It is with great honor, deep appreciation and the utmost gratitude that I serve as your 2010 president of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. As we celebrate ITE's 80th anniversary, we are reminded of the goals established by our original 19 founders of the Institute. Their vision in creating an individual member society was so profound back then and continues to be relevant in the work we do today.rnPerhaps the best place to begin examining our history is here, in these words taken from the ITE Web site :rn"Thoughts for such a society were crystallized at a meeting in Pittsburgh on October 2,1930. It was at this meeting that a tentative drafting of the Constitution and By-Laws for a professional traffic society was accomplished by a small group of men who were actively engaged in the battle to reduce accidents and facilitate traffic movement. The major reasons for organizing ITE were to provide a central agency for correlating and disseminating the factual data and techniques developed by members of the profession, promoting the standards of traffic engineering and encouraging the establishment of traffic engineering departments in city and state governments whose techniques should make for safer and more efficient highway transportation.
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