This project is allowing the UW and WSDOT to cooperatively provide professional experience, training, and research opportunities to students from the UW\’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at WSDOT’s Traffic Management Center (TMC) and other WSDOT facilities. Under the supervision of WSDOT engineers, students are operating WSDOT’s FLOW system and helping to operate high profile systems such as the SR 167 HOT lanes, I-90 variable speed limits, I-5 active traffic management, centralized traffic signal control, variable messages signs, and ramp meters. With this project WSDOT gains technical assistance at reasonable cost, and students acquire valuable experience in a real-world setting.
Principal Investigator: G. Scott Rutherford, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW
Sponsor: WSDOT
WSDOT Technical Monitor: Chris Thomas
WSDOT Project Manager: Doug Brodin
Scheduled completion: June 2017