Argonne Scientists Receives Award for Contributions in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Adrian Tentner receives the first Chapter Service Award from ITS Midwest President Jeff Hochmuth at the ITS Midwest annual meeting on February 6, 2004. The award recognizes Dr. Tentner's accomplishments as the founding president of ITS Midwest.

On February 6, 2004, the Intelligent Transportation Society of the Midwest (ITS Midwest) held its annual meeting in Schaumburg, Illinois, with the theme "Transportation Safety and Security." The meeting included a Service Award ceremony, recognizing the contributions of Dr. Adrian Tentner from Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Tentner is one of the founders of the Society and served as the first President for seven years, while directing Argonne's intelligent transportation systems program. He helped foster many ITS-related activites in the Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee area and nationally and led the successful ITS Midwest effort to bring the ITS World Congress to Chicago in 2002.

ITS Midwest is a regional chapter of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), including the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Its objectives include

• Promoting and enhancing public safety and community welfare by fostering research and development
• Implementing programs to reduce motor vehicle deaths and injuries
• Improving mobility
• Promoting a system of safer, more economical, energy efficient, and environmentally sound highways and other surface transportation through the use of advanced technology.

The membership of ITS Midwest includes over 65 organizations ranging from public transportation organizations, such as the Federal Highway Administration, Illinois Department of Transportation, Indiana Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Aviation, to private companies, such as Ford, General Motors, Motorola, and research organizations, such as Argonne National laboratory, The University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Purdue University.

March 8, 2004