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Congratulations to ITE's Three New
Honorary Members

T

he highest recognition of notable and outstanding professional achievement ITE
presents to an individual is election to ITE Honorary Membership. Since 1933 when
the first Honorary Member was selected, only 80 individuals have been honored this
way. The ITE Executive Committee has elected the following three individuals as Honorary
Members: Marsha Anderson Bomar, John J. Kennedy, and W. Hibbett Neel. Congratulations to
these three individuals upon receiving ITE's highest honor!

Marsha Anderson Bomar, AICP,
ENV SP/Trainer
Marsha Anderson
Bomar is the executive
director of the
Gateway85 Community Improvement
District (CID), the
largest CID in the state
of Georgia. Here her
focus is on mobility, infrastructure, safety,
security, and economic development. Prior
to the CID, she was the founder and
president of Street Smarts, Inc., a planning,
engineering and design firm, and Data
Smarts, a data collection and management
firm, established in 1990, both of which she
sold in 2010. Marsha is an International
Past President of ITE and is past Chairman
of ITE's LeadershipITE, Technical Council
Design Department, Policy Committee, and
Transportation Planners Council. She has
been the Chair of the Goods Movement
Council and author of the Urban Travel
Characteristics chapter of the Transportation Planning Handbook.
Marsha is featured as an Extraordinary
Woman Engineer in the American Society
of Civil Engineer's (ASCE) publication,
Changing Our World, True Stories of
Women Engineers, and has served as
President of the ASCE Transportation
and Development Institute. She was Chair
for the International conference, "Green
Streets, Highways, and Development," and
was recently elected to the International
Board as a Technical Region Governor.
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Marsha has received many honors and
recognition for her outstanding contributions and achievements. Most recently she
was awarded the ASCE William Wisely
Civil Engineering Award. She was the first
woman to receive the ITE Burton W. Marsh
Distinguished Service Award. Marsha was
named one of Atlanta Woman Magazine's
2008 Top 25 Professional Women to Watch
and was awarded the Society for Women
Engineers (SWE) Entrepreneur of the Year.
She was also recognized by the University
of Massachusetts Amherst ITE chapter as
the Jane F. Garvey Transportation Leadership Award recipient for 2009 for her
outstanding leadership affecting women in
transportation and remarkable contributions to the field. In 2010, Marsha received
the American Council of Engineering
Companies (ACEC) Community Service
Award for outstanding contributions to her
community and her profession. The same
year she received the Karl Bevins Distinguished Service Award from the Georgia
Section of ITE, which is given to recognize
highly competent and professional engineers who practice in the field of traffic and/
or transportation over many years. The ITE
Southern District has honored Marsha with
the John Edwards Individual Achievement
Award and the Hensley Award.
Marsha was on the Board of Women's
Transportation Seminar (WTS) in New York
City in the early 1980s and was President of
the Atlanta chapter from 1986-1988. She
served on the local WTS Board as well as
the International Board and received the

Atlanta chapter WTS Woman of the Year
and WTS Employer of the Year, as well as
the Leadership in Diversity award.
She is currently completing her third
term as Council Member, third year as
Mayor Pro Tempore, and she has been
elected to a fourth term for the City of
Duluth, Georgia. During her time as an
elected official, Marsha has created a leadership program, helped initiate and serve on
the Public Arts Commission, and assisted
with numerous award-winning infrastructure and development projects. She
completed training from the Carl Vinson
Institute of Government on Policy, Law,
Ethics, Lobbying, Community and Economic Development, and Cultural Diversity
and serves as an instructor for the Planning
and Zoning Class.
Marsha earned a bachelor of science
in mathematics and a master's degree in
transportation planning and engineering
from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
She also holds a master of civil engineering
from Princeton University. She has 3 children, 3 step-children, 3 daughters-in-law
and a long-term girlfriend, 1 son-in-law,
and 3 step grandchildren! She established
and owned Chocolate Perks, a restaurant/
art gallery/music venue for almost 4 years.
Currently, she owns another restaurant/bar/
music scene in Duluth, GA, USA and has
just established the art program there.
ITE JOURNAL: What inspired you to
pursue transportation as a profession?
MARSHA ANDERSON BOMAR: There
were three different forces that drew me
to transportation.  The first was watching
my Dad, who worked for New York State
Department of Transportation, as he
facilitated the conversations among the city,
state, and federal governments about how



Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ITE Journal January 2018

President’s Message
Director’s Message
Introducing the 2018 ITE International Board of Direction
Introducing the 2018 LeadershipITE Class
Your ITE Councils: An Overview of the ITE Councils in 2018
People in the Profession
ITE News
Member to Member: Congratulations to ITE’s Three New Honorary Members
Where in the World?
Calendar
Industry News
New Products
ITE Adopts 2018–2020 Strategic Plan
Finding the Courage to Lead the Way
Providing Vehicular Cyclists with Routine Accommodation in the United States as Part of Complete Streets
Variable Driver Responses to Yellow Indications: An Operational Challenge and Safety Concern
Professional Services Directory
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ITE Journal January 2018 - 3
ITE Journal January 2018 - President’s Message
ITE Journal January 2018 - 5
ITE Journal January 2018 - Director’s Message
ITE Journal January 2018 - 7
ITE Journal January 2018 - Introducing the 2018 ITE International Board of Direction
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ITE Journal January 2018 - 10
ITE Journal January 2018 - 11
ITE Journal January 2018 - Introducing the 2018 LeadershipITE Class
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ITE Journal January 2018 - Your ITE Councils: An Overview of the ITE Councils in 2018
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ITE Journal January 2018 - People in the Profession
ITE Journal January 2018 - ITE News
ITE Journal January 2018 - Member to Member: Congratulations to ITE’s Three New Honorary Members
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ITE Journal January 2018 - Calendar
ITE Journal January 2018 - New Products
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ITE Journal January 2018 - ITE Adopts 2018–2020 Strategic Plan
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ITE Journal January 2018 - Finding the Courage to Lead the Way
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ITE Journal January 2018 - Providing Vehicular Cyclists with Routine Accommodation in the United States as Part of Complete Streets
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ITE Journal January 2018 - Variable Driver Responses to Yellow Indications: An Operational Challenge and Safety Concern
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ITE Journal January 2018 - Professional Services Directory
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