Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC)
http://depts.washington.edu/trac/
Mission
The Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC) is a cooperative, interdisciplinary transportation research agency. Its broad overall mission is to help connect the University with public agencies and private firms, both local and national, that are involved in transportation, while also performing a variety of research for those organizations.
Core Services Offered
TRAC investigators conduct research, and TRAC provides research support services, in the areas of bridges, construction management, environment, ferry systems, freeway and arterial management, freight travel, geotechnical engineering, health and transportation, highway design and safety, intelligent transportation systems, maintenance, multimodal travel, pavements, security, technology transfer, traffic engineering, transportation planning, and vehicle design and operation, among others.
Funding Information
Washington State Department of Transportation
City of Seattle
Federal Highway Administration
Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Programs Office
Federal Transit Administration
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
King County Department of Transportation
Microsoft
Amazon
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
Puget Sound Regional Council
The Real Estate Institute
Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Seattle Department of Transportation
US Department of Transportation
US Department of Energy
Sound Transit
King County Metro
Challenge Seattle
Mobility Innovation Center
Reporting Structure
Bart Nijssen, Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Related UW Entities
College of Engineering; Departments of: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
College of the Environment; Department of Atmospheric Sciences
College of Built Environments; Departments of Construction Management, Runstad Center for Real Estate, Urban Design and Planning
Evans School of Public Policy and Governance
School of Medicine
School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans)
Taskar Center for Accessible Technologies
External Partners
Cambridge Systematics
Pacific Northwest Laboratories
Texas Transportation Institute
Studio Pacifica
Gaussian Solutions
Streetlight Data
XR Navigation
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Commute Seattle
Pariveda Solutions, Inc.
WAP Consulting
Headlight, Inc.
