PacTrans News
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May 11, 2016
Summer Internship Opportunities with City of Redmond
Check out the great internship opportunity with the City of Redmond, WA, City of Redmond Employment Opportunities:
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April 26, 2016
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2015 #6: We are here to Help: Enhancing Public Support for Wireless MAC Address Sensing in Transport Data Collection Short Educational Film – COMPLETED!
In January we posted all of the success story projects that PacTrans gave additional funding for technology transfer.
Success Story #6 involved leveraging current data collection efforts to obtain more complete travel demand information, and introducing new methods that have the potential to reduce cost and improve the quality and coverage of transportation data. The tech transfer funding given was for a single purposes: the development of a short film explaining this unique data collection paradigm to the non-engineering public, with the aim of addressing common complaints regarding privacy and safety.
This film has recently been completed and can be found via the link below:
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April 25, 2016
PacTrans Participates in 2016 Engineering Discovery Days at UW
Each year in the early spring, the University of Washington hosts a large, two-day event called Engineering Discovery Days. At Engineering Discovery Days, students and faculty from all UW engineering departments share their work with students, teachers, families and the community. Read More
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April 25, 2016
Dr. Wang Begins Consortium Visits with Trip to OSU
As our Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium applies to continue representing the region as its University Transportation Center for the next 5 years of FAST Act grant funding, PacTrans director Dr. Yinhai Wang has committed to spend some time with researchers from each of the five consortium universities. Read More
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April 25, 2016
University of Washington Concrete Canoe Team Brings Home Gold at Regional Competition
Congratulations are in order: the UW team claimed first place at the Pacific Northwest Regional Concrete Canoe competition, held the weekend of April 7-9 in Moscow, Idaho. Read More