ITS in Academics

ITS University Workshop #5
November 8-9, 2017 | Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia

Day 1 Presentation | November 8, 2017

U.S. DOT ITS Education Workshop

Presenter: Peter Koonce
Presenter’s Org: City of Portland, OR

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Most of the slides in this presentation include a large watermark of the City of Portland, Oregon.

Slide 1: U.S. DOT ITS Education Workshop

November 8, 2017

Presented by:
Peter Koonce, PE
@pkoonce

[This slide’s background is a nighttime photo of busy SW Broadway in front of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in downtown Portland, Oregon.]

Slide 2: Overview

Role at the city & current ITS projects
Impacts of technology on transportation planning
Education of young professionals
Anything else

Slide 3: Portland

“Our intentions are to be as sustainable a city as possible”
- Social Environmental Economical

[This slide contains a close-up photo of two bicyclists crossing a bridge.]

Slide 4: City of Portland Climate Action Plan

[This slide contains two images: (1) a reproduction of the cover of the City of Portland and Multnomah County’s Climate Action Plan 2009 report; and (2) a pie chart displaying 2008 Multnomah County Greenhouse Gas Emissions By Sector: Transportation contributes 38% of emissions, Commercial contributes 25%, Residential contributes 21%, Industrial contributes 15%, and Waste Disposal contributes 1%.]

Slide 5: Mode Split Targets

[This slide contains a background photo of a crowd of people. There are two pie charts superimposed over this photo: (1) Current Commute Mode Share for Portland (Drive Alone 66%, Transit (including park-and-ride) 15%, Carpool 8%, Bike 8%, and Walk 4%; and (2) 2030 Targets Commute Mode Share for Portland (Drive Alone 30%, Transit (including park-and-ride) 25%, Bike 25%, Carpool 10%, Walk 7.5%, and Additional Telecommuting 2.5%.]

Slide 6: Transportation Hierarchy

[This slide contains two images: (1) a ground-level photo of a street in downtown Portland which has trees and a bike lane; and (2) an inverted pyramid graphic labeled “Transportation Hierarchy” which lists from the top down: Pedestrians, Bicycles, Public Transit, Commercial Vehicles/Trucks, High Occupancy Vehicles, and Single Occupancy Vehicles.]

Slide 7: Definition of Failure

[This slide contains a photo of the collapsed Skagit River Bridge.]

Slide 8: (No title)

[This slide contains an illustrative diagram of how Connected Autonomous Vehicles will interface with the roadway. There are representations of vehicles, transit, signals, traffic lights, pedestrians, bicyclists, and macro-scale factors contributing to the success of the system (such as Payments, Schedule, Time, Emissions, Marketplace, User Interface, and the Open Data Cloud).]

Slide 9: City of Portland Role

Manage the City’s assets

Traffic signals
Street lighting
ITS devices
People

Problem solve all of the above

Limited budgets
Assess technology problems
Policy analysis

Slide 10: Current ITS Projects

Citywide signal controller replacement

1,080 traffic signals
Controllers and/or software
Communications to support Ethernet
Wireless

Regional central signal system update

Shared system with several agencies
Last updated in 2002

Slide 11: Current ITS Projects

Signal Priority for Bus “Reliable” Transit (BRT)

80 traffic signals
Connected vehicle technology
“Smart City” aps?

Railroad crossing upgrades

Upgrading 40 year old technology
Limited awareness of importance

Slide 12: Technology & Planning

Limited link between technology & planning

Regional: it is a separate Subcommittee of the MPO
Local: mixed bag

Smart City Challenge

Technology evolved to political
Planning became more involved

Slide 13: Educational Needs

What’s effective in Engineering curriculum

Problem solving
Geometric design
Traditional civil engineering

What’s lacking in Engineering curriculum

Multimodal transportation
Political
Technology

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