Sustainable City Year Reports 2017-18 (TriMet)

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    A Front Porch for Oregon Health and Science University and Marquam Hill
    (University of Oregon, 2018) Jumila, Jonah; Muller, Brook
    During winter and spring terms 2018, graduate and undergraduate students in Professor Brook Muller’s terminal studio completed analytical research and urban design proposals for the Marquam Hill site. The urban design schemes encompassed a larger expanse – an east-west transect of southwest Portland that included the Willamette River, South Waterfront, Lair Hill, Barbur Boulevard (“the front porch to OHSU”), Terwilliger Parkway, and beyond. Students examined the implications of two proposed MAX line extensions located on either Southwest Naito Parkway or Southwest Barbur Boulevard, as well as the potential consequences to surrounding neighborhoods and the city in general. Holistic design proposals for a highly complex project of enormous potential were developed by students in the studio class. Students were composed of an interdisciplinary group from architecture, urban design, transportation planning, landscape architecture, and historic preservation.
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    Sustainable Transportation in the City of Tualatin
    (2017) Nelson, Alexander; Schlossberg, Marc
    This report formally documents the ideas and proposals made to the city of Tualatin by the University of Oregon’s Sustainable Transportation class in the Planning, Public Policy, and Management program. The class met with city officials and community members to hear suggested improvements, performed site visits to see what could be done, and then cultivated work in response to the goals of the city and its residents. These goals were as follows: Increase accessibility for employers and employees; Reduce congestion felt by the entire city and its neighbors; Design (or redesign) transportation systems to accommodate an aging population and children. The work produced by the class was broken into three themes: Theme 1: Walking The class proposed ways to optimize the pedestrian safety and experience. This included proposals such as physical barriers between vehicles, redirecting traffic to avoid high-volume pedestrian crossings, and thematic signage to aid wayfinding. Theme 2: Biking The class proposed ways to prioritize bicycle infrastructure and cyclist safety. This included the implementation of a bicycle boulevard, increased visibility in high-volume automobile corridors, and the redesign of some streets to allow for more comfortable bicycling along vehicles. Theme 3: Transit The class proposed ways to prioritize transit use in Tualatin and improve connections between existing transit stations. This included a proposed bus rapid transit route, transit stops throughout the city, and the redesign of some streets to allow for prioritized transit access.
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    TriMet Transit App
    (University of Oregon, 2018) Clark, Tim
    Students in Tim Clark’s Product Design Studio (BFA 486) were asked develop a multimodal urban transit app to serve users of TriMet’s public transit services. The purpose of a TriMet transit app is to provide users with real time information needed to guide everyday mobility choices, with the goal of minimizing travel time and costs to make public transit equally accessible and flexible as private vehicles. An integrated transit app can help draw people out of their private cars and onto transit, while also connecting transit to the communites that it serves. Ride-share apps such as Uber and Lyft innovated the taxi industry by demonstrating that an improved customer experience and increased access to information through their app interfaces. TriMet has the opportunity to do the same for transit through the development of an integrated transit app. Over 70 different apps currently use TriMet’s open source data to offer transit navigation systems, but none fully integrate the daily necessities of ticketing, trip planner, geo-location, and user preferences. Students used open data from existing transit, bike share, and ride-share programs to inform the future development of an app for TriMet’s services. The proposed app provides real time information of city maps, locations, transit system updates, traffic conditions, transit schedule, bike share locations and availability, ride-share availability, parking locations and availability, as well as overall trip fees. It also includes multiple features to enhance the rider experience, such as gamification, personal analytics, multi-destination trip planning, and neighborhood profiles. The app is envisioned as a planning tool that allows users to chart point-to-point trips using all available resources. Potential sustainable benefits include support for active transportation, improved access to urban mobility choices, reduced dependence on private vehicles and technological advances. The development of an integrated transit app can incentivize transit use, promote local businesses, and inform transit users about the communities where they live, work, and play. The class utilized five unique user profiles of TriMet services that represent different use cases and service locations. Students analyzed each user profile to identify the potential needs each user might expect from a transit app, and identified specific app features that could be developed to meet those needs. Four of the user profiles and service communites are presented in this report. These needs and features from each profile were then combined into a presentation of potential mock-ups of a future TriMet mobile app that can deliver an integrated and intuitive travel experience along the Southwest Corridor.