The Connecticut Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board is Available
Submitted February 4th, 2012

View the Annual Report HERE.

Meet the 2012 New England Section Executive Board
Submitted December 6st, 2011

President: Kien Ho, P.E., PTOE (BETA Group, Inc. - Massachusetts)

Vice-President: Joe Segale, P.E., PTP (Resource Systems Group, Inc. - Vermont)

Treasurer: Michelle Langone Danila, P.E. (Toole Design Group - Massachusetts)

Secretary: Peter Vasiliou, P.E., PTOE, LEED (Jacobs - Massachusetts)

Senior Director: Joseph Hallisey, P.E. (Parsons Brinckerhoff - Connecticut)

Senior Director: Roger Dickinson, P.E., PTOE (Lemoureaux & Dickinson - Vermont)

Junior Director: Alan Cloutier, P.E., PTOE (Fay Spofford and Thorndike - Massachusetts)

Junior Director: Jeffrey R. Gomes, E.I.T. (Massachusetts DOT - Massachusetts)

Immediate Past President: Joseph C. Balskus, P.E., PTOE (Tighe & Bond - Connecticut)

UMass Amherst named ITE Outstanding Student Chapter for 3rd Consecutive Year
Submitted August 12th, 2011

The Massachusetts Amherst Student Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) has been selected to receive the 2011 International Outstanding Student Chapter Award. The group has worked hard and it shows as this is the 3rd consecutive year the group has been selected. Nine students attended the ITE Award event last year in Vancouver, BC. This year Steven Tupper, past UMass Amherst Student Chapter ITE President, and several other ITE student members will be traveling to accept the ITE Award in St. Louis. The Chapter consists of 45 members with a core group of 30 dedicated and enthusiastic members. The group is very active year round, as the 2010-2011 Annual Report confirms. Among their many accomplishments last year the Chapter worked with Womem's Transportation Seminar group to establish the first WTS group in the region. The group regularly attends meetings and conferences, participates in field trips, professional development and outreach.

University of Connecticut Student Chapter will represent the Northeastern District in 2011 International Collegiate Traffic Bowl.
Submitted March 24th, 2011

The 2011 International Collegiate Traffic Bowl, to be held in St. Louis, Missouri this August, will have a strong representative from the Northeastern District. The New England Section is proud to announce that the University of Connecticut Student Chapter of ITE team was victorious at the District Bowl held in Amherst, MA on Thursday March 24th, 2011. The UCONN Traffi Bowl was comprised of three participants and an alternate; including:

Abigail Osei-Asamoah, EIT - a Ph.D. student at UConn from Kumasi, Ghana. Her research areas include transportation and transit planning, network analysis, and development of livable transportation systems. Abigail earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana in 2005, and her M.S. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Florida studying the impacts of Left-turn Bay Spillovers on Though Movement Discharge at Signalized Intersections.

Alex Bernier - a M.S. student at UCONN. His research focuses on transportation materials with specialization in asphalt pavements. His secondary research interests include aviation and aviation security. He is currently the UCONN Chapter Secretary and a Civil Engineering B.S. graduate of UCONN in 2010. Alex is a former production director for the Univeristy community radio station and the founder of a club which promotes civil liberties and equal rights.

Jorge Simbaqueba - a M.S. student at UCONN. An active member of ITE, EWB, and SHPE, Jorge's research focuses on the relationship between transportation and land consumption, and network connectivity analysis of urban street networks. His work with EWB has led him to supervise a team of students, military cadets, and professional mentors to Nicaragua on a road reconstruction project improving the connectivity of the La Prusia to the city of Granada.

The 2010 New England Section Award Recipients
Submitted January 1st, 2011

The 2010 Transportation Leadership Award was presented to Michael P. Lewis, Director of RIDOT for leading the Rhode Island Department of Transportation through the Great Floods of March 2010.

The 2010 Transportation Engineer of the Year was presented to Frank A. Tramontozzi, P.E., Chief Engineer of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation for leadership and enduring efforts in fostering fiscally responsible MassDOT transportation infrastructure improvements through design-build, the Accelerated Bridge Program, and The Massachusetts Transportation Finance Commission.

The 2010 William P.McNamara Distinguished Service Award was presented to Michael A. Knodler, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, for years of outstanding service to the transportation engineering and educational profession and continued contribution to the New England Section and the UMass Student Chapter of ITE.

The 2010 Emerging Professional Award was presented to Samuel W. Gregorio, EIT, Project Engineer at TEC, Inc., for contributions to the New England Section of ITE as Webmaster and prior leadership within the University of Massachusetts Student Chapter and with demonstrated professional achievement as an emerging transportation professional.

Meet the 2011 New England Section Executive Board
Submitted January 1st, 2011

President: Joseph C. Balskus, P.E., PTOE (Tighe & Bond - Connecticut)

Vice-President: Kien Ho, P.E., PTOE (BETA Group, Inc. - Massachusetts)

Treasurer: Thomas A. Errico, P.E. (T.Y.Lin International - Maine)

Secretary: Joe Segale, P.E., PTP (Resource Systems Group, Inc. - Vermont)

Senior Director: Michelle Langone Danila, P.E. (Toole Design Group - Massachusetts)

Senior Director: Peter Vasiliou, P.E., PTOE, LEED (Jacobs - Massachusetts)

Junior Director: Joseph Hallisey, P.E. (Parsons Brinckerhoff - Connecticut)

Junior Director: Roger Dickinson, P.E., PTOE (Lemoureaux & Dickinson - Vermont)

Immediate Past President: Kevin R. Dandrade, P.E., PTOE (TEC, Inc. - New Hampshire)

New England Section Members Honored as ITE Life Members
Submitted November 5th, 2010

As President of the New England Section of ITE, I am happy and honored to announce that 7 members of the New England Section have been accepted as Life Members of ITE for their participation over the past 25 years or more. The following peoples have been named as Life Members this year: Vincent Avino, Michael Desmond, James Ford, Garo Garabedian, Robert Lyford, Robert Vanasse, and Michael Waugh. Congratulations!

Kevin Dandrade, NEITE President