PacTrans News
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October 4, 2022
PacTrans Co-Hosts NaTMEC 2022 with ITD
PacTrans had the pleasure of partnering with the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) to co-host the 2022 National Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NaTMEC) this past summer. The conference provides a wonderful opportunity to meet with federal, state, local transportation professionals as well as industry leaders who have common interest in travel monitoring.
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September 28, 2022
UAF Steel Bridge Team Places 2nd at Nationals
Over the years, PacTrans has been a strong supporter of our consortium partner universities’ student competition teams. This past year, a team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks took second place in the 2022 Student Steel Bridge Competition finals, the best showing for UAF in more than a quarter century.
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September 28, 2022
OSU’s David Hurwitz Discusses Recent Trends in Increased Traffic Crashes on MPR News
Recently, PacTrans Associate Director and OSU Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering, David Hurwitz, took part in a Minnesota Public Radio news segment titled, How can we make Minnesota’s roads safer? Professor Hurwitz was joined by Brian Sorenson, the state traffic engineer for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and Colonel Matt Langer, the chief of the Minnesota State Patrol, to discuss the recent rise in traffic crashes.
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September 28, 2022
UAF’s Billy Connor Travels to Point Lay to Explore Effects of Thawing Permafrost
PacTrans has funded a handful of different projects from the University of Alaska Fairbanks that look at various aspects of permafrost over the past several years. Most recently PacTrans’ Associate Director from UAF set out to Synthesize a best practice manual on Designing and Construction of Roadways and Airports over Permafrost. As average global temperatures continue to rise, permafrost is thawing at a fast rate, wreaking havoc on the infrastructure that is built up in and around it.
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September 22, 2022
OSU Hosts Third Annual National Summer Transportation Institute
This summer, PacTrans consortium partner, Oregon State University, hosted their third annual National Summer Transportation Institute (NSTI). In all, twenty-one, high-school age students had the opportunity to spend a week on the OSU campus, learning about a variety of transportation related disciplines, free of charge.
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