PacTrans News
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June 27, 2023
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: PacTrans Workforce Development Institute is hiring an Assistant Director
The transportation industry is currently facing a workforce shortage crisis. Several years ago, PacTrans endeavored to help address this gap by establishing a Workforce Development Institute. This institute provides short-term continuing education and training courses for working professional, and hosts a variety of K-12 STEM outreach activities. If you are interested in this kind of work, we are currently seeking to hire an Assistant Director for this Institute. Please see the job posting here.
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June 9, 2023
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
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May 12, 2023
MAY 24: PacTrans Seminar on AI featuring Randy McCourt
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May 12, 2023
PacTrans Participates in 2023 Lifesavers Conference
PacTrans had two consortium partner universities participate in the 2023 Lifesavers Conference on Highway Safety Priorities in Seattle, Washington. The Lifesavers Conference showcases the latest research, evidence-based strategies, proven countermeasures, and promising new approaches for addressing the nation’s most pressing traffic safety problems and focus on the 4 Es of traffic safety: engineering, emergency response, enforcement, and education. PacTrans’ collaborator, the Northwestern Tribal Technical Assistance Program (NW TTAP) Center, was among the exhibitors, leveraging the opportunity to discuss safety challenges on Tribal roads and to network with professionals in traffic safety and Tribal transportation.
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May 1, 2023
WSU Student Researcher win First Prize in Student Data Analysis Contest
Chuang Chen, a Graduate Research Assistant from Washington State University, recently won first prize in the 2022 Long-Term Infrastructure Performance (LTIP) Student Data Analysis Contest (Pavement). Chen won with a paper titled, Key Climatic Factors Affecting Asphalt Pavement Roughness Differ in Different Climate Regions: Exploratory Analyses, which explored the use of multiple techniques for big data processing and subsequent exploratory analyses, and investigated the relationships between climatic factors and a typical asphalt pavement distress – roughness. This study also tested the hypothesis that key climatic factors affecting asphalt pavement roughness differ in different regions.
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