{"id":4819,"date":"2018-05-08T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T22:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2018-05-08T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T22:10:35","slug":"pactrans-presents-at-washington-traffic-safety-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/pactrans-presents-at-washington-traffic-safety-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"PacTrans Presents at Washington Traffic Safety Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4840\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6153Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6153Small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6153Small-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6153Small-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_6153Small-97x43.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week, PacTrans director, Yinhai Wang, had the great opportunity and privilege to present at Washington&#8217;s 2nd Traffic Safety Conference in Kennewick, Washington.<!--more--> This three-day event, hosted by the Washington\u00a0Traffic Safety Commission is formed to promote dialogue around the hottest issues in traffic safety and build partnerships among public, private, and non-profit organizations. It promises to bring new information and innovation to attendees through break-out sessions and networking sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wang presented at one such break-out session titled <em>Innovation and New Approaches to Traffic Safety Analysis. <\/em>Attendees of this session heard from Natasha Close, a surveillance epidemiologist at Department of Health, regarding the use of\u00a0syndromic surveillance to monitor traffic-related injuries, from\u00a0Youngki Woo, a research assistant at the\u00a0Washington State University, on\u00a0cannabis intoxication and fatal crashes in Washington State, and\u00a0from Dr.\u00a0Wang on large-scale roadway safety analysis using a regional map-based platform known as DRIVE Net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, PacTrans director, Yinhai Wang, had the great opportunity and privilege to present at Washington&#8217;s 2nd Traffic Safety Conference in Kennewick, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}