UTC Best Practices

1. UTC Best Practices Robert L. Bertini, Ph.D., P.E. Director, Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) June 30, 2009

2. UTC Best Practices • What is your unusual partnership, and what makes it work so well? • How does OTREC relate to Secretary LaHood’s priorities: safety, economic recovery, sustainability and livability • Why is the UTC grant important to our work? • What risks have we taken in pursuing this partnership/priority area • How do we define success?

3. We Are a Partnership Portland State University, in partnership with the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and the Oregon Institute of Technology

4. Collaboration Woven Through Everything We Do • Project selection criteria • High level (vice president) advocacy for inter-institutional collaboration • Model for other statewide research centers • Associate director at each campus

5. OTREC by the Numbers 2009 Number of months since Strategic Plan approved: 32 Number of proposals received: 237 Total projects funded: 107 Number of multi-campus projects: 25 Number of multi-PI projects: 62 Number of research projects partnered with ODOT: 37 Number of faculty principal investigators: 82 Number of external sponsors participating in OTREC: 34 Number of disciplines participating in OTREC: 19 Number of graduate students involved in projects (estimate): 82 Number of undergraduate students involved in projects (estimate): 38

6. Theme Advanced Technology Integration of Transportation and Land Use Healthy Communities Sustainable Transportation Solutions Research • Education • Technology Transfer Consistent with Safety • Economic Recovery • Sustainability • Livability

7. Collaborations 100 faculty ▪ 4 campuses ▪ Multidisciplinary (27) ▪ Multimodal ▪ VP Level Oversight ▪ Selection Criteria chemical engineering education planning, public policy and management urban studies and planning construction engineering industrial and manufacturing engineering information systems forest engineering history mechanical and materials engineering landscape architecture electrical engineering chemistry political science statistics geomatics geography science education computer science business administration mathematics economics community health geographic information systems anthropology civil and environmental engineering sociology

8. Sustainability Partnership • 09.08 PSU receives $25 million grant from James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation for sustainability capacity-building • 12.08 OTREC receives Miller Grant to fund Sustainable Transportation Program Manager • 01.09 OTREC welcomes John MacArthur, STPM • 06.09 Projects jointly funded with Miller Foundation: • 2010-345: Development of a Model to Predict and Mitigate Environmental and Public Health Impacts of Traffic Flows and Traffic Management Policies in Urban Transportation Microenvironments • 2010-347: A Comprehensive Roadmap for the Development of Low/No Emission Vehicle Infrastructure in the Portland Metro Region • 10.09 Partnership with ODOT, City of Portland and PGE

9. Region X Transportation Consortium • Four UTCs (Alaska UTC, NIATT, OTREC, & TransNow) • Four DOTs (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, & Washington), WSDOT Lead • Pooled-fund formed by DOTs in Region X • Oversee collaborative RFP of regional significance and impact • Selected two topics of interest for 2009 • Climate Change Impact Assessment for Surface Transportation in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska • Low ADT Highway Storm Water Quality Data • Multidisciplinary/Multistate OTREC/AUTC team selected for Climate Change project • UTC funds allocated through OTREC/AUTC processes

10. Region X Transportation Consortium Regional Student of the Year Award 2009 Annual Student Conferences Since 2002 Transportation Education Conference and Teaching Workshop 2009 Regular Meetings

11. OTREC/Rahall Institute Project Application of WIM Data for Improved Modeling, Design, and Rating • Collaboration between UTCs • Monsere (PSU, OTREC) – Data Archive • Nichols (Marshall, Rahall Institute) – WIM Data Systems • Higgins (OSU, OTREC) – Bridge health • Unique • Leveraging existing ODOT data • Comprehensive (42+ million observations) • Uses of the archive • Automatically monitor sensor health and calibration • Develop more efficient pavement and bridge designs • Extract freight system performance and planning data

12. Sustainable Cities Initiative s c i . u o r e g o n . e d u • Focus • Re-design cities and communities for people • Applied research with community impact • Intersection of green buildings/green communities/green policies • Involved Disciplines • City Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Public Policy • Applied Research, Service Learning, Technology Transfer • National Issues • Global climate change • Automobile & oil dependency and associated costs • Congestion problems • Obesity epidemic and healthy communities • OTREC was the catalyst for this integration and helped create the foundation for future work and opportunities.

13. Initiative for Bicycle & Pedestrian InnovationEvaluation of Bike Boxes at Signalized Intersections • Partnership with City of Portland • Important aspect of FHWA approval of experiment (MUTCD) • Mitigate “right hook” collisions • Colored pavement markings • Video surveillance before and after plus user survey • Anticipated Results: • How does it work? • When and where to apply? • Does color matter? • Improvements in application • Assist agency with quantitative analysis

14. Community School Traffic Safety Partnership • Partnership with City of Portland • Funds portion of one faculty position and two graduate students • Focus safety resources to reduce driver errors, improve pedestrian and bicycle safety, and enhance safer bicycling and walking routes to school • Financed by an incremental increase in traffic citation fines • PSU ITS Lab serving as technical advisors, developing strategic action plan, developing and recommending performance measures

15. UTC Grant & Risks • Why UTC grant is important to our work • Research in OTREC’s theme all pillars of sustainable transportation • OTREC’s thematic program areas are underfunded areas of research • Focuses on aspects of transportation that is emerging to be very important and redefining transportation from predominately car-based mobility to more climate-friendly options and approaches • What risks have we taken in pursuing this partnership/priority area? • Funded disparate projects in early stages to figure out how theme would play out within the unique four university consortium • Priority theme area is less rooted in infrastructure which is an emphasis of the DOT • Less overlap of research with DOT in more recent RFPs which means less cash match for program • Emerging with more cohesive sense of identity and recognized nationally as leaders in sustainable transportation and cities

16. Success: OTREC Research(ers) in the News • Cutting edge research, nationally recognized professors (Daily Vanguard, May 26, 2009) Catherine DeRivera , PSU • Car-Free in America? (New York Times, May 12, 2009) Marc Schlossberg, UO • OSU Researchers Test New Wavemaker To Learn About Tsunami And Hurricane Damage (Oregon Public Broadcasting, April 29, 2009) Daniel Cox, OSU • Running on Empty (Harvard Political Review, March 6, 2009) Tony Rufolo, PSU • Bike lanes work, PSU professor says (Portland Tribune, October 16, 2008) Jennifer Dill, PSU • Realtors peddle real estate to bike-happy clients (USA Today, August 29, 2008) Jennifer Dill, PSU • Suburban Housing Saga (The Washington Diplomat, June 2008) Nico Larco, UO

17. Success • 34 Collaborative Partners • 25 Multi Campus Projects • 62 Multi-Investigator Projects • 19 Disciplines • 92 Seminars for 2789 Professionals • 56 Papers • 18 New Courses • 1 New Degree Program • One “Big Idea” Selected at UO • New Sustainability Initiative Launched • 70 Master’s Graduates • 28 Projects Complete or in Peer Review

18. Success

19. Success • On time and on budget

20. See you in Portland 2011! Thank You! www.otrec.us bertini@otrec.us