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Task Force members are encouraged to share resources, articles and information with each other that is relevant to the group’s charge. Please feel free to email staff with any resources you would like us to add to this library.
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Task Force meeting materials and information
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:
Information on ODOT Toll Program:
City of Portland comments on highway tolling:
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
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
- 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)
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)