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原文传递 Passing the Torch: Jeff Paniati Retires from ITE

题名：	Passing the Torch: Jeff Paniati Retires from ITE
正文语种：	eng
摘要：	Jeff Paniati, P.E. (F) is stepping down from his role as ITE Executive Director and CEO after 8 years of leading the organization. He spoke to ITE Journal about his career in transportation, his impact on the organization and hope for ITE's future, and his personal plans after retirement. PANIATI: My interest in transportation actually started when I was in elementary school or early middle school. They were building a highway either through my hometown or right alongside my hometown, and it was going through an area where they do a lot of blasting and heavy construction. My mother would take me to watch what they were doing, sparking my interest in transportation. So from middle school on, if they asked me, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' I would say 'Civil engineer.' That's always been the direction I was heading in. When I was in school at the University of Connecticut, I gravitated toward transportation engineering. And, despite that when I was young I was focused more on the structural and physical construction of the highway, I became more interested in more the traffic engineering and management of the of the system. I spent a year in graduate school at that university, and at the end of the year, I actually left school and started looking for a job. One of my professors had worked for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) before he became a professor, and FHWA was at that point restarting a highway engineer training program. He strongly encouraged me to apply for that program, which I did, and that's how I started working for FHWA in 1983. It was a 2.5 year program, structured so that you spent a few months in different places, both out in the filed on construction projects and in the Federal Highway Division offices. My first assignment was on a construction project in the Washington, DC, USA area, connecting the Dulles Access Road at the time with 1-66.1 was later in the Florida Division office in Tallahassee; I was on a construction project at Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. I worked in the District of Columbia Federal Highway Division Office, and I did special assignment at the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, VA, working on a field validation of an early traffic simulation model,.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	ITE journal
卷：	93
期：	10
页码：	43-46