Executive Committee Selects 2010-2011 Projects

We are pleased to announce our proposal funding decisions for 2010-2011. OTREC received a total of 44 proposals with a request of $4,463,880 for consideration. On June 15th, 22 proposals were selected for funding by the OTREC Executive Committee. We are particularly excited about supporting three initiatives (the Sustainable Cities Initiative, the Oregon Modeling Collaborative, and the Transportation Electrification Initiative) that will help build research and education capacity across our partner institutions that will further our focus on transportation livability and sustainability. You can view the complete list of projects here: http://www.otrec.us/main/projects.php?year=2011

OTREC hosts region’s first Sustainable Communities dialogue

The Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium held the West’s first listening session Wednesday under the Sustainable Communities Partnership, the effort to get federal agencies working together on green transportation and housing projects. Regional administrators from the Department of Transportation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency met with local, regional and state leaders for open-ended discussions on building sustainable communities.

More than 150 people attended the daylong Oregon Community Dialogue at Willamette University  in Salem, organized by OTREC and facilitated by the National Policy Consensus Center. In one-on-one interviews, participants brainstormed the barriers to sustainable communities, the existing opportunities to work together and actions they could take to take to make their own communities more sustainable.

Read the full story on OTREC's Livability blog

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The Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC)

...is a National University Transportation Center (UTC) created by Congress in 2005, and is a partnership between Portland State University, the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and the Oregon Institute of Technology. OTREC's director is Dr. Jennifer Dill.

MISSION

...OTREC is dedicated to encouraging and conducting collaborative multi-disciplinary research on multi-modal surface transportation issues; educating a diverse array of current practitioners and future leaders in the transportation field; and facilitating implementation of relevant research results.

THEME

...OTREC supports innovations in Sustainable Transportation through Advanced Technology, Integration of Land Use and Transportation, and Healthy Communities.

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