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Past Award Recipients:

 
MOVITE PROFESSIONAL AWARDS 2009 2008 2005 2004
MOVITE Distinguished Service David Woosley, P.E., PTOE,
City of Lawrence, KS
Ed Mulcahy Steve Hofener,
Traffic Engineering Consultants, Oklahoma City, OK
John B. Pinkley Industry Member Phillip Parduhn
Pelco Products, Inc.
No award presented Marty Pinkley,
Pinkley Sales
Melvin B. Meyer Transportation Professional of the Year Matt Selinger P.E., PTOE HDR,
Omaha, Nebraska
Tom Ryan, MoDOT
(Plaque)
Harold Hofener, (Plaque)
Patrick T. McCoy Education Professional of the Year Ed Kannel, Ph.D., P.E. Professor,
Iowa State University
Dr. Robert Alguire, University of Oklahoma,
(Plaque)
Muhammad Qureshi, University of Missouri-Rolla,
(Plaque)
Young Transportation Professional of the Year Jason L. Haynes, P.E., PTOE Professional Engineer - Signal System City of Springfield, MO Jason‘s winning paper, "LED Traffic Signal Lamps: An Evaluation of Springfield, Missouri’s Experience" Brian Chandler
Missouri Dept. of Transp.
Brian Vines, Thompson Engineering
(Plaque)
Luis Porrello, HNTB, Transportation Section Manager
(Plaque)
Best Chapter Kansas City Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (KCITE), 2008:
officers - Paula Parke, President; Shannon Jeffries, Vice-President; Srini Veeramallu, Secretary-Treasurer; Lideana Laboy, Member Director; Grant Bowerman, Affiliate Director; Steve Worley, Past President.
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Transportation Achievement (Operations) Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), Operation Green Light Regional Signal Coordination No award presented City of Overland Park, Kansas Compressed Natural Gas Powered Traffic Signals (Plaque)
Transportation Achievement (Facilities) Missouri Department of Transportation, First Diverging Diamond Interchange in the U.S.
 
MOVITE STUDENT AWARDS 2009 2008 2005 2004
Best Student Chapter Iowa State University University of Kansas - $300
Iowa State University ($100)
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln ($100)
Iowa State University ($300)
Jan Kibbe Student Scholarship Nikhil Sikka, PhD Student Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa Brian Geiger, Kansas State University ($1000) Greg Karssen, Iowa State University ($1,000) Brad Hartman, Washington University ($1,000)
Thomas J. Seburn Student Paper 1st Place:
Jiguang Zhao Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville "Safety Issues of Left-Side Off-Ramps on Freeways"
2nd Place:
Manoj Krishna Vallati Missouri University of Science & Technology—Rolla "Evaluation of Vehicle Attenuator (VMA) Markings Using Driving Simulator for Mobile Work Zones"
3rd Place:
Uday R. Rao Manepalli Missouri University of Science & Technology—Rolla "Identifying and Ranking High Crash Locations: A Case Study of Arkansas Interstate Highway Network"
1st Place ($500):
Siddharth Sharma - University of Missouri at Columbia: "Development of a Large-Scale Traffic Simulation Model for Hurricane Evacuation: A Case Study of Virginia's Hampton Roads Region"
2nd Place ($250):
Adam Greenstein - Washington Universith in St. Louis: "A Proposal for Advances in Electronic Toll Collection on the Pennsylvania Turnpike"
3rd Place ($100):
Pranshoo Solanki - University of Oklahoma: "A Comparative Evaluation of Various Additives Used in the Stabilization of Sulfate Bearing Soil"

1st Place
Thomas Stout, Iowa State University "Before and After Study of Some Impacts of 4-lanes to 3-lanes Roadway Conversions"
2nd Place
Nirmal Devarajan, University of Arkansas "Posted Speeds as an Influence of Driveway Spacing"
No submittals received
 
MOVITE STUDENT POSTER AWARDS 2009 2008 2005 2004
MOVITE Student Poster Contest 1st Prize:
Ranjit Prasad Godavarthy – Master Student at Kansas State University – "Effectiveness of A Black Hawk Beacon Signal in Decreasing Delay to Motorist at Mid-block Pedestrian Signal"
2nd Prize:
Loshaka Perera – Master Student at Kansas State University – "Factors Related to Older-Driver Safety: Survey-Based Study"
1st Prize:
Student ITE Chapter – Missouri Science and Technology (MS&T) - Daxiao Liu, Brian Schaefer; Toa Li Ph. D and Dr. Hojong Baik, "A Web-Based Geographic Information System for Crash Data Analysis"
 
MIDWESTERN ITE STUDENT POSTER AWARDS 2009 2008 2005 2004
MWITE Student Poster Contest Sreekanth Reddy Akepati - Kansas State University "Identification of Work Zone Crash Characteristics"
Nishitha Bezwada - Kansas State University "Characteristics of Fatal Truck Crashes"
Nikhil Sikka - University of Iowa "Modeling Travel Behavior Using Advanced Time Series Analysis"

 

 




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