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TTI Council Member, Gary K. Trietsch

TTI Council Member: Gary K. Trietsch

Gary K. Trietsch is the district engineer for the Houston District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The district comprises six counties: Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Montgomery and Waller. He was named district engineer of the Houston District in September 1995.

Trietsch joined TxDOT's Fort Worth District Tarrant County construction section in 1967, working summers and part time while attending the University of Texas at Arlington. After earning his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1970, he moved to the design section. From 1972 to 1978, Trietsch worked in the district traffic engineering section, earning his master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1974. While working in various design capacities in the Fort Worth District from 1978 to 1987, Trietsch became assistant district design engineer in 1985.

Moving to Austin in 1987, Trietsch became director of the safety and traffic operations section in the Safety and Maintenance Operations Division. As assistant division director for traffic operations in 1988, he was responsible for the central permit operations, traffic safety, traffic engineering and traffic management systems sections in the Maintenance and Operations Division. In 1992, Trietsch was selected as director of the division.

Honored for his contributions in the field of engineering and to the state of Texas, Trietsch received the 1991 Dewitt C. Greer Award from TxDOT, the 1996 Transportation Engineer of the Year award from the Texas Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and the 1997 Dr. L. I. Hewes Award from the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (WASHTO).

Founding president of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) of Texas from 1993 to 1994, Trietsch is also a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers. A native of Fort Worth, Trietsch and his wife, Bonnie, have two daughters.

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