PacTrans News
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December 2, 2022
DECEMBER 5: UW Transportation Seminar featuring Dusty Rasmussen of SDOT
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December 1, 2022
Professor Michael Kyte Receives PacTrans 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
This year’s PacTrans Lifetime Achievement Award has been given to University of Idaho Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michael Kyte.
PacTrans Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest and most prestigious award given by PacTrans. It is presented in recognition of individuals who have had distinguished careers in transportation in the Pacific Northwest with substantial involvement in the UTC program.
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December 1, 2022
UW PI Jon Froehlich was Interviewed by Seattle Times on Sidewalk Accessibility
Last month, PacTrans PI and UW Associate Professor of Computer Science Engineering, Jon Froehlich, was interviewed by the Seattle Times as part of an article titled, “WA faces an epidemic of inaccessible sidewalks.” The article aptly describes that unless there is network time accessibility, a single location’s accessibility (an apartment complex being sidewalk accessible, for example) is irrelevant. They point out that many places across the state of Washington suffer from a lack of network wide sidewalk accessibility.
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November 29, 2022
PacTrans 2021 Student Conference Recap
In October of this year, the Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium hosted its annual Region 10 Student Conference, which attracted more than 40 participants to join in-person at University of Washington’s Seattle campus. For the first time in three years, students from universities across the region were able to meet their peers in person at this great event. This year’s program featured multiple industry talks and sought to encourage out-of-the-box thinking.
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October 4, 2022
PacTrans Co-Hosts NaTMEC 2022 with ITD
PacTrans had the pleasure of partnering with the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) to co-host the 2022 National Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NaTMEC) this past summer. The conference provides a wonderful opportunity to meet with federal, state, local transportation professionals as well as industry leaders who have common interest in travel monitoring.
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