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RTEA: Registered Traffic Engineers of America
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The Registered Traffic Engineers of America (RTEA) are committed to preserving and promoting the registration of traffic engineers by states. This nonprofit association was founded in May 2001 in response to potential changes to traffic engineering registration in California. The RTEA's goal is to encourage states and provinces to register their traffic engineers as a measure to ensure public safety and provide better operating streets and highways.
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Our work plan for 2003 is to participate as a member society of the California Legislative Committee for Professional Engineers (CLCPE). CLCPE is a coalition that includes CSPE, IEEE, AIChE, and societies representing fire protection, control systems, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers. CLCPE seeks to allow professional engineers in California to practice some engineering duties that are currently restricted to only electrical, mechanical, and civil engineers.
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Annual dues for members are $50 per year.
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President: Walter Okitsu (323) 260-4703 x231. Call him or e-mail him (see link at bottom of page) regarding joining RTEA.
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California update: the Department of Consumer Affairs hired a consultant to study the various title-protected disciplines such as traffic engineering, and recommend that they be either eliminated, maintained, or converted into licensed practices. Recommendations were posted on the DCA web site (see link above) on December 20, 2002. The consultant recommended converting all existing California title-protected disciplines into practices, and eliminating restrictions to overlap. This recommendation is consistent with the mission of RTEA.
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FYI: Oregon and California are the only states that register their traffic engineers. In Oregon, certain traffic design plans and studies require a signature and stamp of a registered traffic engineer. In contrast, California traffic engineers are allowed to practice nothing more than any other unregistered citizen.
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The current traffic engineering status in California creates this strange paradox: A professional engineer who is registered only as a California traffic engineer cannot apply for the Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification offered by ITE; however, a PTOE applicant who passed the California traffic engineering registration is considered qualified without the need to take the PTOE examination. If legislation is passed in California to allow traffic engineers to practice at least some engineering design, this paradox could be removed.
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Your dues to the RTEA are not tax-deductible. They will be used to help support the California Legislative Committee for Professional Engineers' effort to encourage the conversion of the "title act" disciplines, like traffic engineering, into a regulated practice.
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 wokitsu@earthlink.net
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