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| Marion Waters |
It has
been a great pleasure being the President of the ITS Georgia Chapter
during 2010 and 2011. I have been honored to serve, and it has been great
working with the other officers, directors and committee members. I have
learned a lot, and I look forward to assisting the new Chapter President, Scott
Mohler during his tenure in 2012 and 2013.. Scott has great abilities and
a wonderful experience base to take on the challenges of growing the
organization during the next two years. Scott has been active in other
professional organizations and brings all of the lessons he has learned from
those programs over to ITS Georgia. We should all look forward to
supporting him and working under his leadership.
My thanks
go out to the many folks who have worked to enable our Chapter’s outstanding
year in 2010. We have had an outstanding series of monthly technical
meetings. Our membership has increased, and we have maintained a
good student participation. In a very tight year, our chapter put forth
an amazing effort to continue the funding of student scholarships at the same
level as previous years. Our annual meeting was successful, with great
speakers and a shared vision of the future of ITS (20/20). Best of all,
the committees involved a whole new group of younger members to work on the
program and lead in the Chapter activities. Again, I offer my sincere
thanks to each and every one of the folks who participated in any way this past
year.
The
strength and value of our Chapter is based on its individual members and the
services we provide to the organizations that enable these individuals to
participate. Please do not forget that our Chapter is built on the
partnership formed when public sector agencies, vendors, educators, and
consultants work together to advance the state of the industry.
Intelligent Transportation Systems function to enhance the efficiency of
transportation infrastructure in all sectors of surface transportation.
ITS does not create capacity in any of the transit or transportation systems,
but it does enhance the most efficient and effective use of these
systems.
There are
many challenges facing our nation in 2012 and our concern for the state of the
transportation infrastructure is just one. However, our Chapter can
and should play a role in educating transportation system users, managers and
leaders to the advantages of using the existing infrastructure
better.
