PacTrans News
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April 26, 2016
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2015 #6: We are here to Help: Enhancing Public Support for Wireless MAC Address Sensing in Transport Data Collection Short Educational Film – COMPLETED!
In January we posted all of the success story projects that PacTrans gave additional funding for technology transfer.
Success Story #6 involved leveraging current data collection efforts to obtain more complete travel demand information, and introducing new methods that have the potential to reduce cost and improve the quality and coverage of transportation data. The tech transfer funding given was for a single purposes: the development of a short film explaining this unique data collection paradigm to the non-engineering public, with the aim of addressing common complaints regarding privacy and safety.
This film has recently been completed and can be found via the link below:
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April 25, 2016
PacTrans Participates in 2016 Engineering Discovery Days at UW
Each year in the early spring, the University of Washington hosts a large, two-day event called Engineering Discovery Days. At Engineering Discovery Days, students and faculty from all UW engineering departments share their work with students, teachers, families and the community. Read More
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April 25, 2016
Dr. Wang Begins Consortium Visits with Trip to OSU
As our Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium applies to continue representing the region as its University Transportation Center for the next 5 years of FAST Act grant funding, PacTrans director Dr. Yinhai Wang has committed to spend some time with researchers from each of the five consortium universities. Read More
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April 25, 2016
University of Washington Concrete Canoe Team Brings Home Gold at Regional Competition
Congratulations are in order: the UW team claimed first place at the Pacific Northwest Regional Concrete Canoe competition, held the weekend of April 7-9 in Moscow, Idaho. Read More
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April 25, 2016
BMW External Advisory Board Member Meets With PacTrans Director
As BMW geared up to launch its new car sharing program here in Seattle, BMW Vice President for Government and External Affairs, Frank Breust (who is also PacTrans newest external advisory board member), met with our director Dr. Yinhai Wang. The meeting, which also included Vikram Jandhyala, UW Vice Provost for Innovation, happened at the car-sharing event on Friday, April 8.
This meeting marks the beginning of what promises to be a strong relationship between PacTrans and BMW. Mr. Breust and Dr. Wang sought ways we can collaborate in terms of research interests in transportation and workforce development. There will be more meetings planned ahead as we talk about BMW’s participation in our workshops and our Annual Regional Transportation Conference. Thanks Mr. Breust and welcome to our team!
