North Dakota Traffic Operations RoundtableWorking towards supporting traffic engineers across North Dakota and the region, ATAC established North Dakota's Traffic Operations Roundtable. The roundtable will allow peers to share ideas and experiences, and guide ATAC's traffic operations activities. The roundtable idea was warmly received among various traffic engineers at the state and local levels who received ATAC's initial invitation. Those recipients were also asked to provide additional names for possible participants, apprise the mission of the roundtable, and provide possible activities/topics for consideration. Fifteen participants from FHWA, Bismarck, Grand Forks, Minot, Fargo, NDDOT, and ATAC attended a kickoff meeting held in Fargo in January. The participants expressed that the roundtable is a good idea for providing a knowledge base to share ideas and experiences. At the meeting, Jeff Rodacker (City of Minot) and Jane Berger (NDDOT) accepted Chair and Vice Chair positions for the group. Several action items were identified during the kickoff meeting, which include contacting additional cities/ agencies to participate in the group, creating information dissemination methods for the group, and identifying high priority issues/topics for the group to address. The roundtable will meet twice a year, with a spring meeting in Fargo in conjunction with the American Traffic Safety Services Association annual meeting and a fall meeting at another location. Currently, the roundtable group consists of 23 members from nine cities, FHWA ND Division, NDDOT, and MnDOT. The next meeting for the group is planned for September in Minot, North Dakota.  North Dakota Traffic Operations Roundtable Kickoff Meeting, January 2005, North Dakota State University (L. to R.) Mark Berg, Bismarck; Jeff Rodacker, Minot; Lyle Landstrom, NDDOT, Fargo; Shawn Birst, ATAC; Darrell Francis, Minot; Jeremy Gorden, Fargo; April Walker, Fargo; Ayman Smadi, ATAC, Jane Berger, NDDOT, Bismarck; Steve Busek, FHWA, Bismarck; Baline Johanneson, NDDOT, Bismarck; Dan Jonasson, Grand Forks; Al Covlin, NDDOT, Bismarck; Khaled Shouman, ATAC. |
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