PacTrans News
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September 30, 2020
University of Washington Graduate Student Selected for Eno Conference
It was announced earlier this summer that UW Ph.D. candidate, Katherine Idziorek, is this year’s recipient of the Thomas J. O’Bryant Policy and Finance Fellowship. This opportunity will allow Idziorek the chance to immerse herself in transportation policy making, be involved in the development of Eno research, and participate in Eno’s Future Leaders Development Conference next year.
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September 30, 2020
Development of UAF Traffic, a Traffic Counting App
Counting traffic at intersections is a valuable tool for communities to enable data-driven improvements, yet the commercial offerings of counting hardware or software do not address the rich variety of vehicles often seen in rural Alaska. Enter: UAF Traffic, an app easily installed on an Apple iPad to enable anyone to collect traffic data. This project combines gamification and hardware design principles with audio and visual feedback to aid a user in recording data.
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September 25, 2020
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2019 #2: Extraction and Classification of Pavement Marking Program
Several years ago, OSU Professor Michael Olsen worked on a project in partnership with the Oregon Department of Transportation, where his team developed the Road Marking Extractor (RoME) tool to extract near-linear pavement markings from mobile lidar data. The following year, with PacTrans funding his team expanded that work with a project titled, “Efficient Extraction and Evaluation of Complex Pavement Markings from Mobile Laser Scan Data,” where they broadened the capabilities of the RoME tool to implement complex marking extraction (e.g., insertion lanes, arrows, text), improved noise filtering, deep learning-based classification, and rigorous tests on real-world data in various noise and road conditions.
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September 24, 2020
High schoolers get hands-on and virtual transportation engineering experience at OSU’s Summer Transportation Institute
Figure 1: Students survey the surrounding environment. A handful of Oregon state high school students were given the opportunity to gain a better understanding of transportation engineering through OSU’s Summer Transportation Institute, a program that the university, partnered with FHWA, put together and held late last August.
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September 23, 2020
Free Registration now Open: Region 10 Transportation Conference