AASHTO Subcommittee on Traffic Engineering

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A Community of Transportation Professionals Your
source for expertise, knowledge and ideas

• AASHTO Subcommittee on Traffic Engineering
• AASHTO Subcommittee on System Management and
  Operation
• Annual Meeting
• Douglas E. Noble, P.E., PTOE
• Senior Director, Management and Operations
• June 2009 Manchester, VT

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Recent Publications

• Trip Generation, 8th Edition
• Urban Street Geometric Design Handbook
• Traffic Engineering Handbook, 6th Edition
• Traffic Signal Timing Manual
• Transportation Planning Handbook, 3rd Edition

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Traffic Engineering/Planning

• Management and Operations of ITS (2009)
• Signal Maintenance Handbook (2009)
• Manual of Transportation Studies (2009)
• Parking Generation (2010)

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Design

• CSS in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares (Final
  2010)
• Flexibility in Highway Design for urban
  roadways
• Compatible with Green Book
• Primarily for walkable, compact development with
  mixed uses
• Received 850 individual comments
• Funding received and process to move to final
  Recommended Practice begun
• Available on ITE Website ww.ite.org

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Design

• Geometric Design Handbooks
• Three Volume Set Freeways and Interchanges
  (2005), Urban (2008), and Rural (2009)
• Practitioner tool on How to do it specific
  application and implementation to supplement the
  Green Book
• Examples of good and poor design techniques
  that have been successfully applied (photos,
  figures, tables)

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Design

• Proposed Recommended Practice on Speed
  Humps(Final expected late 2009)
• Neighborhood Street Design Guidelines (2009)
• Overall layout and design of new developments
• Encourages design for all users ADA compliant
• Transportation Impact Analyses for Site
  Development (Final expected late 2009)

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Standards

• Establishing Minimum Thresholds for LEDs
• NCHRP 20-7 Partnership with AASHTO
• Synthesize existing info on current practices for
  establishing minimum thresholds and field
  measurement procedures
• TRB published results in 2008

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Standards

• Three LED specifications
• Circular (avail. now)
• Arrow (avail. now)
• Pedestrian (public comment period just closed)

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Other Items of Interest

• Roundabouts
• Task Force
• ITE Informational Report on Roundabout Safety
  (Summer 2007)
• Climate Change and Energy
• Task Force
• White Paper by Alan Pisarski
• Guidelines for Advisory Speed Setting
• Speed Management
• Pedestrian/Bicycle Trip Generation

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ITE Information Accessible Any Time, Any Place

• Online Bookstore
• Online Learning Courses
• Web Seminars and Briefings
• CD-ROM Modules
• ITE e-Newsletter
• ITE Journal
• Informational Reports

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Professional Development

• Web Seminars Online Learning, CD-ROM Modules and
  Face-to-Face Seminars
• All ITE professional development activities are
  accredited by the International Association of
  Continuing Education and Training (IACET)

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Professional Development

• Tech Conference 2009 Web Briefing (June 30,
  300pm)
• Intro to Highway Safety (Aug 4 - Sept 24)
• Fundamental of Traffic Engineering (Oct 1 Nov
  19)
• Personnel Management Skills (Tue/Thu, Dec 1 Dec
  15)

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Transportation Certification

• Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE)
• Voluntary process, licensed engineers
• 2,194 individuals certified worldwide
• Professional Transportation Planner (PTP)
• Traffic Operations Practitioner Specialist (TOPS)
• Traffic Signal Operations Specialist (TSOS)
• August 1 to 31, 2009 July 1, 2009
• October 1 to 31, 2009 Sept. 4, 2009
• March 1 to 31, 2010 February 2, 2010

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ITE 2009 Annual Meeting and Exhibit
August 9-12San Antonio, TX
www.ite.org/annualmeeting
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ITE 2010 Tech. Conf. and Exhibit
March 14-17Savannah, GA
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ITE Needs Your Input

• View training opportunities online at
  www.ite.org/education/clearinghouse
• Suggest Web seminars that would benefit you
  during your business hours
• Recommend training courses

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For more information

• Douglas E. Noble, P.E., PTOE Christina Garneski
• Senior Director, Senior Director
• Management and Operations Marketing Membership
  Services
• [phone], x148 [phone], x148
• dnoble_at_ite.org cgarneski_at_ite.org
• Institute of Transportation Engineers
• 1099 14th Street NW
• Suite 300 West
• Washington DC 20005

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