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Mobility for residents of North Dakota took a significant move forward last week with pledges from Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple and Dave Leftwich of the North Dakota Department of Transportation to work to improve coordination among transit providers in the state. The endorsements came during a Transit Coordination Summit April 9 in Bismarck. The event was sponsored by SURTC and AARP North Dakota.
Guest speakers address transportation students. Chris Dager, a national expert on water and barge transportation rate analysis and Colonel Kevin Shwedo, Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Training Center, Fort Jackson, SC, were guest lecturers for students in the Master of Military Logistics Program and the Ph.D. program in Transportation and Logistics.
Staff and students participate at the TRF Annual Forum held March 17-19 in Fort Worth, TX.
Briggs presents at conference. Charles Briggs, a Ph.D. student in transportation and logistics, presented a paper at the Annual Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Feb. 22-24 in Las Vegas.
Masters of Military Logistics student Joshua LaMotte was promoted to major in the U.S. Army, March 1. Family and friends gathered at the Benson Bunker Fieldhouse on the NDSU campus to celebrate the event.
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU will host a regional trucking conference in June to facilitate an exchange of ideas and information among trucking companies and state departments of transportation.
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute is offering scholarships. The UGPTI is offering the Abrahamson scholarship and the Transportation Engineering Scholarship to recognize academic achievement and promote the education of transportation students at NDSU.
Subhro Mitra, transport engineer with the UGPTI, has been invited to present information on applications for geographic information systems in transportation at a seminar in India.
Researchers Participate in Transportation Meeting. Several researchers from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute participated in the Transportation Research Board's 87th Annual Meeting Jan. 13-17 in Washington, D.C.
NDSU Student Honored at National Transportation Meeting. Natalie (Beck) Easterday was named an Outstanding Student of the Year by the U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center program.
UGPTI offers spring seminar series. The seminars provide updates on transportation research and issues at the local, regional and national levels. The seminars are open to the public and are scheduled for Wednesdays from 3 to 4 p.m. in Room 422 of the IACC Building.
Students from NDSU's Master of Military Logistics (MML) program, toured the Bobcat Company production plant in Gwinner, ND, Friday, Nov. 16. The students saw Bobcat's receiving procedures, planning and forecasting cells, and dispatching procedures.
Beginning in January, UGPTI advanced research fellow Ayman Smadi will spend 10 months in Jordan teaching a graduate course in urban transportation planning and helping develop the University of Jordan's transportation research program. He says the effort will help Jordan address critical transportation needs through education and research.
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University will hold its annual awards banquet Thursday, Oct. 11 at the Fargo Holiday Inn. Awards at the banquet will recognize Jon Mielke, UGPTI researcher and former executive secretary of the North Dakota Public Service Commission; Dennis W. McLeod, former UGPTI board member and retired railroad executive; and former North Dakota Governor George Sinner. Four NDSU students will also be awarded scholarships at the banquet.
Robert Jurkowski, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command Armament Readiness Team leader and pending graduate of North Dakota State University's Master of Military Logistics program, was recently awarded the MML program's 2007 Hagen Excellence Award in Fargo, N.D.
With the opening of its office in Bismarck, the institute will enhance its ability to provide transportation assistance to state and local agencies and other transportation related clientele across the state.
NDSU Ph.D. student Subhro Mitra wrote that satellite imagery used to assess crop conditions and predict yields could also be used to generate data and predictions on truck traffic. His paper won honors from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
Kim Vachal and Doug Benson led the team the conducted analysis for the 20th edition of Transportation in America.
What began half-a-century ago as a time- and labor-intensive effort to create a practical statistical snapshot of the state of the railroad industry has emerged in 2007 as the 20th edition of Transportation in America. The Eno Transportation Foundation and the UGPTI are partners in the effort.
Featured speakers at the Summit were U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, Under Secretary for Rural Development at USDA, Tom Dorr, Congressman Dennis Cardoza, Congressman Jim Costa, and Congressman Baron Hill, members of the House Agriculture and Energy Committees. The UGPTI was a co-sponsor and will be posting presentations on the conference website.
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) is sponsoring a series of transportation-related seminars on Fridays at 2:30 p.m. through May 4.
Xinyu (Jason) Cao recently received the Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers. Cao is an associate research fellow with the Small Urban & Rural Transit Center. The national award recognizes a student in transportation for an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in policy and planning.
Students toured the train yard in Breckenridge Monday, Oct. 23, to observe rail operations first hand. Students also toured the locomotive service and car repair shop and saw turnouts, crossovers and wayside signals. They also visited a shuttle train loading facility adjacent to the yard and the interchange where cars from the Red River Valley and Western are exchanged with the BNSF Railway.
During the week of Nov. 6-10, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Department of Civil Engineering will observe "Railroad Week" to raise the awareness of the importance of freight railroad transportation in the United States and draw attention to potential careers in the railroad industry.
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU will host its 11th Annual Awards Banquet Thursday, Oct. 5, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Fargo Holiday Inn. The event will feature recognition for several individuals who have provided leadership in the transportation industry in the region and or make significant contributions to programs at NDSU.
The conference is aimed at emergency planners and responders, transportation agencies and private transportation firms. The conference will identify and increase awareness of the safety and security risks in the state and region.
A new program at North Dakota State University aims to ease logistics problems on the battlefield by teaching officers how to more efficiently transport and track everything from ammunition to medical supplies.
With help from the UGPTI, the Fargo District of the North Dakota DOT received advice on its snow removal routes from students at NDSU while the students received a real-world introduction to applications for the theories they're learning in class.
Bismarck State College recently launched a two-year degree program, Transportation and Supply Chain Management, in collaboration with the UGPTI.
Jill Hough, an associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU, recently was named to the advisory board of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
The Transportation Research Forum Foundation recently awarded a $500 scholarship to David Ripplinger, an associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute.
In recognition of North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad's efforts on behalf of transportation in the region, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University is giving him its highest award. Conrad will receive the John Agrey award Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Institute's awards banquet in Fargo.
The former president of the Greater North Dakota Association, Dale O. Anderson, is being recognized for his service to transportation by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. Anderson will receive the institute's Chairman's Award Oct. 11 at the Institute's annual awards banquet in Fargo.
Improving freight movement in the region stretching from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest is the focus of a new research and outreach center at North Dakota State University, Washington State University and the University of Washington.
A celebration luncheon and a series of video seminars presented over the Transportation Learning Network highlight National Transportation Week events scheduled for May 16-20.
Kimberly Vachal has been an associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute for more than 10 years. Her work focuses on promoting a healthy, competitive logistical system that will enhance the position of rural regions' products, and especially agricultural goods, in both domestic and export markets.
Four researchers from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute presented papers at the Transportation Research Forum's annual meeting March 6-8 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Architecture Students Apply Creativity to Fargo Bus Shelters Community Transportation magazine details what happened when staff from the UGPTI's Small Urban & Rural Transit Center asked North Dakota State University architecture students to develop innovative designs for bus shelters.
The Transportation Learning Network (formerly Tel8) is hosting an open house Friday, Feb. 11, to display its new Tandberg video conferencing equipment. The installation of the new equipment marks the network's shift from ISDN technology to Internet-based video conferencing.
Gene C. Griffin, director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI), has received the S.S. Steinberg Award from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association.
Prairie Business Magazine looks at the past and future of trade corridors in the region. The article includes comments from UGPTI director Gene Griffin and staff member Jon Mielke.
The transit director for Wells, Sheridan and Stutsman counties has been selected for an international trip to study transit in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador.
A who's who of transit officials from the national and regional level praised progress of NDSU's Small Urban & Rural Transit Center (SURTC) at its third annual steering committee meeting Sept. 15 at the NDSU Alumni Center.
An official of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration will outline the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Program at NDSU at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28.
Two NDSU staff members were recently recognized for their communications work by the Association for Communications Excellence. The team developed training materials and a train-the-trainer workshop on media relations.
Ray Zink, retired chief engineer for the North Dakota Department of Transportation will receive the John M. Agrey Award from the UGPTI. The award recognizes significant contributions to transportation.
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