• September 03, 2015

    Registration now open! 2015 PacTrans Regional Transportation Conference

       

    Register online for the 2015 PacTrans Regional Transportation Conference: Smarter Transportation Safety and Technology  on Friday, October 16, 2015 at Cascade Room of Haggett Hall, University of Washington.

    Preconference Dinner (by invitation only): 6PM, Thursday, 10/15/15 Ivar’s Salmon House, Nooksack Room, 401 NE Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98105

    PacTrans regional transportation conference, transportation safety, technolgy

    For more information and to register, free of cost, click here.

    CONFERENCE AGENDA  See detailed agenda.

    8:00 AM Registration/Continental Breakfast

    Time Activity  
    8:30   AM Welcome   I Yinhai Wang, Director,(PacTrans)
    8:45   AM Welcome   II Vikram Jandhyala, Vice Provost, UW
    9:00   AM Keynote   Address I Roger Millar, Deputy Secretary WSDOT
    9:30   AM Keynote Address II Brooke Steger, Uber Seattle
    10:00   AM Brief   Introduction by PIs for Poster Sessions David Hurwitz, Oregon State University
    10:30   AM Hybrid   Poster Session/Break
    11:00   AM Research   Session I (Safe   Users & Operations) Nathan Belz, Moderator, UAF
    Brian Walsh, WSDOT
    Keith Cunningham, UAF
    Scott Frank, Airbiquity
    12:00   noon Lunch  
    1:00   PM Tech   Transfer Session (Translating Results to Professional   Practice) Bruce Haldors Moderator TranspoGroup
    Santiago Navarro, USDOT
    Forest Bohrar, UW’s CoMotion
    Ian Reagan, IIHS
    2:00   PM Break
    2:10   PM Workforce Development Session Kevin Chang, Moderator,UI
    Karen Dixon, Senior Researcher, TTI
    Steve Albert, Montana State University
    Shawn Leight, ITE Vice President
    3:10   PM Break
    3:30   PM Research   Session II (Safe   Infrastructure) Haifang Wen, Moderator, WSU
    Kim Willoughby, WSDOT
    Jason Weiss, Professor, Head CCE,OSU
    Joseph Wartman, UW
    4:30   PM Closing Comment Yinhai Wang, Director, PacTrans
    4:35   PM Social   Hour and Networking
    5:35   PM End of conference