{"id":9245,"date":"2026-03-28T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=9245"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:47:48","slug":"uw-pi-cynthia-chen-wins-2026-exceptional-technical-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/uw-pi-cynthia-chen-wins-2026-exceptional-technical-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UW PI Cynthia Chen Wins 2026 Exceptional Technical Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UW PI Cynthia Chen, Grace Jia (CEE Ph.D. ’25), Kaitlyn Ng (MSCE ’24) and Ekin Ugurel (CEE Ph.D. ’25) received the 2026 Exceptional Technical Achievement Award<\/a>\u00a0from the Zephyr Foundation for\u00a0their paper on how telecommuting has changed travel behavior<\/a>. The research, out of Chen’s\u00a0THINK Lab<\/a>, found that remote work reduces vehicle miles traveled and shifts transit needs, with telecommuters making more local trips for non-work activities. The team also included Brian Lee of the Puget Sound Regional Council and Arizona State University Professor Ram Pendyala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UW PI Cynthia Chen, Grace Jia (CEE Ph.D. ’25), Kaitlyn Ng (MSCE ’24) and Ekin Ugurel (CEE Ph.D. ’25) received the 2026 Exceptional Technical Achievement Award\u00a0from the Zephyr Foundation for\u00a0their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9247,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions\/9247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}