Tag: Mark Hellenback

• Understanding Congestion Pricing, Travel Behavior, and Price Sensitivity

  

  Project lead: Mark Hallenbeck, Director, Washington State Transportation Center, University of Washington Data science lead: Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Shirley Leung, Cory McCartan, Christopher (CJ) Robinson, Kiana Roshan Zamir Project Summary: Traffic congestion is a worldwide issue with environmental, health, and economic impacts.  We cannot build our way out of it. Funding is limited and land for building new roads…

• Improving transit services using ORCA data

  

  Project lead: Mark Hallenbeck, senior data science fellow, director of the Washington State Transportation Center Project mentor: Michael Wolf Data scientist leads: Jake VanderPlas (primary), Bryna Hazelton (secondary) DSSG fellows: Mayuree Binjolkar, Daniel Dylewsky, Andrew Ju, Wenhao Zhang Project Summary: Seven regional transportation agencies in the greater Puget Sound region use a common electronic fare payment system, called One Regional Card…

• Data Science for Social Good collaboration nets WSDOT funding

  

  By Robin Brooks A collaboration between two eScience Institute Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) project leads has resulted in a financial award which allows them to continue their work. Mark Hallenbeck, director of the Washington State Transportation Center, and Anat Caspi, director of the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, both eScience fellows, answered questions submitted…

• Use of ORCA data for improved transit system planning and operation

  

  Project Leads: Mark Hallenbeck & Anat Caspi – CEE (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Taskar Center Data Scientist Leads: Bernease Herman (primary) and Anthony Arendt (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Carolina Johnson, Victoria Sass, Yiqin Shen & Sean Wang Project Goals: Seven regional transportation agencies use a common electronic fare payment system, called ORCA – One Regional Card for All. When ORCA…