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Important KYSITE Dates
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SDITE Annual Meeting
March 26-29, 2017
Columbia, SC
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ITE Annual Meeting
July 30 - August 2, 2017
Toronto, Ontario
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2017 Executive Board
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President
Vice-President
Secretary
Directors
Section Rep
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Newsletter Staff
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Editor
Anne Warnick
Guest Contributors
Jarrod Stanley
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| The Changing Face of Transportation |
Happy New Year!
The KYSITE Board has already had our kick-off meeting and we're excited to serve you in 2017 by providing great opportunities for continuing education, networking, and advancing the field of transportation engineering.
We've got some great webinars coming up and are also planning a joint spring meeting with the Ohio Section of ITE. Read on to find out about all of the upcoming events.
As always, let us know if there is anything we can do for you!
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KYSITE Konnecting
Put down your phones, get off social media, shut down your computer and come out to interact with
REAL LIVE PEOPLE! We are beginning a series of social networking opportunities with KYSITE members, friends of KYSITE and people who simply like to talk traffic engineering and transportation!
Join us for our first get-together on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at West Sixth Brewing (501 W Sixth Street, Lexington, KY 40508) at 5:00 PM. To help us gauge interest level and who might attend, please click
here to let us know if you plan to attend!
All of our gatherings will not only be liquids on Thursday nights once a month. We are hoping to do a
variety of activities throughout the year, generally sticking to the
fourth Thursday at 5:00 PM OR fourth Friday at 7:30 AM depending on the activity.
- The March gathering will be morning doughnuts!
- Some other ideas include: Blue Stallion, Orange Leaf / Crank and Boom, Laser Tag, Mini-Golf and more!
Our goal is to network, foster collaboration, and create some new energy in KYSITE! For each of these gatherings we will also be looking to invite other groups to learn new perspectives such as LFUCG, KSPE, APA, and more!
If you have an idea for a location or group to invite, please feel free to contact
Lindsay Walker.
We are also looking for someone to lead the charge in other cities (Louisville? Covington?). If interested, please let us know!
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Protected Bikeway Design Webinar Series
KYSITE is sponsoring the 6-part ITE webinar series on Protected Bike Wa
y Design. Part 3 will be hosted at the LFUCG Division of Traffic Engineering on the 3rd Floor of the Phoenix Building, 101 E. Vine Street, in Lexington. The webinar will be this Thursday, January 26 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. Kimley-Horn will be co-sponsoring the event by providing refreshments. Please RSVP to
David Filiatreau
if you plan on attending.
This week's webinar will be on Mid-Block Design and Operations.
The Mid-Block Design & Operation
lecture will focus on the design and operation at mid-block locations. Topics will include barrier types and their impact on safety and operations, transit-bicycle accommodations, parking/loading-bicycle accommodations, and landscaping/trees.
Future Webinar Dates
The dates for the last 3 webinars have been announced.
February 9 - Intersection Design and Operation
March 3 - Maintenance
March 9 - Implementation
We are still looking for consultant sponsors to provide refreshments for these events. If your company is interested in sponsoring a webinar, please contact David Filiatreau.
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Implementing HCM 6 Webinar Series
Stantec is sponsoring the 8-part ITE webinar series on
 implementing the 6th Edition of the Highway Capacity Manual
. Part 4 will be hosted at the Stantec office in Louisville at 10509 Timberwood Circle, #100. The next webinar will be on Tuesday, February 7 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. This will be part 5 of an 8 part series, and the topic will be Multimodal Performance - How the HCM 6 can support complete streets analysis. Please RSVP to Tony Lewis
if you plan on attending.
Future Webinar Dates
The dates for the last 3 webinars have been announced.
March 21 - Corridor Planning Powered by HCM
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KYSITE Spring Meeting
KYSITE is coordinating with the Ohio Section of ITE for our spring meeting, which will be held in the Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky area. We are still finalizing details, but will send out an announcement as soon as we have a time and place so you can get it on your calendar!
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2017 SDITE Annual Meeting: Registration is Open!
Early Bird Registration is now open for the 2017 SDI
TE Annual Meeting in Columbia, SC! Click
here
for registration and accommodation details.
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Member Profile
Time for another episode of Member Profiles! This month we're profiling our 2017 KYSITE Vice-President, David Filiatreau.
 Name: David Filiatreau
Place of Work: City of Lexington - Traffic Engineering
Title: Signal Systems Manager
Degree: Civil Engineering
Place of Birth: From Springfield, KY
Family: Married for almost 2.5 years to my wife Victoria and we have one dog, a Corgi mix named Millie
What are your technical interests?: I try to stay as up-to-date as possible on subjects that involve Connected Vehicle technology as well as transit related projects that occur throughout the US. Projects that can help build communities and encourage social interactions are the ones that I am most interested in.
What are your hobbies?: I really enjoy traveling, watching sports and reading.
Favorite Color:
Blue
TV Show: Game of Thrones
Song: Tough one....I'll go with "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin
Breakfast Food: Bacon
Sport/Team: Basketball - UK and the NBA Finals (doesn't matter the teams)
Five Quick Questions:
A. Coke or Pepsi: Coke
B. Dogs or Cats: Dogs
C. Facebook or Twitter: Twitter
D. iPhone or Android: I see benefits to both, but currently I have an iPhone
E. Cats or Cards: Cats
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Transportation in the News
Trump Team Compiles Infrastructure Priority List
President Donald Trump's team has compiled a list of about 50 infrastructure projects nationwide, totaling at least $137.5 billion, as the new White House tries to determine its investment priorities, according to documents obtained by McClatchy's Kansas City Star and The News Tribune.
The preliminary list, provided to the National Governor's Association by the Trump transition team, offers a first glimpse at which projects around the country might get funding if Trump follows through on his campaign promise to renew America's crumbling highways, airports, dams and bridges. The governor's association shared that list with state officials in December. The group told the officials the projects on that list were "already being vetted."
Kentucky has one project listed - the Brent Spence Bridge Project in Northern Kentucky and Southern Ohio.
The full article may be found at:
Traffic Increasing on Ohio River toll bridges, RiverLink says
Buoyed by increased traffic on the Kennedy Bridge, crossings on the RiverLink network of toll bridges rose slightly during the second full week of tolling, according to figures released Monday (Jan. 16).
About 400,000 vehicles used the three pay-to-cross bridges - the Interstate 65 Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln spans, and the upriver Lewis and Clark Bridge - between January 9 and January 13, the data show. That compares with 395,830 during the same period the previous week, which included a federal holiday and one day of inclement weather.
Overall, the bridges saw a 1 percent increase in traffic.
The average daily traffic on the three toll bridges was 79,952. Officials have projected 110,000 crossings each day on the bridges, which rely on tolls of $2 to $12 per crossings to pay off the construction bonds for the Ohio River Bridges Project.
The full article may be viewed at:
Elaine Chao Sails Through Senate Committee
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation voted unanimously to approve Elaine Chao's nomination as transportation secretary Tuesday (Jan. 24), pushing the former labor secretary and Washington insider closer to a new official role shaping one of President Trump's signature initiatives.
Chao's nomination will now move to the full Senate, but a hearing has not yet been scheduled.
Trump pledged a big infrastructure boost during his campaign, and Chao's supporters say that she is well positioned to help turn those promises into reality.
But key issues - including how much would be spent on what, and how it would be paid for - remain uncertain. Trump talked of a $1 trillion effort, which his advisers said would include a rush of private investment lured by tax breaks, although economists have questioned those assumptions.
The full article may be viewed at:
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Painted Crosswalks
This weeks crosswalk is a bit wild, with the traditional white lines being painted as zebra stripes! Thanks for Vanessa Nghiem for passing these along!
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Have You Seen This -- 2017 Edition
It's been a while since we've posted a crazy, random video at the end of the newsletter. But as part of our New Year's resolution, we want to keep you reading this year.
This edition, it's a Super Bowl commercial preview.
Enjoy!!
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Thanks for your continued support of KYSITE!
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