On Thursday, May 24th, the PacTrans celebrated its grand opening with a Launching Summit at the Talaris Conference Center in Seattle. Representatives from each of the five partner universities and leaders of transportation agencies and private industry in the Pacific Northwest were present. Washington State Congressman Rick Larsen delivered a speech over the lunch hour. […]
Technological advances are changing the nature of driving. Many of these innovations are designed to increase driver safety by simplifying tasks and user demands in safety-critical situations. An effect that is not anticipated by system designers is that driver's behavior may change, adapting in unforeseen ways that may either enhance or compromise the potential benefits […]
Mr. Runze Yu, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, was invited as this year’s Eno Fellow to attend the 20th Annual Eno Leadership Development Conference in Washington, D.C. Every year 19 top graduate students in transportation-related fields are selected across the nation from a highly competitive application pool and honorably […]
Cathy Liu, a PhD student in the STAR Lab, won the ITE's 2012 Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award. Her paper was selected as the best student paper by the Western ITE last month and will be advanced to compete for the national award. The Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award is awarded annually for […]
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 […]
