PacTrans News
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February 8, 2021
OSU’s Amy Wyman Receives PacTrans UTC Outstanding Student of the Year Award
Each year, every University Transportation Center has the opportunity to recognize one of its many brilliant student researchers with the UTC Outstanding Student of the Year award. Students are evaluated on accomplishments in three areas: (1) Technical Merit and Research, (2) Academic Performance, and (3) Professionalism and Leadership. This year, that prestigious award went to Oregon State University PhD candidate Amy Wyman.
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February 8, 2021
PacTrans Makes Strong Showing at 2021 Virtual TRB Annual Meeting
This year the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting celebrated its 100th anniversary. Also noteworthy this year, the conference was held virtually for the first time in its existence. This annual conference typically consist of more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world hosting more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops in what always amounts to a jam packed week in frigid Washington D.C. This year, the virtual event spanned the entire month of January but still featured thousands of activities and presentations that participant attended from behind the computer of their homes and/or offices. The theme of the 100th annual meeting was Launching a New Century of Mobility and Quality of Life.
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February 8, 2021
PacTrans-funded COVID-19 Research on Work from Home gets Published
In late Spring of 2020, PacTrans funded three quick research projects revolving around various aspects of COVID-19. One of these projects, titled, How to Sustain Work from Home? Employers’ and Employees’ Perspectives, is being led by Anne Vernez Moudon, Professor Emertius in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington.
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February 8, 2021
App-Based Carpooling Company Scoop Publishes PacTrans-Funded Work on Effectiveness of Carpool Incentive Fund
Source: Building Partnership Between Transit Agency and Shared Mobility Company: Incentivizing App-Based Carpooling in the Seattle Region Late last year, Scoop, an app-based carpooling company, published some PacTrans-funded work that was presented at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting. The presentation was titled, Building Partnership Between Transit Agency and Shared Mobility Company: Incentivizing App-Based Carpooling in the Seattle Region , and was based on a 2018 PacTrans-funded a research project titled, Examining the Effects of King County Metro Carpool Incentive Fund, lead by Qing Shen, a professor of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington.
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February 4, 2021
Research Specialist position open at King County Metro
King County Metro has a new job opportunity at Metro for a Research Specialist, see link below for more details.
