PacTrans News
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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
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September 17, 2020
PacTrans awards outstanding individuals
This year, PacTrans has granted a number of PacTrans awards, recognizing outstanding professionals in the transportation field that we’ve had the pleasure of working with over the past year.
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September 9, 2020
Smart lockers save Belltown from dwelling and delivery emissions
Belltown residents will have an easier time receiving their packages with the launch of a smart locker system by the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab (UFL) in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood last August.
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