At PSU, there is incredible energy and activity surrounding transportation research. CEE faculty participate in the campus-level research center TREC, the Transportation Research and Education Center for Portland State University, which in turn houses NITC, the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, one of only a small handful of National University Transportation Centers funded by the USDOT.
Transportation Technology and People Lab: The TTP Lab applies advanced modeling and data analysis techniques to improve multi-modal transportation systems. The group also designed ORcycle, a smartphone app that collects bicycle route and infrastructure data for the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Faculty and staff contact information is listed in our Faculty & Staff Directory.
Transportation Engineering Research Faculty
| Faculty | Title | Research Areas |
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| Jason Anderson | Research Associate | Transportation safety modeling, spatial econometrics and statistics, big data analysis focusing on various concepts such as traffic flow, travel time, freight commodity analyses, methodological approaches. Interests also include merging technologies and data fusion techniques as they pertain to smart vehicles, infrastructure, cities, and safety impacts. |
| Tanmoy Bhowmik | Assistant Professor | Advanced econometric modeling, transportation planning and demand analysis, transportation safety analysis, disaster management and evacuation behaviour analysis, adoption of emerging technologies (electric and connected vehicles) and their impacts on land use, public health and transportation energy. |
| Miguel Figliozzi | Professor | Electric vehicles and new vehicle technologies, emissions and air quality modeling, freight and logistics, innovations in traffic and transportation management and operations, non-motorized transportation. Director of the Transportation, Technology, and People Lab. |
| Srisha Kothuri | Senior Research Associate I | Multimodal traffic operations, bicycle and pedestrian counting, multimodal safety, data archival for non-motorized transportation data |
| Christopher Monsere | Professor & Vice Provost for Faculty Success | Multimodal transportation safety, management and dissemination of large transportation data, improvements in transportation operations. |
Transportation Engineering Research Facilities
| Laboratory | Location | Primary Contact | Additional Contact | Description |
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| Transportation Research Lab | EB 385 | Miguel Figliozzi, Tanmoy Bhowmik | | The lab contains PC workstations with access to our central server and data repository. State-of-the-practice software in travel simulation, geographic and spatial analysis, travel demand, and statistical analysis software allow our research groups to study and analyze large scale systems. The lab also has access to Portland’s extensive GIS data in the Regional Land Information Service (RLIS). |
| Transportation Systems Lab | EB 390 | Miguel Figliozzi, Tanmoy Bhowmik | | The lab contains PC workstations with access to our central server and data repository and real-time access to the City of Portland’s traffic surveillance and central signal system. The software and equipment in this lab support research of the systems integration of traffic signals in the intelligent transportation system with a strong focus on data processing of traffic signal information. |