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AASHTO and BEM Meet in Chatham, New Jersey Office
AASHTO and BEM Meet in Chatham, New Jersey Office and Prepare to Commence Turbo Relocation™ Development Phase. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Special Committee on Joint Development (SCOJD) has assigned a special task force to work with BEM Systems, Inc. (BEM) in developing Turbo Relocation™, as part of their AASHTOWare® suite of software products. Turbo Relocation is designed to standardize the calculation of benefits under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, 49 CFR Part 24, as amended (Uniform Act) that guides determination of relocation benefits, associated with property relocations that result when various transportation-related infrastructure projects are implemented.
This is an exciting pioneer project for BEM, and differs vastly from our PAECETrak™ customization projects, in that AASHTO is contracting BEM to develop an entirely new software solution for them!
The photograph below was taken during the meetings that took place in mid-October, between key representatives from AASHTO and BEM project team members. The objective of these meetings was to review system requirements and approve design aspects of Turbo Relocation in anticipation of kicking-off the development phase.
Pictured below from left to right: Vicki Schofield, AASHTO Project Manager – Washington D.C. office; Kelly Rush, BEM Analyst; Andrew Crabb, BEM Application Development Manager; Sabra Mousavi, Arizona DOT – Turbo Relocation™ Task Force Chair; Dan Belcher, Michigan DOT; Dan Wyly, AASHTOWare® QA/QC Consultant – Dallas, TX area (formerly TX DOT); Tara Stewart, Delaware DOT; Richard Lieberman, BEM Director of MIS; Feng Tao, BEM Senior Applications Developer.
AASHTO is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association representing highway and transportation departments in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It represents all five transportation modes: air, highways, public transportation, rail, and water. Its primary goal is to foster the development, operation, and maintenance of an integrated national transportation system. The Association provides a forum in which member departments can jointly consider and act on issues of mutual concern.
To learn more about AASHTO, please visit: http://www.transportation.org/
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