Student Endowment Fund Spotlight: Jan/Feb
The Jan-Feb Spotlight was written by the Washington Section regarding their recent contribution to the Endowment Fund in memory of Christopher W. Alm. The Washington Section continues to be a strong supporter or the Endowment Fund and is the District’s first Emerald-Level contributor to the fund. The following is their [...]
Public Relations Committee Seeking Volunteers
Chuck HuffinePublic Relations Chair The Public Relations Committee is in full swing, with the issuance of a series of press releases and announcements, including Jonathan Upchurch receiving the District's Lifetime Achievement Award. We are looking for a few people to assist with one of two functions: Regularly contacting [...]
Five Student Chapters Selected for Data Collection Fund
Amit KothariTechnical Committee Chair The Technical Committee, headed by Amit Kothari, received a total of 14 responses to the Request for Proposal (RFP) inviting student chapters to collect vehicle speed and parking data for under-represented land uses. Five proposals were selected by the Technical Committee. Upon completion of [...]
ITS California Scholarship for Graduate Study in ITS
The Intelligent Transportation Society of California has announced a $2,000 scholarship to attend graduate school in an ITS-related field at accredited California colleges. The deadline is March 1, 2013. For information, see www.itscalifornia.org.
Thank You, Dalene Whitlock
Dalene Whitlock's three-year term representing the Western District on ITE's Board of Direction ends December 31st. Dalene, a principal engineer at Whitlock & Weinberger Transportation, Inc. (W-Trans), was elected as District Secretary-Treasurer in 2004, and served as our President in 2006-2007. Somehow during this span of 8 1/2 years she [...]
Student Endowment Fund Spotlight: Nov/Dec
(By Cathy Leong) I have spent a lot of time over the past few years asking some of our contributors to write articles about why they support the Student Endowment Fund. Then it hit me that I had been asking them to do something I had never done myself. Since [...]
Call for Abstracts Extended – Phoenix 2013
The Call for Abstracts is available for our 2013 Annual Meeting with guidelines and contact information at http://azite.org/2013meeting/. Abstracts submittal includes an optional video clip. An award for best video abstract submitted will be announced at the annual meeting. Abstracts are due by December 21, 2012. The meeting will be [...]
President’s Message
By Walter Okitsu, ITE Western District President WE NEED YOUR LATEST E-MAIL ADDRESS If this sentence is the first you've received from me since I was sworn-in as President last June, please update your profile on ITE Headquarters' website at www.ite.org. I have already e-mailed two editions of E-News from [...]
2014 Rapid City Annual Meeting
In June 2014, the Western District will hold a joint inter-district Annual Meeting for the first time since 1996. Our joint meeting will be with the Midwestern District in Rapid City, South Dakota June 28 to July 2. The Midwestern District covers 10 states and, with the Western District's 13 [...]
Who Will Host the 2018 Annual Meeting?
Our future Western District Annual Meeting sites will be 2013 Phoenix, 2014 Rapid City, 2015 Las Vegas, 2016 Albuquerque, and 2017 San Diego. The next open date is the summer of 2018, which will be reserved for a site outside of California. If your section or chapter is interested in [...]
