PacTrans News
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January 6, 2016
UW Recipient of Four Electric Vehicles for Internet of Things’ Sustainable Research Projects
With the leadership of Dr. Yinhai Wang, the PacTrans University Transportation Center will be aiding Transportation Services and the University of Washington in a series of research projects using University Electric Vehicles (UEVs). Read More
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January 5, 2016
PacTrans at IEEE’s First Smart Cities Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico
This past October PacTrans attended and demonstrated its research products at the first Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Smart Cities Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico. Read More
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December 30, 2015
The City of Bellevue Teams Up with PacTrans and Microsoft to Predict Bike Accidents
“We were asking ‘how can we get out ahead of these?’” says Bellevue senior transportation planner Franz Loewenherz acknowledging our country’s reactionary mentality to transportation safety. That is why the City has recently teamed up with researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington (Dr. Yinhai Wang and PacTrans), and engineers from Toole Design Group in Seattle to design a program that will allow them to use traffic cameras that are already in place to identify potentially dangerous situations. Read More
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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 24, 2015
2015 Michael Kyte Region 10 Outstanding Student of the Year
The 2015 Michael Kyte Region 10 Outstanding Student of the Year Award goes to ANTHONY MULLIN from University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF). Read More
