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Beth Isler - Transportation Scholar for NPS |
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Written by Jenny Austin
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 08:52 |
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Beth Isler, P.E. of Resource Systems Group (RSG) and a VT ITE Member, has recently been selected as a 2009 Transportation Scholar by the National Park Foundation. The National Park Foundation takes applications every year for this program and accepts only a limited number of transportation experts and undergraduate students working in the transportation field. These scholars work with the National Park Service to consider ways to solve transportation challenges in national parks and encourage alternative transportation at these parks. Beth has been assigned to the Virgin Islands National Park to initiate a transportation study to improve traffic operations and safety and look for ways to reduce vehicular trips in the Park. Beth will be in the Virgin Islands from June to December 2009. Recommend this article... |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 May 2009 08:58 )
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Written by jda
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Monday, 18 May 2009 11:01 |
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Jon Kaplan, an active VT ITE member and ITE VTrans Liason, was invited to participate in an AASHTO/FHWA/NCHRP (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) international scan on the topic of pedestrian and bicycle safety. The official name of the scan tour is “Survey of Innovative Pedestrian and Bicyclist Infrastructure Improvements and Policies to Increase Safety and Mobility”.
He joins 11 other transportation professionals from around the U.S. to tour 5 European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and the U.K.) to be briefed by transportation officials on their policies and practices and to observe facilities first hand. A big focus of this tour is on implementation and Jon is the DOT representative on the implementation team. Upon return, they will be working on a report, implementation plan, and making presentations about the trip.
Jon has created the following blog to post updates and photos throughout the two week trip. There is some basic information about the trip and who is participating already posted there.
www.pedbikesafetyinternationalscan.blogspot.com.
Feel free to share the blog link with others who may be interested. Recommend this article... |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 May 2009 09:00 )
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:00 |
Items of Interest:
May 2009
2009 Dues
* We will be sending notices soon for 2009 dues. Annual dues are $20. This cost goes to offset costs for meetings, and to help pay for other seminars, etc. that we would like to start sponsoring. We would like to sponsor a webinar later this year. Please keep your eyes and ears open for any webinars/seminars/etc. that may be of interest to the Transportation Engineering community in Vermont.
SAVE THE DATE -- June 23rd
*Our next meeting will be June 23rd. Our anticipated topics include:
(1) A speaker from the Office of Economic Stimulus and Recovery for the State of Vermont, and
(2) Weather monitoring towers and how VTrans operations division makes use of them.Recommend this article... |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:32 )
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Written by Jon
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 08:31 |
During the Summer ITE Meeting held at the Davis Center Karen Glitman discussed opportunities to participate in federally funded transportation research.
Laurie E. Brown publishes a monthly newsletter on current solicitations that is distributed through email. The summary recaps funding available from federal and state agencies as well as private sources. To subscribe to this complementary service, send a request to Laurie E. Brown.
If anyone you know would like to sign up to receive these funding newsletters, send a subscription request to
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
. Include subscriber's email address in the body of the message.
The UVM Transportation Research Center is focused around the following thematic areas:
- Transportation and the Environment
- Transportation and Energy and,
- Vital Communities
All within the context of northern communities.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 August 2008 08:59 )
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Written by Jon
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Friday, 27 June 2008 08:29 |
The VT ITE Summer Meeting was held on Tuesday the 24th of June in the UVM Davis Center. The meeting covered a variety of topics related to transit starting off with the fiscal reality here in Chittenden County with Chris Cole of CCTA. Chuck Gallagher of VTrans provided a different picture of transit in Vermont by describing the van pool process and the current tasks at hand developing a better, faster responding system that will serve many more Vermonters - especially those without fixed route bus service.
Karen Glitman of the University of Vermont Transportation Research Center (TRC) gave a quick run down of the TRC giving the VT members of ITE an idea on how to get involved in cutting edge research here in Vermont (look for an upcoming article on this). Gopal Patil, a transportation research engineer at the TRC provided an end summary of work that he and others at the TRC are involved with. The last piece of research tries to answer the question, What would inter-city transit service look like in the State of Vermont if we were trying to build a system from scratch today?
Thanks to all our speakers and thanks to our VT ITE members who were able to make it up to Burlington in the rainy weather.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 June 2008 09:13 )
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