A Brief History of OSITE
The Ozarks Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (OCITE) was chartered by the Institute on February 5, 2003 with 21 charter members and currently has over 90 members representing Traffic and Transportation Engineers, Roadway Designers, Planners, System Operators along with Education, Enforcement, and Safety specialists in southwest Missouri.
The Ozarks Chapter was the second chapter chartered within the Missouri Valley Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (MOVITE). Other chapters in MOVITE include: TEAM Chapter (St. Louis), KCITE Chapter (Kansas City), CMITE Chapter (central Missouri), LOCATE Chapter (Lincoln/Omaha/Council Bluffs), OTEA Chapter (Oklahoma), ICITE Chapter (central Iowa), and CKITE (central Kansas). MOVITE, was chartered in 1951 with only eight members and now has over 600 members from the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. MOVITE along with the Illinois, Wisconsin and North-Central Sections comprise Midwestern District of ITE.
Due to a restructuring of how ITE viewed organizational hierarchy of its Chapters, Sections, and Districts, OCITE no longer met the definitions of a Chapter. Thus, in 2020, OCITE was restructured into OSITE (The Ozarks Section of the ITE).
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), an international individual member educational and scientific association, is one of the largest and fastest-growing multi-modal professional transportation organizations in the world. ITE members are traffic engineers, transportation planners and other professionals who are responsible for meeting society's needs for safe and efficient surface transportation through planning, designing, implementing, operating and maintaining surface transportation systems worldwide.
The Ozarks Chapter was the second chapter chartered within the Missouri Valley Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (MOVITE). Other chapters in MOVITE include: TEAM Chapter (St. Louis), KCITE Chapter (Kansas City), CMITE Chapter (central Missouri), LOCATE Chapter (Lincoln/Omaha/Council Bluffs), OTEA Chapter (Oklahoma), ICITE Chapter (central Iowa), and CKITE (central Kansas). MOVITE, was chartered in 1951 with only eight members and now has over 600 members from the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. MOVITE along with the Illinois, Wisconsin and North-Central Sections comprise Midwestern District of ITE.
Due to a restructuring of how ITE viewed organizational hierarchy of its Chapters, Sections, and Districts, OCITE no longer met the definitions of a Chapter. Thus, in 2020, OCITE was restructured into OSITE (The Ozarks Section of the ITE).
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), an international individual member educational and scientific association, is one of the largest and fastest-growing multi-modal professional transportation organizations in the world. ITE members are traffic engineers, transportation planners and other professionals who are responsible for meeting society's needs for safe and efficient surface transportation through planning, designing, implementing, operating and maintaining surface transportation systems worldwide.
