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 Still deciding whether to attend the Annual Meeting? ITS America has a few last-minute additions to the Annual Meeting program that we think you'll find make it worth the trip to Houston! Save time and register online.
ITS America launches new "Read and Respond" discussion page to get your input on hot topics in ITS policy ITS America Share    
The ITS America Policy and Business Council regularly develops papers on topics of interest to our membership. We are launching a new initiative to engage a broader spectrum of members in these discussions. ITS America is comprised of a diverse group of members, from state DOTs, to universities, to private sector companies involved in transportation technology. We know you will have diverging opinions, and our hope is that an active dialogue will result in an overall stronger product. To facilitate this discourse, we have developed an interactive "Read and Respond" page that features some of the newest reports, studies, and publications developed by our staff and membership. You will find instructions on the page for how to submit your comments on featured reports to ITS America's LinkedIn Group. We have two papers currently featured on the discussion page for your review and comment. The first paper is a position statement developed by our Policy and Business Council on transportation finance, public-private partnerships, and private investment as it relates to ITS. The second is a follow-up report to "Moving Cooler," the first-ever comprehensive analysis of transportation efficiency and its relationship to greenhouse gas reductions and consumer savings. It is authored by ITS America Sustainability Forum Chair Lou Neudorff and focuses on ITS deployments. We will post each paper for approximately three weeks. After that time, we will prepare a summary of comments and revise as appropriate. We hope you'll take some time to review the featured reports and let us know what you think. We want to hear from you! More 
ITS Joint Program Office hosts onsite IntelliDrive℠ Workshop: Enabling Devices and Products with DSRC ITS America Share
The IntelliDrive℠ Program is interested in accelerating vehicle-to-vehicle communications using dedicated short range communications within a wide variety of devices. Through the IntelliDrive℠ effort, a DSRC 5.9 GHz network has been made available for a range of applications that address active safety by providing crash warnings that are designed to reduce or eliminate vehicle crashes. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems' Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) seeks to better understand the potential for a wide range of devices to be enabled with the DSRC technology to communicate vehicle-to-vehicle information and messaging. In addition to learning more about the suite of devices that could potentially be equipped with DSRC communications capabilities, the ITS JPO seeks to understand the major issues facing manufacturers, and the potential for the Federal government to play a role in addressing those issues or overcoming deployment hurdles. To achieve these outcomes, the ITS JPO is hosting an open "Enabling Devices and Products with DSRC" Workshop on May 5, from 1–5 p.m. during the ITS America Annual Meeting. The workshop is open and free of charge to all interested parties in the automotive, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and other industries. Register to attend with ITS America.
Take part in an ITS America survey of North American companies in the ITS market ITS America Share
In cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, ITS America is conducting a survey of private sector companies that are active in the North American ITS market. The survey seeks aggregate revenue and employment data from across the ITS industry to help U.S. DOT come up with a credible estimate of the North American ITS market and related employment. This estimate will fill a data gap and help promote understanding of the ITS industry and its economic impact. We have sent the survey to more than 3,500 companies we identified and for which we had contact information. If you have received an e-mail invitation to complete the survey, we would appreciate your taking the time to respond. All information provided will be protected under a non-disclosure commitment and will be presented only in the aggregate. If you have not yet received an invitation to participate, or would like more information about the survey, please contact the Market Data Analysis project staff by e-mailing MDAProject@itsa.org or calling Laurie May, the Project Director, at (202) 721-4221.
South Korea and Japan streets ahead in smart transport CNN Share
Juwan Yoo was tired of calling up the old-school telephone hotline to find out when his bus would come — and excited about the iPhone's arrival in South Korea. So the 17-year-old developed the "Seoul Bus" application, which crawls public transport Web sites to give real-time updates for all bus stops in the capital and its surrounding provinces. More
Voice controls in the car keep eyes on the road USA Today Share
A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study, commissioned by Ford Motor, has found that drivers using voice controls for electronics took their eyes off the road far less than drivers who fiddled with music players and cellphones. More More enforcement planned against distracted driving The Wall Street Journal Share
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would escalate efforts to stop motorists from texting or talking on mobile phones, funding pilot programs to ticket distracted drivers in New York and Connecticut and urging auto makers to rethink hands-free communications systems in cars. More ITS are useful tools to weaken greenhouse-gas emissions Roads and Bridges Magazine Share
As the debate continues over transportation's relationship to climate change, reducing greenhouse-gas emissions has become a primary goal for the surface transportation system sector for a multitude of reasons. Transportation relies on petroleum for 95 percent of its energy, consumes approximately 20 percent of global energy and produces 28 percent of GHG emissions. More UN approves a Decade of Action to combat global road safety crisis Traffic Technology Today Share
The United Nations has agreed that 2011-2020 will be the global Decade of Action for Road Safety, in a landmark victory for the FIA Foundation's Make Roads Safe campaign. The U.N. has acted in the face of a rapidly escalating road safety crisis. Each year, 1.3 million people are killed on the world's roads and the death toll is set to rise dramatically over the next decade unless action is taken. Developing countries are particularly badly affected, accounting for 90 percent of global fatalities. More Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority taps tech-savvy to keep riders in loop The Boston Globe Share
The number 39 bus is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's busiest, carrying 14,400 passengers a day between Jamaica Plain and the Back Bay in Boston. Its schedule is tacked up at JP Licks, where commuters grab coffee before catching the bus, but anyone who has ridden the 39 knows the posted times are only a suggestion. More The real car tech of tomorrow: How more bytes, lighter bits, and safer belts will shape the cars of the next decade Car and Driver Share
Things can change dramatically in the span of a decade. If you're reading this, you likely have access to the Internet, or at least a generous friend with a printer. The same might not have been true in the year 2000. Since then, Web access has made it to our pockets and our cars. Ten years ago, talking to your car was a sign you had a screw loose, airbags were not purchased by the dozen, and electric cars were found in large quantities only on carnival midways and golf courses. Cars are certainly changing, and the rate of that change will only increase over the next decade. More Research In Motion buys software company that delivers Internet services to cars The Canadian Press via The Record Share
Blackberry maker Research In Motion announced that it's buying QNX Software Systems, an Ottawa-based company with technology that helps bring the Internet to cars. QNX's technology can be used to deliver wireless broadband services such as Internet radio, video-on-demand and navigation to vehicles. More |
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