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Trip and Parking Generation Data Project in Waipio Peninsula Soccer Complex

The University of Hawaii at Manoa ITE Student Chapter was selected along with four more ITE student chapters this year to receive funding by the National ITE Data Collection Fund Committee and to participate in ITE’s 2011 Data Collection. The student team will contribute to the continuing update of ITE's Trip Generation Manual, which is an internationally recognized professional reference. Please click here for more information.

Activities:

• On December 1st, 2010, the Institute of Transportation Engineers’s Student Chapter of the University of Hawaii at Manoa organized with Segway of Hawaii a seminar for ITE Student Chapter members and Civil Engineering students and faculty.

  

  The 2-hour seminar was held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and consisted of two parts. During the first part, Segway representatives A.Rice, and J.Rice presented the main features of the Segway vehicle and discussed some of its advantages, followed by a short session for questions. In the second part of the seminar, the attendees had the opportunity to try a Segway vehicle and experience how it feels driving it. Two different Segway vehicle models were tested during the demonstration: a Segway i2 Police and a Segway x2 Adventure model. The event was also aimed at attracting potential ITE student members that could be interested in the future activities of the chapter.

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Past Activities of Student Chapter:

• 2006 Engineer's Week Display Award. Congratulations! ITE student chapter at the University of Hawaii won a promotion award for its display at the 2006 Engineer's Week.

• Field Trip to the MATSON Navigation container yard at Sand Island/Honolulu Harbor. The operation is noted internationally for its expeditious handling of containers and is one of the early applications of Intelligent Transportation Systems: a Texas Instruments AVI system aids the real-time, fully automated tracking of containers at the access points of the yard. An air traffic control tower-type of supervision is available on a tower that overlooks the entire yard. Thanks to container yard superitendents Andrew and William Smith for hosting the Chapter. (November 1996)

• Field trip to the H-3 freeway viaduct construction on the windward side of Oahu. The design and construction has won several awards and has appeared on the covers of civil and transportation journals. Thanks to Mr. Walker Kimball for hosting us, and to CE graduates Walter Yogi and Edwin Barlongo for the fun rides on the pick up trucks. (April 1995)

• Field trip to the Honolulu International Airport (second only to New York's JFK in international arrivals) and the maintenance facility of Hawaiian Airlines which, along with Aloha and Mahalo Airlines, fly to Maui frequently enough to make Honolulu-Kahului the second busiest route in the nation behind the Washington, D.C.-New York route. Many thanks to Airports Administrator Mr. Owen Miyamoto for hosting us. (October 1994)

• Collected traffic generation data at the Waikiki Theatres parking structure and the Kapolei 16-plex surface plot in response to the national call by ITE for data for the update of the TRIP GENERATION manual (1995).

• Hosts to District 6 Director Nazir Lalani's visit in 1994 at the Campus Center.

• Helped the Salvation Army in serving the 1995 and 1996 Thanks Giving meals at the Blaisdell Center.

• Field trip to the H-3 freeway construction on the leeward side including inspection of both tunnels. Thanks to Mr. Martin Miller, project manager, Hawaiian Dredging construction company for hosting us.

• Pizza lunch with ITE section president Waune Kawano and discussion of the ITE Section and ITE Student Chapter preparations for Engineer's Week in February 2002. Photo - November 29, 2001.

  

Participating Fall 1995 Chapter members at the Honolulu International Airport and the Hawaiian Airlines maintenance facility.



Participating Spring 1996 Chapter members at the H-3 Freeeway construction site visit.



2001 members and offices, from L to R: Yin-Ping Kuo, VP and Treasurer Tara Ishii (seated), Secretary Lin Zhang, Honglong Li, Steven Agena, Reid Ikemori, Piyalerg Kongsil (seated) and President Matthew Alonzo (seated.)