PacTrans News
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April 7, 2021
PacTrans Launches Doctoral Webinar Series
This past March, PacTrans launched a new doctoral webinar series. This series is being spearheaded by PacTrans Associate Director of Education and UW Professor Emeritus of Urban Design and Planning, Anne Vernez Moudon. The goal is to create a platform for students to present their research to their peers.
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April 7, 2021
PacTrans AD featured in ASCE’s Source on Engagement in Teaching
Early last month, Civil Engineering Source, ASCE’s news and information hub, published a wonderful article about PacTrans Associate Director and OSU Professor of Civil and Construction Management, David S. Hurwitz. The article titled, Engagement and commitment are hallmarks of transportation engineering course at Oregon State University, summarized an interview conducted with Professor Hurwitz about the effectiveness of his teaching pedagogy.
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April 7, 2021
WSU Student Team Wins 1st Place at Construction Management Competition
A student team from PacTrans consortium partner Washington State University took first place in the recent Associated Schools of Construction competition, the largest construction management competition in the U.S.
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April 7, 2021
UAF’s AUTC Replaced by Arctic Infrastructure Development Center
Last month, PacTrans consortium partner University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) launched the Arctic Infrastructure Development Center (AIDC), which replaces the Alaska University Transportation Center, which had been based at UAF’s College of Engineering and Mines since it was established in 2005. With this move, UAF signals a need for an expanded scope of its transportation-focused research center to include a broader emphasis on Arctic infrastructure as climate change reshapes the far north.
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April 5, 2021
Perimeter Metering Control for Two-Region Urban Networks using Deep Reinforcement Learning
