• April 07, 2021

    PacTrans Launches Doctoral Webinar Series

    This past March, PacTrans launched a new doctoral webinar series. This series is being spearheaded by PacTrans Associate Director of Education and UW Professor Emeritus of Urban Design and Planning, Anne Vernez Moudon. The goal is to create a platform for students to present their research to their peers.

    The inaugural webinar was presented by OSU doctoral candidate Chen Chen and titled, An Interdisciplinary Agent-based Evacuation Modeling Framework: Seeking Convergence of Social, Natural, and Engineered Systems to Improve Life Safety in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. In this webinar Chen, along with his academic advisor, Associate Professor Haizhong Wang, presented work on an agent-based modeling (ABM) framework to improve life safety in the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

    PacTrans has a long-term vision that this series, which has been created for students, will also be primarily organized by students. We are currently in the process of establishing a student advisory committee for the continuation of the webinar series.