{"id":3290,"date":"2016-02-05T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2016-02-05T13:53:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T21:53:59","slug":"pactrans-dr-yinhai-wang-supports-its-and-transportation-technology-at-wa-house-transportation-committee-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/pactrans-dr-yinhai-wang-supports-its-and-transportation-technology-at-wa-house-transportation-committee-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"PacTrans\u2019 Dr. Yinhai Wang supports ITS and Transportation Technology at WA House Transportation Committee Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA-House.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3291\" alt=\"WA House\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA-House.png\" width=\"272\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA-House.png 454w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA-House-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA-House-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA-House-97x97.png 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PacTrans director, Dr. Yinhai Wang, joined John Toone, IT Project Manager at King County Metro, and Tim Streck, Director of Channel Development with INRIX, last week Wednesday, January 27<sup>th<\/sup> at a Washington State House of Representatives Transportation Committee Workshop. <!--more-->Committee Chair Judy Clibborn (D-Mercer Island) expressed that Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and transportation technology are subjects that the committee needs more information about but has no credible. ITS Washington was asked to bring three representative to help fill in those gaps.<\/p>\n<p>The three, representing public, private, and academic sectors, gave a 45 minute presentation on why ITS matters, who it effects, and what the potential benefits are to investing in its development. Dr. Wang had the opportunity to highlight many of the great endeavors that our UTC has been involved in recently. He discussed: near miss data collection, UVA-based video data collection, bus collision avoidance systems, and DRIVE Net.<\/p>\n<p>This was a great opportunity for Dr. Wang to reinforce our Center\u2019s theme, \u201cDeveloping Data Driven Solutions and Decision-Making for Safe Transport in the Pacific Northwest.\u201d It made our abilities better known to the policy-making community and continue to strengthen our perception as the region\u2019s premier technologies research hub in the transportation industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PacTrans director, Dr. Yinhai Wang, joined John Toone, IT Project Manager at King County Metro, and Tim Streck, Director of Channel Development with INRIX, last week Wednesday, January 27th at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}