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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. 

With policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions in attendance, the TRB annual meeting continues to be an amazing platform for PacTrans to demonstrate our abilities, expertise, innovation, and research as one of the country’s leading regional University Transportation Centers (UTCs). 

PacTrans student and faculty researchers were in attendance from all seven of our consortium institutions: Boise State University, Gonzaga University, Oregon State University, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, University of Idaho, University of Washington, and Washington State University. In total, PacTrans universities participated in over 75 lectures, poster sessions, workshops, committees, and subcommittees, and presented over 65 papers in the meeting.