2013 TSITE Award Winners
The 2013 TSITE Awards were presented to the following very deserving individuals at the 2014 Winter Meeting held at the TSU Campus in Nashville:
Jack B. Humphreys Young Member Award:
Luke Dixon (Neel-Schaffer)
Ed Watt Volunteer Distinguished Service Award:
Dr. Martin Lipinski (University of Memphis) (not pictured)
Tennessee Section Outstanding Individual Award:
Becky Bottoms (Cannon & Cannon)
Congratulations and thank you for your contributions to TSITE!
TSITE Student Paper Competition Winners
The 2014 TSITE Student Paper Competition has concluded. Congratulations to the following students:
- 1st place: Jianjiang Yang, “Short-Term Freeway Speed Profiling Based on Longitudinal Spatial-Temporal Dynamics”
- 2nd place: Jun Liu, “A Micro-Measure for Automobile Driving Volatility”
- 3rd place tie: James Mersereau, “Assessing and Increasing Safety at the Intersection of Lambuth Boulevard and Wisdom Street in Jackson, Tennessee”
- 3rd place tie: Taekwon Yoon, “Development of Bicycle Accident Reconstruction Model Based On Akaike Information Criterion Statistical Model”
The 2014 TSITE Outstanding Student Chapter winner will be revealed at the summer meeting in Gatlinburg.
UT Engineering student, Jianjiang Yang in the news
University of Tennessee Engineering student, Jianjiang Yang was recently featured in the Knoxville local news. His paper on the concept of predicting traffic flow, won TSITE’s first place paper award. The article can be found here.
Spring Meeting – May 7th
Please mark your calendars now for the upcoming TSITE Spring Meeting to be held on Wednesday, May 7th in Memphis.
A draft agenda for the meeting has been developed and can be found here.
There are a few rooms remaining at the Doubletree Hotel (East Memphis – 5069 Sanderlin Ave., Memphis, TN 38117) for Tuesday night, May 6th in the block that has been set up at the special rate of $99.00/night. In order to reserve a room please contact Sherry Goldberg at the DoubleTree directly at: 901-969-6712 and mention TSITE. The room block will be released on Monday, April 28th.
If you have any questions about the event or how to register please contact Mike Conger at 865-215-3813 or here.
Online registration information can be found here. Online registration will close on Thursday, May 1st.
2014 Traffic Bowl Winners
The 2014 Traffic Bowl Winners! From Left to Right: Traffic Bowl Chair Greg Judy, Kelsey Ford, Darin Nelson and Virginia Wise.
- Congratulations to the University of Memphis for winning this years traffic bowl at the winter meeting in Nashville. They will represent TSITE at the District Meeting in Greensboro, GA at the Ritz Carlton Lodge and Spa on beautiful Lake Oconee.
Winter Meeting – February 26th
Please mark your calendars now for the upcoming TSITE Winter Meeting to be held on Wednesday, February 26th at Tennessee State University.
Additional meeting details and online registration information can be found here.
2014 Meeting Schedule
Please mark your calendars for these important events in 2014!
TSITE Meeting Schedule:
- TSITE Winter meeting: Nashville (TSU Campus) on Wednesday, February 26th
- TSITE Spring meeting: Memphis (DoubleTree Hotel Memphis) on Wednesday, May 7th
- TSITE Summer meeting: Gatlinburg (Park Vista Hotel) on Wednesday thru Friday, July 30th – August 1st
- TSITE Fall meeting: Clarksville (Wilma Rudolph Event Center) on Tuesday, October 7th. This is a joint meeting with ITS-TN
- ITE Technical Conference and Exhibit: March 9–12, 2014
- ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibit: August 10-13, 2014
- ITS Tennessee Annual meeting: Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 23-25
Webinar – Dec 4th – Adaptive Signal Control
TSITE will be sponsoring the ITE webinar titled “Is Adaptive Signal Control Technology Cost Effective and Operationally Effective” at three locations. This webinar training opportunity will be held on Wednesday, December 4th, from 12:00pm-1:30pm EST (11:00am-12:30pm CST). Information on this web briefing can be found here.
The three TSITE host locations and contact information for this web briefing are:
- Knoxville – TDOT Region 1
RSVP Contact: Nathan Vatter via e-mail or telephone at 865-594-2456
The location for the webinar is: Knoxville TDOT Transportation Management Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 7345 Region Lane, Knoxville, TN 37901
- Chattanooga – TDOT Region 2
RSVP Contact: Landon Castleberry via e-mail or telephone at 423-510-1208
The location for the webinar is: TDOT Transportation Management Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 7500 Volkswagen Drive, Chattanooga, TN 37416
- Nashville – Stansell Electric Company
RSVP Contact: Jimmy Stansell via e-mail or telephone at 615-329-4944
The location for the webinar is: 860 Visco Drive, Nashville, TN 37210
If you wish to attend, please RSVP to the host contact listed above so that they can keep a head count for these locations since space may be limited!
For those TSITE members who need PDH’s, there are 1.5 PDH’s associated with this web seminar. Special thanks to all of our host sites! Contact Amy Burch here if you have any questions.
Fall Meeting- October 17th
Mark your calendars now for the joint TSITE/ALSITE Fall Meeting that will be held in Huntsville, AL on October 17th.
The meeting will include a professional development session on Ethics, two other technical sessions, lunch, section business meetings and access to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center following the meeting! Please click here for registration information.
Although this meeting will be in the 3rd week of October, contrary to some previous reports that were made this is not the week of the U.T. – Bama game which will instead be played on Oct. 26th in Tuscaloosa. Most U.T. fans were probably not planning to attend that likely mismatch anyway (you never know though!!!).
