INSTRUCTORS:
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Marsha Anderson Bomar, FITE, AICP, Sr. Principal, Stantec, Duluth, GA, USA, Dr.
Jon Fricker, P.E., Professor, Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering,
West Lafayette, IN, USA, Richard Ryan, P.E., President,
R.F. Ryan & Associates, Vancouver, WA, USA and Jennifer Rosales, FITE, PE, Senior
Program Officer, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA
(Facilitator)
Marsha Anderson Bomar is a Senior Transportation Principal
and Executive Director for Netweaving and Diversity for Stantec Consulting Inc.
in Duluth, Georgia. She is the former President and Founder of Street Smarts,
Inc., a planning, engineering and design firm which was established in 1990 and
acquired by Stantec Consulting Services Inc., an international consulting firm
with over 12,000 employees operating out of over 190 offices in North America.
Throughout her career, Ms. Bomar has paved the way for women in transportation
engineering, taking the lead in a male-dominated field and graciously sponsoring
and mentoring other women to come alongside her. She had the honor of being the
first woman to serve as International President of the Institute of
Transportation Engineers (ITE) and was the first woman to receive the ITE Burton
Marsh Distinguished Service Award. She has served on over 40 ITE international
and local committees with many of those as chair. She was a co-author of the 1st
ITE Ethics webinar.
Professor Fricker is a registered Professional Engineer
whose primary interests and expertise include transportation planning and
transportation asset management. He regularly teaches courses at Purdue in
Transportation Engineering (CE361), Transportation Planning (CE566),
Comprehensive Urban Planning (CE512), and Public Mass Transportation (CE560).
Prof. Fricker has published more than forty refereed journal articles since
joining the Purdue faculty in 1980. He is co-author of Fundamentals of
Transportation Engineering, a leading textbook for the introductory course in
transportation engineering. His recent and current research projects concern
transportation asset management at state and local agencies, bicyclist behavior,
dwell time in bus operations, integrating economic models with travel demand
models, impacts of bypasses on small communities, and quality of input data for
travel demand models.
Mr. Ryan graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering from the
University of Wisconsin in May, 1974. He is currently licensed as a Professional
Engineer in the State of Wisconsin and a Civil Engineer in the State of
California. He has worked for the Wisconsin DOT, Caltrans and various consulting
firms in the Design , Construction and Operation of Highways. He has been
intimately involved in applying Design, Operational and Traffic Engineering
Principles on State and local highways in many parts of the country. He
currently owns a business that does forensic investigation of crashes from a
Design or Traffic Engineering perspective. He serves on two national committees
for the Transportation Research Board. He is also a member of ITE’s Traffic
Engineering Council (TENC) and is the TENC representative on the ITE Standing
Committee on Ethics.
Jennifer Rosales is a Senior Program Officer with the
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. She is a leader in the
transportation industry including Chair of the ITE Ethics Standing Committee and
Past President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Western District.
Ms. Rosales is recognized internationally in innovative street design and active
speaking and publishing internationally with over 25 publications in the past 10
years. While at Parsons Brinckerhoff, Jennifer was named the William Barclay
Parsons Fellow in 2004 and developed a comprehensive practitioner’s guidebook
called Road Diet Handbook: Setting Trends for Livable Streets. For her work on
the Road Diet Handbook, Jennifer Rosales was named to the "2007 Trendsetters
List" of Public Works magazine. Ms. Rosales is an experienced senior project
manager and professional engineer and worked on projects throughout the United
States and United Arab Emirates.
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