PacTrans News
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December 12, 2018
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #8: Mobile Unit for Sensing Traffic (MUST) version 2
Over the past several year the Smart Transportation Application & Research (STAR) Lab, at the University of Washington has been developing a technology called the Mobile Unit for Sensing Traffic (MUST). Read More
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December 12, 2018
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #7: Safety Net: A Transportation Safety Performance Analysis and Visualization Platform
For many years, the University of Washington’s Smart Transportation Application & Research (STAR) Lab has been developing the Digital Roadway Interactive Visualization and Evaluation Network (DRIVE Net), which is a region-wide, web-based transportation decision support system that adopts digital roadway maps as a base and provides data layers for integrating and analyzing a variety of data sources. Read More
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December 12, 2018
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #6: Vehicle-Pedestrian Near-Miss Detection Using Onboard Monocular Video Data
Several years ago, faculty and students from the University of Washington’s Smart Transportation Application & Research (STAR) Lab, partnered with the Washington State Transit Insurance Pool on a project cofounded by PacTrans and a TRB IDEA Grant to student collision avoidance technologies for transit vehicles. Read More
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December 6, 2018
Register for ITS Washington’s annual conference
ITS Washington, along with the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), UW, and WSDOT, proudly presents its two-day Transportation Systems and Management Operations (TSMO) training and annual conference event next week. Read More
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December 6, 2018
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #5: Linking the Evaluation of Safety Data Management to Professional Certification
During the course of the second iteration of the PacTrans Center, funded by MAP-21, PacTrans had an ongoing, three-year education project titled Safety Data Management and Analysis: Addressing the Continuing Education Needs for the Pacific Northwest. This project, led by University of Idaho Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kevin Chang, also had coPIs from each of our other consortium partner universities. Read More