{"id":9038,"date":"2017-06-16T19:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2017-06-16T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:55:01","slug":"forrest-swonsen-named-to-the-2017-acc-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/forrest-swonsen-named-to-the-2017-acc-board-of-directors\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Swonsen Named to the 2017 ACC Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9039\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 224px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9039\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forrest-Swonsen-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Forrest Swonsen\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forrest-Swonsen-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forrest-Swonsen.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Forrest Swonsen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Airport Consultants Council (ACC) announced that Forrest Swonsen, Associate Vice President, Airport Systems and Services at TransCore, has been named as a new member of the ACC Board of Directors.\u00c2\u00a0 He will fill a vacancy on the board created by the departure of Kevin Dolliole, the recently named Aviation Director of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forrest has contributed and served as a consistent advocate for ACC, and we are pleased to have him join the ACC board,&#8221; said Roddy Boggus, Chair of the ACC Board of Directors, with Suffolk. &#8220;He brings excellent and unique perspectives to the ACC leadership and will help us look forward at future trends and required services that will be needed by our airport clients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swonsen is the Associate Vice President of Airport Systems and Services at TransCore&#8217;s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Group.\u00c2\u00a0 As a leader of TransCore&#8217;s Airport Systems and Services business market, Forrest is responsible for implementing strategies that support the adoption and use of RFID and ITS technology in both air and landside operations.<\/p>\n<p>Swonsen has played a key role in several groundbreaking industry milestones thus far at Transcore, including the installation of the world&#8217;s first use of RFID technology in parking systems at Dallas\/Fort Worth International Airport; the implementation of GPS technology for airport ground transportation management; and the establishment of regional toll\/airport interoperability applications. Swonsen has also been instrumental in his current project: developing the first seamlessly interoperable airport\/seaport ground transportation management system in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to TransCore, Swonsen served in various senior business development roles and marketing positions with the ADT Government Systems Group, JWP\/Maris, and the Missile and Space Systems Group of Kaiser Aerospace and Rockwell Collins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airport Consultants Council (ACC) announced that Forrest Swonsen, Associate Vice President, Airport Systems and Services at TransCore, has been named as a new member of the ACC Board of Directors.\u00c2\u00a0 He will fill a vacancy on the board created by the departure of Kevin Dolliole, the recently named Aviation Director of the Louis Armstrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9040,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions\/9040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}