Welcome to the 2023 cohort traveling to Denmark

This workshop is hosted by the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University as part of our Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation program.

Contact John MacArthur at jhmacart@pdx.edu with any questions

Catalog Course Description 

The course creates an immersive experience to explore these approaches to cycling, transit, innovative mobility, and land use. The curriculum will feature material that provides a comparison between the U.S. and Denmark in terms of problems, priorities, and solutions. Specific emphases on planning and engineering principles, policy, and practice will be explored through field trips, tours, and guest lectures, while visiting near by areas. Students completing this course will develop a broader understanding of sustainable transportation issues and expand their toolkit for context-sensitive solutions. Taught in a study-abroad format in a European nation, this course examines how the urban areas and transportation systems of that nation have been designed to promote transportation by foot, bicycle, and public transportation. Through design projects, offers students an opportunity to apply lessons learned to the U.S. context.

Topics will include:

• Design of bikeways, safe pedestrian crossings, and transit systems;

• Urban expansion and land-use policies to promote travel by foot, bike, and public transport;

• Smart cities programs and projects;

• Roadway system design for safety and to prevent roads from becoming barriers to walking and cycling;

• Design for transit priority on roadways and for high-quality rail, tram, and bus service.

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