Description

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.

Partners

UW College of Built Environments, College of Engineering, College of the Environment, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, School of Medicine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Construction Management, Runstad Center for Real Estate, Department of Urban Design and Planning, Taskar Center for Accessible Technologies and Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans);

Applied Research Associates, 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.

Funders

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, and Mobility Innovation Center