Institute of Transportation Engineers Northeastern District Annual Meeting Crowne Plaza Hotel May 23-25, 2012

WELCOME Please join us in Lake Placid, NY for the 2012 ITE Northeastern District Annual Meeting. The Local Arrangements Committee has put together an agenda full of technical sessions and entertaining activities that you won’t want to miss.

This year’s meeting offers

the opportunity to earn more than 10 Professional Development Hours (PDH) (pending approval) with topics on extreme traffic management, ITS, transportation planning, bicycles and more. Other activities include the popular 9-hole golf scramble, a bike tour along the beautiful Olympic Scenic Highway, a companion tour of the Olympic venues, and don’t forget the always exciting Traffic Bowl, this year hosted by Steve Gayle. Will the reigning champions from NY Upstate Section once again dominate, or will they be upset on their home turf? Complementing this agenda will be networking opportunities that take advantage of the Olympic Village including a get acquainted function and our annual awards dinner. In addition, we have invited the industry’s leading edge vendors to share their latest products for integration into our projects. We look forward to seeing you there,

Don and Mike If you have any questions, comments or need additional information, please contact the meeting co-chairs: Don Adams (518) 446-0396 [email protected]

Michael R. Wieszchowski (518) 458-7112 [email protected]

Crowne Plaza Resort Hotel & Golf Club Lake Placid, 101 Olympic Drive, Lake Placid, NY 12946, has the most spectacular views of any hotel in the region. Located in the center of the village of Lake Placid, overlooking the lake and Whiteface Mountain, this full-service resort and conference facility has an unmatched range of amenities, including free high speed wireless Internet access in all guest rooms and lobby, indoor swimming pool, hot tub, and fitness room. All hotel rooms are nonsmoking, featuring the Crowne Plaza Sleep Advantage program and have refrigerators and microwaves and coffee makers. Inquire about our suites, chalets, (some with kitchens, Jacuzzis and fireplaces), private homes and condos. The Great Room Lobby and Bar towers above the town and boasts an unsurpassed view and Adirondack charm that is second to none, the perfect spot to relax in front of the Grand Fireplace. The Crowne Plaza Resort and Golf Club Lake Placid offers diverse dining options in our 4 restaurants (some seasonal). Dine at the Boat House Restaurant on the shores of Mirror Lake, Veranda Restaurant overlooking the lake and mountains, the Golf House Restaurant or in the main hotel. With 45 holes of championship golf at the Lake Placid Club, tennis courts, private beach and 15mi/25km of X-country ski and snowshoe trails, the Crowne Plaza Resort & Golf Club is the biggest and best resort in Lake Placid. Also, this is a pet friendly hotel. Use the online reservation link below to get the ITE group rate of $129 per night at the Crowne Plaza Resort & Golf Club. Please make your reservations by April 22. The special meeting rates will be honored on the Tuesday before the meeting and the Friday after the meeting, as long as they have rooms available. https://resweb.passkey.com/go/ITEDistrict1

Travel Information By Car The Crowne Plaza Resort Hotel & Golf Club Lake Placid is located at : 101 Olympic Drive, Lake Placid, NY 12946. From West (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse), Via I-81 North to Watertown from Syracuse Take Exit 45 for NY- 3/Arsenal Street East (70mi/113km from Syracuse) Continue NY-3 East (118mi/190km to Saranac Lake ) In Saranac Lake, turn Left onto Mill St Slight Left onto Broadway St Take 2nd Right onto Bloomingdale Ave Take Right onto Church St Turn Left on River St Turn Right onto NY-86/Lake Flower Ave (8.5 mi/13.7km to Lake Placid) Turn right onto Main St (0.5 miles/0.8km) Turn right onto Olympic Dr, Hotel is on top of hill on Left

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Burlington International Airport (BTV) Distance: 61mi/98km East of Hotel Requires ferry across Lake Champlain

By Train Station Name: Westport Amtrak Distance: 35mi/56 km West of Hotel

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By Plane Adirondack Regional Airport (SLK) Distance: 17mi/28km East of Hotel

Albany International Airport (ALB) Distance: 133mi/214km South of Hotel

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From East (Boston) or From Southeast (New York City/Tri-State Area) Via I-87 North from Albany Take Exit 30 for US-9 toward NY-73 (102mi/164km north of Albany) Turn left at US-9 N (2.2 mi/3.5km) Slight left toward NY-73 West/NY-73 Scenic West Continue straight on NY-73 West/NY-73 Scenic West (28mi/45km) Turn left at Main St (0.4 mi/0.6km) Turn Left at Olympic Drive Hotel is on top of hill on Left From North (Plattsburgh) Take I-87 south (Northway) Exit 34 for NY-9N towards Ausable Forks/Keeseville (18mi/29km south of Plattsburgh) Turn left onto NY-9N South (16mi/26km) Turn right onto NY-86 West to Lake Placid (17mi/27km) NY-86 West becomes Main St Turn Left at Olympic Drive, Hotel is on top of hill on Left

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Special Events Golf Outing Wednesday, May 23, 3:00 p.m. Tee Time Following Wednesday's technical sessions, come spend your afternoon with us enjoying a round of spring golf at the Lake Placid Club Mountain Course. In order to gain the full experience of beautiful Adirondack State Park, playing a round on its championship golf course on the fringe of its wilderness is a must! The Lake Placid Club Mountain Course is highly touted as one of the premier golf courses in the Adirondacks. The Lake Placid Club Mountain Course was laid out in 1910 by Alexander H. Findlay who immigrated to the U.S. from Scotland in the early 1880's and became one of the pioneers of golf in America. In 1931 the course was remodeled by Alister MacKenzie, designer of AUGUSTA NATIONAL - home of "The Masters". With smaller greens and more tree-lined fairways, this course begs for the straight shot. The engaging design takes full advantage of the scenic vistas and will appeal to players of all levels. It is quite simply the essence of "mountain golf". Access to the course is a short car ride from the Crowne Plaza Hotel - 88 Morningside Drive, Lake Placid, NY 12946-3344 The outing will be 9 holes of golf and the format will be a scramble competition and the opportunities to socialize with your peers on and off the course will be abundant! The cost of this event will be $40 which includes green fees, golf cart, beverages and snacks. All levels of golf experience are welcome and prizes will be awarded. If you are interested in playing, please fill out the golf outing portion on the registration form. If you have questions or would like more information on the outing, please contact Mark Sargent at [email protected] or 518446-0396. To learn more about the golf course, visit http://www.lakeplacidcp.com/golf_mountain.html

Companion Tour – Lake Placid Olympic Venue Tour Thursday Morning May 24th Howard Riley, will host the Lake Placid Olympic Venue Tour. Howard prepared the technical reports to the International Olympic Committee for the 1980 Olympic Winter games and was the director of the President’s staff of the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee. Howard worked to get Lake Placid ready for the Olympics in 1980. Howard was the mayor of Saranac, and he is now currently a judge. He was a reporter that traveled to Switzerland in 1973 to cover the bid process for 1976 Olympics. Then he was put in charge of reporting status updates of Lake Placid to the IOC. During the Olympics he acted as the troubleshooter for everything that went wrong. He said he was running around constantly and didn’t really get to see any events, except one. The ONE, aka the USA vs USSR game. "Everyone was going crazy," he said. “And then we couldn’t get out, because there were 50,000 people outside the arena celebrating.” Cost of Tour: $20/person Tour begins at Crowne Plaza Hotel at 9:00 AM and lasts approximately three (3) hours.

Special Events Technical Bike Tour: NYS Route 86 Olympic Scenic Byway Wednesday May 23, 2012, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pending PDH Approval Experience the magnificence of the Adirondacks on this beautiful 14 mi/ 23km bike tour, which will pass by the Olympic Ski Jumps and Whiteface Mountain Ski Resort along a segment of the Lake Placid Ironman Competition Bike Route before finishing at the Flume Falls, an amazing waterfall area of the West Branch Ausable River. While you tour, periodic stops will be made to discuss transportation issues found in this highly recreational corridor. Discussions will focus on the importance of proper parking area layout and access, trailhead and wayfinding signing, and the environmental considerations necessary to design facilities within the Adirondack Park. In addition, transportation issues related to Ironman training and competition within the corridor will be discussed. Contact Jeff Lebsack at [email protected] or (716) 854-1181 x244 for more information. Cost of Tour: $20/person ($35/person with rental) Tour begins at Crowne Plaza Hotel at 3:00 PM and lasts approximately three (3) hours.

Technical Sessions 1 – EXTREME TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT: SPECIAL EVENTS & DISASTERS

Wednesday May 23; 1:00-2:30 PM

 Transportation Plans for Special Events  Emergency Management After Hurricane Irene 2A – DO IT FASTER! PROJECT ACCELERATION TIPS AND TECHNIQUES

Thursday May 24; 8:30-10:00 AM

 Every Day Counts – From Concept to Construction within a Year  Incorporating Pedestrians and Bicyclists into Accelerated Reconstruction Projects  Doing More With Less: The Virtual Field Visit 2B – MAINSTREAMING BICYCLE PLANNING

Thursday May 24; 8:30-10:00 AM

 Innovative Techniques for Counting Bicycles and Pedestrians and Conducting Origin-Destination Studies  Incorporating Bike Circulation Enhancement Strategies in a Tightly Constrained Urban Environment Salem, MA  What’s Happening in Bicycle Friendly Long Beach (CA) 3A – PARKING & RIGHT-SIZING: BIGGER ISN’T ALWAYS BETTER

Thursday May 24; 10:30 AM-NOON

 It's the Destination and the Journey - Parking Guidance  Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing a Road Diet for City of Syracuse, NY  Neighborhood Slow Zones – A Community Driven Approach to Reducing Speeds to 20 mph 3B – URBAN EXPRESSWAYS: DO WE NEED THEM?

Thursday May 24; 10:30 AM-NOON

 Inner Loop East: From Barrier to Beautiful  The I-81 Challenge  Integrated Urban Freight and Livability: The Design and Implementation of the Maspeth Bypass, Queens NY 4 – BE SMART ABOUT IT: INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

Thursday May 24; 1:30-2:30 PM

 Using ITS and Traffic Engineering to Improve Mobility and Safety in NYC  Strategy to Mainstream ITS Deployment in Massachusetts 5A – GO WITH THE FLOW: BETTER SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES

Friday May 25; 8:30-10:00 AM

 Adaptive Signal Control Technologies  A Process to Optimize Benefits of Transit Signal Priority  City of New Haven, Urban Signal System 5B – BEYOND THE BASICS OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

Friday May 25; 8:30-10:00 AM

 Development of Best Practices for Conducting a Mobile Air Quality Analysis Using MOVES  Colby Brown - Statewide Intercity Travel Forecasting Model  Using Performance Measures to Support Accountability in Transportation Planning and Delivery 6 – WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? ACCOMMODATING DRIVER UNDERSTANDING IN DESIGN  Lines, Signs, Signals…What Do Drivers (and Police) Really Know and Do  Planning and Design of Roundabouts in Urban Environments

Friday May 25; 10:30 AM-NOON

Day 1 - Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Day 2 - Thursday, May 24, 2012

Day 3 - Friday, May 25, 2012

Registration Open 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM

7:00 AM Registration Open 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM

7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast (in Exhibit Area) Olympic Room 1

8:00 AM 8:30 AM

Session 2A

Session 2B

9:00 AM

Do It Faster! Project Acceleration Olympic Room 2

Mainstreaming Bicycle Planning Olympic Room 3

Exhibits Open Olympic Room 1

9:30 AM

Workshop

10:00 AM

Signal Control Training

10:30 AM

Olympic Room 3

Welcome/ Registration High Peaks Room

Exhibitor Setup Olympic Room 1

Companion Program Olympic Venues

Exhibits Open Olympic Room 1

Session 5A

Session 5B

Go With The Flow: Better Signal Technologies Olympic Room 2

Beyond the Basics of Transportation Planning - Olympic Room 3

Break & Exhibits

Break & Exhibits

Session 3A

Session 3B

11:00 AM

Parking & Right Sizing

11:30 AM

Olympic Room 2

Urban Expressways: Do We Need Them? Olympic Room 3

12:00 PM

Continental Breakfast (in Exhibit Area) Olympic Room 1

Session 6 Exhitor Breakdown

What Are We Thinking? Accommodating Driver Understanding in Design Skyroom

Adjourn

Lunch (for Workshop)

Lunch International VP Candidate Grandview

12:30 PM 1:00 PM

Session 1

1:30 PM 2:00 PM

Extreme Traffic Management Special Events & Disasters Sky Room

2:30 PM

FREE TIME

Companion Free Time

3:00 PM

ITE Leadership Roundtable

Session 4

Olympic Room 2

Be Smart About it: ITS Olympic Room 3

Exhibits Open Olympic Room 1

District Board Meeting

Exhibits Open Olympic Room 1

3:30 PM

Skyroom

Technical Tour/ Bike Tour

9 hole Golf Outing 4:00 PM Lake Placid Club Mountain Course 4:30 PM

Transportation Planning in a Recreational Corridor

Tee time 3:00 5:00 PM

Leave Crowne Plaza at 3:00

Traffic Bowl Cash Bar in Vendor Area Skyroom

5:30 PM FREE TIME

6:00 PM FREE TIME 6:30 PM 7:00 PM

Banquet Dinner and Networking Reception Welcome Reception Key Note Speaker - Jeff Edwards, Ironman Operations Manager

7:30 PM Stations and Hor d'oeuvres and Open Bar (Wine and Beer)

Grandview

8:00 PM Veranda Restaurant (indoor/outdoor) 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM FREE TIME / DOWNTOWN 10:00 PM 10:30 PM

FREE TIME / DOWNTOWN

2012 Northeastern District Annual Meeting Conference Schedule Crowne Plaza Resort and Golf Club Lake Placid, NY

ITE Northeastern District Annual Meeting (May 23-25, 2012)

REGISTRATION FORM

Register on-line at: https://sites.google.com/ site/ite2012ne/

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Nickname for Badge

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ITE Position/Office Held

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Street Address

Fax No.

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Your Registration Covers Full - Admission to Professional Program Sessions, Products and Services Exhibit, Welcome Reception, Breakfast (2), Thursday Luncheon, Awards Banquet, Refreshments During Breaks and Welcome Gift. Student - Admission to Professional Program Sessions, Products and Services Exhibit, Welcome Reception, Breakfast (2), Luncheon, Refreshments During Breaks and Welcome Gift. One Day: Wednesday - Admission to Professional Program Sessions, Refreshments During Breaks, Welcome Reception, and Products and Services Exhibit specified for that day only, and Welcome Gift. One Day: Thursday - Admission to Professional Program Sessions, Breakfast, Luncheon, Evening Reception, Refreshments During Breaks, Products and Services Exhibit specified for that day only, and Welcome Gift. Technical Only - Admission to Professional Program Sessions, Refreshments During Breaks,Products and Services Exhibit and Luncheon.

Registration will be considered late after April 22, 2012

Registration

Full Registration (indicate meal selections below) Student Registration (indicate meal selections below) o Wednesday One Day Registration (check day/select meals below): o Thursday Technical Only Registration o

Thurday Lunch Awards Banquet Meal Selection (check one dish)

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Rosemary Chicken

Prime Rib w/Au Jus

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Pasta Primavera Grilled Veggies/Tofu

ITE Members/Speakers (late registration) $275 ($300) $25 ($35) $85 ($100) $190 ($210) $150 ($175) Thursday, 12:00 PM May 24 1:30 PM

Non-Members (late registration) $ 325 ($350) $75 ($100) $125 ($150) $225 ($250) $200 ($225) Included in Full, Student, Thursday & Tech Only

Thursday, May 24

6:30PM9:00PM

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Time

Wednesday, May 23

3:00 PM 6:00PM

Technical Workshop (not included in registration)

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Signal Control Training (LUNCH INCLUDED) - FIRST 30 REGISTRANTS ONLY

Wednesday, May 23

8:30AM 12:30PM

Social and Guest Functions (additional tickets)

Date Wednesday, May 23 Thursday, May 24

Time 7:00PM9:00PM 12:00 PM 1:30 PM

Thursday, May 24

6:30PM9:00PM

$80

Thursday, May 24 Wednesday, May 23

9:00AM12:00PM

$20

3:00 PM

$40

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Stuffed Sole

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California Chicken

Bicycle Tour (not included in registration)  Including Bike Rental Rider Height ' "

Transportation Issues along the Olympic Scenic Highway (Rte. 86) FIRST 20 REGISTRANTS ONLY

 No Bike Rental

Welcome Reception - Veranda Restaurant o

Thursday Lunch Awards Banquet Meal Selection (check one dish)

o

Rosemary Chicken

Prime Rib w/Au Jus o

Stuffed Sole

o

o o

Pasta Primavera Grilled Veggies/Tofu

California Chicken

Companion Program - Olympic Venue Tour (Does not include lunch) Golf - Lake Placid Club Mountain Course

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$35 w/ rental $20 w/o rental Unit Cost $30 Unit Cost $75 $35

TOTAL Method of Payment:

US Dollars payable to ITE Northeastern District Annual Meeting On-line registration at: https://sites.google.com/site/ite2012ne/ or Send Registration & Payment to: CHA 3 Winners Circle PO Box 5269 Albany, NY 12205-0269 Attn: Christina L. Douglas, P.E. tel: 518.453.4586 fax: 518.453.8200 [email protected]

Purchase orders do NOT constitute payment for early registration discount purposes. For more information, please contact Don Adams PE, PTOE [email protected] (518) 446-0396 or Michael R. Wieszchowski, PE, PTOE [email protected] (518) 458-7112

Meeting Attire: Business Casual