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ITE IBOD & ITE Staff 2020 Recap

  • We gathered in Washington, DC, USA in January for our one and only face-to-face meeting together
  • We approved a new ITE Strategic Plan for 2021-2023 and began to implement it
  • We published the “long-in-development” Recommended Practice on Traffic Signal Change and Clearance Intervals
  • We approved new Charters/Bylaws for each District and Section, including the organization of 2 new Districts and 16 new Sections, and created a Chapter model charter
  • We created the first virtual District and International Meetings and Traffic Bowl
  • We exceeded our previous year’s attendance at an International Meeting
  • We created and delivered a virtual “sandbox” competition for micromobility
  • We hosted webinar sessions for over 400 members on our emerging topic of Big Data/Data Analytics and advanced a strategy team to assess how the topic will affect the profession in the future
  • We transitioned away from local-only dues and advanced differential pricing across ITE
  • We created a free pandemic focused technical product for members in less than four months
  • We have an ITE Calendar now prominent on every Chapter, Section, District and HQ website and e-blasts
  • We raised over $200,000 for the Legacy Fund and Diversity Scholars through the ITE Legacy Society
  • We completed a visioning session and established action plans with the new Great Lakes District to ignite their new configuration
  • We re-imagined professional development and broke records for attendance, including a member centric balance of free and fee-based programming
  • We piloted virtual joint section meetings across the USA and California on topics of video safety analytics and SB 743/VMT
  • We reorganized, placed IBOD members in and now have a guiding principle for each of the ITE Councils
  • We created a new Transportation Impact Analysis certificate webinar series that sold out
  • We converted LeadershipITE on the fly to a virtual format, then used it to attract a large 2021 class
  • We linked LeadershipITE projects to council activity, including a survey of students and leadership
  • We remained fiscally strong and maintained membership in a very complex year
  • We opened a series of discussions related to diversity, inclusion & equity before and during the social unrest across the United States, leading to the development of equity listening sessions with membership in 2021
  • We produced a series of tools for transportation funding reauthorization for all membership
  • We settled on a series of windows for District meetings to avoid conflicts
  • We approved a complete update to ITE’s Policies
  • We advanced a series of communication webinars and draft guides for Districts, Sections, and Chapters
  • We created a virtual International Student Leadership Summit for February 2021
  • We approved a new Virtual Technical Conference for March 2021
  • We reorganized our recognition to younger members under central theme of Young Leaders to Follow We explored the Traffic Engineering Handbook for the next decade
  • We engaged ITE Past Presidents virtually in August and for the first time create a holiday social gathering
  • We oversaw the rapid expansion of ITE social media
  • We partnered with ACEC on ethics, COMTO on equity, IMSA on signal maintenance and IEEE on CAV
  • We acquired MS Teams for Council/Committee file sharing and collaboration
  • We were successful in obtaining a Paycheck Protection loan
  • We helped e-Community to a record number of posts (~4400) with an average 6-7 posts per discussion
  • We were a voice to FHWA on MUTCD and to FCC on 5.9GHz, and created a Presidential Questionnaire
  • We continued the leadership network experience of ITE
  • We finalized getting dues direct deposited for nearly all Districts and Sections
  • We invented drop-in sessions – attended by about 1,500 members in 2020, attracting a global audience
  • We expanded Student Chapters to University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, University of Windsor, University of Texas – Tyler, and Milwaukee School of Engineering
  • We established a task force to advance student transition to young professionals, including the Education Council and Young Professionals Committee (who are considering new branding as YITE)
  • We generated a series of STEM activities that are transportation focused
  • We added to the reach of the Industry Council with Bosch, Inrix, Miovision and Q-Free and the Council produced an updated ITS and Traffic Management Equipment Procurement Methods Guide
  • We are producing a Consultants Selection Guide by the Consultants Council
  • We saw 19 companies join the Consultants Council during its reorganization in 2020
  • We made progress with our coalition support of the Road to Zero initiatives in support of Vision Zero

We shaped our communities; and We shared!