The following is a listing of recent news items relating to the NTCIP.

Posted October 4, 2011
RITA Announced Summit on Transportation Workforce. Kevin C. Womack, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, and the Associate Administrator of Research, Development and Technology at the Research and Innovative Technology Administration; announced a Call for Abstracts for the National Transportation Workforce Summit to be held April 24-26, 2012 in Washington, DC.

Abstracts from educators, researchers, practitioners and organizations are requested for presentations, papers and showcase displays on any discipline related to the transportation workforce. For detailed information please see Call for Abstracts. For information about the Summit, please go to: http://cutcworkforce.com/

The lead organizer is the Council of University Transportation Centers, with the Research and Innovative Technology Administration as a co-sponsor. We are excited about the event which builds upon several years of dialog and interaction among many transportation, education and labor interests.

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Posted September 13, 2011
Recommended Version of NTCIP 1203 v03 "DMS with Test Procedures" Out for Approval. NTCIP Standards Bulletin B0142 reports that the Joint Committee on the NTCIP has accepted the Objects for Dynamic Message Signs version v03 as a Recommended Standard. The standard publication is NTCIP 1203 v03 in the series of NTCIP data dictionaries.

AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA are distributing copies to their members for ballot and approval.

The NTCIP 1203 v03 includes a new, 344-page Annex C, which defines test procedures consistent with NTCIP 8007 v01 and covers the entire scope of NTCIP 1203 v03.

The 1203 Annex C also includes tests of some of the features defined in NTCIP 1201 v03 Global Objects, but only to the extent that these features have been incorporated by reference in NTCIP 1203 v03 DMS.

The new NTCIP 1203 v03 is being balloted less than a year after the prior major version NTCIP 1203 version v02. The new major version v03 contains all of the revisions and updates that were put in the 1203 v02.39.

NTCIP 1203 v03 was drafted by the NTCIP Dynamic Message Sign Working Group, chaired by Mark Morse (Washington State DOT), with the support of a two-person consulting team. Funding support was provided by the U.S. DOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, whose assistance is gratefully acknowledged.

The Recommended Standard and Standards Bulletin are available in the Library. See the table of Document Links at www.ntcip.org/library/documents/. The NTCIP 1203 v03 is available in two parts as two separate files. The PDF files are 4 MB and 6 MB large. These large files may be blocked by some email servers; please download the files from the NTCIP.org Library.

All interested parties are encouraged to support the AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA members in their review, balloting, and approval of the Recommended Standard.

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