POEM Task Force resources

Task Force meeting materials and information

• Task Force meeting information
• Task Force meeting documents and materials

Background resources related to advancing racial justice through transportation

• Untokening 1.0 - Principles of Mobility Justice
• "Transportation planners and advocates: What legacy will you leave for racial justice?" Streets Blog Chicago (June 2020)
• "Stop Killing Us: A Real Life Nightmare" Tamika Butler (May 2020)
• Planning While Black: A Powerful Call for Racial Equity - Tamika Butler speech at NACTO 2016 conference

Pricing typology background readings and materials

Pricing parking

General policy information:

• Parking pricing background memo
• City of Portland Parking ArcGIS interactive map
• City of Portland Performance-Based Parking Management Manual (adopted by City Council in April 2018)
• Parking Pricing: TDM Encyclopedia (Victoria Transport Policy Institute)
• “Parking facilities and the built environment: Impacts on travel behavior” (Transportation Research, 2017)

Ongoing City policy development projects and programs related to parking strategies:

• Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Action Plan (The Way to Go: People Moving in Portland)
• Net Meter Revenue Policy Review
• Transportation Wallet program

Task Force feedback:

• Initial parking pricing feedback summary (from July and August 2020 meetings)

Highway tolling

General policy information:

• Tolling background memo
• Introduction to tolling video
• TransForm - Pricing Roads, Advancing Equity

Information on ODOT Toll Program:

• Oregon Toll Program website
• I-5 and I-205 toll projects fact sheet
• I-5 and I-205 toll projects FAQs

City of Portland comments on highway tolling: 

• PDF fileCity of Portland letter on ODOT Value Pricing Feasibility Analysis 137.48 KB
• PDF filePBOT comments on I-205 tolling scoping414.64 KB

Task Force feedback:

• Initial tolling feedback summary (from September and October 2020 meetings)
• Emerging themes around tolling (from November 2020 meeting)

Cordon pricing

General policy information

• Cordon pricing background memo
• Cordon pricing overview presentation

Road usage charges

General policy information

• Road usage charge background memo
• OReGO program website
• OReGO information on ODOT's website
• OReGO Program 2017 Final Report
• About Oregon's Road User Fee Task Force

Complementary strategies

• PDF fileMemo - TDM Action Plan: Revised Strategy Effectiveness Analysis814.36 KB
• Climate Solutions - The Big Issue: Transforming our Transportation - Scenarios for Oregon and Washington

Articles shared by Task Force members:

General pricing resources

• Pricing Roads, Advancing Equity, TransForm (2019)
• Congestion Pricing in the United States, Eno Center for Transportation (2020)
• PDF file"Roads, Prices and Shortages: A Gasoline Parable," Michael Manville, UCLA Institute for Transportation Studies (2020)3.84 MB

Pricing related news from around the world

• "Commuter benefits and driving: Direct and spillover effects," Transfers Magazine (Fall 2020)
• "Advocates cheer DC Council's unanimous vote for flexible commuter benefits," Coalition for Smarter Growth (April 7, 2020)

Equitable mobility

• "The Transportation Barrier," The Atlantic (August 9, 2015)
• "Stranded: How America's Failing Public Transportation Increases Inequality," The Atlantic (May 16, 2015)

Climate change

• "Portland Declares A Climate Emergency," OPB (July 1, 2020)
• "More Than 500 Oregon Health Leaders Declare Climate Change A Public Health Emergency," OPB (February 4, 2020)

COVID-19 and mobility

• "The pandemic as prism for urban mobility," Transport Weekly (April 14, 2020)