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November 05, 2015
Watch the 2015 Regional Transportation Conference Presentation
8:30 AM Welcome I – Yinhai Wang, Director, Pacific Northwest Transportation
Consortium (PacTrans) & Professor, Civil & Environmental
Engineering,University of Washington. Watch video
8:45 AM Welcome II – Vikram Jandhyala, Vice Provost, University of
Washington & Professor, Electrical Engineering,
University of Washington. Watch video
9:00 AM Keynote Address I – Roger Millar, Deputy Secretary,
Washington State Department of Transportation. Watch video
9:30 AM Keynote Address II – Brooke Steger, General Manager,
Uber Seattle. Watch video
10:00 AM Brief introductions by PIs for Poster Sessions – David Hurwitz,
Associate Professor, Civil & Construction Engineering,
Oregon State University
10:30 AM Hybrid Poster Session/Break Watch video
11:00 AM Research Session I (Safe Users & Operations) Watch video
Nathan Belz, Moderator, Assistant Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Brian Walsh, State Traffic Design & Operations Engineer, WSDOT
Keith Cunningham, Research Assistant Professor,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Scott Frank, Vice President of Marketing, Airbiquity
12:00 noon Lunch
1:00 PM Tech Transfer Session (Translating Results to Professional Practice) Watch video
Bruce Haldors, Moderator, President, Transpo Group
Santiago Navarro, Program Manager, Technology Transfer,
US Department of Transportation
Forest Bohrer, Technology Manager in Engineering,
Center for Commercialization, University of Washington
Ian Reagan, Sr. Research Scientist, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
2:00 PM Break
2:10 PM Workforce Development Session Watch video
Kevin Chang, Moderator, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering,
University of Idaho
Karen Dixon, Senior Research Engineer and Program Manager,
Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Texas A&M University
Stephen Albert, Director,
Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University
Shawn Leight, VP Elect, ITE, Vice President, CBB, Adjunct Professor,
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
3:10 PM Break
3:30 PM Research Session II (Safe Infrastructure) Watch video
Haifang Wen, Moderator, Assistant Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University
Kim Willoughby, Research Manager,
Washington State Department of Transportation
Jason Weiss, School Head, Professor Civil & Construction
Engineering, Oregon State University
Joseph Wartman, H.R. Berg, Associate Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
4:30 PM Closing Comments – Yinhai Wang, Director, PacTrans Watch video
4:35 PM Social Hour and Networking
5:35 PM End of Conference