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In the May 4, 2010 Update....
Tell us what you want to do.... Idaho Project Nominated for Best of Rural ITS Award 2010 Election Information Press ReleasesTell us what you want to do....
The Board of Directors will be meeting in the next few weeks to discuss and plan initiatives for the 2010/2011 membership year. Please send us your thoughts! Email us at admin@itsrm.org today.
View upcoming regional and national events on the Chapter's calendar by clicking here.
Idaho Project Nominated for Best of Rural ITS Award
Winners of the Best of Rural ITS Awards will be announced during the Opening Session on Monday, August 2nd. The Best of ITS Rural Awards is the only program in the world that recognizes the best and brightest of the rural community. Nomination categories include: Best New Innovative Product, Service or Application AND Best New Innovative Practice (to include Sustainability in Transportation; Outreach; Partnership Deployment; OR Research and Innovation).
The 2010 Elections for the ITS Rocky Mountain Chapter closed on April 23rd (mail-in ballots had to be postmarked by this date). The Board of Directors would like to extend a thank you to all members who took the time to vote and return their ballots. The Officers and Board of Directors of the Chapter are as follows:
President – Mark Owens, Meridian Environmental Technology, North Dakota
Immediate Past President – Richard Hodges, Hodges Transportation Consulting, Inc. , Utah
Vice-President – Jim Larsen, Ada County Highway District, Idaho
Secretary/Treasurer – Bryan Chamberlain, Utah Department of Transportation, Utah
Idaho State Senator – Robert Koeberlein, Idaho Transportation Department
Idaho State Senator – Benjamin Frevert, Iteris
Montana State Senator – open (no nominations received)
Montana State Senator – open (no nominations received)
Utah State Senator – Brian Christensen, Horrocks Engineers, Inc.
Utah State Senator – Sam Sherman, Iteris
Wyoming State Senator – Keith Trimels, IDT Group
Wyoming State Senator – open (no nominations received)
Press Releases and Regional Articles of Interest:
What do civil engineering students, electrical engineering students, and computer science students have in common? Potentially, future careers in the transportation field.
Seventeen students from Montana State University learned why during a recent field trip to Las Vegas, Nevada. The trip was the first official activity of the newly formed MSU Intelligent Transportation Society – Rocky Mountain Student Chapter (ITS-RM). The ITS-RM Chapter was formed as an interdisciplinary student organization with the goal of providing students with information about transportation career opportunities within the various engineering fields. The ITS-RM Chapter partners with existing student chapters such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Las Vegas trip participants represented electrical engineering, civil engineering, and computer science majors.
More than ever before, the transportation industry relies on advanced technologies to manage infrastructure that is falling under increasing user demand. Students toured the Las Vegas monorail operations center and the Traffic Management Center and had the opportunity to see firsthand how the different disciplines are essential to creating an efficient transportation system in one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. “The technical tours on the ITS-RM trip gave me insight into how both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering can be directly applied to large-scale transportation systems. We also saw how these systems can have a positive impact on people’s everyday lives,” said trip participant Jeff Sharkey, a graduate student in Computer Science.
In addition to technical tours, students also visited four different engineering consulting firms that provided the students with overviews of their current projects as well as office and tours. Nicholas Trimble, a graduate student in Civil Engineering, felt the
Idaho’s 511 Website has been nominated for the Best of Rural ITS Award to be awarded at the August 2010 National Rural ITS Conference in Huntington, West Virginia. One of several nominations received in this category, the project includes several websites aimed at specific user groups. All of the information for these websites is coordinated and drawn from a common database (CARS).
To further enhance the data available on these websites, ITD worked with Castle Rock Associates to bring enhanced roadside camera images and Road Weather Information Stations (RWIS) weather data to these traveler information systems.
