{"id":848,"date":"2018-10-26T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/news\/?page_id=848"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:08:48","slug":"welcome-to-trac","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to TRAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC) is a cooperative, interdisciplinary transportation research agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its members, Washington State University (WSU), the University of Washington (UW), and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), formed TRAC in 1983 to coordinate transportation research efforts\u2014both state and commercial, public and private\u2014and to develop research opportunities both nationally and locally. 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