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Idaho Transportation
Department
Public Affairs Office
P.O. Box 7129
Boise, ID 83707
208.334.8005
Fax: 208.334.8563
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Development conference to explore
innovative transportation solutions

More than 350 transportation engineers, planners, designers and consultants from throughout the region will gather in Boise Wednesday and Thursday (April 4-5) to discuss innovative partnering solutions for transportation projects.

It will be at the Boise Centre on the Grove from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days.
The conference theme is “Partnering for Transportation Change.” In addition to hearing from nationally recognized speakers, attendees will participate in workshops and visit vendor exhibits.

First-day speakers include:

  • ITD Director Pamela Lowe
  • Glen Hiemstra, visiting scholar at the University of Washington and an expert on preferred future planning and change
  • Rick Singer, business manager for Washington State Department of Transportation's Tacoma Narrows Bridge Project office
  • Lance Hanf, senior legal counsel for the Federal Highway Administration specializing in issues relating to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • David Siegel, community planning expert and director of planning and communications for Parametrix Inc.

An awards banquet will conclude the opening day at 6 p.m. Twenty-five applicants are vying for Excellence in Transportation awards in the following categories: environmental stewardship, transportation planning, construction, design and public participation.

"The Excellence in Transportation awards recognize Idaho projects that make exemplary use of transportation tools and are of exceptional benefit to the public," ITD's Lowe said.

Dan McNichol, an expert on the U.S. interstate highway system, will be the featured speaker at the Wednesday banquet. The Boston author of five books on highway construction, writes for the New York Times, has been featured in USA Today and has appeared on all the major television networks.

Four concurrent breakout sessions are planned on Thursday, featuring discussions related to transportation planning, project design, environmental concerns and construction materials. Breakout sessions include:

  • Sustainable transportation system planning and visualizing transportation’s future
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Context sensitive solutions applied design and construction
  • Working with Native American Tribes
  • Reducing the cost of pavement constructions and exploring the concept of perpetual pavement
  • Legal issues

Additional conference information is available on ITD’s Web site. Go to itd.idaho.gov and click on 2007 Project Development Conference from the main page.

Published 3-30-07