PacTrans News
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January 21, 2016
PacTrans Researchers Works on Recycling Scrap Fiber into Permeable Pavements Sponsored by Boeing
In his paper titled, Paving Paradise: The Peril of Impervious Surfaces, Lance Frazer eloquently articulates just how much of our country consists of impervious surfaces: “In the United States alone, pavements and other impervious surfaces cover more than 43,000 square miles—an area nearly the size of Ohio.” Read More
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January 7, 2016
PacTrans at the AASHTO 2015 Meeting
PacTrans representative Maria Bayya attended the 2015 Research Advisory Committee/TRB State Representative Meeting hosted by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) in Portland, Oregon this past July.
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January 7, 2016
Director Wang Speaks to National UTC Institution Georgia Tech about Big Data and Smart Cities
This past August, PacTrans Director and University of Washington professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Yinhai Wang, traveled to Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to present at a seminar title, “Big-Data-Driven Transportation Decision Making in the Smart Cities Context.” Georgia Tech is a member of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation, a National University Transportation Center, under the direction of UC Davis. Read More
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January 7, 2016
PacTrans Researcher and UW Student Develops Second Version of App Geared Toward Helping the Visually Impair use Public Transit
In 2013 we wrote an article about PacTrans inaugural summer interns and their development of an Android app called BusBuddy:
“The idea for Bus Buddy was born when Jinglan (one of the interns) continuously napped through her bus stop, much to Kevin’s amusement. They decided that many Seattleites likely faced a similar issue and set to work. The application they created allows users to set a GPS enabled alarm for their respective bus stops so that those who tend to miss their stop for various reasons will no longer worry about it.” Read More
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January 7, 2016
PacTrans assisting WSTIP with TRB IDEA Grant to Evaluate Collision Avoidance Technology on Transit
You may not know this but over the last two decades, technology has been developed with the intent of adding a secondary level of vehicle accident prevention. Collision avoidance systems, as they are called, use radar (all-weather) and sometimes laser and camera (both sensor types are ineffective during bad weather) to detect an imminent crash. Once the detection is done, these systems either provide a warning to the driver when there is an imminent collision or take action autonomously without any driver input (by braking or steering or both). Read More
