On November 30th 2018, ITS Arizona organized guest speaker presentation at Northern Arizona University (NAU) for the NAU ITE Student Chapter. David Lucas (City of Tempe) gave a presentation on the Tempe Street Car project. The guest speaker provided insight into the Streetcar project including construction, traffic operations, applications of ITS technology and monitoring systems for the signal systems. The presentation concluded with a valuable question and answer discussion with the students. A special thank you to David Lucas for participating in the NAU ITE Student Chapter presentations!!

Arizona Department of Transportation has an opening for Transportation Engineering 1 (Traffic Safety Analysis) (Job ID: 42977).

Applications are open now and will be accepted through December 23, 2018

Apply online at AZStateJobs website.

Location: 1615 W. Jackson Street, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Salary: $66,000.00-80,000.00 Yearly
For more information please contact Stephen Rice 602-712-7279 or srice@azdot.gov

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 was a day to remember as representatives from ITE and ITS donated more than 170 jackets to Andre House in downtown Phoenix. They will be given to homeless people in Arizona who visit Andre House to take part in the many services they provide. Those in the attached photos were offered a tour of their facility by their Director of Stewardship and Development; Melia Smith, who has a serving heart for the people who benefit from the services provided by Andre House, including a clothing distribution center, and most popular is a kitchen where they serve a hot dinner every day to more than 600 homeless folks. It’s truly a blessing to bless those who are less fortunate, especially during the holidays.

We also wish to thank Transforming a Life (https://transformingalife.org/); a non-profit organization, founded by ITE Past International President Zaki Mustafa and his wife Loretta, for providing 150 brand new jackets. They purchase thousands of jackets every winter from the Los Angeles garment district and distribute them to homeless people in LA, and now in Arizona and throughout the country.

This year’s holiday party was held at The Culinary Depot in Phoenix. Members of ITS Arizona and Arizona ITE enjoyed catching up over a delicious meal and social setting. The holiday party raised $500, which were used to buy jackets for donation at the Andre House in Phoenix.

Waymo One, self-driving service is open to the public. Waymo has started providing this service in the Phoenix Metro area including Chandler, Tempe, Mesa, and Gilbert. The service can be accessed via Waymo One App. 

More media coverage….

Riding with Waymo One today :https://medium.com/waymo/riding-with-waymo-one-today-9ac8164c5c0e

Waymo’s So-Called Robo-Taxi Launch Reveals a Brutal Truth: https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-self-driving-taxi-service-launch-chandler-arizona/

Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey: https://medium.com/waymo/waymo-one-the-next-step-on-our-self-driving-journey-6d0c075b0e9b

We followed Waymo’s self-driving cars around Arizona for 170 miles; Here’s what we saw: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/12/05/google-self-driving-cars-waymo/2213133002/