ITE NEWSLETTER SUPPORT SPONSORS ALL TRAFFIC DATA CONCORD ENGINEERING CORAL SALES ETHERWAN IDAX DATA SOLUTIONS SCJ Alliance SEA-TAC LIGHTING & CONTROLS SEATTLE TRAFFIC DATA SUNBURST ENGINEERING TRAFFIC DATA GATHERING TRAFFIC SAFETY SUPPLY COMPANY WESTERN SYSTEMS WILLIAM POPP ASSOCIATES ITE Washington Section Newsletter VOLUME 30 | ISSUE 4 | MARCH/APRIL 2020 Washington’s community of transportation professionals departments 2 President's Message 2 Safety Corner 4 Student Corner 4 Advertising Info inside ITE 6 Scribe Report 9 Event Calendar training 11 Professional Industry Training 11 Careers (see wa-ite.org) industry insider 8 Yesteryears 11 ITE Talks inside this edition Looking to 2020: ITE/IMSA Conference Save the Date and Join the Fun! ITE Washington's Third Annual Trivia Night April 7th, 2020 Hope to see you all in Vancouver BC! Register HERE! Early bird rates available through April 24th. A team from last year working together to ace the first category. Grab your friends and join us this year!
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ITE NEWSLETTER SUPPORT SPONSORSALL TRAFFIC DATA
CONCORD ENGINEERING
CORAL SALES
ETHERWAN
IDAX DATA SOLUTIONS
SCJ Alliance
SEA-TAC LIGHTING & CONTROLS
SEATTLE TRAFFIC DATA
SUNBURST ENGINEERING
TRAFFIC DATA GATHERING
TRAFFIC SAFETY SUPPLY COMPANY
WESTERN SYSTEMS
WILLIAM POPP ASSOCIATES
ITE Washington Section Newsletter
VOLUME 30 | ISSUE 4 | MARCH/APRIL 2020
Washington’s community of transportation professionals
inside this edition
departments2 President's Message2 Safety Corner4 Student Corner4 Advertising Info
inside ITE6 Scribe Report9 Event Calendar
training11 Professional Industry
Training11 Careers (see wa-ite.org)
industry insider
8 Yesteryears11 ITE Talks
inside this edition Looking to 2020: ITE/IMSA Conference
Save the Dateand Join the
Fun!
ITE Washington's ThirdAnnual Trivia Night
April 7th, 2020
Hope to see you all in Vancouver BC!Register HERE! Early bird rates available through April 24th.
A team from last year working together to ace the first category. Grabyour friends and join us this year!
Greetings ITEmembers!Onbehalf of theboardwearepleased tohavepreparedanannualSection Activities Report, submitted to WesternITE. With this report our section is eligiblefor the Section Activity Award based on ITE International andWesternITE policy priorities.Preparing this report showedus howwell weare doing as the ITEWashingtonSection.Wehope you read the report! Thank you to Daniel Lai, in his new position as SectionRepresentative to WesternITE for spearheading the effort. There are select elementswhere we could increase our activity.We are looking for members interested in participating in the following:
K-12 STEM Outreach: This activity can be what we make of it. There is curriculumavailable from ITE International. The Safety Committee would like to do presentations tohigh school health classes – sending important messages on driver safety with the addedbenefit of introducing high school students to a career in transportationhttps://www.ite.org/technical-resources/councils/transportation-education-council/science-technology-engineering-and-math-stem-resources/
Leadership ITE: ITE has established LeadershipITE. It is a program to identify,develop, and engage leaders to ensure that ITE and its members are positioned toparticipate and shape the future of transportation. Our section would be honored to havea participant in this unique program.https://www.ite.org/professional-and-career-development/leadershipite/
Spring is on the way, and with that we will complete our ITE year with Traffic Trivia Night,May Student Night, and the Annual Meeting. The annual meeting will not be an all-dayconference this year so that we can maximize our members participation in the CanadianITE District/Quad Conference in Vancouver BC, May 24-27. Hope to see you there!
Claudia Hirschey2019-2020 ITE Washington President
president's message
WASHINGTON BOARD OF DIRECTION
PresidentClaudia, PE, RSP1
Owner, Transportation Consultant ServicesNewcastle, Washington
Vice President/TreasurerJamal Mahmoud, PE
Transportation Operations EngineerCity of Bothell, Washington
SecretaryJeanne Acutanza, PE
Owner, Acutanza STSKirkland, Washington
Immediate Past PresidentWestern District Section Officer
The Washington ITE Safety Committee is planning activitiesto follow-up from our January Safety Training andConference. The sense of the committee was that memberswere really beginning to engage in what “I” can do to changethe traffic safety culture. Congratulations to Brian Chandlerwho now has both the RSP I and II certifications. Specialthanks to Chris Barnes for reserving the City of RentonCommunity Center and I am truly grateful to all the membersthat worked diligently to plan this event including ClaudiaHirschey, JamalMahmoud,BrianChandler,RobertShull, andCaroline Brabrook. We look forward to sponsoring additionalevents in our continual quest to eliminate serious and fatalcrashes.
Please let us know if your contactinformation changes so that you continueto receive monthly ITE WA announcementsand newsletters by email. To update yourinformation, click on the Membership tabon the our website: www.wa-ite.org
Student Industry NightFebruary 19th was the second EasternRegion Transportation Student-IndustryNight, which brought together students andtransportation professionals for aninformative and fun networking event. Thisyear, we had students from GonzagaUniversity, WSU, and Eastern WashingtonUniversity attend.The evening started out with shortpresentations from a mix of transportationprofessionals. Paul Sharman from TranspoGroup gave an overview of the different fields and focus areas within transportation ata full service private company, AdamMiles fromDOWL talked about finding your careerpath from his perspective having worked both in the private and public industry, andfinally Monica Harwood from WSDOT provided an engaging and entertainingpresentation on the ups and downs of her path to get to a career in transportationoperations.After the presentations, students had the opportunities to talk to themany transportationprofessionals and learn about opportunities at those companies and organizations. Weare very appreciative of our industry participants for supporting our EasternWashingtonStudents. Thank you to Fehr & Peers, Perteet, SCJ Alliance, Transpo Group, WhippleConsultingEngineers, andWSDOT. Thiseventprovidesagreatopportunity for studentsto learn about potential careers in the transportation field – from planning to engineeringand everything in between.
By Darcy Akers
Human Factors, Safety, andAutonomous VehiclesFollowing is a brief summary of Mayuree’spresentation at the ITE/IMSA conference.Her research is on human factors inautonomous vehicles and conducted as apart of the Human Factors and StatisticalModelling Lab. It is expected that havingautonomous vehicles (Level 5) on the roadwill improve safety on the roads andprovide other societal benefits. However,one of the fundamental issues from theperspective of human factors is that howdrivers will react to autonomous vehicleson the road. It is expected that there will be
both autonomous and human-drivenvehicles on the road (called mixed -autonomy traffic) initially. My researchfocuses on carrying experiments on thedriving simulator to understand driverbehavior in this situation. Additionally, Iplan to explore if there is any specific"human driver behavior" that can beinduced into the autonomous vehicles thatwould help it to operate with a largerpossibilityof being able to adjust to humandriven vehicles and pedestrians on theroads.Mayuree Binjolkar, President, UW StudentChapter, PhD Candidate
Unlike last year’s Snowpocalypse,this year’s ITE/IMSA’s joint meetingtook place on a calm February day,allowing for even more attendeesthan last year! The technical programwas filledwith a slewof topics ranging
fromboth theengineeringandplanningside, aswell as thevendor side. As always, our vendor representativesshowed up in force and provided a plethora ofpresentations and demonstrations on their wide range ofproduct offerings, including things like vehicle/bicycle/pedestrian detection systems, emergency vehiclepreemption systems, traffic safety systems, and streetlighting technologies, with a particular emphasis on howthey accommodate emerging technologies like 5Gcommunications. Attendees also learned about topicsranging from safety, curbside management, andemerging technologiesand ITS.We learnedabout variousprojects that local and state agencies areactively working on. The amount ofinformation that was presented would betoo overwhelming to present in this shortnewsletter article, but two particularlyinnovative projects stood out to mepersonally. WSDOT recently implementeda metered roundabout in Steptoe thatdrastically reduced queues that extendedpast theoff-rampandontomainlineSR240.Throughextensive traffic analysis,WSDOTdetermined that drivers in this area weren’tfinding sufficient gaps to enter theroundabout from the off-ramp, resulting inexcessive queues. Though we normallythink of meters being used at on-ramps toprovidegaps inmerging traffic to reduce theimpacts to mainline traffic flows, the sameconcept can be applied to roundabouts. Byproviding a meter for the major conflictingmovement and providing more gaps intraffic, this allowed for off-ramp vehicles toprogress through the roundabout more regularly andfluidly, resulting in backups onto SR 240 being nearlyeliminated. Another interesting project thatwas presentedwas the City of Bellevue’s real-time emergency responsedashboard. This system integrates the City’s Traffic
ManagementCenter (TMC)with the 911 dispatch system.This allows TMC operators to be alerted in real-timewhenever an incident involving emergency respondersoccurs, providing them with a real-time map view ofcurrent incidents and allowing them to proactively monitorroadway conditions using the City’s CCTV cameras andactively adjust signal timing to reduce impacts to thetraveling public. As for the keynote, this year’spresentation was a little different. We had the pleasure ofhaving Mark Etzbach with Acusensus, an Australian-based company focusing on distracted drivingenforcement solutions, present on a pilot project takingplace in New South Wales. There, Acusensus roadsidecameras are being used with artificial intelligence andvideo analytics technologies to determinewhether driversare using their mobile phones while driving.Understanding that privacy is an important concern to thepublic, this system captures and evaluates images at theedge and only keeps images that it deems as probableviolations. These flagged images are then encrypted,privatized and anonymized, and sent to human operatorsfor manual verification. As always, attendees learned a lotat this year’s conference, whether it be about projects thatothers are working on, or the latest and greatest
technologies in our industry. There is no shortage ofinnovation out there, and in order to continue to do so, wemust continue to maintain partnerships and shareknowledge between our engineering, planning, andvendor communities, in keeping with the spirit of our ITE/IMSA joint conference.
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yesteryears
FILL IN THE BLANK
1: This ferry was built around 1895 forthe Shelton Transportation Company tosucceed the "Willie" on the Olympia-Shelton run. Remained in service until____ before retirement in Dead WaterSlough.2: This snapshot, taken in ____, is of I5northbound under contruction through______________. Hint, the stevens fieldwater tower appears on the left.3: Workers on this grading and slopingproject, used hand tools in ____ to get thejob done.
City of Shelton (Ferry), 1900, State Library Photograph Collection, 1851-1990, Washington StateArchives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, 3/1/2020.
Above: Construction of Interstate 5, Olympia, Trosper Road to Martin Way, 1958, Junk, Merle, Susan ParishPhotograph Collection, 1889-1990, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, 3/1/2020.Left: Grading and Sloping Project, 1935, State Parks and Recreations Commission, Photographs of ParkDevelopment, 1933-1938, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov,3/1/2020.
Answers:1:19072:1958;Olympia3.1935
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Save the DateJoin the Fun
3rd Annual ITE Trivia NightApril 7th
5:30PM-7:30PMThis is a fun and social event mixing students andmembers and all sectors of our membership.
Location details to follow
Date Subject Location
APR 7 Traffic Trivia Night WSP Seattle
MAY 21 Student Night TBD
MAY 24-27 Joint Canadian ITE District/Quad Conference Sheraton Vancouver BC
JUNE9 ITE Washington Annual Meeting TBD
JUNE 2-4 Washington Traffic Safety Commission, Traffic Safety Conference Spokane
JUNE 16 Gibson Golf Classic Oakbrrok Golf Course,Lakewood WA
event calendar
2019-20 ITE Washington Section Events
2020 ITE Associate EventsAPR 14-16 APWAWashington Spring Conference Vancouver, Washington
MAY 26-29 ASCE Conference on Transportation and Development Seattle, Washington
JUNE 2-4 Washington Traffic Safety Commission, Traffic Safety Conference Spokane, Washington
AUG 9-12 ITE National Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana
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Washington State Local Technical AssistanceProgram (LTAP)Training for Local AgenciesThe Washington State Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) is apartnership betweenWSDOT's Local ProgramDivision and FHWA, providingtraining opportunities and a coordinated technology transfer program forlocalagencies inWashingtonState. LTAPofferscoursesdirectly targeting thetraining needs of local agencies receiving Federal funding.Types of Training for Local Agencies:LTAP Classes/WebinarsMar. 24 & 25 (Tumwater)Apr. 21 & 22 (Moses Lake)May 12 & 13 (Everett)
Cost: Free. 16 hour class. See Brochure linked in title for more details andexact times for each location.Training by Our PartnersThis is a listing of other programs and training offerings throughWSDOT andLTAP Partners.Online TrainingLinks to many online training courses, including construction and materialtesting.For more information:
Postings should include company, position, brief description ofresponsibilities, requirements, contact information and postingtimeframe.
Job Postings
Transportation Engineer III-City of KentAssociate Traffic Engineer- City of SammamishProject Engineer- SCJ Gig HarborSenior ITS Engineer/System Engineer-
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podcast
Managing the Evolving Curbside; Meghan Mitman & Steve Davis, Fehr & PeersMaaS/MOD, Mobility Rising; Valerie Lefler, FeonixThe Value of Professional Development, Marsha Anderson Bomar, ITE HonoraryMemberNew York City Congestion Pricing: From Idea to Reality, Sam Schwartz
ITE Talks Transportation is a collaboration between ITE and Bernie Wagenblast, founder and editor of theTransportation Communication Newsletter and host of Transportation Radio. Each month, a new podcast features athought leader within the transportation industry. In keeping with #transportationtuesday, a new episode will beavailable the 4th Tuesday of every month.
