PacTrans News
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May 1, 2023
OSU ITE Student Chapter wins Western District Traffic Bowl
A team of students from Oregon State University’s student chapter of the Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) recently won the Western District’s Traffic Bowl. The win qualified them to represent the Western District at the Collegiate Traffic Bowl Grand Championship that is held in conjunction with the International ITE Annual Meeting which will be held this year in Portland, OR in August.
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May 1, 2023
PacTrans Student Researcher from OSU Presents work at OSU Graduate Engineering Research Showcase
Oregon State University Graduate Research Assistant, Logan Scott-Deter was recently invited to present work on bicycle crash mitigation as part of the 2023 Graduate Engineering Research Showcase. Scott-Deter is a Ph.D. student in civil engineering. He is passionate about transportation safety and is currently studying how to improve efficiency in the transportation network for large trucks. He will present work from his master’s thesis that was recently published in Accident Analysis and Prevention.
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May 1, 2023
PacTrans Student Researchers win Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE DTPI 2022
Three graduate research assistants from the University of Washington’s STAR Lab received an outstanding paper award from the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI 2022). The paper titled, Real-Time Traffic and Road Surveillance with Parallel Edge Intelligence, proposes a multi-thread parallel edge system architecture and several lightweight algorithms for traffic and road surveillance. The lead author, Ruimin Ke, has since graduated and is now a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, and the other two authors, Chenxi Liu and Frank (Hao) Yang, are both preparing to graduate.
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April 27, 2023
PacTrans PI Wins UI Excellence in Teaching Award
PacTrans’ PI, and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Idaho, Kevin Chang, was recently awarded the 2022-2023 Excellence in Teaching Award which is one of the accolades given as part of the University of Idaho’s University Excellence Awards. This is the first time a College of Engineering faculty has won this award in 13 years.
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April 27, 2023
PacTrans Spinoff wins 2022 U.S. Department of Transportation Small Business Innovation Research Award
PacTrans’ recent spinoff company, AIWaysion, was a recent recipient of the 2022 U.S. Department of Transportation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award. The project, titled, Edge Server-Based AI Application for Dilemma Zone and Traffic Conflict, falls under the SBIR topic of, “AI Video Analysis of Dilemma Zone and Other Conflicts at Signal Controlled Intersections (22-FH2).” The SBIR program is highly competitive and provides contracts to U.S. small businesses to pursue research on and develop innovative solutions to our nation’s transportation challenges.
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