lab student Brian Davis and Professor Miguel Figliozzi entitled "Competitiveness of Commercial Electric Vehicles in the Less-Than-Truckload Delivery Industry: Model and Application" was one of ten projects selected for presentation at the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program Research Showcase at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. The event features remarks from senior transportation officials and presentations from both undergraduate and graduate Eisenhower Fellowship recipients, and is the traditional hallmark of the Eisenhower Showcase events. The project was one of three selected for the "Innovative Research" panel. | ||||
 ITS Lab and PORTAL Selected to Populate USDOT's Research Data Environment • October 2011 ITS Lab researchers (Dr. Tufte and Dr. Monsere), in cooperation with the City of Portland, Trimet, ODOT, and Metro were selected as 1 of 4 teams nationally to being populating the USDOT's connected vehicle initiative research data environment. The project will provide a cleaned, multimodal research-ready data that includes data gathered from freeway loop detectors, bus automatic vehicle location (AVL) devices, light rail transit, arterial Media Access Control (MAC) readers, and arterial traffic signals (including detailed phasing information). | ||||
 FHWA Team Visits Portland State University • October 2011 A team from the FHWA visited Portland State University to discuss the creation of a Test Data Set for the FHWA's Connected Vehicle Initiative. The PSU team is producing a multi-modal data set for the I-205 Corridor consisting of freeway, incident and transit data and arterial signal and phase and timing data. | ||||
 Monsere Selected as OTREC Researcher of the Year. • September 2011 Prof. Monsere was awarded OTREC’s Researcher of the Year at the Oregon Transportation Summit. In OTREC's release they state that Monsere has distinguished himself not only for his outstanding multimodal safety research but also for his creativity and commitment in the classroom. Monsere embodies the OTREC spirit of collaboration, having worked on OTREC projects with 15 faculty members from three partner campuses and three outside universities. His collaborations also reach beyond engineering, to planning, computer science, economics and environmental science. Monsere directs the ITS Lab and is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. | ||||
 Monsere Presents to Portland Postgres Users Group (pdxPUG) • July 2011 Monsere presented "Data Visualization and Exploration Techniques Using R and Postgres" to the Portland Postgres Users Group (pdxPUG). The presentation summarized the new transportation data analysis class that has been developed at PSU as part of our education research project with the Region 10 consortium. In the class, students connect R to the regional transportation data archive at PSU's Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab housed in Postgres. The presentation showcased some of the interesting data visualizations we've created, advantages of making this connections, as well as some the limitations. | ||||
  Wei Feng et al. won the Best Paper by a Young Professional at 2011 ITE Western District Annual Meeting • July 2011 ITS Lab graduate student Wei Feng (with co-authors: his adviser Miguel Figliozzi, Scott Price and his adviser Wu-chi Feng from Computer Science department, and Kristina Hostetler from Urban Planning department) won the Best Paper by a Young Professional award at this year's ITE Western District Annual Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. The paper was entitled "Techniques to Visualize and Monitor Transit Fleet Operations Performance in Urban Areas". | ||||
  PSU and ITS Lab Active at 2011 ITE Western District Annual Meeting • July 2011 PSU faculty and students were very active at this year's ITE Western District Annual Meeting, held July 10-14 in Anchorage, Alaska. 9 students and 1 faculty member from PSU attended, with more than 10 presentations (largest student group in this meeting). PSU students (Kristi Currans, Adam Moore, Eric Albright) also won the second place in the student Traffic Bowl Competition. Congratulations! See a complete list of the ITS Lab participation below or browse the titles of the 10 papers presented at the 2011 ITE Western Annual Meeting 2011: 1. Bus Stop Air Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Transit Users' Exposure to Particulates and Other Air Toxins, Adam Moore. 2. Calibrating the Highway Safety Manual Predictive Methods for Oregon, Kristie Gladhill. 3. Techniques to Visualize and Monitor Transit Fleet Operations Performance in Urban Areas, Wei Feng. 4. Integration of multi-modal transportation data sets to provide a web-based data analysis tool for researchers and operators, Eric Albright. 5. Evaluation of Innovative Bicycle Facilities in Portland Oregon, Chris Monsere. 6. A Multimodal Evaluation of Corridor Traffic Signal Performance: A case study on Powell Boulevard (Portland Oregon), Courtney Slavin. 7. Exploring Traffic Safety and Urban Form for Portland, Oregon, Kristie Gladhill. 8. Safety Performance and User Expectancy of Pedestrian/"Half" Signalization at Intersections in Portland, Oregon, Todd Johnson. 9. Arterial Travel Time Estimation Using Transit Vehicles and Bluetooth MAC Readers, Sirisha Kothuri. 10. Trip Generation in Multi-modal Contexts: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches, Kelly Clifton. 11. A Statistical Study and Comparison of Freight Trends in Oregon and the U.S., Kaveh Shabani. 12. Using Archived AVL/APC Data to Understand Causes and Effects of Bus Bunching in Portland Oregon, Wei Feng | ||||
 ITS Lab Students Submit Video to RITA's Challenge • July 2011 Students from the Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab at Portland State University have submitted a video in response to the ITS Video Challenge is sponsored by the U.S. DOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Federal Highway Administration, and Federal Transit Administration The video is located here. The team is made up as follows: Eric Albright (student), Brian Davis (student), Wei Feng (student), Sirisha Kothuri (student), Peter Koonce (PSU Professor), Carl Olson (student), Courtney Slavin (student). | ||||
 Adam Moore Awarded First Annual William C. Kloos Award • June 2011 Adam Moore was awarded the first annual William C. Kloos award for service and excellence to the ITS Lab and transportation at PSU. Bill was a strong supporter of the ITS Lab during its initial years and continued as the growth increased. His innovative spirit is a source of inspiration from the lab. | ||||
 PORTAL TAC Meeting • May 2011 A PORTAL TAC Meeting was held Monday, May 9, 2011 at the ITS Lab at Portland State University. Materials included: Agenda, Activities and Plans , Funding Sources , Multi-Modal Project Update . | ||||
 ITS Lab Hosting New Transit Appliance • April 2011 The ITS Lab is now displaying real-time transit arrivals at nearby Max, Streetcar and bus stops via the Transit Appliance. The display (shown in the picture) indicates the time in minutes to the next arrivals, the route, and the stop location. The Transit Appliance is a product of Portland Transport and is an Open Source HTML and JavaScript application that leverages open data web services. Send requests for stops to be added to Dr. Monsere. | ||||
 Champions in Indoor Soccer League at PSU • Spring 2011 • April 2011 With 101 goals scored against opponents, Civil Engineers champions exerted “complete mastery” over the entire League and found the result of 8 wins and no defeat in "Indoor Soccer League". Civil Engineers, Champions of the intramural Fall 2010 Outdoor Soccer League, won the Spring 2011 Indoor Soccer League too! They finished the tournament without any defeat or tie and had the best offense and best scorer. Kaveh scored 47 goals in the tournament. Out of 6 players who are all civil engineering students, two are ITS Lab graduate students! Congratulations to Kaveh and Sam. Go Transportation Engineers! The players from left to right: Amir Tanaomi, Ali Tanaomi, Joaquim Capuia, Kaveh Shabani, Sam Monsef and Zack White | ||||
 Kristi Currans and Brian Davis Receive Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships • April 2011 ITS Lab students Kristi Currans and Brian Davis were named as 2011 reciepients of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship. These fellowships are awarded annually by the US DOT's Federal Highway Administration and provide a stipend for coursework, research, and travel to the TRB annual meeting in January 2012 in Washington. Kristi intends on using her award to apply her academic journey in the public sector, using analysis tools to better understand the impact of policies. Brian will use his funds to study sustainability in the transportation sector through mechanisms like efficiency and electrification in fleet logistics and traffic signal policies to better use existing capacity. | ||||
 Dr. Monsere Presents to Oregon SAE Chapter • March 2011 Dr. Monsere presented to the Oregon Chapter of SAE on the PORTAL data archive at their monthly lunch meeting. A link to the presentation is here | ||||
  Alex Bigazzi and Miguel Figliozzi Win Best Paper Award at 2011 Transportation Research Forum • March 2011 ITS Lab graduate student Alex Bigazzi and his advisor Professor Miguel Figliozzi won the Best Paper award at this year's Transportation Research Forum in Long Beach, California. Their paper was selected from over 70 submissions and was entitled "A Model and Case Study of the Impacts of Stochastic Capacity on Freeway Traffic Flow Benefits and Costs". A link to the paper can be found here | ||||
  ITS Lab Presentations at the 52nd Annual Transportation Research Forum • March 2011 Graduate students Alex Bigazzi and Kaveh Shabani and their advisor Professor Miguel Figliozzi attended the Transportation Research Forum in Long Beach, CA. Their three presentations were on the topics of freeway traffic flow benefits and costs, emissions estimation, and freight data. Additionally, Alex and Dr. Figliozzi won an award for the Best Paper of the conference. | ||||
  PSU and ITS Lab Active at 2011 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting • January 2011 PSU faculty and students were very active at this year's TRB Annual Meeting, held January 23-27 in Washington, D.C. More than 30 students and 8 faculty members from PSU attended. Twenty of those presentations includes at least one ITS lab researcher or faculty member. See a complete list of the ITS Lab participation here or browse the titles of the 19 papers presented at the 2011 TRB Annual Meeting 2011:
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  Alex Bigazzi Receives OTREC Student of the Year Award • January 2011 ITS Lab graduate student researcher Alex Bigazzi was selected as Student of the Year for 2010-2011 by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). Alex was nominated by his advisor Professor Figliozzi. The Student of the Year award was presented during the Council of University Transportation Centers banquet at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C. Criteria for the award include technical merit and research accomplishments, academic performance, professionalism and leadership. Alex also received Honorable Mention for the U.S. DOT Region X Student of the Year, which includes the University Transportation Centers of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. | ||||
 Champions in Outdoor Soccer League at PSU • January 2011 Civil Engineers! Champions of the intramural Fall 2010 soccer league! They finished the tournament without any defeat and had the best defense as well as the best offence! Out of 5 players who are all civil engineering students, two are ITS Lab graduate students! Congratulations to Sam and Kaveh. They have also started the Winter Indoor Soccer Tournament this week. Hope they will win this championship as well! Go civil Engineers! The players from left to right: Sam, Amir, Kaveh, Ali, Zack | ||||
 Traffic Signal Systems: Region X Cooperative Course Begins Today • January 2011 On Wednesday, January 8, 2011 we held the first meeting of "TRAFFIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS OPERATIONS AND DESIGN" course in the ITS Lab. The course, developed at the University of Idaho by Professor Michael Kyte, is being held on 3 other campuses in the Region X Consortium: the University of Washington, Portland State University, and the University of Alaska via the internet. The course will focus on the operations and design of coordinated traffic signal systems and is part of the consortium's project to enhance engineering education, sponsored by the respective UTCs and the FHWA. At PSU, the local instructor is Peter Koonce. More information can be found on the class website here | ||||
 ITS Lab Host RITA administrator Peter Appel • November 2010 The ITS Lab hosted Peter Appel, administrator of the federal Research and Innovative Technology Administration, as part of his visit to OTREC to help launch the Oregon Modeling Collaborative. Lab faculty and students (including OTREC faculty from OSU, UO, and OIT) presented short updates on OTREC-funded research. | ||||
 Dr. Clifton launches the Oregon Modeling Collaborative • November 2010 Director Kelly Clifton, associate professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, officially launched the Oregon Modeling Collaborative with a media event hosted on Friday Nov 12. The Oregon Modeling Collaborative (OMC) brings together experts from universities, public agencies and private consultants to support and enhance this nationally acclaimed program. With sophisticated analytical methods and tools, a major statewide data collection program underway, and the leadership provided by the Oregon Modeling Steering Committee (OMSC), the ability of Oregon modelers to meet the challenges of planning for a sustainable future is on firm footing. Dr. Clifton is pictured with RITA administrator Peter Appel, OTREC Director and SUSP associate professor Jennifer Dill and PSU President Wim Wiewel. | ||||