PacTrans News
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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
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December 28, 2015
TMCs – Nerve Centers of the Operation Activities of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
A site visit last December 7 by 23 UW transportation engineering students to the Northwest Region Transportation Management Center in Shoreline, one of the six regional Traffic Management Centers (TMCs) of WSDOT, paved the way to better understand a 24-hour, 7 days a week complex operation. The TMC is the operation center of the many Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) used to make the system run more safely and efficiently. ITS devices include roadside cameras, ramp meters, variable message signs, speed and lane control signs, and radios. Read More
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December 24, 2015
2015 Michael Kyte Region 10 Outstanding Student of the Year
The 2015 Michael Kyte Region 10 Outstanding Student of the Year Award goes to ANTHONY MULLIN from University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF). Read More
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December 1, 2015
Traffic Bowl Competition – UW ITE Student Chapter, First Place Winner
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter at the University of Washington was honored to attend the 8th Annual Bill Kloos Traffic Bowl in Portland, Oregon. Read More
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November 23, 2015
Congratulations to PacTrans 2015 Outstanding Student of the Year!
John Ash is a second year Ph.D. student in the Smart Transportation and Applications Research (STAR) Laboratory working under Dr. Yinhai Wang at the University of Washington (UW). John is originally from Wisconsin and came to the UW in 2014 after completing his M.S. in civil and environmental engineering (with a transportation emphasis) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also completed his B.S. with a double major in civil engineering and mathematics in 2012. His major research interests include traffic safety (which was the focus of his M.S. thesis in Wisconsin), intelligent transportation systems, and applications of data science in transportation. Read More
