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Illustration of an integrated control system simulation in a smart city. Aerial view of an intersection with overlaid lines and boxes indicating which items are being tracked as data in real time.
February 13th 2024

Building Data Power To Enhance Active Transportation

The transportation safety crisis in America persists. People walking and...
Faculty and graduates at Portland State’s Commencement.
January 12th 2024

Sloan grant will help PSU graduate more diverse STEM doctorate students

Portland State is home to Oregon’s most diverse undergraduate student population...
Cyclists ride on a Portland, Oregon street painted in a spiral of rainbow colors with a piano key design in the center.;
November 30th 2023

Year in Review: Transportation Research Projects Launched at PSU in 2023

It has been a record-breaking year in research for Portland State University,...
A woman examines a glass container in a laboratory
November 16th 2023

25 PSU Faculty Members Ranked Among Most-Cited Science Researchers in 2022

25 PSU faculty members were ranked among the top 100,000 most-cited science...
Images showing an intersection and a map of an intersection
August 11th 2023

Civil Engineering Capstone Students Design Multimodal Infrastructure for Portland

Each year, Portland State University (PSU)'s graduating seniors work on capstone...
DeleteEdit Utilizing Ultrasound to Map and Sustain Existing Structures with Thomas Schumacher
July 31st 2023

Utilizing Ultrasound to Map and Sustain Existing Structures with Thomas Schumacher

On this episode of PDXPLORES, Thomas Schumacher, Associate Professor of...
Close up shot of hands showing green screen mobile phone near ev or electric scooter odometer
July 28th 2023

New Publication Evaluates the Potential of Crowdsourced Data to Estimate Network-Wide Bicycle Volumes

How can emerging data sources most effectively be integrated with traditional...
Thomas Schumacher
May 23rd 2023

Ultrasound and Algorithms: PSU Engineer Thomas Schumacher Is Mapping Pyramids in Giza and Saving Bridges in Portland

Less than 10% of the Egyptian Pyramids in Giza have been charted, but new...
Photo of Bell Street in Seattle, WA, taking by Dongho Chang. The street is a welcoming pedestrian space that allows people to use the street with various transportation modes, not only cars.
March 30th 2023

PSU Transportation Students Envision "Living Streets," Car-Free Corridors for Downtown Portland

In the 1970's, Portland had a dream: to create a "pleasurable human environment"...
Photo of the LiDAR sensor installed on a pole, overlooking a street in Texas. The sensor is a small white box mounted to the top of a gray metal pole and attached by a black cord.
March 10th 2023

New LiDAR System Pinpoints Pedestrian Behavior to Improve Efficiency and Safety at Intersections

Pedestrian safety is critical to improving walkability in cities. To that...
Fives lanes of automobile traffic on 122nd avenue in Portland, with cars crossing a marked crosswalk at a pedestrian refuge island.
February 23rd 2023

PSU Researchers Will Work With PBOT To Evaluate New 122nd Avenue BIL Project

Portland State University transportation researchers will work with the Portland...
A color illustration of a group of people, a dog, and a cat, waiting to cross the street at a signalized intersection. One adult is using a wheelchair, three of them wear glasses, and one talks on a cell phone. A child holds hands with another adult. The group is standing in front of a bank, facing the street, which has cars driving on it and several road signs visible.
January 6th 2023

Moving From Cars To People: A Comic About Transportation and Land Use

A new transportation comic, "Moving From Cars To People (PDF)," offers a...