PacTrans News
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January 7, 2016
PacTrans assisting WSTIP with TRB IDEA Grant to Evaluate Collision Avoidance Technology on Transit
You may not know this but over the last two decades, technology has been developed with the intent of adding a secondary level of vehicle accident prevention. Collision avoidance systems, as they are called, use radar (all-weather) and sometimes laser and camera (both sensor types are ineffective during bad weather) to detect an imminent crash. Once the detection is done, these systems either provide a warning to the driver when there is an imminent collision or take action autonomously without any driver input (by braking or steering or both). Read More
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January 6, 2016
PacTrans Newsletter – Special Conference Issue Now Available!
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January 6, 2016
UW Recipient of Four Electric Vehicles for Internet of Things’ Sustainable Research Projects
With the leadership of Dr. Yinhai Wang, the PacTrans University Transportation Center will be aiding Transportation Services and the University of Washington in a series of research projects using University Electric Vehicles (UEVs). Read More
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January 5, 2016
PacTrans at IEEE’s First Smart Cities Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico
This past October PacTrans attended and demonstrated its research products at the first Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Smart Cities Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico. Read More
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December 30, 2015
The City of Bellevue Teams Up with PacTrans and Microsoft to Predict Bike Accidents
“We were asking ‘how can we get out ahead of these?’” says Bellevue senior transportation planner Franz Loewenherz acknowledging our country’s reactionary mentality to transportation safety. That is why the City has recently teamed up with researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington (Dr. Yinhai Wang and PacTrans), and engineers from Toole Design Group in Seattle to design a program that will allow them to use traffic cameras that are already in place to identify potentially dangerous situations. Read More