The following criteria are used to process membership at ITE Headquarters.
A membership grade is assigned based on the information provided by the applicant.
 

Definition of Terms

Transportation or Traffic Engineering Experience; Professional Transportation Experience — Experience that had as its primary purpose the planning (including activity with environmental, economic, social, ecological, legal, and political factors), geometric design, and/or operation of transportation facilities intended to move people and goods.

Sub professional Experience — Positions (a) in which the individual is working under direct supervision or (b) that require only limited technical knowledge and personal responsibility.

Professional Experience — Employment positions that can be classified as professional (i.e., those that can be successfully filled only by a person with a four-year college degree in engineering or related field or equivalent qualifying experience).

Responsible Charge — Definite responsibility for professional work of substantial importance (i.e., responsibility for direction of work where approval for necessary decisions to carry out the work does not require approval of higher authority). At least one year of professional experience not in responsible charge is normally required before responsible charge will be credited.

Transportation Engineering — The application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation, and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.

Traffic Engineering — That phase of transportation engineering that deals with the planning, geometric design, and traffic operations of roads, streets, and highways; their networks, terminals, and abutting lands; and relationships with other modes of transportation.