ITS Georgia President's Message from Georgia Engineer Magazine August 2013

ITS Georgia
President Scott Mohler

We return to beautiful Callaway Gardens this year for the 2013 ITS Georgia Annual Meeting and Exposition, September 14 - 17.

The theme for this year’s meeting is “From Vision to Operations, Living in the Future.” We plan to present a roadmap on how to create, plan and implement your vision for improving the safety and efficiency of transportation systems large and small, urban and rural.

Last year’s meeting was very successful with 125 registered attendees, 24 exhibitors and 17 sponsors. We hope to better those numbers this year.

Kicking off this year’s meeting will be GDOT Commissioner Keith Golden. The

Commissioner will deliver our keynote address and present his ITS vision for the department and state. Commissioner Golden has been involved in every aspect of our theme from planning to operations.

Scheduled topics and speakers at press time are:

Rural ITS – Dee Taylor, City of Gainesville

·         I-75 FDOT, District 2, Rural Deployment – Paul Mannix, Atkins

·         TDOT Rural ITS Deployments – Speaker TBD

·         TDOT Rural ITS – Nathan Vatter, TDOT

Product Info – Moderator TBD

·         Camera Security – Matt Powell, MOOG Videolarm

·         QPL – Putting the Pieces Together – Delcan perspective – Speaker TBD

·         Columbus TIA – Director of engineering for Wireless – Ron Hamlet

Project Delivery – Cynthia Burney, GDOT

·         Systems Engineering – Eddie Curtis, FHWA

·         GDOT Design Build – John Hancock, GDOT

·         FDOT Design Build Lessons Learned – TBD, FDOT Central Office

Arterials – Eli Veith, City of Alpharetta 

·         Highway 9 Lessons Learned – France Campbell GS&P

·         Cobb County Highway 41 – Brook Martin, Cobb County and/or Marc Start, URS

·         ALDOT Highway 280 – Brett Sellers, ALDOT

Signals – Muhammad Rauf, City of Roswell

·         NTCIP – What does and Doesn’t Work – Speaker TBD

·         Signal Software – Alan Davis, GDOT

·         Flashing Yellow Arrow Lessons Learned – Steven Cummins, City of Lexington, Kentucky

Join us today. Visit itsga.org/contactjoin.html and become a member organization of ITS Georgia.

Please join us at our monthly meetings and bring a friend. We’ll keep you posted on times and locations on our web site and by email. If you are not on our email list, then visit www.itsga.org.

Our monthly meeting dates for the remainder of 2013 are:

·         August 22

·         September 14-17 Annual Meeting

·         October 31