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| ITS Georgia President Scott Mohler |
The ITS Georgia 2012 Annual
Meeting and Exposition, held at Callaway Gardens in early fall this year, can
be called nothing but an unqualified success. More than 130 attendees got a
briefing on everything transportation from the national perspective, from ITS
America President Scott Belcher, to ITS applications and future at the state,
regional and local level.
Our attendees got to put their
hands on the latest ITS hardware, available from the 24 vendors on hand in the Exhibition.
A total of 17 sponsors provided crucial financial support, including our three
Diamond sponsors, Control Technologies (www.cttraffic.com), MetroTech (metrotech-partners.com)
and Temple, Inc. (www.temple-inc.com). Additionally,
our five sessions, featuring 22 speakers, provided attendees with 7.5
professional development hours credit.
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Dreihaup Award winner Todd Long, Center,
with Marion Waters
and John Hibbard..
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The annual meeting also provides
valuable time for face-to-face meetings between fellow transportation
professionals where problems are presented and solutions are created.
We also take time at the meeting to
recognize outstanding individuals and organizations who are leaders in the
industry. This year’s winners are:
Larry R. Dreihaup Award – Todd Long,
GDOT.
The ITS Georgia Larry R. Dreihaup Award recognizes an individual or an
organization who has provided leadership, professionalism, and dedication in
promoting ITS in the State of Georgia during the previous 12 months.
Outstanding Public Member Agency Award – GDOT. Leadership in
promoting ITS and/or ITSGA goals during the previous 12 months.
Outstanding Private Member Award – Atkins Global. Leadership in
promoting ITS and/or ITSGA goals during the previous 12 months.
One of the highlights of this
year’s meeting was to reward a promising transportation student in the
Georgia University System with our third-annual Wayne Shackelford memorial scholarship.
This year’s winner is Bhargava Rama Chilukuri, PE, a doctoral candidate at
Georgia Tech, who is currently working on ramp metering and travel time
estimation improvement projects.
Last, but not least, we announce the results of yearly
elections at each meeting. Elected to the board of directors were Eric Graves, City of Alpharetta; Winter
Horbal, Temple, Inc.; Keary Lord, Douglas County Department of Transportation;
Michael Roberson, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT); David Smith,
DeKalb County Department of Transportation (DeKalb); and Prasoon Sinha,
ACRADIS.
We are very pleased to be joined by this great group of
newly-elected directors and are grateful for the contributions of our retiring
board members. ITS Georgia has always
attracted the best leadership and provided a vehicle for professional growth
and career development.
Retiring from the board are Kenn Fink, Kimley-Horn;
Patrece Keeter, DeKalb, Bayne Smith, GDOT, and John Hibbard, Atkins.
You can see we
pack a lot of learning, networking and business into a short time. So, we hope
you can join us next year!
To keep up with the latest ITS Georgia news, please visit our web site (www.itsga.org), join us on facebook or follow us on twitter @ITSGA.
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