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• 1. [Article] Advanced GIS: Smart Transportation

  As sensors have become cheaper and more common, they have found an increasingly important role in transportation. However, curriculum to prepare students who will be working with these technologies as ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Advanced GIS: Smart Transportation Author: Bone, Christopher, Kato, Ken, Bartruff, Jacob, Schlossberg, Marc Year: 2016 As sensors have become cheaper and more common, they have found an increasingly important role in transportation. However, curriculum to prepare students who will be working with these technologies as developers and planners has not developed at the same rate. The goal of this project was to develop a college course focused around sensors and smart transportation to be offered to undergrad and graduate students at the University of Oregon. The class focused on the practical application and the theoretical consequences of these developments. The class was offered in the spring term of 2015 to a group of undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds. An overview of the class is offered here, and course documents are included as appendices so that other educators could use them as a starting point for developing such classes. Title: Advanced GIS: Smart Transportation Author: Bone, Christopher, Kato, Ken, Bartruff, Jacob, Schlossberg, Marc Year: 2016 As sensors have become cheaper and more common, they have found an increasingly important role in transportation. However, curriculum to prepare students who will be working with these technologies as developers and planners has not developed at the same rate. The goal of this project was to develop a college course focused around sensors and smart transportation to be offered to undergrad and graduate students at the University of Oregon. The class focused on the practical application and the theoretical consequences of these developments. The class was offered in the spring term of 2015 to a group of undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds. An overview of the class is offered here, and course documents are included as appendices so that other educators could use them as a starting point for developing such classes. Close

• 2. [Article] Transportation Planning Through Mobile Mapping Technology

  This report describes the development and testing of the Fix This Tool, a spatial, participatory, active transportation and built environment assessment tool created on an iPhone platform. The goal of ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Transportation Planning Through Mobile Mapping Technology Author: Schlossberg, Marc, Larco, Nico, Kato, Ken, Maher, Dana, Evers, Cody, Brehm, Christo Year: 2011 This report describes the development and testing of the Fix This Tool, a spatial, participatory, active transportation and built environment assessment tool created on an iPhone platform. The goal of this tool development was to create an instrument that could be widely distributed to communities across the country to develop a spatially based assessment of the micro-scaled elements of their local active transportation environment such that public officials and community members could focus energy in making appropriate improvements. The development of this tool emerged out of previous work with such tools built on a GIS platform and a workshop-based format to engage residents in data collection of their walking and biking environments. While this past work proved successful in both data collection tool use and in facilitating community conversations, the technological infrastructure had significant limitations in terms of being able to widely distribute the effort. In a GIS-based approach, GIS technicians must be present and when combined with community training and data processing, the cost of development, collection, and distribution is a significant limit to which communities could adopt such assessment tools for their own use. The Fix This Tool is designed to overcome these distribution and cost barriers by developing a tool that can be easily downloaded by community members using technology they already own. The report that follows outlines the philosophical positioning of a community-based data collection process, describes the tool itself, and provides some reflections between this smart phone based model and the previous GIS-based model of community-engaged active transportation assessment tools. Title: Transportation Planning Through Mobile Mapping Technology Author: Schlossberg, Marc, Larco, Nico, Kato, Ken, Maher, Dana, Evers, Cody, Brehm, Christo Year: 2011 This report describes the development and testing of the Fix This Tool, a spatial, participatory, active transportation and built environment assessment tool created on an iPhone platform. The goal of this tool development was to create an instrument that could be widely distributed to communities across the country to develop a spatially based assessment of the micro-scaled elements of their local active transportation environment such that public officials and community members could focus energy in making appropriate improvements. The development of this tool emerged out of previous work with such tools built on a GIS platform and a workshop-based format to engage residents in data collection of their walking and biking environments. While this past work proved successful in both data collection tool use and in facilitating community conversations, the technological infrastructure had significant limitations in terms of being able to widely distribute the effort. In a GIS-based approach, GIS technicians must be present and when combined with community training and data processing, the cost of development, collection, and distribution is a significant limit to which communities could adopt such assessment tools for their own use. The Fix This Tool is designed to overcome these distribution and cost barriers by developing a tool that can be easily downloaded by community members using technology they already own. The report that follows outlines the philosophical positioning of a community-based data collection process, describes the tool itself, and provides some reflections between this smart phone based model and the previous GIS-based model of community-engaged active transportation assessment tools. Close

• 3. [Article] Development of Mobile Mapping Technology to Facilitate Dialogue between Transportation Agencies and the Public

  The goal of this grant was to take the technological innovations for deploying survey instruments to mobile phones, developed under a previous OTREC grant, and publish them as globally accessible mobile ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Development of Mobile Mapping Technology to Facilitate Dialogue between Transportation Agencies and the Public Author: Kato, Ken, Schlossberg, Marc, Meacham, James Year: 2013 The goal of this grant was to take the technological innovations for deploying survey instruments to mobile phones, developed under a previous OTREC grant, and publish them as globally accessible mobile applications (apps) for use in a variety of transportation planning settings. Under this grant, three applications have been developed for three distinctly different user groups. The first, JLA Involve, was developed and deployed for JLA, a Portland, OR.-based public involvement firm, to support their work with the City of Tualatin, OR., in updating their Transportation System Plan (TSP). The second was developed and deployed for the City of Eugene, OR., and allows citizens to submit bike-lane service requests directly to the City’s internal Work Ticket (MMS) system for quickly responding to and resolving requests. The third application, Make It So, was developed and deployed by University of Oregon (UO) transportation researcher Marc Schlossberg, and makes generalized mobile survey instruments available to other transportation researchers around the world through Apple’s App Store. All are utilizing Esri’s API for iOS or Android to maximize the potential for recipients of mobilegenerated data to incorporate it directly into their existing spatial data management/GIS systems and workflows. Title: Development of Mobile Mapping Technology to Facilitate Dialogue between Transportation Agencies and the Public Author: Kato, Ken, Schlossberg, Marc, Meacham, James Year: 2013 The goal of this grant was to take the technological innovations for deploying survey instruments to mobile phones, developed under a previous OTREC grant, and publish them as globally accessible mobile applications (apps) for use in a variety of transportation planning settings. Under this grant, three applications have been developed for three distinctly different user groups. The first, JLA Involve, was developed and deployed for JLA, a Portland, OR.-based public involvement firm, to support their work with the City of Tualatin, OR., in updating their Transportation System Plan (TSP). The second was developed and deployed for the City of Eugene, OR., and allows citizens to submit bike-lane service requests directly to the City’s internal Work Ticket (MMS) system for quickly responding to and resolving requests. The third application, Make It So, was developed and deployed by University of Oregon (UO) transportation researcher Marc Schlossberg, and makes generalized mobile survey instruments available to other transportation researchers around the world through Apple’s App Store. All are utilizing Esri’s API for iOS or Android to maximize the potential for recipients of mobilegenerated data to incorporate it directly into their existing spatial data management/GIS systems and workflows. Close

• 4. [Article] Where's My Book: The Library on the UO App

  The UO Libraries' iPhone app functionality allows users to locate their book in the precise stack of the Knight Library. The library worked collaboratively with the Geography Department's InfoGraphics ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Where's My Book: The Library on the UO App Author: Brownmiller, Sara, Kato, Ken Year: 2012 The UO Libraries' iPhone app functionality allows users to locate their book in the precise stack of the Knight Library. The library worked collaboratively with the Geography Department's InfoGraphics Lab, campus experts on developing mobile applications that combine their GIS/spatial data with our internal data. Together we developed this new and easy to use information and functionality that was integrated directly into the UO's official iPhone app. Title: Where's My Book: The Library on the UO App Author: Brownmiller, Sara, Kato, Ken Year: 2012 The UO Libraries' iPhone app functionality allows users to locate their book in the precise stack of the Knight Library. The library worked collaboratively with the Geography Department's InfoGraphics Lab, campus experts on developing mobile applications that combine their GIS/spatial data with our internal data. Together we developed this new and easy to use information and functionality that was integrated directly into the UO's official iPhone app. Close

• 5. [Article] LEAP: Salem Local Energy Assurance Plan

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: LEAP: Salem Local Energy Assurance Plan Author: Lewis, Terry, Parker, Robert, Kato, Ken, Bruce, Josh, Phillips, Madeline, Garcia, Nicolas Year: 2012 122 pages Title: LEAP: Salem Local Energy Assurance Plan Author: Lewis, Terry, Parker, Robert, Kato, Ken, Bruce, Josh, Phillips, Madeline, Garcia, Nicolas Year: 2012 122 pages Close

• 6. [Article] Corvallis Police Department Strategic Plan

  82 pages

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Corvallis Police Department Strategic Plan Author: Chanay, Jessica, Holmstrom, William, Kato, Ken, University of Oregon. Dept. of Planning, Public Policy and Management. Community Planning Workshop Year: 2014, 2000 82 pages Title: Corvallis Police Department Strategic Plan Author: Chanay, Jessica, Holmstrom, William, Kato, Ken, University of Oregon. Dept. of Planning, Public Policy and Management. Community Planning Workshop Year: 2014, 2000 82 pages Close