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2008 Annual Meeting Award Winners
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Burton W. Marsh Distinguished Service Award |
Theodore M. Matson Memorial Award |
Transportation Achievement Award for Facilities |
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Mark R. Norman, P.E., Director, Technical Activities, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, USA. |
David Kuemmel, P.E., Visiting Professor, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA. |
Presented to the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation in recognition of the Santa Monica Boulevard Transit Parkway. Rita L. Robinson, General Manager, City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation and John E. Fisher, P.E., PTOE, Assistant General Manager, City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation, accepted the award. |
| Transportation Achievement Award for Operations |
Transportation Achievement Award for Safety |
Wilbur S. Smith Transportation Educator Award |
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Presented to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) – District 4 in recognition of the Interstate 80/580/880 emergency ramp replacement, or MacArthur Maze Rebuild project. Shahram S. Nozzari, P.E., Deputy District Director, Traffic Operations, California Department of Transportation, San Carlos, CA, USA, accepted the award. |
Presented to the Indiana Department of Transportation in recognition of the Super 70 Design/Build/ Reconstruction of I-70 from the I-65 north split to the east leg of I-465 in Indianapolis, IN, USA. Craig Parks, P.E., Project Development Director, American Structurepoint Inc., Indianapolis, accepted the award.
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Presented to Dr. Chandra R. Bhat, Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. |
| Edmund R. Ricker Traffic Safety Award—Individual |
M&O/ITS Council Individual Award |
Management and Operations/ITS Council Public Agency Award |
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| Presented to Fred N. Ranck, Safety Engineer, Federal Highway Administration, Olympia Fields, IL, USA. |
Presented to the I-35W Bridge Traffic Incident Response Team of the Minnesota Department of Transportation. James Kranig, P.E., Assistant State Traffic Engineer, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Minneapolis, MN, USA, accepted the award. |
Given to the project partners, American Transportation Research Institute and Federal Highway Administration. Crystal Jones, Transportation Specialist, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC, USA; Jeffrey Short, Senior Research Associate, American Transportation Research Institute, Smyrna, GA, USA; and Rebecca M. Brewster, President and Chief Operating Officer, American Transportation Research Institute, Arlington, VA, USA, accepted the award. |
| Coordinating Council Award |
Traffic Engineering Council Outstanding Council Paper Award |
Transportation Planning Council Award |
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| Presented to Ransford S. McCourt, Principal, DKS Associates, Portland, OR, USA, in recognition of the outstanding Parking Council project entitled “Data Collection Project for Parking and Trip Generation.” |
Presented to Darcy M. Bullock, with Avery Rhodes, Edward J. Smaglik and James R. Sturdevant, in recognition of their paper entitled “Operational Performance Comparison of Video Detection Systems. Darcy M. Bullock, P.E., Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA and Edward J. Smaglik, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, accepted the award. |
The award for Best Project was presented to the the Department of Community Affairs in Florida, in recognition of its project entitled “Transportation Concurrency: Best Practices Guide.” Karen E. Seggerman, Senior Research Associate, University of South Florida, College of Engineering, Tampa, FL, USA, accepted the award. |
| Parking Council Best Practices Award |
Public Agency Council Achievement Award of Excellence |
Section Activities Award |
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Presented to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco Bay Area in recognition of its project entitled “Reforming Parking Policies to Support Smart Growth.” Valerie Knepper, Transportation Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland, CA, USA, accepted the award. |
Awarded to the City of Palm Desert, CA, USA, Public Works Department in recognition of its transportation program. Richard S. Kelly, City Councilman, City of Palm Desert and Mark D. Greenwood, P.E., PTOE, Director of Public Works, City of Palm Desert, accepted the award. |
Presented to the Metropolitan Section of New York and New Jersey. Armando Lepore, P.E., PTOE, Principal Engineer, Traffic Engineering, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Kendall Park, NJ, USA, accepted the award. |
| Student Chapter Award |
Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award |
2008 Innovative Intermodal Solutions for Urban Transportation Award in memory of Daniel W. Hoyt |
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Jinyan Lu, ITE Student Chapter President and Claudio Diaferia, ITE Student Chapter Vice President, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, accepted the
award. Pictured with Alfred A. Guebert, P.Eng., PTOE, ITE International President are, back row from left to right: Chenxi Lu, Treasurer; Jimmy Fu, Social Coordinator; Guebert; Albert Gan, Chapter Advisor; and Boyuan Guan, Secretary. Front row from left to right: Tao Wang, Membership Chairperson; Jinyan Lu, Chapter President; and Claudio Diaferia, Chapter Vice President.
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Presented to Xuan Wang, University of Nevada–Reno, in recognition of her paper entitled “Evaluation of Lane-by-Lane Detection at Signalized Intersections Using Simulation.” |
Presented to Ian R. Borsuk, McCormick Rankin Corp., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Don Stephens, Ottawa; and Sean H. Rathwell, Senior Transit Project Manager, McCormick Rankin Corp., Nepean, Ontario, in recognition of their paper entitled “BRT and LRT in Ottawa, Canada: Playing Well Together.” |
Past Presidents’ Award for Merit in Transportation Engineering |
Young Consultants Award |
Newsletter Awards.
Circulation more than 500 |
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| Presented to Kelly L. Blume, Senior Engineer, Kittelson and Associates Inc., Orlando, FL, USA, in recognition of her paper entitled “Bus Rapid Transit Land Development Guidelines.” |
Presented to Joanne C.W. Ng, Transportation Design Engineer, PB, San Francisco, CA, USA, in recognition of her paper entitled “Successful Transportation Management Planning for the Unprecedented Full Closure of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.” |
New England Chronicle, New England Section, Laura Castelli, Editor. Jeffrey S. Dirk, P.E., PTOE, Vice President, Vanasse & Associates Inc., Tewksbury, MA, USA, accepted the award. |
Newsletter Awards. Circulation between 250 and 500 |
Newsletter Awards. Circulation less than 250 |
Edmund R. Ricker Traffic Safety Organization Award |
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| Inciter, North Central Section, Peter Langworthy, Editor. Wayne H. Sandberg, Deputy Director, Assistant County Engineer, Washington County, Stillwater, MN, USA, accepted the award. |
Interchange, New York Upstate Section, Christina L. Douglas, Editor. Steven B. Gayle, PTP, Executive Director, Binghamton Metro Transportation Study, Binghamton, NY, USA, accepted the award. |
Presented to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Safety Group. |
| Transportation Education Council Best Innovation in Education Award |
Transportation Planning Council Award |
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| Presented to the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in recognition of the Operations Academy Senior Management Program. |
The award for Best Program was presented to the the City of New York, NY, USA, in recognition of its program entitled “Ninth Avenue Complete Streets Project.”
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