Student Activities
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December 28, 2015
TMCs – Nerve Centers of the Operation Activities of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
A site visit last December 7 by 23 UW transportation engineering students to the Northwest Region Transportation Management Center in Shoreline, one of the six regional Traffic Management Centers (TMCs) of WSDOT, paved the way to better understand a 24-hour, 7 days a week complex operation. The TMC is the operation center of the many Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) used to make the system run more safely and efficiently. ITS devices include roadside cameras, ramp meters, variable message signs, speed and lane control signs, and radios. Read More
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December 01, 2015
Traffic Bowl Competition – UW ITE Student Chapter, First Place Winner
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter at the University of Washington was honored to attend the 8th Annual Bill Kloos Traffic Bowl in Portland, Oregon. Read More
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November 23, 2015
Congratulations to PacTrans 2015 Outstanding Student of the Year!
John Ash is a second year Ph.D. student in the Smart Transportation and Applications Research (STAR) Laboratory working under Dr. Yinhai Wang at the University of Washington (UW). John is originally from Wisconsin and came to the UW in 2014 after completing his M.S. in civil and environmental engineering (with a transportation emphasis) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also completed his B.S. with a double major in civil engineering and mathematics in 2012. His major research interests include traffic safety (which was the focus of his M.S. thesis in Wisconsin), intelligent transportation systems, and applications of data science in transportation.
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November 19, 2015
2015 Michael Kyte Student Award
Nominations are now accepted for the 2015 Michael Kyte Student of the Year Award.
Submit your nominations to bayyam@uw.edu by November 13th. Read More
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Student Travel Support to TRB
PacTrans is pleased to offer support to UW graduate students to attend the 95th annual TRB meeting in Washington, D.C. January 10-14, 2016.
To apply: For consideration, please email utcasstd@uw.edu and include the title of the paper you will be presenting as the primary author at the TRB by Monday, December 1, 2015. Read More
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