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Innovative Intersection Design Web Briefing


 

TITLE: INNOVATIVE INTERSECTION DESIGN-----  Registration closed, contact ITE at 202-785-0060
DATE: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
TIME:  12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Eastern
SITE FEE: $25 Per Site (Member/Non-member/Student)

After registering you will receive a confirmation email. An email containing information about joining the webinar will be sent 2 business days prior to the event.
CREDIT: 1.5 PDH
EARNING COURSE CREDIT: The site registration includes one complimentary evaluation for site registrant.  Web briefing attendees may register online using their ITE ID after the briefing to get access to the free post-webinar evaluation for course credit. The registration and the evaluation is name specific and non-transferable. Further instructions will be sent after the Webinar to the site registrant to distribute to their site attendees. If you do not have an ITE login and password, get one now.
BACKGROUND:

This web briefing will have case studies of innovative intersection designs from Georgia and North Carolina. This Web briefing presents content on this topic from the 2012 ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibit, Advancing Transportation Knowledge and Practice held in Atlanta, GA

PRESENTATIONS:

Overview of Innovative Intersection Design
Instructor: Jonathan D. Reid

Design and Construction of the First Diverging Diamond in Georgia
Instructor: William M. Ruhsam

Introducing the Median U-Turn Intersection in Georgia
Instructor: Thomas Keith Strickland

Early Findings on the Operational Impacts of Double Crossover Diamond Interchanges
Instructor: Bastian J. Schroeder

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:

1) Learn the pros and cons of innovative intersection design with case study implementation experiences.

INSTRUCTORS:























Keith Strickland, Director of Traffic Engineering, HNTB Corporation, Atlanta, GA, USA

Keith Strickland, Director of Traffic Engineering, HNTB Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Strickland is a Past President of the Georgia Section of ITE and is currently serving on the Southern District ITE Leadership Development Team. He has 34 years of experience in transportation engineering and manages traffic engineering and ITS services for HNTB in Georgia. He graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a BSCE and the University of Texas in Austin with a MSCE.

Bastian J. Schroeder, Assistant Director, Highway Systems, Institute of Transportation Research and Education, Raleigh, NC, USA

Dr. Bastian J. Schroeder, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Associate in the Highway Systems Group at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) in Raleigh, NC. He specializes in operational analysis of transportation systems, applications of traffic analysis tools and custom traffic engineering studies. Dr. Schroeder is actively involved in transportation research at the state and federal levels and has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers. He recently served as the chief editor for the ITE Manual of Transportation Studies – 2nd Edition and significantly contributed to the freeway operational chapters in the HCM2010. He holds a B.S., Masters, and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from N.C. State University. He is a member of ITE.

Jonathan D. Reid, South Region Traffic Engineering Manager, Parson Brinckerhoff, Atlanta, GA, USA

Jonathan Reid is a Professional Engineer, Professional Traffic Operations Engineer and Principal Professional Associate with Parsons Brinkerhoff where he has worked for the past 16 years and currently manages the company’s southeast region traffic engineering group.

Jonathan is published in several transportation engineering journals for his research on Unconventional Intersection Designs including an ITE journal publication in 2000 on Quadrant Roadway’s, two NCHRP publications and several ITE and TRB international conference presentations. As finalist for the William Barclay Parsons Fellowship, he published a monograph that overviews current unconventional intersection design and operations practices, which is the subject of today’s presentation.

William M. Ruhsam, Jr., Project Manager, Moreland Altobelli Associates, Inc., Marietta, GA, USA

Bill Ruhsam is a Senior Traffic Engineer living in Cobb County, Georgia. He was the project manager on Georgia's first diverging diamond interchange and continues to look for creative ways to solve ongoing problems.

 


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