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E-mail Distribution List The UTEC email distribution list provides: - Information about UTEC meetings.
- A forum to ask traffic engineering questions.
- Connections to the professional community.
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The Urban Traffic Engineers Council is a group of local agency traffic, transportation, and public works engineers, technicians, public works directors, managers, supervisors, planners, and related professionals. Members share information and discuss ideas about traffic-related issues at meetings, through an e-mail distribution list, and through strong resulting connections in the professional community. Membership is free.
UTEC Meetings
UTEC meets three times per year on the west side of the state and occasionally on the east side. Meetings are free.
Next meeting
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Recent Meetings and Topics Discussed
January 2011 in Federal Way:
- Charging facilities and signs for electric vehicles and how Washington’s cities and counties are involved.
- The latest on Washington State's process to adopt the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
- How Washington’s cities and counties are responding to minimum traffic sign retroreflectivity requirements.
- Work zone collision data on local and state roadways in Washington State.
- Target Zero 2010: What it is and how it affects local agencies and their funding.
- City of Lynnwood's efforts to time-sync traffic control devices between adjacent agencies.
- City of Lynnwood's lessons learned about photo enforcement.
April 2010 in Moses Lake:
- School zones overview and discussion.
- Deadlines and requirements for the 2010-2011 Safe Routes to School Grants.
- Changes the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices makes and the latest on Washington State’s process to adopt it.
Other Topics Discussed at Past Meetings
- Transportation funding
- Transportation policy - local, state, and federal
- Pedestrians
- Bicyclists
- Complete streets
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety funding program
- School zones
- Safe Routes to School funding program
- Setting speed limits
- Traffic calming
- Traffic safety and collisions, including software
- Clear zone and recovery area
- Work zone traffic control, safety, and mobility
- Signing--permanent, temporary, and radar speed
- Global Positioning System (GPS) based sign inventory
- Minimum sign retroreflectivity requirements
- Proposed minimum pavement marking retroreflectivity requirements
- Roundabouts
- Michigan left turns
- Traffic signals
- Copper wire theft
- Transit and transit signal priority
- Seattle's Link light rail
- Traffic management partnerships
- Concurrency and level of service
- Traffic volume data
- Communication and public involvement
- Driver/rider information and incident/event management