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    Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting

    Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, and Hilton Washington Hotels Washington, DC, United States

    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 #59: How Do You Turn This Driving Simulator On? Tutorial for Traffic Engineering and Roadway Design Research Using Driving Simulation

    Marriott Wardman Park - Balcony B Washington, DC, United States

    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 […]

    TRB Research Subcommittee Meeting, AHB40(1.1)

    Marriott Wardman Park - Park Tower Suite 8222 Washington, DC, United States

    Prof. Yinhai Wang, University of Washington presiding. Sponsored by: Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (AHB40)

    Region 10 Transportation Consortium Reception at the TRB

    Marriott Wardman Park Hotel: Stones Throw Restaurant and Bar 2660 Woodley Road Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

    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

    PacTrans-sponsored Transportation Talk

    Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng. - UW STAR Lab - More Hall 101 University of Washington, Seattle, United States

    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 […]

    PacTrans-sponsored Transportation Talk

    Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng. - UW STAR Lab - More Hall 101 University of Washington, Seattle

    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 […]

    PacTrans Seminar: Electric Vehicles and Life Cycle Assessment

    UW Campus, Electrical Eng. Bldg. 105 Seattle, WA, WA, United States

    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 […]

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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 […]