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    PacTrans-Sponsored Transportation Talk

    Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. - More 225 University of Washington, Seattle, United States

    Title: Confessions of  a Traffic Engineer: The Misuse of Level of Service and its Impact on Active Transportation Speaker: Peter Koonce, City of Portland Bureau of Transportation The transportation engineering community is advancing methodologies to encourage active transportation. Adoption of new methodologies and standards has not been widely accepted because there remain gaps in the standards by […]

    PacTrans Seminar Series: Sustainable Mobility, Place-making, and Economic Competitiveness – Striking a Balance

    UW Husky Union Building (HUB) Room 334 Seattle, WA, United States

    Organized by The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) Speaker:  Dr. Robert Cervero, Carmel P. Friesen Chair of Urban Studies and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) and Director of the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) Abstract: Transport […]

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    PacTrans-Sponsored Transportation Talk

    Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. - More 225 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

    Title: Integrated Transportation Conformity Analysis Speaker: Heng Wei, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor, The University of Cincinnati   Alleviating highway congestion and traffic-source environmental impacts has been viewed as one of strategies to address issues related to transportation greenhouse gases (GHGs) and sustainability. One essential challenge lies in the capability to quantitatively assess the effect of […]

    PacTrans-sponsored Transportation Talk

    Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. - More 225 University of Washington, Seattle

    Title of Seminar: Sound Transit Projects and Plans for a Potential ST3 Public Vote Speaker: Michael Williams, Deputy Executive Director of Capital Project Development Planning, Environment & Project Development at SoundTransit Michael Williams has over 30 years of experience in the field of transportation planning and engineering. He has been with Sound Transit since January […]

    PacTrans-sponsored Transportation Talk

    Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. - More 225 University of Washington, Seattle, United States

    Title of Talk: Washington State Transportation Improvement Board Speaker: Stevan Gorcester, Director of Washington State Transportation Improvement Board Steve Gorcester, Executive Director, Washington State Transportation Improvement Board, will talk about the board's transportation grant programs and the role LEAN business process improvement has played in program development.  Using the online TIB Dashboard, Steve will show […]

    Region 10 Transportation Conference: “Transportation Decision Making in the Big Data World”

    HUB University of Washington, Seattle, United States

    The PacTrans Region 10 Transportation Conference brings together the Pacific Northwest’s transportation community to network and to share current research results and ideas for future collaboration. This year’s conference focuses on how transportation agencies and companies can improve transportation decision making by using modern technology for less costly data collection, improved methods for data sharing, […]

    Region 10 Student Conference

    HUB University of Washington, Seattle

    Save the Date: PacTrans is organizing a Region 10 Student Transportation Conference on Saturday, October 19th on the UW campus in Seattle, Washington. PacTrans-ITE Region 10 2013 Student Conference Flier

    PacTrans-Sponsored Transportation Seminar: Signal Control and Operational Analysis for Diverging Diamond Interchanges

    More 116 University of Washington, Seattle, United States

    PacTrans-Sponsored Transportation Seminar: Signal Control and Operational Analysis for Diverging Diamond Interchanges Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, 1:30 - 3 p.m., More 116 Speaker: Zong Tian, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno Abstract: Diverging diamond interchange (DDI) is an emerging interchange type. More than 20 DDIs are in operation in the United States, the […]

    PacTrans Seminar Series: What is the Level of Volatility in Instantaneous Driving Decisions?

    HUB 334 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

    Organized by The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) Speaker: Dr. Asad J. Khattak Dr. Asad J. Khattak is Beaman Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Director of Safety Programs-Center for Transportation Research at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he teaches and conducts research in transportation. Dr. Khattak's research focuses on various types of innovations related to 1) […]

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