Program Overview
The Western Transportation Institute sponsors a national workshop or conference approximately every two years. These workshops are issue-specific and focus on information exchange and dissemination. WTI is always looking for topics of interest to the transportation community, so please contact us with your ideas.
Current Conferences and Workshops
Are you looking for better dust management practices for roads and open areas? If so, plan on joing us for the 2008 Road Dust Management Practices and Future Needs Conference. Expect to discuss current practices and define future needs and research priorities as you become part of the solution.
The main themes include:
--Overview of road dust and adjacent area management issues
--Current road dust management practices
--Idenifying knowledge gaps and research needs
--Developing recommendations for future needs that will assist practioners, industry personnel and researchers by highlighting critical ideas and areas of focus.
Meeting Dates: November 13-14, 2008
Meeting Location: San Antonio, Texas
The purpose of the 2008 Washington Wildlife Crossings Field Course is to provide a constructive forum for sharing experiences and exploring new ideas, perspectives, and concepts in the planning, design and construction of wildlife crossings. The course will lead to an expansion of the knowledgebase on issues involving wildlife crossings while encouraging an interdisciplinary dialogue. Rather than providing an introduction to wildlife crossings, this advanced-level course seeks to tackle the more complex issues that transportation professionals face in the field of Road Ecology.
Attendees: The workshop is for planners, engineers, and biologists from resource and transportation agencies, municipalities, counties, non-profits, and foundations. We hope the course will facilitate communication and information sharing between these groups as well as build enthusiasm for wildlife crossings throughout Western North America.
Course Planning and Logistics: The 2008 Washington Wildlife Crossings Field Course will be a 3-day course held from June 2nd to June 4th in Hyak, Washington along the I-90 Corridor - just 50 miles east of Seattle. The course location at Snoqualmie Pass – the site of a major planned transportation and wildlife crossings project on Interstate 90 – provides an exceptional opportunity to learn from a project that is currently underway. By using this project as a case study and the focus of a field trip on the second day of the course, participants will have the opportunity to experience first-hand the hurdles as well as the achievements that have resulted in a comprehensive proposal to construct a suite of wildlife crossings along this stretch of interstate.
We are limiting the course participants to approximately 130 in order to maintain productive group discussions. To ensure representation from across Western North America, including Canada, we will be encouraging participation from all the western state and Canadian provinces.
Meeting Dates: June 2-4, 2008
Meeting Locations: Hyak, Washington
For more information please visit the workshop website:
http://www.restoretherockies.org/field_course_WA.html
Past Conferences and Workshops
2007 National Winter Maintenance Peer Exchange
The 2007 National Winter Maintenance Peer Exchange was held in Columbus, Ohio on August 29-30, 2007 in conjunction with the 12th Annual Eastern Snow Expo. Conference presentations, agenda and much more information is available by clicking the link above.
National Rural ITS Conference, Big Sky, Montana, August 13-16
A summary press release, conference presentations and conference agenda can all be found by clicking on the link above.