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Portland State University

2000

Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

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Report On The Portland Downtown Plan (Final), Lord/Leblanc, Associated Economic Consultants Dec 2000

Report On The Portland Downtown Plan (Final), Lord/Leblanc, Associated Economic Consultants

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.


Information Report On Burglary In Multnomah County, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) Nov 2000

Information Report On Burglary In Multnomah County, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.


City Club Research Study: Oregon State Ballot Measure 95, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) Oct 2000

City Club Research Study: Oregon State Ballot Measure 95, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.


City Club Research Study: Oregon State Ballot Measures 91 And 88 -- Deductibility Of Federal Income Taxes, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) Oct 2000

City Club Research Study: Oregon State Ballot Measures 91 And 88 -- Deductibility Of Federal Income Taxes, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.


Albina Community Plan Updated Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution 35932, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor Oct 2000

Albina Community Plan Updated Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution 35932, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.


Mayor Katz's Agenda, Ernest Bonner Oct 2000

Mayor Katz's Agenda, Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.


City Club Of Portland Report On Ballot Measure 1, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) Sep 2000

City Club Of Portland Report On Ballot Measure 1, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.


West End Plan, Ernest Bonner Sep 2000

West End Plan, Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.


Email From Bud Clark To Bonner, Bud Clark Aug 2000

Email From Bud Clark To Bonner, Bud Clark

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.


2000 Regional Transportation Plan, Metro (Or.) Aug 2000

2000 Regional Transportation Plan, Metro (Or.)

Metro Collection

No abstract provided.


Staff Report: Ernie Bonner, Ernest Bonner Aug 2000

Staff Report: Ernie Bonner, Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.


The "Kiddie Cab" Industry Transformation In The 21st Century, Jason Wachs Aug 2000

The "Kiddie Cab" Industry Transformation In The 21st Century, Jason Wachs

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

A new niche business has increased in the United States from a handful of private van services in 1992 to almost 250 nationwide. Referred to by many as "kiddie cabs," these private business are more than buses, iii that, they will chauffeur children to after school activities, the dentist, school, and anywhere else that children need to go.

The Kiddie Cab industry must explicitly be separated from publicly owned and operated transportation services for children such as paratransit services, shuttles for specific programs such as the YMCA, and any other transportation services for children that are currently funded and operated …


Time Point-Level Analysis Of Passenger Demand And Transit Service Reliability, Thomas J. Kimpel, James G. Strathman, Kenneth Dueker Jul 2000

Time Point-Level Analysis Of Passenger Demand And Transit Service Reliability, Thomas J. Kimpel, James G. Strathman, Kenneth Dueker

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This paper provides a framework for analyzing transit service reliability and estimating passenger demand at the time point-level of analysis. It begins with a literature review of passenger demand modeling and transit service reliability analysis, and shows how advances in transportation technologies are producing vast amounts of data that encourage the use of new modeling techniques. Differences between route-level and time point-level demand modeling are discussed. Lastly, the results of the passenger demand and transit service reliability models estimated from Tri-Met BDS data are presented.


The Effects Of Roadway Capacity On Peak Narrowing - Evidence From 1995 Npts, Jihong Zhang, Anthony M. Rufolo, Kenneth Dueker, James G. Strathman Jul 2000

The Effects Of Roadway Capacity On Peak Narrowing - Evidence From 1995 Npts, Jihong Zhang, Anthony M. Rufolo, Kenneth Dueker, James G. Strathman

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Spreading of the peak is one effect of increased peak-period congestion. Due to peak spreading, the travel-time impact of congestion is mitigated for some travelers, but the inconvenience of traveling at a less-preferred time also has a cost. Alternatively, increases in capacity have their impacts on peak-period congestion mitigated by a narrowing of the peak. This reduces the travel-time savings, but it generates a benefit for those traveling closer to their preferred times. This benefit from capacity improvements has largely been ignored, and one reason is the difficulty of quantifying the effect. This paper reports on some crude attempts to …


A Clearinghouse Approach To Sharing Transportation Gis Data, Kenneth Dueker, J. Allison Butler, Paul Bender, Jihong Zhang Jul 2000

A Clearinghouse Approach To Sharing Transportation Gis Data, Kenneth Dueker, J. Allison Butler, Paul Bender, Jihong Zhang

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Updating and maintaining Geographic Information Systems-Transportation data (GIS-T data) is proving difficult. Different database formats needed to support diverse applications leads to inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and duplication in updating. A clearinghouse approach is recommended for the collection and dissemination of new transportation features that can be segmented in different ways to meet the needs of various applications and inserted to update existing GIS-T databases. The clearinghouse approach is advantageous in that it is based on collecting data about new or changed transportation features once and uses the data many times to update existing databases.


A Framework For Gis-T Data Sharing, Kenneth Dueker, J. Allison Butler Jun 2000

A Framework For Gis-T Data Sharing, Kenneth Dueker, J. Allison Butler

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This paper develops a framework and principles for sharing of transportation data. The framework is intended to clarify roles among participants, data producers, data integrators, and data users. The principles are intended to provide guidance for the participants. Both the framework and the principles are based on an enterprise GIS-T data model that defines relations among transportation data elements. The data model guards against ambiguities and provides a basis for the development of the framework and principles for sharing of transportation data. There are two central principles. First is the uncoupling of graphics, topology, position, and characteristics. Second is the …


Sharing Transportation Gis Data, Kenneth Dueker, Paul Bender, Jihong Zhang Jun 2000

Sharing Transportation Gis Data, Kenneth Dueker, Paul Bender, Jihong Zhang

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Updating and maintaining Geographic Information Systems-Transportation data (GIS-T data) is proving difficult. Different database formats needed to support diverse applications leads to inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and duplication in updating. Dueker and Butler (1998) have proposed an Enterprise GIS-T data model that unbundles the various components of transportation data (network links, cartography, and attributes) to facilitate generating application-specific networks, and which eases updating and maintenance. However, developers of existing application-specific databases that employ integrated data models that bundle the network link with cartography and attributes are reluctant to step back to an intermediate form for managing their data. Consequently, attention is …


Analysis Of Induced Travel In The 1995 Npts, James G. Strathman, Kenneth Dueker, Thomas W. Sanchez, Jihong Zhang, Ann-Elizabeth Riis Jun 2000

Analysis Of Induced Travel In The 1995 Npts, James G. Strathman, Kenneth Dueker, Thomas W. Sanchez, Jihong Zhang, Ann-Elizabeth Riis

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

In this paper we estimate the relationship between road capacity and vehicle miles of travel (VMT) from a sample of 12,000 respondents from 48 urban areas in the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS). Our approach seeks to account for the effects of residential location, employment location, and commute mode choice in estimating the effect of capacity on VMT. VMT is found to be directly related to road capacity, as well as indirectly related through the influence of road capacity on residential and work place densities.


Ballot Measure 82: Gas Tax Increase And Weight-Mile Tax Repeal, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) May 2000

Ballot Measure 82: Gas Tax Increase And Weight-Mile Tax Repeal, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.


Bus Transit Operations Control: Review And An Experiment Involving Tri-Met’S Automated Bus Dispatching System, James G. Strathman, Thomas J. Kimpel, Kenneth Dueker May 2000

Bus Transit Operations Control: Review And An Experiment Involving Tri-Met’S Automated Bus Dispatching System, James G. Strathman, Thomas J. Kimpel, Kenneth Dueker

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

An operations plan contains information on the provision of transit service, including intended service levels, vehicle availability, and driver schedules. Agency resources would be utilized efficiently if the operations plan could be executed without disruptions in service. When service disruptions occur, the aim of operations control is to optimize system performance given the current state of the system (Wilson et al., 1992). This typically involves actions intended to either return service to schedule or restore headways separating vehicles. Disruptions in service impose costs on transit providers in the form of reduced productivity and on passengers in the form of increased …


Highlights: Accomplishments Of Portland's Downtown Plan, Central City Plan, Albina Community Plan, Outer Southeast Community Plan, Portland (Or.). Bureau Of Planning May 2000

Highlights: Accomplishments Of Portland's Downtown Plan, Central City Plan, Albina Community Plan, Outer Southeast Community Plan, Portland (Or.). Bureau Of Planning

Portland Regional Planning History

All four plans were comprehensive. Their scope included transportation, housing, economic development, parks and open space, natural resources, urban design, and land use. Large scale planning efforts had previously focused on a limited set of concerns, such as parking, commercial revitalization, or housing. The Downtown Plan, Central City Plan, Albina Community Plan, and Outer Southeast Community Plan, on the other hand, evaluated, balanced, and integrated the different elements so that each action was taken in light of its effect on others. Extensive citizen involvement shaped the content of these plans and contributed to their success.


Ballot Measure 81: Limitations On Civil Damages, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) Apr 2000

Ballot Measure 81: Limitations On Civil Damages, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.


Ballot Measure 80: Allow Use Of Highway Fund For Policing, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.) Apr 2000

Ballot Measure 80: Allow Use Of Highway Fund For Policing, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.


Hollywood And Sandy Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35875, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor Apr 2000

Hollywood And Sandy Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35875, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.


Bend Community Survey: Fall 1999, Deborah A. Howe, William A. Rabiega Mar 2000

Bend Community Survey: Fall 1999, Deborah A. Howe, William A. Rabiega

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

The City of Bend enters the new millennium following an unprecedented decade of development. Population was estimated at 47,635 in May of 1999. The city more than doubled its area with its 1998 annexations. Many public and private projects were built during the past decade, and many are in planning stages or under construction at this time. Given this history, it is prudent for city government to determine how well Bend’s citizens feel public services are performing, how they feel about communication with their government, and what their concerns are about Bend’s future course.

This document reports a community survey …


A Study Of The Pedestrian Realm And Multi-Modal Access In The St. Johns Town Center, Kate Bowie, Kim Miller, Owen Ronchelli, Sloan Schang Mar 2000

A Study Of The Pedestrian Realm And Multi-Modal Access In The St. Johns Town Center, Kate Bowie, Kim Miller, Owen Ronchelli, Sloan Schang

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

The residents of the St. Johns and Cathedral Park neighborhoods regard the St. johns Town center as a tremendous amenity. It has successfully served as a destination retail and employment district since the early 1900s but deterioration and a lack of infrastructure improvements are increasingly visible. As a Metro designated town center, the City of Portland is required to conduct a comprehensive planning effort similar to what occurred in the Hollywood Town Center. The project team offers a beginning to that process, with extensive community outreach and data analysis designed to evaluate the pedestrian realm and multi-modal means of access. …


A Primer On Gis-T Databases, J. Allison Butler, Kenneth Dueker Mar 2000

A Primer On Gis-T Databases, J. Allison Butler, Kenneth Dueker

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This paper describes the primary database design approaches that have been and are being used in geographic information system applications for transportation (GIS-T). While not intending to be exhaustive, the paper covers the primary approaches used in federal, state, and local transportation agencies.


Opportunity Gateway Concept Plan And Redevelopment Strategy: A Guide For Growth For Portland's Only Regional Center, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor, Portland (Or.). Bureau Of Parks And Recreation Feb 2000

Opportunity Gateway Concept Plan And Redevelopment Strategy: A Guide For Growth For Portland's Only Regional Center, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor, Portland (Or.). Bureau Of Parks And Recreation

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.


Documentary Proposal (Budget), Ernest Bonner Jan 2000

Documentary Proposal (Budget), Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.


Portland Downtown Plan (2), Ernest Bonner Jan 2000

Portland Downtown Plan (2), Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.