RSG Senior Engineer, Dirk Grotenhuis, will be presenting “Building Community Consensus on Complete Streets,” at the Northern New England Planning Conference in Meredith, NH. Dirk will provide a brief overview of three complete street conversions in Northern New England that have been visioned, modeled, doubted, and then implemented to great success. RSG Director, David Saladino will also be in attendance.

RSG Senior Engineer, Dirk Grotenhuis, will be presenting “Building Community Consensus on Complete Streets,” at the Northern New England Planning Conference in Meredith, NH. Dirk will provide a brief overview of three complete street conversions in Northern New England that have been visioned, modeled, doubted, and then implemented to great success. RSG Director, David Saladino will also be in attendance.

RSG's Human Resources Coordinator and Benefits & Compensation Administrator will be attending the Vermont Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference in South Burlington, Vermont.

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Executive Committee grants the William M. Millar Award for the best paper in the area of public transportation.

RSG Senior Engineer Eddie Duncan will be presenting, “Using Public Input to Develop Scientifically Sound Noise Pollution Policy for Vermont’s Rural Land Uses and Communities,” as part of Noise in Communities & Natural Areas, a free public outreach workshop, held in conjunction with NOISE-CON 2013. Noise in Communities & Natural Areas is the fourth in an ongoing series of open, free, public outreach workshops held in U.S. cities. These workshops are intended to inform and educate the public, media, regulatory officials and industry about noise control issues.

RSG Senior Engineer Eddie Duncan will be presenting, “Using Public Input to Develop Scientifically Sound Noise Pollution Policy for Vermont’s Rural Land Uses and Communities,” as part of Noise in Communities & Natural Areas, a free public outreach workshop, held in conjunction with NOISE-CON 2013. Noise in Communities & Natural Areas is the fourth in an ongoing series of open, free, public outreach workshops held in U.S. cities. These workshops are intended to inform and educate the public, media, regulatory officials and industry about noise control issues.

RSG Senior Director Peter Plumeau will be attending AASHTO's Standing Committee on Planning & Subcommittee on Transportation Finance Policy. Comprised of various committee meetings and technical sessions, this unique gathering of planning and finance executives from State Departments of Transportation will examine common challenges and opportunities facing every AASHTO member agency as MAP-21 is simultaneously implemented and considered for reauthorization.

RSG Senior Director Peter Plumeau will be attending AASHTO's Standing Committee on Planning & Subcommittee on Transportation Finance Policy. Comprised of various committee meetings and technical sessions, this unique gathering of planning and finance executives from State Departments of Transportation will examine common challenges and opportunities facing every AASHTO member agency as MAP-21 is simultaneously implemented and considered for reauthorization.

Chase Carpenter, a Senior Consultant at RSG's Chicago office, will be presenting an Introduction to Producing Beautiful Graphics in R with ggplot2 at the Chicago R Users Group August Meeting. The statistical computing language R is known for its’ visualization capabilities. The ggplot2 package, developed by Hadley Wickham, is one of the most flexible and powerful plotting packages available in R. In this presentation, Chase will provide practical and hands on advice for how to build beautiful graphics with ggplot2.

Working with RSG, the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, and various stakeholders, Burlington’s Department of Public Works announced the start of a “solution-oriented pilot-program” at the Pearl Street/Prospect Street/Colchester Avenue intersection as part of the Pearl Street/Prospect Street/Colchester Avenue Scoping Study. This notoriously busy and problematic intersection, designated a high-crash location by VTrans, will undergo a number of changes during the pilot project including a new traffic pattern, signals, and signage. The piloted changes are part of a short term alternative being considered and will allow the project’s Steering Committee to evaluate and compare it to other longer term/higher-cost options that cannot be field tested.