• July 24, 2017

    PacTrans hosts Delegation from Shenzhen China for Technology Workshop

    Last week, PacTrans hosted a delegation led by Director Xiaochun Zhang, and included five other senior managers of the Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center. Shenzhen is directly adjacent to Hong Kong and is one of the most rapidly growing and advancing cities in China. They were here performing a six day technology scan of the United States, very similar to the one that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and National Cooperative Highway Research Program sponsored in Europe in 2006. They seek technological solutions to their urban transportation challenges and want to establish collaborations with us as well.

    Thus PacTrans invited representatives from public agencies, private industry, and academic researchers to present their most innovative solutions. Groups represented included: IDAX, Inc., UW CoMotion, Verizon, City of Bellevue, University of Washington, iSoftStone, NewSky Security, and Microsoft. Presenters had ten minutes to showcase their technologies, and then the audience had five minutes for questions. We heard a lot about big data and big data analytics, intelligent transportation systems, adaptive signal control, emerging detection methods and technologies, artificial intelligence, cyber security, and many others.

    During the workshop, PacTrans director, Yinhai Wang, and Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center director, Xiaochun Zhang, took an opportunity to sign a collaboration agreement that outline and expressly stated our mutual desire to continue building a strong partnership of collaboration into the future.