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ITE Recognizes Transportation Achievements with Awards

VIA Metropolitan Transit, San Antonio, TX, and Sam Schwartz Engineering (SSE), New York City, were among the recipients of awards from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) during the organization’s recent Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Boston.

ITE presented its 2013 Transportation Achievement Award-Operations to VIA for its Primo Bus Rapid Transit line, which entered service in December 2012. Primo operates with 60-foot articulated vehicles along the region’s busiest public transit corridor, connecting the two largest employment centers in Bexar County: the South Texas Medical Center and the central business district.

Primo uses an innovative transit signal priority system, developed in coordination with Siemens and the city of San Antonio, which operates without emitters or hardware located at every signalized intersection. The on-board GPS technology VIA uses to track its vehicles communicates with the city’s traffic control system, allowing each intersection to adjust its signal durations to help keep the buses on schedule.

SSE received the ITE Pedestrian and Bicycle Council Best Project Award, along with America Walks, for the joint publication Steps to a Walkable Community: A Guide for Citizens, Planners, and Engineers. This annual award recognizes projects that implement innovative design solutions or study techniques relevant to the field of non-motorized transportation.

SSE and America Walks created the guide to support the growing pedestrian movement. Information about the research project, along with free downloads, is available here.

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