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July 2018 Technical Division Update: Promoting Resiliency

By Mr. Jeffrey Lindley P.E posted 07-21-2018 08:46 AM

  
ITE Technical Programs Division staff have been working in several areas that promote the importance of incorporating resiliency into our transportation systems and infrastructure. In 2017, the ITE Canons of Ethics for Members was updated to include the statement: 

“The member will consider the need for resilience in the design and operations of the transportation system, as a means of enhancing society’s ability to respond and recover from economic, technological, or physical interruption of varying durations.” (Read the full document )

To help members meet this standard of conduct, ITE Technical Programs Division staff have been working to provide more professional development opportunities based on the topics of resiliency and disaster and emergency planning and recovery. A session at the Joint ITE International and Midwestern/Great Lakes Districts Annual Meeting and Exhibit—You Can Plan for It, But...Lessons Learned from Disaster Response and Event Management—on August 22, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN, USA has been developed to bring together six presentations with timely information to share on this topic.

Jeffrey A. Lindley, P.E., ITE’s associate executive director and chief technical officer who leads the Technical Programs Division, is currently representing ITE on the planning committee for the Transportation Resilience Innovations Summit and Exchange (RISE) 2018, taking place October 9–10, 2018 in Denver, CO, USA. Sponsored by the Transportation Research Board, this event will convene all 50 U.S. state transportation departments for a unique conference to implement risk and resilience practices within daily and emergency management operations. The technical program will cover the many different dimensions of resiliency that relate to activities ranging from planning through design and construction to operations and maintenance. It also will look at social, economic, and funding considerations. Learn more at https://bit.ly/2M6Tlkf. Stay tuned to all of ITE’s communication channels for continual updates related to this work and other efforts being led by the ITE Technical Programs Division.

This blog is take from the July 2018 issue of ITE Journal.
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