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PACTRANS REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE During this past year, The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) held the fourth Regional Transportation Conference on October 14, 2016 at UW's Husky Union Building (HUB). The theme for this 2016 Conference was "Inclusive Technology for Tomorrow's Transportation." In attendance were more than 220 registered attendees including 15 guest speakers, representing government agencies, private industry, and elected officials. Topics covered included: Research in mobility, technology transfer, workforce development, and research hot topics. Following the overall aim of the conference, faculty members and students submitted a total of 32 posters that were all displayed during the event. PACTRANS SHENZHEN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER WORKSHOP Last week, PacTrans hosted a delegation led by Director Xiaochun Zhang, and included five other senior managers of the Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center. Shenzhen is directly adjacent to Hong Kong and is one of the most rapidly growing and advancing cities in China. They were here performing a six day technology scan of the United States, very similar to the one that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and National Cooperative Highway Research Program sponsored in Europe in 2006. They seek technological solutions to their urban transportation challenges and want to establish collaborations with us as well. Thus PacTrans invited representatives from public agencies, private industry, and academic researchers to present their most innovative solutions. Groups represented included: IDAX, Inc., UW CoMotion, Verizon, City of Bellevue, University of Washington, iSoftStone, NewSky Security, and Microsoft. Presenters had ten minutes to showcase their technologies, and then the audience had five minutes for questions. We heard a lot about big data and big data analytics, intelligent transportation systems, adaptive signal control, emerging detection methods and technologies, artificial intelligence, cyber security, and many others. During the workshop, PacTrans director, Yinhai Wang, and Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center director, Xiaochun Zhang, took an opportunity to sign a collaboration agreement that outline and expressly stated our mutual desire to continue building a strong partnership of collaboration into the future. REGION 10 STUDENT CONFERENCE The 2016 PacTrans Student Conference was held October 15 at the Husky Union Building (HUB), University of Washington campus. Attendees included more than fifty students and faculty members from the University of Washington, Washington State University, the Oregon State University, and the University of Idaho. The conference started with a keynote speech by Mustafa Mohamedali, the technology transfer manager for Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The second presentation featured two employees of INRIX, Dr. Yegor Malinovskiy and Ms. Myca Craven. Then the annual student poster competition was held with more than 20 students submitting posters. Finally there was a panel session of recent graduates, to discuss careers in transportation. creating five national centers, 10 regional centers and 20 lower- level centers. Regional centers must obtain matching funds equal to the $14.35 million grant amount, distributed over federal fiscal years 2016 through 2020. 5 2014-2015 Annual Report

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