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Contracting Approaches for ITS and Transportation Technology Useful for Small and Rural Community Applications

Developed by the National Rural ITS Steering Committee in association with ITE

Webinar Description:

One of the biggest challenges in deploying advanced traffic management and control systems is the procurement process. This webinar explores different innovative approaches to prioritizing, contracting, and procuring ITS technology, software, and services that may be implemented in rural and small communities.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand how potential rural and small community TSMO, signals, and ITS projects can fit into a State Transportation Improvement Program evaluation and prioritization methodology
  • Describe how values-based contracting partnerships support innovative solutions whose requirements are hard to define and/or rapidly changing in the TSMO, ITS, and connected/automated vehicle field.
  • Identify the best uses, advantages, and disadvantages of different procurement strategies for ITS devices, software and services.

Presenters:
  • Mary Schmidt, Director for Advancing Equity, Metro District North Area, Special Projects, Minnesota DOT
  • Amy Worzella, ITS Engineer/SISP Program Manager, Bureau of Transportation Operations, Wisconsin DOT
  • Dan Carpenter, Manager of the Traffic Engineering section, City of Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Department
To read the presenter bio in detail, please view the live event page here.

Fees:
ITE Members: Free
Non-Members: Free

Registration for webinar includes the live event, an archived recording with access for 30 days to each registrant. If you are a non-member of ITE you will need to create an account to register. You can create an account here.

PDH Credit Certificate: If you would like PDH Credit for this webinar, there is a processing fee for each registrant of $20 regardless of membership status to receive 1.5 PDH credits certificate.

Instructions and link will be provided at the conclusion of the live event. For the on-demand recording, instructions will be provided on this course page on how to purchase the evaluation to complete and receive the PDH credit certificate. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires the certificate opportunity is forfeited.


Recordings:
All registrants will have access to the recording for 30 days once it is posted. Additional attendees at one location are not eligible to earn PDH credit for viewing an archived recording.

Additional Attendees at one Location:
Additional Live Webinar Attendees at one location are eligible for earning credit for attending. The registrant, with whom they view the webinar with, may distribute the same link they are provided to their additional attendee to purchase the PDH Credit Certificate.

How to Earn Credits:
See PDH Credit Certificate section above.

PDF of Presentations:
Webinar Contributors typically provide a PDF of their presentations; but this may vary on a case by case basis. If they are provided, ITE will upload the presentations into the resources tab of this event within 24 hours after the live event.

Event Log-on Instructions:
On the day of the webinar, return to this page to join the live web event that you purchased. Click the live web event below, and a button to join will appear 30 minutes before the specified start time.

Policies: Live Webinar Registration ends 30 minutes prior to the start.
The webinar recording will be made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 6 months to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their PDH credit certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the PDH credit certificate opportunity is forfeited. No refunds.