New Orleans Traffic Records Forum Save The Date. August 2-5 2026

 

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ATSIP TEAM

ATSIP’S EXECUTIVE BOARD

The Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) has an Executive Board of elected officers, composed of members from the various regions of the United States, liaisons from federal agencies, and other national and international organizations. 

President

Andi Bill

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1st Vice President

Karla Houston

Secretary

Robert Scopatz

Past President

J. Patrick Dolan

Treasurer Hadi Shirazi

The treasurer is a non-voting member of the ATSIP Board. Hadi Shirazi is Treasurer and Statewide Traffic Engineering Management Manager for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. Hadi Shirazi is designated as the Statewide Traffic Engineering Management Manager for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. He is working for the Departments for 29 years. His duties involve performance of traffic engineering studies on the corridors and the review of traffic engineering studies and reports from the consultants. He participates in research studies at the state and national level and serves on the committee task force for highway safety and Traffic Engineering incentive AASHTO plan and NCHRP program. He has professional Civil Engineering license in State of Louisiana and Nevada.He is involve and committee member of several national organization such as TRB (Transportation Research Board), and ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers).

ATSIP’S AT LARGE MEMBERS

A member-at-large is responsible for projects reaching common goals, identifies problems and opportunities, sets goals, makes action plans, listens to and communicates officially with the executive board. Membership is open to any person, agency, company or organization that is involved with the collection, management, analysis, or use of transportation safety data.

Jeremy Pate

Class of 2026

Jim Markham

Class of 2026

Ryan Smith

Class of 2026

Courtney Ruiz

Class of 2027

Cory Hutchinson

Cory Hutchinson

Class of 2027

Stacey Manware

Stacey Manware

Class of 2027

Eric Jackson

Eric Jackson

Class of 2028

Patrick Bowman

Class of 2028

Gretchen Lopez-Martinez

Class of 2028

ATSIP’S PRESIDENTS

ATSIP is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization with a mission to further the development and sharing of traffic records system procedures, tools, and to promote professionalism in the field of traffic records. Over the years, we have evolved over time, technology, and adapted to changing need.
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ATSIP’S Parliamentarian Members

Parliamentarian members are long term ATSIP officers/consultants that are designated to serve as experts of the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of ATSIP.

Patrick Dolan

Jim Davis

 Ms. Andrea Bill is the Director of the Wisconsin Local Technical Assistance Program and Associate Director of the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory and Eastern Tribal Technical Assistance Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With these roles, she has been bringing research to technology transfer through in person and virtual webinars throughout Wisconsin and the U.S.  She is a passionate advocate for making research tangible to practitioners and to foster implementation and widespread adoption. 

Karla Houston
Louisiana TRCC Coordinator
Center for Analytics & Research in Transportation Safety at LSU

Karla began her career working as an event planner and fundraiser and more recently, she worked in preparedness and response for Louisiana’s EMS providers. Her work at the Center for Analytics & Research in Transportation Safety involves strategic planning and managing the activities of Louisiana’s Traffic Records Coordinating Committee. In addition, Karla serves on ATSIP’s Board as the Sponsor and Exhibitor Chair.

Bob Scopatz has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Columbia University where he supervised rats in mazes and pigeons pecking at colored lights. The City of New York figured that was enough like people in traffic that they hired him to work in their Department of Transportation. From there, Bob has worked in consulting helping improve data and reduce the frequency and severity of crashes. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two sons, one of whom is getting his learner’s permit this year!

Patrick manages the Statistics Office for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security
and is co-chair of the Tennessee Traffic Records Coordinating Committee. Patrick holds a Bachelor of
Music from Belmont University and a B.S. in Mathematics and M.A. in Music from Middle Tennessee
State University. He has worked for over a decade to improve the quality of information available to
traffic safety stakeholders and support and encourage data-driven decision making. Patrick helped
establish the TITAN Business Unit, which owns and maintains Tennessee’s crash database, and he led
the development of Tennessee’s crash predictive analytics program. He currently lives with his family
and pets in Nashville where you may spot him prowling at night with a saxophone.

Hadi H.S.M. Shirazi, .P.E., PTOE

Biography

Hadi Shirazi is designated as the Statewide Traffic Engineering Management Manager for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. He is working for the Departments for 30 years. His duties involve performance of traffic engineering studies on the corridors that include Highway Safety Study, and the review of traffic engineering studies and reports from the consultants. He participates in research studies at the state and national level and serves on the several committee task forces for highway safety and Traffic Engineering incentive AASHTO plan and NCHRP program.

He has professional Civil Engineering license in State of Louisiana and Nevada.

 

Committees:

He is involve and committee member of several national organization such as TRB (Transportation Research Board), and ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers).

Jim Markham is the Director of the Crash Data and Analysis Section in the Traffic Safety Division of the Texas Department of Transportation, a position he has held since September 2022, Jim is a retired Army Major, having served more than 20 years in the Army and Air Force as a Military Intelligence officer and Operations Research Systems Analyst. He holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky and a MS in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Jim has been assigned all over the continental U.S. and Hawaii and has deployed to Iraq and Poland in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Atlantic Resolve, respectively.

Cory Hutchinson

Cory Hutchinson currently serves as the Director for the Center for Analytics and Research in Transportation Safety (CARTS) at Louisiana State University.  He earned a MS in Quantitative Business Analysis, a MBA, and a PhD in Human Resource Education and Workforce Development from LSU.  Within CARTS, Cory oversees all IT related projects including business analytics, web site design, data quality analysis, electronic crash data collection, data reporting, disaster recovery, graphical information systems, business intelligence, and crash data integration.  Cory also teaches graduate level Business Intelligence courses within the College of Business at LSU.

Stacey Manware

As Deputy Director of Centralized Court Services for the State of Connecticut’s Judicial Branch, Stacey Manware directs the development and implementation of electronic citation and adjudication systems Statewide. A long-standing member of the Connecticut Traffic Records Coordinating Committee, she is the judicial champion of an award winning comprehensive paperless platform for motor vehicle infractions from issuance to placement on the driver history record. Attorney Manware is an adjunct professor of legal research and writing at Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Fordham University (Bronx, NY) and Juris Doctor from New England Law School (Boston, MA).

Jim Davis worked in the analysis of traffic records data from 1979 to the mid 2000’s as part of a university-based contractor to the NM Traffic Safety Bureau. That period saw the move from mainframe computing to client-server systems with all manner of subsequent changes. Mr. Davis joined the ATSIP Executive Board in 1999, was the program chair for the 2004 Traffic Records Forum, and was President in 2005-6. He worked on the ATSIP Constitution and was involved with the transition from a National Safety Council committee to a free-standing organization. He has served as one of the co-parliamentarians since 2010. Mr. Davis currently works part-time as a substance use epidemiologist at the NM Department of Health.

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Tara Powell Casanova

Tara Casanova Powell is the Principal of Casanova Powell Consulting, an independent traffic safety research consulting firm and the current CEO for the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP). Tara is the former Program Coordinator for the Annual Lifesavers National Conference on Roadway Safety Priorities and a Research Consultant for Acusensus and the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). Tara also serves as a faculty staff member for Impaired Driving Solutions, formerly the National Center for DWI Courts (NCDC), under “All Rise”. With over 25 years of experience in the field of road safety, Tara’s career has spanned several niches within this community.

Tara has been engaged with the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine for several years where she currently serves as the Chair for the Impairment in Transportation Committee and was the Chair of the 2021 TRB Drug-Impaired Driving Conference Planning Committee. Tara also founded and Chairs the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) Impaired Driving Behavioral Intervention Working Group (IDBIIIG) and has recently been elected to the ICADTS Board of Directors as an At Large Member.

In 2023, Tara co-authored the Impact of Compliance-Based Removal Laws on Alcohol-Impaired Driving Recidivism for GHSA, and “Rideshare Volume and DUI Incidents in Boston, Worcester, and Northampton, Massachusetts”, a collaborative project between Lyft and Uber developed for the National Association of District Attorneys (NDAA). Prior reports include “Rideshare Volume and DUI Incidents in Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; and Fort Worth, Texas” and “Rideshare Volume and DUI Incidents in Target California Communities” in collaboration with Lyft and also developed for NDAA. Through Tara’s judicial experience, she authored “A GUIDE TO DUI PRETRIAL SERVICES Key Components & Best Practice Recommendations” prepared for the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility illustrating Pretrial Services Early Intervention Programs for DWI Offenders.

Tara has also conducted extensive research on distracted driving including several studies with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and Preusser Research Group in NY, CT, Northern Virgina, and Maryland and served on the Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP) expert panel for the completed project “Examining the Implications of Legislation and Enforcement on Electronic Device Use While Driving”.

Tara’s professional experience and network span several roadway safety priorities, with expertise in impaired driving, distracted driving, speed, occupant protection, and traffic records that transcend barriers that often exist within the silos of the transportation profession. Tara is very passionate about her role in transportation safety and has worked to connect traffic safety professionals including research scientist; federal, state, and local practitioners; law enforcement; and traffic records data professionals to work together to work towards ZERO deaths and to provide equitable transportation for all road users.  

Membership Profile

Ryan Klitzsch, a certified Road Safety Professional (RSP), has more than 15 years of experience in transportation safety planning, including eight years as the Administrator the Indiana Highway Safety Office. Currently, Mr. Klitzsch is as a Senior Associate of Cambridge Systematics working in the areas of transportation safety policy, traffic records data, and planning. In this position, he has leveraged his practical highway safety office expertise in data and performance management with states to develop and implement countermeasures to move our roadways closer Toward Zero Deaths. Mr. Klitzsch has developed planning strategies for emerging technologies, Strategic Highway Safety Plans, Highway Safety Plans, Bicycle and Pedestrian plans, and Traffic Records Strategic Plans for more than a dozen states.