Success Stories

  • July 11, 2022

    PacTrans Director Yinhai Wang led STAR Lab launches spin-off company- AIWaysion

    The PacTrans Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) at the University of Washington recently launched a spin-off company – AIWaysion. The company provides Smart Mobility Solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI), computer vision, and edge computing technologies for safer and more efficient transportation. 

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  • March 21, 2022

    PacTrans Partner OSU’s Barbara Simpson earns NSF CAREER Award

    Barbara Simpson, Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at PacTrans partner Oregon State University, recently received a Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, award from the National Science Foundation. The award includes a grant of nearly $600,000 over five years. 

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  • December 06, 2021

    Incorporating Ride-Sourcing Service into ADA Paratransit

    This web post summarizes a technology transfer project co-funded by PacTrans and King County Metro Transit on leveraging ride-sourcing services a part of ADA paratransit. In early December 2021, PacTrans PI and Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Qing Shen, and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Lamis Ashour, delivered a webinar titled, Incorporating Ride-Sourcing Service into ADA Paratransit: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Transit Agencies.

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  • December 02, 2021

    PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2019 #5: Curbside Management Challenges and Pilot Project

    Researchers at the University of Washington recently completed a very exciting, PacTrans-funded, Technology Transfer project involving a newly developed sensor, and its deployment for a pilot study in the City of Bellevue, WA. We sincerely hope you enjoy their story:

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  • April 27, 2021

    PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2019 #4: Simulation Environment to Optimize Public Investments in Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

    A research team at the University of Washington, led by UW Professor Don MacKenzie, recently developed a decision support system (EVI-DSS) to guide the WSDOT’s infrastructure development process. EVI-DSS is a model-view-controller application capable of supporting multiple users concurrently. It employs a PostgreSQL database as a model, two R Shiny web-apps as views and a NodeJS server for managing analysis execution requests.

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