TSITE Tri-Cities branch meeting March 21st
Jason Carder is creating a Tri-Cities “branch” of TSITE. The first scheduled meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 21st at noon at Beef O’Brady’s in Johnson City. If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Jason Carder by Friday, March 17th.
Winter Meeting Registration Now Open
Click here to find the meeting agenda and to register.
The meeting cost is $45, which includes technical sessions, traffic bowl, and lunch.
Location: Roaden University Center at TTU
Cookeville, TN
Date: Wednesday, March 1st
Parking Info: Meeting attendees must park in one of the purple zones shown on the Campus Map and display the temporary Parking Permit on their dashboard. Drivers failing to do so may receive a parking ticket. Meeting attendees can then ride the shuttle to the Roaden University Center (RUC) or walk to the RUC (about a 10-minute walk).
Fall Meeting Registration now open
You’re invited to the 2016 TAPA/TSITE Fall Conference to be held at the Crowne Plaza Knoxville.
Registration can be found here.
Registration Frequently Asked Questions
Early registration ends on August 19th so be sure to register soon and please share this information with your friends and colleagues. We are looking forward to hosting everyone in Knoxville.
2016 TSITE Award Winners
The 2016 TSITE Awards were presented to the following very deserving individuals at the Summer Meeting held in Gatlinburg: (Past President Mike Conger presented the awards)
Ed Watt Volunteer Distinguished Service Award:
Stephen Meyer (Meyer Transportation Consultants, Inc.)
Jack B. Humphreys Young Member Award:
Amy Burch (RPM Transportation Consultants, LLC)
Tennessee Section Outstanding Individual Award:
Kevin Cole (CDM Smith)
2016 Election Results
The results of the 2017 Officer Election were announced during the 2016 Summer Business Meeting. The following individuals were elected to serve TSITE next year:
President
Kevin Comstock, Tennessee Department of Transportation
Vice President
Greg Dotson, Neel-Schaffer
Secretary/Treasurer
Amy Burch, RPM Transportation Consultants
Past President
Brandon Baxter, Ragan-Smith Associates
Affiliate Director
Tim Britt, Temple, Inc.
Section Representatives
Ben Ledsinger, Smith, Seckman, Reid (2016/2017)
Karen Anderson, ARCADIS (2016/2017)
Chris Kirby, CDM Smith (2017/2018)
Webinar Topic Survey
The TSITE Technical Committee would like to get your input on future webinar topics offered to members throughout the year. Please help us out by completing this quick survey.
2016 TSITE Officer Election
Online voting for the 2017 TSITE Officers is now underway! Please click here to view the voting ballot and the candidate bios. Votes will be tallied and results announced at the business meeting portion of the Summer Meeting. The election will close on Monday July 11, 2016.
Summer Meeting Notice: July 13th – July 15th
You’re invited to the 2016 TSITE Summer Meeting to be held at the Park Vista Hotel (705 Cherokee Orchard Road – Gatlinburg, TN 37738) from Wednesday, July 13th to Friday, July 15th.
There will be many highlights including a sponsored Social Event on Wednesday night, the annual Awards Banquet and Scholarship Auction on Thursday night and of course several informative Technical Sessions along with the Business Meeting where the 2017 Officer Election results will be announced (more details on voting still to come). We encourage you to bring your family along and have allowed some time in our agenda for the ability to spend some quality time with them in this beautiful setting.
2016 TSITE Summer Meeting Registration is now open!
Please click here for registration information.
2016 Traffic Bowl Winners
The 2016 Traffic Bowl Winners! From Left to Right: TSITE President Brandon Baxter, Kristina King, Behram Wali, Alexandra Boggs, and Traffic Bowl Chair Greg Judy.
Congratulations to the University of Tennessee for winning this year’s traffic bowl at the winter meeting in Nashville. It was a great competition with five schools represented: the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee Tech, Tennessee State University and the University of Memphis. UT Knoxville will represent TSITE at the Southern District (SDITE) 2016 Annual Meeting on April 10-13, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Winter Meeting Parking Info
We are expecting over 100 attendees at the TSITE Winter Meeting. Because of this, parking will be limited. We have the following recommendations:
- For those attending from out-of-town, Carpool. TSITE is about fellowship and networking. What better way to get to know your neighbors than a “Road-Trip!”
- For those in the Nashville-Metro Area – Consider Transit One of our speakers is from MTA and if would send a tremendous message to them knowing 50% of the attendees used that service on Thursday.
- It has been pointed out that some could bike. We won’t mention any names, but some in the 17th Ave area of Nashville might consider biking to the event.
The University Club has about 50 free spaces and will be “first come, first serve” available for our members. There are parking meters all along 24th Ave. to the south of the club where members could feed a meter.
There are two parking garages within walking distance. The closest is the Highland St. Garage at Highland and 25th Ave. where the first floor has about 35-40 paid spaces that you can park in…pay…get your ticket from the machine…and place on your dash. The other garage is the 25th Ave. Garage just north of Memorial Gym on 25th Ave. S. They are pay lots and daily prices will apply. There will NOT be parking validation by TSITE. Expect prices between $10 and $15 for the day.
