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Student Activities

October 08, 2015
PacTrans Fellows at the CEE Undergrad Orientation

Our CEE undergrad orientation on October 7, 2015 went well!

Appreciate our PacTrans Fellows promoting transportation focus area to the students in the crowd!

Please stop by More Hall 112 for more information on PacTrans and opportunities

for fellowship, research, workshops and seminars.

Also, we’d love to see everyone at our 10/16 Regional

Transportation Conference and 10/17 Student Conference.

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October 01, 2015
PacTrans Region 10 Student Transportation Conference 2015 Registration

Student Register online for the 2015 PacTrans Regional 10 Student Transportation Conference on Saturday, October 17, 2015 at Room 250 Husky Union Building (HUB), University of Washington. Click on the flyer for a clearer image.

For more information and to register, free of cost, click here. Read More
July 13, 2015
Meet Our 2015-16 PacTrans Fellows

As part of PacTrans’ mission to bring talented professionals into the transportation field, PacTrans provides funding to students seeking transportation-related graduate degrees each year. Read More
July 01, 2014
2014 Graduation

Congratulations to our 2014 Graduates
May 12, 2014
Jeff Busby from TransLink Talks to Transportation Graduate Seminar

On May 2, Jeff Busby, Senior Manager, Project Development at TransLink in Vancouver, BC, came and talked to the University of Washington transportation graduate students at the graduate transportation seminar. He gave a very interesting talk about how areas in Metro Vancouver are using transit stations to stimulate better development and the relationship between development and transportation infrastructure. This is important because Metro Vancouver is projected to grow over the next 30 years, meaning that there will be an increase in the number of trips taken. TransLink hopes that the increase in person trips won’t result in an increase in vehicle trips. Achieving this goal involves everything from designing transit station access to choosing which benches to put at stations. The talk was an excellent opportunity for students to learn about issues in the transportation industry, and how those issues are being solved. One interesting thing about TransLink is that it is organized differently than many of its North American counterparts, as they fulfill the roles of both an MPO and a transit system operator, and also fund a lot of road infrastructure. This enables a degree of coordination that would be impractical in many jurisdictions. We would like to thank Jeff for speaking to our students, as it was a great experience for them.