• February 05, 2016

    PacTrans’ Dr. Yinhai Wang supports ITS and Transportation Technology at WA House Transportation Committee Workshop

    WA House

    PacTrans director, Dr. Yinhai Wang, joined John Toone, IT Project Manager at King County Metro, and Tim Streck, Director of Channel Development with INRIX, last week Wednesday, January 27th at a Washington State House of Representatives Transportation Committee Workshop. Committee Chair Judy Clibborn (D-Mercer Island) expressed that Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and transportation technology are subjects that the committee needs more information about but has no credible. ITS Washington was asked to bring three representative to help fill in those gaps.

    The three, representing public, private, and academic sectors, gave a 45 minute presentation on why ITS matters, who it effects, and what the potential benefits are to investing in its development. Dr. Wang had the opportunity to highlight many of the great endeavors that our UTC has been involved in recently. He discussed: near miss data collection, UVA-based video data collection, bus collision avoidance systems, and DRIVE Net.

    This was a great opportunity for Dr. Wang to reinforce our Center’s theme, “Developing Data Driven Solutions and Decision-Making for Safe Transport in the Pacific Northwest.” It made our abilities better known to the policy-making community and continue to strengthen our perception as the region’s premier technologies research hub in the transportation industry.