Sustainable City Year Reports 2019-20 (Lane Transit District)

 

Recent Submissions

  • Transit-Oriented Development on Historic River Road 
    Wrobel, Olenka; Rich, Margerum; Robert, Parker; Kaarin, Knudson (University of Oregon, 2019)
    Graduate students in the University of Oregon’s Community and Regional Planning program worked in four groups to create implementation recommendations for land use and transportation redevelopment for different neighborhoods ...
  • Environmental Assessment of the Emerald Express Gateway Corridor 
    Theofield, RJ; Yang, Yizhao (University of Oregon, 2019)
    The Emerald Express (EmX) Gateway Corridor is a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line developed and operated by Lane Transit District (LTD) that connects main centers in the cities of Eugene and Springfield. BRT is a high-quality ...
  • Environmental Assessment of the Emerald Express Franklin Boulevard Corridor 
    Haefliger, Marie; Hays-Alsin, Bethany; Yang, Yizhao (University of Oregon, 2020)
    This technical report describes a multi-scale environmental study of Emerald Express (EmX) in the Franklin Boulevard Corridor. This study is a collaboration between Advanced GIS students at the University of Oregon, Lane ...
  • Applying Business Strategy to Manage Uncertainty 
    Cohen, Rachel; Cabinte, Ryan (University of Oregon, 2020)
    Master of Business Administration (MBA) students from the UO Center for Sustainable Business Practices were tasked with equipping Lane Transit District with a set of financial and business strategy tools to help the agency ...
  • Current and Future Mobility Needs Assessment for the Cities of Cottage Grove and Creswell 
    Connor, Emily; Brown, Anne (University of Oregon, 2020)
    The purpose of this report is to provide recommendations to the cities of Cottage Grove and Creswell based on the current and future transportation needs as informed by professional insight and community input. The first ...
  • Expanding the PeaceHealth Rides Bike-share Network 
    Dawson, Heather; Kohler, Nicholas; Kurtz, Lindsey (University of Oregon, 2020)
    Students in the spring 2020 Advanced GIS course worked together with Lane Transit District to assess how bike-share coverage could be expanded to develop multimodal transit stops and provide greater public transportation ...
  • Cycling in Coburg for Recreation, Transportation, and Tourism: A Visioning Process 
    Hart, Nick; Schlossberg, Marc (University of Oregon, 2020)
    In collaboration with the Sustainable City Year Program and Lane Transit District (LTD), the city of Coburg set out to examine and explore possible solutions related to bicycle transportation. Students addressed: multi-use ...
  • Reimagining Eugene Station 
    Bonner, Will; Horton, Eyrie; Lorber, Stephen; Parker, Cory (University of Oregon, 2020)
    The following report is a compilation of student work exploring designs for Eugene Station and how the station connects to its downtown location. Students worked with Lane Transit District (LTD) as part of the Sustainable ...
  • Santa Clara Design Studio Report and Findings 
    Soto, Michael; Ribe, Robert (University of Oregon, 2020)
    This report provides student designs neighboring LTD’s station at the intersection of Hunsaker Lane and River Road. After gathering information from the community and hosting many meetings and workshops, the City of Eugene ...
  • Re-imagining River Road for Ecological Equity 
    Urone, Julia; Arroyo, John (University of Oregon, 2020)
    LTD tasked students with identifying concepts to support a more sustainable, equitable transportation system and associated community uses along the River Road corridor in Eugene. Working in groups, students investigated ...
  • Assessment of MovingAhead’s Potential Funding Options 
    Burdette, Eric; Lewis, Rebecca (University of Oregon, 2020)
    As part of Rebecca Lewis’ Public Budget Administration class, LTD tasked student groups to come up with innovative sources to fund a service expansion named MovingAhead. The MovingAhead package is estimated to have $274 ...
  • Transit-Oriented Development on Historic River Road 
    Wrobel, Olenka; Margerum, Rich; Parker, Robert (University of Oregon, 2020)
    Graduate students in the University of Oregon’s Community and Regional Planning program worked in four groups to create implementation recommendations for land use and transportation redevelopment for different neighborhoods ...
  • LTD Performance Management Strategies 
    Ketchum, Corum; Lall, Saurabh (University of Oregon, 2020)
    This report contains recommendations on how LTD could evaluate five of their programs: fleet, operations, service planning, risk management, and sustainability. Each section examines one of these five programs, with ...
  • Promoting Sustainable Transportation in the Coburg Corridor 
    Grover, Alison; Schlossberg, Marc (University of Oregon, 2020)
    As part of the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) at the University of Oregon, this fall 2019 course asked students to come up with creative ways to implement a variety of mobility hubs in a specific area in Eugene, ...
  • The Future of Transit 
    Cohen, Rachel; Skov, Josh (University of Oregon, 2020)
    Lane Transit District (LTD) asked graduate students in Joshua Skov’s Industrial Ecology course to help envision how it might provide safe, affordable, and low-carbon mobility options to the community in the face of a ...
  • ARCH 683 Studio Report 
    Arroyo, Amy; Cartwright, Virginia (University of Oregon, 2020)
    Students planned and designed a new downtown “Enoteca,” Italian for a local and regional agricultural library, in Downtown Eugene, Oregon. The Enoteca is a space to educate the public about southern Willamette Valley wine ...
  • Bus Stops as Community Gateways 
    Del Rosario, EJ; Williams, Daisy (University of Oregon, 2020)
    This report summarizes the design proposals for conceptual bus stops that are responses to the current environments at two existing Lane Transit District (LTD) sites. This 10-week course led students with little to no ...