Civil & Environmental Engineering, Transportation
Polina Butrina graduated in 2018 with a Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Transportation Track. She also served as a research assistant for the Urban Freight Lab and a teaching assistant for the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Master’s degree program. She wrote her Master’s thesis on Preparing cities for package demand growth: predicting neighborhood demand and implementing truck VMT reduction strategies.
As a student Polina worked on several research projects in the Urban Freight Lab:
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Evaluation of Bicycle Safety Impacts of Seattle’s Commercial Vehicle Load Zones, which identified conditions related to truck parking that lead to collisions, including operational, infrastructure, and commercial vehicle movements on urban roadways.
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An Examination of the Impact of Increasing Commercial Parking Utilization on Cyclist Safety in Urban Environments, which used a bike simulator to test impacts of different striping, signage, and infrastructure on cyclist behavior around truck loading zones and determine the implications for cyclist safety.
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Multi-Modal Intersections: Resolving Conflicts between Trains, Motor Vehicles, Bicyclists and Pedestrians, which used multimodal conflicts and hazards between motor vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Urban Freight Score, a truck freight accessibility project evaluating how easily trucks can serve the urban core.
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Final 50 Feet: Urban Goods Delivery System, which focused on optimizing the final 50 feet of deliveries of consumer goods ordered online and delivered to large residential and retail/commercial towers in Seattle.