Conferences
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August 26, 2025
Registration Now Open for the PacTrans Region 10 Transportation Conference
We are proud to continue the tradition of providing a premier forum for transportation research in the Pacific Northwest. This year’s theme is Connecting Communities: Improving Mobility Under Uncertainty.
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June 17, 2025
PacTrans Attends TRB Workforce Development Conference
PacTrans WDI staff attended the TRB National Summit on the Future of the Transportation Workforce in the first week of June in Westminster, Colorado. Melissa Amrhein, Assistant Director of the PacTrans Workforce Development Institute, presented an update on the annual Washington Transportation Camp, sponsored by WSDOT and PacTrans, and hosted by the University of Washington and Washington State University each summer. The camp aims to inspire students to consider career paths in STEM fields related to transportation. Students engage in problem-solving activities that enhance their critical thinking, teamwork, and communication abilities. After participating in the camp, high school students indicated a heightened interest in pursuing degrees in engineering, environmental science, and urban planning.
The other informative sessions at the TRB Workforce conference covered topics such as transportation workforce retention strategies, evaluation of workforce programs, and using AI in the transportation workforce. The conference offered a variety of guest speakers, poster sessions, and breakout sessions where participants shared workforce opportunities and challenges with each other. Our staff walked away with many new insights and workshop ideas. One new workforce development tool shared at the conference is the Agency Capability Building Web Portal. The ABC Portal is a one-stop shop that provides transportation workforce practitioners with easy access to the tools and work products developed through NCHRP Project 20-24(95): Ensuring Essential Capability for the Future Transportation Agency. We look forward to integrating these new resources and insights into our future initiatives to further improve the transportation workforce.
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January 15, 2025
PacTrans Out in Force at the 2025 TRB Annual Meeting!
On January 5-9, 2025, PacTrans showed up in full force at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. This annual conference typically consists of more than 13,000 transportation professionals from all around the world, hosting more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops in what always amounts to a jam-packed week in a frigid Washington, D.C.
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September 01, 2024
You’re invited to the 2024 Region 10 Transportation Conference in Moscow, ID!!
The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) Region 10 University Transportation Center is excited to invite you to the 10th Annual PacTrans Transportation Conference.
Date and Location
Friday, October 11, 2024
University of Idaho
Moscow, IdahoView the full agenda and register on our conference website: www.pactransconference.com
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August 15, 2024
RECAP: Future of Transportation Summit
From Aug 13-15, 2024, the PacTrans team attended the Future of Transportation Summit in Washington D.C. Hosted by the US Department of Transportation (US DOT), the Future of Transportation Summit is an annual event organized by National University Transportation Centers led in its inaugural version by the Safety21 National UTC on Promoting Safety based at Carnegie Mellon University.
With around 600 participants, ~250 in-person and the rest remote, the Summit brought together university researchers working across the following transportation research focus areas of the UTC program:
- Improving the Mobility of Goods & People and Congestion
- Promoting Safety
- Reducing Transportation Cybersecurity Risks
- Preserving the Environment
- Improving the Durability and Extending the Life of the Transportation Infrastructure
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