Institute of Transportation Engineers
{{short description|Professional organization for transportation engineers}}
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| logo = ITE Logo.png
| type = Transportation
| name = Institute of Transportation Engineers
| abbreviation = ITE
| founded_date = {{Start date and age|1930|Oct|02|df=no}}
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| headquarters = Washington, D.C.
| origins = Pittsburgh
| area_served = Worldwide
| focus = Improve mobility and safety for all transportation system users and help build smart and livable communities.
| leader_title = International President
| leader_name = John Davis
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| leader_name2 =
| method = Industry standards, publications, conferences
| revenue =
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| num_members = 18,000
| homepage = {{URL|ite.org}}
| formerly = Institute of Traffic Engineers
| footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://www.ite.org/about-ite/about-ite/ |title=About ITE |website=Institute of Transportation Engineers |access-date=May 24, 2024}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.ite.org/about-ite/board-of-direction/ |title = Board of Direction |access-date=May 24, 2024}}
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The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is an international educational and scientific association of transportation professionals who are responsible for meeting mobility and safety needs. ITE facilitates the application of technology and scientific principles to research, planning, functional design, implementation, operation, policy development, and management for any mode of ground transportation.
History
The organization was formed in October 1930 amid growing public demand for experts to alleviate traffic congestion and the frequency of crashes that came from the rapid development of automotive transportation.{{cite web |url=https://www.ite.org/about-ite/history/ |title=History |website=Institute of Transportation Engineers |access-date=May 24, 2024}} Various national and regional conferences called for discussions of traffic problems. These discussions led to a group of transportation engineers starting the creation of the first professional traffic society. A meeting took place in Pittsburgh on October 2, 1930, where a tentative draft of the organization's constitution and by-laws came to fruition. The constitution and by-laws were later adopted at a meeting in New York on January 20, 1931. The first chapter of the Institute of Traffic Engineers was established consisting of 30 men with Ernest P. Goodrich as its first president.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ite.org/aboutite/honorarymembers/GoodrichEP.asp |access-date=January 4, 2011 |publisher=Institute of Transportation Engineers |title=Ernest P. Goodrich |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208210803/http://www.ite.org/aboutite/honorarymembers/GoodrichEP.asp |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |url-status=dead}}
The organization consists of 10 districts, 62 sections, and 30 chapters from various parts of the world.{{cite web|url=https://www.ite.org/pub/?id=8DABEA66-B2D0-60A9-3589-10A94E5810DA|title=ITE Ingrographic|accessdate=April 1, 2021|website=Institute of Transportation Engineers}}
Transportation Professional Certification Board
ITE founded the Transportation Professional Certification Board Inc. (TPCB) in 1996 as an autonomous certification body.{{cite journal |last1=Birdsall |first1=Michelle |title=Growth of Certification Program Signals Success |journal=ITE Journal |date=February 2008 |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=30–31 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/224896442 |access-date=16 October 2024 |id={{ProQuest|224896442}} |language=en}} TPCB facilitates multiple testing and certification pathways for transportation professionals.
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Standards development
ITE is also a standards development organization designated by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). One of the current standardization efforts is the advanced transportation controller. ITE is also known for publishing articles about trip generation, parking generation, parking demand, and various transportation-related material through ITE Journal, a monthly publication.{{cite web|url=https://www.ite.org/publications/ite-journal/|title=ITE Journal|website=Institute of Transportation Engineers|accessdate=April 1, 2021}}
Criticism
Urbanists such as Jeff Speck have criticized ITE standards for encouraging towns to build more, wider streets making pedestrians less safe and cities less walkable.{{cite web |url=https://ggwash.org/view/29363/with-fat-lanes-traffic-engineers-kill-in-the-name-of-safety |title=With fat lanes, traffic engineers kill in the name of safety |access-date=December 17, 2021 |first1=Jeff |last1=Speck |date=November 7, 2012 |website=GGWash}} Donald Shoup in his book The High Cost of Free Parking argues that the ITE Trip Generation Manual estimates give towns the false confidence to regulate minimum parking requirements which reinforce sprawl.{{cite journal |url=https://www.shoupdogg.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/TruthInTransportationPlanning.pdf |title=Truth In Transportation Planning |access-date=December 17, 2021 |first1=Donald C. |last1=Shoup |journal=Journal of Transportation and Statistics |volume=6 |number=1 |year=2003 |location=University of California, Los Angeles}}
See also
References
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External links
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Category:Transportation engineering
Category:Organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Category:Road transport organizations
Category:Organizations established in 1930
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