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May 2008
CTS shares safety efforts with international officials
Gina Baas (third from right) with visitors from Georgia
Officials from the country of Georgia visited CTS in April as part of the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. The officials, who are developing a traffic safety program in Georgia, also visited with Mn/DOT staff and experts in other U.S. cities.
Gina Baas, CTS director of communications and outreach, provided an overview of CTS safety-related research and outreach activities within the Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, and the Toward Zero Deaths program.
The International Visitor Leadership Program is a national initiative facilitated in Minnesota by the nonprofit Minnesota International Center. Visitors are invited by the U.S. Department of State to come to this country for approximately three weeks to meet with their professional counterparts and experience American culture without publicity or protocol. U.S. ambassadors have rated this program the most useful public diplomacy tool of all State Department programs.