ITE Journal January 2018 - Outsert4

FOR INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
Who am I? I am a devoted transportation professional with more than 25 years of
experience and I am passionate about ITE. Every day through my work, I strive to make
our communities a better place to live, work, and play. I am in a great position to positively
impact the future of ITE. I have served ITE at the Section, District, and International levels.
My involvement includes recently completing a three-year term on the International Board
of Direction. From this experience, I have become familiar with the issues, challenges, and
opportunities facing ITE. Further, I believe in giving back to the engineering community
as an adjunct professor at the University of Regina. I intend to build upon the hard work
and initiatives already started, and continue to develop ITE as a leading organization
in operating and delivering services to members.
Goals. I will focus on the following five areas:

BRUCE BELMORE, P.ENG.,
PTOE, AVS, (F)
Western Canada Transportation
Planning Director, WSP Group
Regina, SK, Canada
bruceb4ite@gmail.com

1. Communication - we need to reflect how members like to communicate and receive
information today. Whether it's through ITE Community, social media platforms,
or cloud-based document sharing, we need to ensure that information is timely,
relevant, and readily accessible by our members in a broad range of formats.
2. Collaboration - we need to work more closely with other transportation
organizations to cooperatively develop technical resource material. These other
organizations bring different perspectives and skills. By sharing knowledge and
resources, we can produce technical reference documents faster, at a shared cost, and
with full recognition of our members' contributions.
3. Knowledge - we need to look at new funding mechanisms for producing technical
documents and better ways to recognize the contribution of our many outstanding
volunteers. We also need to streamline the approval and release of technical
documents so that valuable resource materials are in our members' hands quicker.
4. Growth - we need to grow our membership to remain a healthy, vibrant
organization. Key to this growth and our long-term stability is developing
new student chapters and encouraging highly active sections. We also need to
start new sections outside of North America where there is growing interest
in ITE membership. This allows us to share more ideas and experiences from
around the world.
5. Member development - we need to develop the skills of members, including
technical skills, soft skills, and leadership skills. We need well-rounded
transportation professionals in our industry; ITE can lead through both online
training and face-to-face opportunities for skills growth.
Here's an Idea. I would like to see members who are unable to attend the Annual Meeting
and Exhibit in person be able to access technical presentations online through a videoon-demand system. We have the ability to broadcast the presentations-potentially
reaching nearly 15,000 members with meeting content rather than just the 1,000 or so who
currently attend. More members would gain needed continuing education credits and ITE
would reach a broader audience with conference content.
I have the desire to see ITE grow and succeed. Simply, I have something to contribute
and am in a position to serve.

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