ITS Professional Capacity Building Program

T3 Webinars

Webinar Overview

Intended Audience

The webinar is free of charge and appropriate for professionals in both the highway safety and ITS communities, including Federal FWHA, FTA, or FMCSA field staff. Many others will also find this webinar valuable, including planners, operators, designers, or maintenance personnel who are the employees of, or contractors for, state departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, regional planning councils, and city and county agencies. A certificate for webinar participation will available upon request via e-mail and through the webinar feedback form.

Description

This webinar presents the Executive Summary of the new NHI course, Improving Highway Safety with ITS (#137044). This T3 webinar, like the full course, is aimed at:

• increasing awareness of the potential for gaining highway safety improvements through the deployment of ITS technologies at the highway system and project levels; and
• accelerating the introduction and evaluation of ITS applications by increasing the recognition of their contribution to making highways safer.

Host:

Mac Lister, ITS Specialist, FHWA Resource Center

Mac Lister has over 35 years of experience in the field of information systems. Before joining FHWA nine years ago, he had worked as an IT manager for 25 years, the last 12 of which were for a public transit agency. His ITS areas of expertise are 511 technology/overall operations, the National ITS Architecture, ITS professional capacity building, and systems engineering. Mac provides training, outreach and technical support for the National ITS Architecture program. He is also the team leader for the FHWA's National Field Support team; the field co-chair for the FHWA Operations Council's architecture working group; and a member of the 511 Deployment Coalition Working Group.

Mac is a certified NHI instructor, teaching courses in ITS Software Acquisition, Systems Engineering and National ITS Architecture. He has also been an independent consultant to ITS America. Mac is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Presenters:

Rob Maccubbin, Mitretek Systems

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 on 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.

Emily Parkany, Mitretek Systems

Dr. Emily Parkany, PE, PTOE, is a Lead Transportation Engineer at Mitretek Systems, Inc., in Washington, DC. She supports the US DOT's ITS Joint Program Office's Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program. She is also involved with the Vehicle to Infrastructure Integration (VII) Data Characteristics for Traffic Management and Traveler Information project. Emily's PhD is from the University of California, Irvine, where she studied Transportation Science, a combination of civil engineering, economics, and urban planning. She also has degrees from MIT and Columbia University. Prior to joining Mitretek, she was an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at Villanova University.