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Last week, PacTrans director, Yinhai Wang, had the great opportunity and privilege to present at Washington’s 2nd Traffic Safety Conference in Kennewick, Washington. This three-day event, hosted by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission is formed to promote dialogue around the hottest issues in traffic safety and build partnerships among public, private, and non-profit organizations. It promises to bring new information and innovation to attendees through break-out sessions and networking sessions.

Dr. Wang presented at one such break-out session titled Innovation and New Approaches to Traffic Safety Analysis. Attendees of this session heard from Natasha Close, a surveillance epidemiologist at Department of Health, regarding the use of syndromic surveillance to monitor traffic-related injuries, from Youngki Woo, a research assistant at the Washington State University, on cannabis intoxication and fatal crashes in Washington State, and from Dr. Wang on large-scale roadway safety analysis using a regional map-based platform known as DRIVE Net.