• November 05, 2015

    Watch the 2015 Regional Transportation Conference Presentation

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    8:30 AM          Welcome I – Yinhai Wang, Director, Pacific Northwest Transportation

                            Consortium (PacTrans) & Professor, Civil & Environmental

                            Engineering,University of Washington. Watch video

    8:45 AM          Welcome II –  Vikram Jandhyala, Vice Provost, University of

                            Washington & Professor, Electrical Engineering,

                            University of Washington. Watch video

    9:00 AM          Keynote Address I – Roger Millar, Deputy Secretary,

                            Washington State Department of Transportation. Watch video

    9:30 AM          Keynote Address II – Brooke Steger, General Manager,

                            Uber Seattle. Watch video

    10:00 AM       Brief introductions by PIs for Poster Sessions – David Hurwitz,

                            Associate Professor, Civil & Construction Engineering,

                            Oregon State University

    10:30 AM        Hybrid Poster Session/Break Watch video

    11:00 AM        Research Session I (Safe Users & Operations) Watch video

                            Nathan Belz, Moderator, Assistant Professor,

                            Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks

                             Brian Walsh, State Traffic Design & Operations Engineer, WSDOT

                             Keith Cunningham, Research Assistant Professor,

                            University of Alaska Fairbanks

                            Scott Frank, Vice President of Marketing, Airbiquity

    12:00 noon      Lunch

    1:00 PM           Tech Transfer Session (Translating Results to Professional Practice) Watch video

                               Bruce Haldors, Moderator, President, Transpo Group

                               Santiago Navarro, Program Manager, Technology Transfer,

                               US Department of Transportation

                               Forest Bohrer, Technology Manager in Engineering,

                              Center for Commercialization, University of Washington

                               Ian Reagan, Sr. Research Scientist, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

    2:00 PM           Break

    2:10 PM           Workforce Development Session Watch video

                              Kevin Chang, Moderator, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering,

                             University of Idaho

                              Karen Dixon, Senior Research Engineer and Program Manager,

                              Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Texas A&M University

                              Stephen Albert, Director,

                              Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University

                              Shawn Leight, VP Elect, ITE, Vice President, CBB, Adjunct Professor,

                              Washington University, St. Louis, MO

    3:10 PM            Break

    3:30 PM            Research Session II (Safe Infrastructure) Watch video

                              Haifang Wen, Moderator, Assistant Professor,

                              Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University

                              Kim Willoughby, Research Manager,

                              Washington State Department of Transportation

                              Jason Weiss, School Head, Professor Civil & Construction

                              Engineering, Oregon State University

                              Joseph Wartman, H.R. Berg, Associate Professor,

                              Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington

    4:30 PM           Closing Comments – Yinhai Wang, Director, PacTrans Watch video

    4:35 PM            Social Hour and Networking

    5:35 PM            End of Conference