A list of Council Executive Committee members can be found in the membership directory under ITE Council Executive Committee members. A list of Council members can be found under ITE Councils. Select the appropriate Council from the dropdown menu and click "Search".
Awards Committee
Committee Chair: Daryl Taavola, URS Corp., Minneapolis, MN USA
Solicit nominations and select winners for the annual M&O/ITS Council awards program. Click here for the Management and Operations/ITS Award page.
Information/Newsletter Committee
Committee Chair: Beata Lamparski, Hubbell, Roth & Clark Inc., Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
Develop and distribute information on Management and Operations/ITS to ITE members, decision-makers and the general public. Prepare M&O/ITS Council newsletter and M&O/ITS articles for ITE Journal.
Technical Programs Committee
Committee Chair: Barbara Schroeder, Parsons Transportation Group, Denver, CO, USA
Develop M&O/ITS Council-sponsored session for ITE Annual Meetings and Technical Conferences, ITS World Congress and other conferences as requested. Review abstracts and papers submitted for presentation.
Transportation Incident Management Committee
Committee Chairs: Katie Belmore, HNTB, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Promote successful deployment of regional traffic incident management programs. Facilitate a traffic incident management network to link traffic incident management professionals, and promote and support existing national incident management groups. The TIM Committee involves a national group of professionals from the transportation and public safety community committed to the effective implementation and support of local traffic incident management programs. An on-going TIM Committee activity involves the development, preparation and co-sponsoring of the annual Traffic Incident Management Workshop held in conjunction with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. Please visit the NTIMC Web site for the latest information on products, procedures and task forces related to traffic incident management.
Standards Committee
Committee Chair: Robert Rausch, TransCore, Duluth, GA, USA
The committee oversees the development of ITS standards for which ITE is responsible, including the traffic management data dictionary, the transit communications ITS profiles, the advanced transportation controller, message sets for external traffic management center (TMC) communications and national Transportation communications for ITS protocol. Input from ITE members determine the needs for ITS standards and protocols.
Emergency Transportation Operations Committee – NEW!
Committee Chair: Bob Frey, HNTB, Milwaukee, WI, USA
While most transportation agencies are well acquainted with designing, operating and maintaining the road network, there are a limited number of traffic professions that are trained to operate under emergency conditions and interact with emergency service providers. The goal of this committee is to provide a resource for ITE members to share information that will help the traffic engineering industry to interface better with emergency management providers to provide a more efficient response.
Intelligent Traffic Signal Operations Committee
Committee Chair: Pei-Sung Lin, CUTR, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Inspired by the findings of the National Traffic Signal Report Card, this committee intends to save practitioners time and effort in exploring and researching strategies to resolve problems related to traffic signal systems within the United States and worldwide. The goal of the committee is to provide suggestion and opinions directly to transportation professionals and practitioners who are ITE members through an online system. The committee is comprised of experts on different aspects of traffic signal operations. The ITSO committee Web site is used as a medium to communicate with public and private agencies. Practitioners who are ITE members can submit their questions to the committee through the website.
