Upcoming Webinar: How Agencies Are Getting Ahead of Event Congestion with ClearGuide

Big events are great for bringing people together—but not always so great for the roadways that have to handle the surge. Whether it’s a sports event, music festival, or a seasonal tourist rush, major planned events can seriously disrupt traffic flow and put extra stress on the community. And for agencies already juggling day‑to‑day operations, preparing for those spikes can feel like a whole separate job.

In our upcoming webinar, “Event Congestion: Planning, Managing, and Measuring Disruptive Traffic Events with ClearGuide” we’re bringing together experts from Iteris, LA Metro, and the Montana Department of Transportation to show how real-time insights and historical traffic data can make major events a lot easier to manage—before, during, and after they happen.

Agencies across the country are using ClearGuide® to better understand and respond to disruptions tied to big events. During the webinar, LA Metro will walk through how they're preparing as one of the 11 U.S. host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, including what they learned from the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in Pasadena.

They’ll also share how they’re gearing up for the 2028 Summer Olympics, which is basically the ultimate test of transportation planning. It’s a massive lift, and their team is already deep into the details.

On the other end of the spectrum, MDT will highlight the challenges in more rural settings—like handling concert-driven congestion in Billings or the seasonal crush in Big Sky and Yellowstone, where tourism spikes and record snowfall collide to create unique mobility issues. ClearGuide is helping them pinpoint problem areas, understand patterns, and reduce the guesswork.

Who You’ll Hear From

Ed Alegre, PTP, is a Deputy Executive Officer at LA Metro’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Group. Ed graduated with a BA from the University of California Irvine and an MS in Transportation Management from San Jose State University, Mineta Transportation Institute. He has 24 years’ experience in transportation planning, traffic engineering, and ITS. He currently oversees Metro’s ITS Programs as well as part of the planning and delivery team for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2028 Olympic Games. LA Metro is the planning and operations agency for the greater Los Angeles area, with a population of 10 million.

Julie Wotring, PE, serves as the Signal Timing Engineer for the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT). With over 25 years of professional engineering experience in Montana and Alaska, Julie has dedicated much of her career to optimizing traffic signal operations to enhance safety and mobility for roadway users. She spearheaded the introduction of signal performance measures in Montana and has managed MDT’s implementation of the ClearGuide system. Julie is excited about leveraging ClearGuide in her daily work and looks forward to expanding it across the state to further improve transportation efficiency in Montana.

Megan McElwee, PE, serves as Solutions Engineering Manager at Iteris, with 9 years in the transportation industry. She is a licensed professional engineer with experience in ITS and traffic engineering, strategic planning, stakeholder outreach, and project and program management for advanced transportation technology projects. Megan uses her traffic industry background to aid in the sales and delivery of Iteris’s ClearGuide transportation analytics software.

Christy Rose is Director of Product Marketing at Iteris and will again serve as Moderator for this latest virtual event.

Join Us Live

The webinar is one hour and includes a live Q&A so you can dig deeper into the topics that matter to your agency. Register now!

Much of this ties back to what we covered in our recent Super Bowl blog, “From Stadium to City Streets: What ClearGuide Revealed About Super Bowl LX Traffic Impacts.” If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s a great warm‑up for this webinar.