PacTrans News
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January 7, 2016
PacTrans Researcher and UW Student Develops Second Version of App Geared Toward Helping the Visually Impair use Public Transit
In 2013 we wrote an article about PacTrans inaugural summer interns and their development of an Android app called BusBuddy:
“The idea for Bus Buddy was born when Jinglan (one of the interns) continuously napped through her bus stop, much to Kevin’s amusement. They decided that many Seattleites likely faced a similar issue and set to work. The application they created allows users to set a GPS enabled alarm for their respective bus stops so that those who tend to miss their stop for various reasons will no longer worry about it.” Read More
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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
