The PacTrans External Advisory Board (EAB) met on the UW campus on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 for the very first time. The EAB, which will meet twice a year, will help review PacTrans activities and provide advice and vision on strategic directions. Members of the EAB include directors from the research office of the state […]
View the PDF here In order for a traffic micro-simulation model to be effective, it must be able to replicate both supply and demand characteristics, as well as their interaction. That is, the simulation model must be properly calibrated. The recent widespread deployment of ITS in North America has provided an opportunity to obtain significant […]
Professor Baibing Li from Loughborough University of UK will visit the University of Washington and deliver a seminar talk on campus. You are cordially invited to join his seminar. Discrete choice modelling is a widely used econometric approach to analyse the behaviour of travellers. The multinomial logit model is one of the most commonly used models in discrete choice […]
The Annual TRB Meeting is an information packed program that attracts approximately 10,000 transportation professionals from around the world. The meeting is held in January each year in Washington, D.C. at the Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, and Hilton Washington Hotels. The meeting program covers all transportation modes, with more than 2,800 presentations in 500 […]
Workshop Design, Operations and Traffic Management, Safety and Human Factors Susan T. Chrysler, University of Iowa, presiding Linda Ng Boyle, University of Washington, presiding Sponsored By: Statistical Methods (ABJ80) Vehicle User Characteristics (AND10) Simulation and Measurement of Vehicle and Operator Performance (AND30) This workshop is aimed at novice users of driving simulators who are not […]
Prof. Yinhai Wang, University of Washington presiding. Sponsored by: Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (AHB40)
The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), in partnership with AUTC, TranLIVE and OTREC, invites you to a reception for friends and alumni during the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 92nd Annual Meeting. View the PDF here For more information, please contact: pactrans@uw.edu
Title: Using Street Topology and Network Analysis to Estimate Traffic Volumes Speaker: Mike Lowry, Assistant Professor, University of Idaho This presentation introduces tools developed at the University of Idaho to estimate traffic volumes. One tool estimates peak-hour bicycle and pedestrian volumes, another tool estimates automobile annual average daily traffic (AADT), and the third tool estimates automobile turn […]
Title: Modeling of the Heteroscedastic Traffic Speed Variance Using Virtual Loop Detector Data Speaker: Haizhong Wang, assistant professor, Oregon State University Traffic speed variance is defined as a measure of the dispersion of space mean speeds among drivers. Empirical speed-density observations exhibit a structured traffic speed variance which has been found to be associated to the […]
Jointly Organized by PacTrans and the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UW Speaker: Dr. Chris T. Hendrickson, Duquesne Light Campany University Professor of Engineering and Co-Director of the Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University Abstract: With an increasing number of states mandating the sale of zero emissions vehicles, manufacturers are responding […]
