Technical Committees

The bulk of the work of the NCUTCD takes place in eight Technical Committees:

Members and Associate Members, appointed by sponsors, serve on the technical committees. In addition, well-qualified individuals serve on the technical committees as “Technical Members.” These Technical Members serve as voting members of individual technical committees, but they do not have the right to vote in the Council or to hold office in the NCUTCD.

The chairs of the technical committees as of March 2026 are as follows:

RW Signs	Erika Lindeberg	rwstc-chair@ncutcd.org
GMI Signs	Jason Hyatt	gmi-chair@ncutcd.org
Markings	Paul Carlson	markings-chair@ncutcd.org
Signals	John Hibbard	signals-chair@ncutcd.org
TTC	Ryan Lancaster	ttc-chair@ncutcd.org
RRLRT	JoNette Kuhnau	rrlrt-chair@ncutcd.org
Bicycle	Rock Miller	btc-chair@ncutcd.org

Qualifications: The NCUTCD is continually looking for well-qualified individuals to serve on its Technical Committees. What is expected of a Technical Member? A member is expected to serve actively on a Technical Committee as described below.

Attend the meetings of the NCUTCD. The Committee holds two three-day meetings each year normally beginning on Wednesday and concluding on Friday. The winter meeting is held in the Washington, DC area in January on the Wednesday to Friday preceding the Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting. The location of the summer meeting rotates around the United States and is normally held in conjunction with the AASHTO Traffic Engineering Subcommittee meeting. This is usually in June.
Serve on and participate actively in Technical Committee Task Forces.
Actively correspond by mail, phone, fax or e-mail between NCUTCD meetings.

How to Apply for Technical Membership:Those interested in being appointed as a technical member should attend a NCUTCD meeting as a visitor and sit in on one or more technical committee(s). Visitors are welcome to attend technical committee meetings as space permits. After determining that you have the qualifications and desire to contribute to the work of a particular committee and talking to the technical committee chair, you should fill out the official form and send it to the NCUTCD Executive Secretary. After determining that there is a vacancy on the committee, the form is sent to the technical committee chair and, if approved by the chair, is then considered at the next meeting of the Executive Board. If approved by the board, the applicant then becomes a Technical Member immediately. Click here for more information about joining the NCUTCD.

Joint Committees

Joint committees are permanent committees in which the primary activities are coordinating activities conducted by the technical committees and other activities. Each technical committee shall have an equal number of voting members on a joint committee. The joint committee chair is a voting member of the joint committee. Voting members are appointed by a technical committee chair as described in Operating Procedure III.

The NCUTCD Joint Committees and their chairs are:

Edit Committee	Bill Lambert	programs-chair@ncutcd.org
Research Committee	Bryan Katz	research-chair@ncutcd.org

Joint Task Forces

Joint Task Forces. The primary purpose of a joint task force is the coordination of MUTCD content for topics that overlap the jurisdictions of all the technical committees. A joint task force is created by the action of the Executive Board and will act until
disbanded by the Executive Board. The activities of a joint task force are defined in Operating Procedure III. Each technical committee shall have an equal number of voting members on a joint task force as specified in Operating Procedure III. The joint task force chair is a voting member of the joint task force but is not considered as part of the technical committee representation on the joint task force. Voting members are appointed by a technical committee chair as described in Operating Procedure III. At least one of the voting members appointed to a joint task force by a technical committee chair shall be a government representative as defined in Operating Procedure I. Each technical committee chair may also appoint an alternate member to a joint task force. A joint task force may include an unlimited number of non-voting members as described in Operating Procedure III. An alternate member may vote in place of a voting member when the voting member is not present. A non-voting member shall not assume voting privileges when a voting member is not present.

The NCUTCD Joint Task Forces and their chairs are:

CAV	Roxane Mukai	rmukai@mdta.state.md.us
Pedestrian	Randy McCourt	503.randy.mccourt@gmail.com
Roundabout	Scott Zehngraff	scottzehn@yahoo.com
Rules of the Road	Ronnie Bell	ronnie.bell@austintexas.gov

Revised 06/17/2026