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Karen Aspelin, PE, PTOE Western District President Brainchild of Randy McCourt First RFP in 2004 Win-win: students get the experience and the cash, professionals get the data Administered by District Technical Chair To

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Karen Aspelin, PE, PTOE Western District President

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Brainchild of Randy

McCourt

First RFP in 2004 Win-win: students get

the experience and the cash, professionals get the data

Administered by

District Technical Chair

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SLIDE 4  To generate relevant technical data in the West

for transportation engineers and planners

 To facilitate ITE Student Chapter activity and

student mentoring by transportation professionals

 To focus on practical, day‐to‐day, minor research

in transportation engineering and planning

 To focus on the collection of basic data  To provide funds to student chapters that may be

used to offset travel costs for students to attend ITE meetings, which help them to better understand the transportation profession by meeting a wide range of working members

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SLIDE 5 Dad – electrical engineer Mom - writer
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Karen Aspelin, PE, PTOE Western District President

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80 person-hours of data collection and

reduction

  • three observations of the 7 AM to 6 PM period

for trip counts

  • three observations of 12 consecutive hours of

parking occupancy

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Trip generation and parking generation

forms

Abstract of the project in no more than

500 words

Schedule: RFP in October, notice-to-

proceed in November, projects must be complete by the following summer

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SLIDE 18  Sporting goods superstores (Sports Authority,

Dick’s, Cabela’s, REI, Bass Pro Shops)

 Downtown housing complexes and TODs  Coffee shops with drive-through service  Small offices  Multiplex theaters  IKEA or Wal-Mart stores  Schools  Gas station hybrids  Sports parks  Mini-warehouses  Resorts (ski, hotel, other)
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Pass-by trip data Parking facility

speed data

Other data Must get

permission from the property

  • wner!
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utilize vs. use

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Every year about 18 proposals are

received, but only five can receive funding of $1,000 each.

Program has become so successful that

International started its own program (they receive close to 25 proposals for the five available grants).

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Grants Awarded by the Western District

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Drive-through coffee shop(6) Downtown housing complex (4) Elementary school (3) Gas station with fast food (3) Multiplex theater (3) Small office building (3) Transit-oriented development (3) Gas station with mini-mart (2)

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Sporting goods superstore Small commercial airport Grocery store with gas station Community center High school IKEA Mini-warehouse Ski resort Soccer complex Wal-Mart

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acronyms and abbreviations

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acronym can be pronounced without needing to spell out the letters

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WIM ESAL TIGER MRCOG SONAR SCUBA LASER

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ITE FHWA TRB PHF PDN AADT DHV

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“Establishing Pedestrian Walking Speeds” “Saturation Flow Rates at Signalized

Intersections with High Pedestrian Volumes”

“Calibration of Capacity Parameters for

Signalized Intersections in Hawaii”

“Right-Turn-On-Red Field Data

Collection”

“Speed Data Collection in a Parking Lot

Circulation Road”

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Submitted to ITE HQ

for consideration in Trip Generation and Parking Generation manuals

Presented at annual

meetings in sessions and in poster sessions

Posted on

westernite.org (Google it!)

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SLIDE 42  466 Snow Ski Area  488 Soccer Complex  520 Elementary School  760 Research and

Development Center

 861 Sporting Goods

Superstore

 869 Discount Home

Furnishing Superstore (2)

 937 Coffee Shop with Drive-

Through (4)

 938 Coffee Shop with Drive-

Through and No Indoor Seating

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445 Multiplex Movie Theater (3) 937 Coffee Shop with Drive-Through (2)

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The next District RFP goes out in October

  • Encourage students to submit a proposal
  • Serve as a mentor

Collect data as part of your work and submit

to ITE

To sections and chapters: Why not fund a

data collection project for your own students?

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Small technical college Schools for students with special needs Swim club Commuter airports Downtown hotels Feed lot Catering facility Aquarium

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Age-restricted residential developments Microbrewery Homes with mother-in-law’s quarters Fast food restaurants with drive-through

that don’t serve breakfast

Funeral home College student apartments

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“The semicolon is the most feared punctuation on Earth.”

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SLIDE 49 “The topic was timely; many in the room could remember a time just recently when they were unsure whether a semicolon or a comma was appropriate.”
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SLIDE 50 “Traffic, land, and environmental planners; civil, chemical, and electrical engineers; and archeologists are all guilty of misusing the semicolon.”
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Questions?

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