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Webinar Overview

Intended Audience

The webinar is free of charge and appropriate for Federal and non-Federal personnel. A certificate for webinar participation will available upon request via e-mail and through the webinar feedback form.

Description

"What are the benefits of ITS applications?" "What are the costs?" "How much is out there?" "What are the lessons learned in deploying these applications?" Online resources, sponsored by the ITS Joint Program Office of the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), exist to help answer these questions. The U.S. DOT's ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program is sponsoring a T3 (Talking Technology and Transportation) webinar to show ITS professionals how to use these databases to answer these pressing questions.

The presentation will be a scripted introductory webinar, followed by a "live" demonstration of the websites in which presenters will respond in real time to questions from participants.

This webinar will show participants how to use the databases and knowledge resources available from the ITS Applications Overview (www.itsoverview.its.dot.gov). The T3 seminar will provide a Web-based tour of the ITS Benefits Database (www.itsbenefits.its.dot.gov), the ITS Costs Database (www.itscosts.its.dot.gov), ITS Deployment Statistics Database (www.itsdeployment.its.dot.gov) and the ITS Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource (www.itslessons.its.dot.gov).

Host:

Joe Peters, ITS Joint Program Office

Joe Peters is Manager of ITS Program Assessment at the US DOT's ITS Joint Program Office. He has 34 years of systems research and evaluation experience in the academia, private consulting, and government sectors. Currently, he is responsible for tracking the state of the practice of ITS deployment in the nation, performing qualitative and quantitative evaluations of ITS field operational tests and ITS deployments across the USA, and developing and disseminating ITS-related information to US DOT partners and the national and international public through an integrated network of website and other outreach resources. He holds a PhD in applied-experimental psychology from the Catholic University of America.

Presenters:

Rob Maccubbin is a Lead Transportation Engineer with Mitretek Systems, Inc., where he is responsible for assessing the impacts of ITS on transportation operations and managing the ITS Benefits Database. Rob was also a lead contributor in developing a recently released NHI training course, Improving Highway Safety with ITS. He has presented papers and given invited presentations at ITS and transportation conferences and meetings in the U.S. and abroad, and is a member of the International Benefits, Evaluation and Costs (IBEC) Working Group. Rob has a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Barbara Staples is a Principal with Mitretek Systems, Inc. Barbara's major area of emphasis is in ITS cost analysis, and she is responsible for updating and maintaining the ITS Costs Database for the ITS JPO. She has developed several papers estimating ITS investments using deployment tracking and deployment threshold value data. She has also investigated and documented an estimate of Federal funds expended on ITS infrastructure based on state DOT documentation. Barbara is a member of the International Benefits, Evaluation and Costs (IBEC) Working Group Management Committee. She has organized and participated in ITS cost-related conference sessions and workshops working closely with ITS professionals from the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Staples graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering and holds a Masters in Engineering Management from Long Island University.

Steve R. Gordon is a member of the research staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a position he has held since joining the laboratory in 1993. He is the project manager of the ITS Deployment Tracking Project, which supports the FHWA ITS Joint Program Office by collecting and disseminating information on deployment of ITS technology nationwide. He has managed ITS projects for 13 years, including an effort to develop ITS standards for sharing spatial data. Previously, he was a career officer in the United States Air Force. He holds a BA in Chemistry from Bowdoin College and an MS in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Firoz Kabir is a Principal with Mitretek Systems in Washington, DC. He has over 18 years of experience in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and transportation engineering. He has been a consultant to public- and private-sector organizations for a wide range of projects that have encompassed regional transportation planning, highway design, ITS architecture, transportation knowledge resource development, and advanced technology implementation planning for traffic and transit systems. He has conducted research for USDOT, the New Jersey DOT, and the Florida DOT in the areas of traffic operations and transportation safety. Firoz holds an MS in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Johns Hopkins University.