Success Stories
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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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February 15, 2021
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2019 #3: Uncrewed Aircraft Systems in Transportation: Research-to-Operation Peer Exchange
Over the course of PacTrans’ existence, we have funded a number of projects the explore various applications of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), or drones. One of these PIs, OSU Professor Christopher Parrish, has also taken the lead on facilitating a larger regional and national dialogue about unresolved challenges, best practices, and other aspects surround the implementation of UAS in DOT workflows. So, for example, using previous PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story funding, Dr. Parrish hosted a UAS in Transportation workshop back in 2018.
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September 25, 2020
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2019 #2: Extraction and Classification of Pavement Marking Program
Several years ago, OSU Professor Michael Olsen worked on a project in partnership with the Oregon Department of Transportation, where his team developed the Road Marking Extractor (RoME) tool to extract near-linear pavement markings from mobile lidar data. The following year, with PacTrans funding his team expanded that work with a project titled, “Efficient Extraction and Evaluation of Complex Pavement Markings from Mobile Laser Scan Data,” where they broadened the capabilities of the RoME tool to implement complex marking extraction (e.g., insertion lanes, arrows, text), improved noise filtering, deep learning-based classification, and rigorous tests on real-world data in various noise and road conditions.
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June 09, 2020
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2019 #1: Advancement of a Heavy Vehicle Driving Simulator
Oregon State University Professor, David Hurwitz, is the director of the Driving and Bicycling Simulator Lab on the OSU campus. Dr. Hurwitz and his team explore human interactions in the transportation environment via simulation. Recently, his lab has added a heavy vehicle simulator that enables them to investigate a whole new area of human factors including things like truck and bicycle conflict in and around loading zones.
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January 03, 2019
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #12: Developing a User-Friendly RAI Software Application
Over the past several years, PacTrans has been supporting a team of researchers investigating critical slopes and rockfall. There have been many meaningful outputs, outcomes, and impacts from this work. One output was the development of a Rockfall Activity Index (RAI). Read More
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