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Research Highlights One of PacTrans' ongoing research projects, led by UW PI Dr. Anne Goodchild, is titled, Final 50 Feet of the Urban Goods Delivery System: Pilot Test of an Innovative Improvement Strategy. She is the founding director of the Supply Chain and Transportation Logistics Center housed at the University of Washington, where this research is being conducted. Dr. Goodchild, along with her student researchers and staff, are partnering with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to pilot test a common-carrier smart locker system at the Seattle Municipal Tower from late March through April 2018. The pilot will test the ability of new mini-distribution centers in cities – such as, smart lockers – to create delivery density and reduce the time delivery people have to spend in urban towers to complete their work. The Lab is collecting 'before' and 'after' data to evaluate the pilot's premise: that when delivery trucks can pull into a load/unload space that's close to a mini-distribution node with delivery density (lots of deliveries in one place), everyone benefits. In the past, PacTrans has reported on a recently completed, three- year safety education project that sought to raise teen awareness to some of the most common transportation safety issues facing this country. Last Fall, the National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (NIATT), housed at PacTrans Consortium Partner, University of Idaho, funded an extension of that project and sent an educator into twelve classrooms (grades 1 – 8) to teach about traffic safety. Each lesson consisted of 15 minutes of traffic safety education/discussion, then 20 minutes were allocated to art creation. Key ideas and easy- to-remember phrases such as "Stop, Look and Listen," "Look Left, Right, Left Again" "Be Safe, Be Seen" "It Can Wait!" were taught. Over 200 pieces of student art were created and then displayed at NIATT. Leaders from the University, City, and Schools were invited to attend a reception in February to celebrate and highlight the students' art works. Approximately forty-five people attended the reception (nineteen students, twenty-four adults). Fifteen students were chosen by NIATT students for exceptional art that portrayed clearly the aspects of safety that were taught during in-classroom instruction. PacTrans is unbelievably proud of the impact that this safety education project has generated across the Pacific Northwest. If you would like to learn more about this particular outcome or to see more of these students' exceptional art pieces, see the info sheet here: depts.washington.edu/pactrans/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ Summary-PacTrans-Safety-Art-Project.pdf. PACTRANS-FUNDED RESEARCH LEADS TO SCTL PILOT ON INNOVATIVE GOODS DELIVERY SYSTEMS To learn more about this upcoming pilot please see their press release here: depts.washington.edu/pactrans/wp-content/ uploads/2018/03/2018.3.12-SCTL-Pilot-Annoucement.pdf. PACTRANS CONSORTIUM MEMBER UI PROMOTES TRANSPORTATION SAFETY IN MIDDLE- AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THROUGH ART 9 2017 – 2018 Annual Report

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