“CREATE A CULTURE WITH NO FEAR OF FAILURE!”
ITS professionals have to embrace the possibility of failing if they want to innovate. That was the stirring message from Carlos Braceras, executive director of Utah Department of Transportation. Speaking at the ITS America Annual Meeting 2021 at a session about the Infrastructure and Jobs Act, he said:
“When you're innovative, the risk that we all have is that you make a mistake and fail. And so it's really important that you be willing - as a leader in an organisation - to create the framework to be able to allow your people to try new things, and to make mistakes.”
Braceras, who was inducted into the 2022 ITS Hall of Fame this week, recalled that early in his career he answered a question in an interview in a similar vein:
“I'm astounded that I still have a job, but this was over 35 years ago when I was early in my career, and I was asked, ‘What is your best skill?’ And without even thinking, I said: ‘Well, I can make more mistakes faster than anyone else –but I won't make the same mistake twice’ . And so it's really important in the public sector that you create an environment of trust for your employees and your private sector partners, to be able to try new things.”
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Michael Wieck (left) and Rish Malhotra of IRD
IRD senses broad growth in ITS
With over 40 years as a leader in commercial vehicle enforcement solutions, sensor technologies have always been important to IRD’s business.
The broader portfolio of a growing IRD offers even more to the ITS industry, forming the foundation for complex enforcement, port-of-entry, toll, traffic management and security systems.
At this year’s ITS America
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Annual Meeting, IRD is introducing new products and systems from recently acquired subsidiaries including Icoms Detections, whose microwavebased detection systems are used for traffic management, enforcement and vulnerable road user protection; Sensor Line, a specialist in fibre optic-based technology for tolling classification and cyclist detection; and VDS, developer and supplier of radar-based
products for red-light and speed enforcement.
IRD is also featuring the Tire Anomaly Classification System (TACS). TACS screens commercial vehicles and identifies tyres that are dangerous, such as flat tyres, or underinflated tyres that may pose a safety risk or affect fuel efficiency. Available as a standalone system or integrated with weigh station software, TACS has been adopted by a
LESS TIME IN TRAFFIC WITH NOTRAFFIC SENSORS
Don’t delay; visit the booth of NoTraffic to see the company’s edge-based autonomous traffic management platform that is reducing traffic delays in the US. It calculates optimal traffic signal timing and phase progression in real time.
The system’s plug-and-play AI sensors are installed at each intersection approach to provide road user detection and classification via a fusion of machine vision and radar.
Users are classified as bikes, pedestrians, trucks, buses and more. Anonymised processed data is streamed to the cloud for city-grid coordination. Connected vehicle capabilities are integrated directly into the sensor units.
Meanwhile, the AI optimisation engine, installed in the traffic light cabinet, aggregates sensor data from each approach, calculates optimisation variables and
large number of commercial vehicle enforcement agencies over the past few years and has also been trialled in driver information systems.
All these new technologies are available as simple modular solutions that enable a sustainable route to improve transportation safety and efficiency.
▶Booth: 2003 irdinc.com
monitors safety. It also acts as a gateway to cloud-based data analytics software and the user portal.
And it works! A project in Chandler, Arizona, showed a 20% reduction in traffic delays – down from 33.45 seconds to 26.62 per vehicle.
▶Booth: 1510 notraffic.tech
Here are some highlights of a packed programme of Plenary and Executive Sessions and Demonstrations to catch at the ITS America Annual Meeting in Charlotte today
inclusivity concepts. It will discuss related emerging approaches to mobility payment and accessibility. The panel will be asked to share their experience pertaining to these systems and provide their perspectives on partnership potential, policy, and more.
who will outline how emerging technologies are helping to improve the overall scope
to delve into the developing mobility trends such as mobility wallets, pilots, platforms and
Demonstrations
Connected Wise Demonstration
(11:00 – 16:30) Outdoor Demo Area
This demonstration by Connected Wise will showcase smart traffic sign applications along the public roads that will provide I2V communication for upcoming traffic safety messages such as pedestrian crosswalk ahead, railroad crossing ahead, or provide MAP message for rapidly changing lane geometries, for instance work zones. The smart signs and surrounding traffic elements will be identified and read by Connected Wise’s aftermarket ADAS solution, VisionConnect+, and alert the driver with visual and audio warnings during the demonstration.
NCDOT Integrated Mobility Division has partnered with Perrone Robotics to demonstrate a 19-passenger vehicle operating autonomously along a 1.5 mile loop within uptown Charlotte. The NCDOT & Perrone Robotics Demonstration (11:00 – 16:30 Outdoor Demo Area) will provide a real-world example on how autonomous vehicle technology and innovations can empower and connect communities. It will also showcase the broadcasting of connected vehicle technology including signal phasing and timing (SPaT) information through an Applied Information deployment of field infrastructure communicating with iPad on the vehicle.
CEOs share road ahead for investing in infrastructure
Find out what’s in store for state DOTs as they plan their future investments in projects ranging from roads to rail to transit to ferries. Start your Friday morning off from 09:30 to 10:45 in East Wing E217, with the State DOT Roundtable. This annual executive level session will focus on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). There will be two roundtable panels: the first will address policy issues while the second will focus on implementation.
The policy panel will be a high-level discussion covering what is in the IIJA and how technology can be considered and adopted; how DOTs will address equity issues, for example, how to provide mobility solutions for people who can’t/don’t own cars; and how DOTs may organise and prioritise their work as a result of the new federal legislation.
Implementation Panel
Panelists include Roger Millar, secretary, Washington State DOT; Julie Lorenz, secretary, Kansas DOT; Scott Marler, director, Iowa DOT; Shante Hastings, deputy secretary and chief engineer, Delaware DOT; Jim Tymon, executive director,
AASHTO; and Laura Chace, president and CEO, ITS America
The implementation panel will share ideas, best practices, success stories and suggestions on how to accelerate the deployment of these new
Barton will moderate both sessions
technologies as they move beyond pilot programs to implementation.
This will be a more granular discussion about how to implement transportation goals via new infrastructure solutions
that combine innovative technologies and practices. The panel will dive into issues such as how the new legislation will assist DOTs in ways prior legislation and funding did not; how its enhanced funding will allow DOTs to reprioritise or fast track projects; how IIJA will impact and help overcome some of the traditional issues such as data sharing, compartmentalised or siloed divisions, workforce challenges; and what lessons and examples DOTs can learn from other sectors to best build, manage, and operate its infrastructure with equity and sustainability in mind?
Lessons and examples
The session will be moderated by John Barton, senior VP HNTB, and panellists include Kevin Thibault, secretary, Florida DOT; Ed Sniffen, deputy director of highways, Hawaii DOT; Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, commissioner, New Jersey DOT; Dallas Hammit, deputy director and state engineer, Arizona DOT; Justin Reese, deputy secretary, New Mexico DOT; Jim Tymon, executive director, AASHTO; and Laura Chace, president and CEO, ITS America
Innovation Competition reaches its climax
The ITS America 2021 Annual Meeting Innovation competition, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) will reach its climax today with the selection of the winners from the 11 finalists.
AWS has put up $25,000 in credits for the competition, with this year’s theme being sustainability and resiliency in
transportation. Projects from the finalists will be able to adopted and implemented by public agencies and other organisations working to increase sustainability and resiliency in their transportation systems.
Sustainability and resiliency in transportation covers a wide variety of topics. Deployments can reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and range to projects that make the transportation sector more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
The 11 finalists battling for the top prize are GridMatrix; SFC Energy; Moonshadow Mobile; Flow Labs; Moonshadow Mobile; Consensus Systems Technologies (ConSysTec); University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; LYT; Integrated Roadways; Inrix; and Velodyne Lidar. They will give a pitch presentation to a final judging panel today and the overall winner will receive $12,500 in AWS credits that can be used towards any product or service within the AWS console. There are also prizes of $7,500 and $5,000 for the runners up.
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Yunex Traffic is here in Charlotte with what it claims is the most comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of intelligent traffic management solutions in the market. The company says the range already enables cities and mobility operators to make their road networks more intelligent, enhance safety, and increase value sustainably over their lifecycles.
But Yunex reveals the company is also on a mission to improve the quality of life, avoid accidents
and help get the climate crisis under control.
Miovision has launched a powerful hardware platform called Miovision Core to support the next generation of software solutions for intersection management.
Miovision Core is a small, extensible device that plugs into existing traffic signals and immediately connects them to a wireless network. Traffic teams then have remote monitoring and alerts for maintenance and repair issues.
Add-on extensions offer videobased detection and continuous traffic data, with software solutions from Miovision and its partners to offer a growing selection of solutions.
"Miovision Core has the capacity to
Yunex continues to offer trusted products and solutions including the state-of-the-art Sepac controller software which offers support for connected vehicles, priority for multimodal transportation and the latest peer-to-peer communications technology. It is compatible with M60 and 2070 style controllers. Tactics, the powerful, scalable, resilient, and easy-to-use traffic management system is fully
Yunex drives sustainability
compatible with Sepac controller software and brings the latest technology for advanced traffic management for the smart cities of today, and the future.
Stop by the Yunex booth to see its state-of-the-art dual mode RSU, a proven and powerful edge device that provides a wide array of applications, including wrong-way detection, pedestrian collision warning, emergency vehicle pre-emption and transit signal priority, as well as travel time calculation.
Looking to the future, visitors to the company’s booth will get gain first-hand knowledge about the next generation of Yunex products that are rolling down the pipeline. The innovative family of SiIWave solutions aims to better meet the future needs for data-driven services. The range will offer seamless integration from today’s systems to the SiWave family products and solutions.
▶Booth: 1113 yunextraffic.com
MIOVISION TO THE CORE
run a vast array of software solutions" said Kurtis McBride, Miovision co-founder and chief executive.
Miovision Core will eventually supersede Miovision SmartLink and Miovision SmartSense. Importantly, it provides twice the computational capability as Miovision SmartLink and provides new capabilities to run more sophisticated software solutions at the intersection. It adds over 50% more video computing power to support computer vision-based solutions like video detection and multimodal traffic counts.
▶Booth: 1619 miovision.com
Kurtis McBride of Miovision
Michael Gaertner of Yunex
www.yunextraffic.com
CHECK OUT THE LATEST FROM SWARCO MCCAIN
As Swarco McCain takes this opportunity to connect with its customers, peers, and business partners, the company is also looking forward to making new friends and forging new relationships here in Charlotte.
Visitors to the Swarco McCain booth will experience the latest in technological and service innovations, central software and signal performance measures.
For instance, the revolutionary McCain ATC cabinet series, combining the best of rack mount and serial-based designs to exceed the needs of today’s LED intersections. Using smarter, high-density components, the company’s cabinets offer advanced traffic control for unparalleled intersection control capabilities.
Cutting-edge controllers are designed to take customers into the future, with scalability and performance, quality, reliability, and innovative features. So too with its proven ATC cabinets that meet the needs of today’s smart cities and are ready for tomorrow’s challenges, including connected and autonomous vehicles.
Visitors to the Swarco McCain booth are invited to discover dynamic message signs that promote road safety and awareness by providing travellers with information about
exceptional driving conditions, events, or alerts. With their clear visibility and colour uniformity from any angle, unrivalled contrast ratios, low power draw, and low total cost of ownership, Swarco McCain dynamic signs are the most desirable signs on the market today.
The company also offers a vision for the
TransCore ploughs ahead this winter
There’s no business like snow business if traffic controllers have to move mountains of the white stuff to keep roads clear in winter. The citizens of Denver, Colorado, know this all too well.
But TransCore is coming to their rescue, thanks to a contract just signed with Colorado DoT to implement signal priority for snowploughs. Signal prioritisation for pedestrians, buses and emergency vehicles is common. But the pilot project, which starts in March in District One in metropolitan Denver, is the first of its kind, said Michael Mauritz, senior vice-president of ITS solutions at
TransCore. If successful it could be rolled out to other municipalities in the state.
For the past three to five years, Denver, like New York, San Jose and Montreal, has already been using TransCore’s TransSuite traffic management software for real-time analysis and change signal patterns at the touch of a button. The beauty of the Denver deal is there is no major up-front cost for expensive new hardware. Instead, the project uses exiting equipment. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
▶Booth: 1510 transcore.com
future of smart, connected, and efficient cities with MyCity, a scalable technology platform that can improve traffic flow, reduce congestion and pollution, increase road safety, and decrease maintenance costs.
▶Booth: 1519 mccain-inc.com
Dura-Line smooths the way
Dura-Line Corporation has made available a portfolio of communications conduits lined with its new, proprietary Silicore ULF (ultra-low friction) material.
“Testing and field trials have been extremely encouraging, with an increase of up to 25% when jetting fibre optic cable,” said product manager Richard Hicks. The product provides 40% lower coefficient of friction than the previous Silicore lining, he adds, meaning that “installations go quicker, saving companies and municipalities a lot of time and money”.
Founded in 1971 in Middlesboro, KY, Dura-Line was the first to develop conduit for the telecoms industry, says Tim Grimsley, vice president of global customer engagement. “We were the first to manufacture duct with pre-installed pull lines or power/fibre cables. We were the first to integrate longitudinally-ribbed lining into our duct, and so much more. These are commonplace in our industry now thanks to Dura-Line’s pioneering spirit.”
▶Booth: 2028 duraline.com
Don Maas and Eric Itzel of McCain
Axis takes SoC to the edge
Axis is announcing the 8th generation of its custom-designed system-on-chip (SoC) made for network video, here at the ITS America Annual Meeting. By taking edge compute to an even higher level, ARTPEC-8 supports powerful analytics applications based on deep learning on the edge, where cameras have the processing power to analyse data within the camera itself.
An example of deeplearning-based analytics is highly granular real-time object detection and classification that makes it possible to develop analytics that can distinguish between different kinds of objects, such as types of vehicles or pedestrians.
Analysing data on the edge – on the camera – means no information is lost in compression or transmission, making results more reliable. It allows for faster alerts, which in turn lets users act instantly to protect people and property and make the right decisions about their operations. It creates cost savings because less bandwidth
and storage and fewer servers are needed.
Less bandwidth and storage also significantly reduce the risk of loss of sensitive data and fewer servers improves scalability. It also opens the door to other deep-learning-based analytics that deliver actionable insights for security, safety and
operational purposes. With the camera’s open platform, coupled with the expanded GPU performance, Axis says it has become the ultimate enabler to the AI/ DL development community. ARTPEC-8 continues to facilitate Axis Lightfinder 2.0 and Axis Forensic WDR for the best image
Timing is everything, says
DanLaw’s AutoLink and RouteLink work hand-in-hand to improve traffic signal management. The combination not only helps time traffic signals to improve vehicle flow and allows the safe and fast passage of emergency vehiclesbut it can also lock down an intersection in the event of local emergency, such as a fallen pedestrian.
AutoLink’s on-board units support DSRC or C-V2X radios to give drivers enhanced route information that can be presented on a variety of HMI options, including LED displays, heads-up displays, infotainment systems, cellphones, tablets and audio output.
Meanwhile, RouteLink units, can send out red-light violation, reduced speed zone and curve speed warnings. Intersection movement and left-turn assists to keep traffic flowing no matter what time of day.
To round off DanLaw’s offering at ITSA, visit their booth to take a test drive, courtesy of the company’s subsidiary BitBrew. Learn how it can help establish road conditions and a city’s liability in the event of legal issues arising from road use.
▶Booth: 2108 danlawinc.com
processing under difficult light conditions. Stay tuned, as some of the first cameras to include this chip are the soon-to-belaunched AXIS Q3536-LVE/38LVE Dome Cameras and AXIS Q1656-LE Box Camera.
▶Booth: 1719 axis.com
DanLaw
Anthony Incorvati of Axis
Alyssa Camilleri of DanLaw
AEye is showcasing how its adaptive Lidar both enables smart mobility infrastructure, and improves intersection management, tolling and automatic incident detection on highways.
As Akram Benmbarek, VP of business development and strategic initiatives, points out, intelligent transportation systems are gaining sophistication, but still lack the intelligence to dynamically assess their environment and use real-time data to make smart decisions.
Next-gen Lidar advances ITS
“This is where adaptive Lidar comes in, adding value to ITS by delivering reliable, real-time 3D data and accurate object detection in all conditions,” says Benmbarek, adding that Lidar works even in harsh weather and poor lighting - and, in AEye’s case, at very long range: “It can distinguish between a car or a mother with a stroller at 200 metres.”
At the company’s booth here in Charlotte, AEye will demonstrate Lidar’s role in advancing ITS systems, including applications like
ITS America Awards
2021: the winners
We’ve won! Laura Chace (centre), president & CEO of ITS America, congratulates Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) president & CEO Joanna Pinkerton (left), and Jordan Burnsed, head of new offering introduction at Genetec. COTA won ITS America’s Best of Mobility on Demand Award for its Plus & Bus on Demand service. Genetec won the Best of ITS Award for its work with the City of Folsom to manage traffic enclosures. Other awards handed out at the ceremony in Charlotte on Tuesday evening were the 2021 Outstanding State Chapter of the Year, which went to ITS California; and the 2021 State Chapter Council Special Recognition Award, won by ITS Georgia. And finally, Carlos Braceras of Utah DOT was inducted into the 2022 ITS Hall of Fame.
wrong-way detection, workzone safety warnings, smart parking, and SLAM - simultaneous localisation and mapping. Attendees will also learn about adaptive Lidar and its role in improving the safety, efficiency and connectivity of traffic infrastructure.
In this demo, delegates will see how adaptive Lidar improves intersection traffic management; tolling applications; monitoring of train station passenger boarding and deboarding; detection of train track obstruction; and operations in
inclement weather.
“The traffic management systems of tomorrow will be aware of weather and traffic conditions,” says Brent Blanchard, AEye’s SVP and GM, industrial and mobility. “They will also better understand traffic patterns and will bring a new level of intelligence to their operations that will improve the life of their citizens, reduce pollution, reduce costs and so much more.”
▶Booth: 1321 aeye.ai
Brent Blanchard of Aeye
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BOSCH’S VAAS SOLUTIONS
Bosch is demonstrating how its Video as a Sensor (VaaS) technology integrates seamlessly with partners' devices to provide endto-end real-time safety solutions for ITS.
At the booth, Bosch video sensors with built-in Traffic Detector software will detect heavy traffic on a highway as well as congestion on an interchange. Traffic Detector software improves detection capabilities in congested scenes, enabling accurate counting of overlapping vehicles queued in front of traffic lights or in dense traffic jams. It also ignores possible disturbances caused by vehicle headlights or shadows, extreme weather, and sun reflections.
When congestion is detected, the camera will trigger real-time alerts to integrated partner devices. Direct integration with MH Corbin and Yunex
Hill & Smith makes an impact
No matter how small an impact is to a barrier, its safety efficiency could be compromised – even if there is no visible evidence of an event. The HS2X impact notification device from Hill & Smith lets you know when your barrier has been compromised anytime, all the time.
The small wireless device weighs around one pound and measures less than 9 inches long, 4 inches wide and 2 inches high. It quickly attaches to a barrier, such as a crash attenuator, by either strong magnets or bolts. It is activated simply by maintenance personnel scanning the unit’s QR code and then it will automatically send a real-time email as well as SMS alerts the instant an event occurs.
It can even be placed inside a traffic cone to alert site crews of disrupted traffic safety routes. Importantly, in case of theft, a unit switches to recovery mode to activate real-time tracking notifications at 30-second intervals.
The HS2X has an accelerometer for Smart Movement-based tracking. It is powered by two D-size LTC batteries with up to five years of battery life. To help with maintenance, there is a built-in battery-life meter for remote monitoring.
▶Booth: 1513 hillandsmith.com
Traffic devices enables a variety of CAV use cases using V2X communications. The Bosch integrated detection solution is a collective perception system that broadcasts safety messages to on-board units in connected vehicles.
The Bosch video sensors will also classify objects in the traffic scene as motorcycles, cars, trucks and buses, and feed the data that includes vehicle counts by lane, class, direction and speed into dashboards. The Bosch ITS Data Service dashboards display the information in an easily consumable and actionable format for informed decisionmaking. The Data Service can also be accessed directly using an API, allowing the rich data repository to be brought into existing reporting solutions.
Joel White of Bosch
Cecil Brown of Hill & Smith
If your intersection needs more than a fresh coat of paint to keep up with today's infrastructure demands, keep reading. Outdated technology at the intersection can cause headaches for technicians and travellers alike, resulting in dangerous travel scenarios and tedious signal timing plans.
Scout by Cubic Transportation Systems offers modern controller software that integrates with existing
2070, 980 ATC and Commander controllers to extend the life and value of equipment.
The newest release of Scout includes unrivalled benefits like improved ring logic, the addition of free rings, and overlap updates to help you revitalise your intersection and keep your city moving.
Other major benefits provided by Scout include increased phases, rings and overlaps to give total
CUBIC’S SCOUT REVITALISES INTERSECTION CONTROL
freedom to signal day plans; free rings provide more options to optimise signalised intersections with sign outputs, right turns with conflicting pedestrian movements, and isolated pedestrian crossings not at the intersection; and mitigate yellow traps with new flashing yellow termination options.
There are other features, including the ability to optimise intersections with
heavy pedestrian traffic using new independent pedestrian overlaps; improve public transit safety and notify light rail operators; and gain even more flexibility with signal plans by customising outputs to enable or disable overlaps independently.
The newest release of Cubic Transportation System's Scout software is now available.
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Derq and CT Partner go to Fremont
Derq and CT Group are partnering with the City of Fremont to deploy intersection analytics systems on a connected corridor.
The Fremont Boulevard Safe and Smart Corridor Project is a nine-mile section of road in the Californian city.
“This project will not only modernise our traffic systems to make them more safe, but will also provide a more efficient driving experience for our community members by improving traffic flow,” said Fremont Mayor Lily Mei.
“Derq’s intersection analytics systems will help take this project to the next level as we continue our work to make Vision Zero a reality in Fremont. The data will supplement our existing efforts and give us the tools to take an increasingly proactive safety
approach.” Derq’s primary responsibility involves enabling analytics systems at 37 Intersections along Fremont Boulevard to provide ongoing analysis from traffic intersection video sources of multimodal conflicts using artificial intelligence (AI).
Derq’s software will detect “near-miss” interactions at intersections and crosswalks and identify safety hot spots based on dangerous roadway behaviour - including red-light running, speeding, wrong-way driving and pedestrians crossing against a red light, as well as provide continuous classified counts and turning movement reports.
“We have worked extensively with various city and state governments to advance some of the largest and popularly-travelled
corridors in the US,” said Karl Jeanbart, chief operating officer of Derq.
“We’re excited to bring our knowledge and experience to the Fremont Boulevard Safe and Smart Corridor Project so they remain one of the most advanced and safe roadways in the country.”
Joe Hoferer, CT’s vice president Western Region, says: “The Derq safety analytics platform is revolutionising how we study and understand safety and risks for vulnerable road users… the city is embarking on one of the most advanced Vision Zero-focused traffic projects in history.”
▶ Booth: 1914 en.derq.com
Jeff Price (left), Audrey Denis and Andy Taylor of Cubic
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Cybersecurity isn’t infrastructure? Like hell, it isn’t
This recent quote by the Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans is instructive. The transportation industry has made significant strides in awareness of the cyber vulnerabilities of traffic systems. Despite these improvements, we’ve yet to see the majority of DOTs take sufficient cybersecurity actions.
And today’s vulnerabilities will create far more risk as we expand the use of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) and Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communications. One approach to more efficiently accelerate the
deployment of cyber defences in transportation is to treat cybersecurity as part of the infrastructure, instead of an afterthought.
A possible analogy would be to say: “Pour the concrete for the bridge. Then, we can decide later whether to include rebar.” Rebar is an essential requirement; else, the bridge cannot be considered safe. Likewise, cybersecurity should be written into all new project requirements to, at the very least, limit the further deployment of vulnerable equipment and systems. Further, the inclusion of
cybersecurity as a required element of infrastructure projects should accelerate the improved security of systems.
Additionally, this approach would push selected contractors and vendors to build a cohesive cybersecurity approach into proposed projects and make them share responsibility for a successful outcome. While cybersecurity measures have been somewhat slow in the industry, there has been recent progress with a few DOTs taking effective steps towards securing their traffic networks.
In tomorrow’s (Friday’s)
conference session, Cybersecurity Isn’t Infrastructure? Like Hell, it Isn’t (08:00 – 09:00 East Wing E219D) the panel tackles today’s cybersecurity challenges from a range of perspectives, including the current threat landscape; DOT perspectives and challenges; limitations in existing ITS architecture; the consultant’s role in cybersecurity; workforce development needs; the evergrowing security challenges in the ITS industry; and security best practices for DOTs, agencies and hardware/ software manufacturers.
See you next year: Looking forward to LA 2022
Next September, the 28th ITS World Congress will return to the US for the first time since 2014 – to Los Angeles, a city that embodies ‘Transformation by Transportation’
The premier event for ITS will bring together industry stakeholders, including policymakers, OEMs, entrepreneurs, researchers, academics, investors, and other leaders from around the world. They will connect, network and participate in live education sessions in which industry experts present the latest developments in ITS along with a comprehensive expo floor showcasing cutting-edge technology.
Los Angeles is a leader in developing innovative ways for people to move around. Just as it did for the 1984 Olympics, the city is making infrastructure improvements in advance of the 2028 games that will benefit residents for decades to come, including the Twenty-Eight by ’28 initiative to complete 28 transit projects by 2028.
The city has said it will be carbon neutral by 2050 with its Green New Deal, which includes such targets as electrifying the bus fleet by 2030; requiring 80% of vehicles to be electric by 2035; and reducing vehicle miles travelled (VMT) by 45% by 2050.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the two largest in the nation and combined are the tenth largest in the world. Together, they move roughly 40% of the nation’s total containerised imports and
emission delivery zone, and so much more to ensure a safer, green, smarter, and more equitable future.
“Los Angeles – the city most known for cars even 20 years ago - is now leading a transformation with transit and micromobility, and it is using data to make the system more efficient and more equitable,” said Laura Chace, president & CEO of ITS America.
30% of exports. The modernisation through technology at these ports is an example of how to move the 21st century economy.
Leading the way
Los Angeles is leading the way in changing how people get around, how goods are delivered and how data is optimised for public benefit. Join us as we gather to experience how technology is being deployed to transform transportation – using AI to more efficiently operate systems, deploying personal delivery devices to assess infrastructure, creating the nation’s first zero
LA Convention Centre
Los Angeles, the second largest city in the US has it all - culture, nightlife, sun, sand and the Hollywood Hills. Los Angeles Convention Centre (LACC), located in the heart of vibrant downtown LA, is a leading destination for conventions, trade shows and exhibitions. Only 17 miles from Los Angeles International Airport, the ITS World Congress venue is conveniently located in the southwest district of downtown LA. The shopping/ restaurant hubs around the convention centre include The Block, Fig at 7th, LA Live and Restaurant Row on 7th Street.
“We’re enthusiastic about the ITS World Congress 2022 in Los Angeles. The longterm planning and vision we are creating along with our partner ITS America is in sync with our view of significant intelligent transportation and mobility sector innovation, transformations and growth for the years ahead,” said Jaime McAuley, marketing & event director of Reed Exhibitions.
Conference Programme
LA2022 will have a packed and wide-ranging menu of plenary and executive sessions. Learning and dialogue opportunities with peers from around the world will be further enhanced by a full range of special interest, technical/scientific and strategic technology sessions, as well as a whole range of ancillary meetings and events.
Intelligent transportation technologies present us with an opportunity to transform mobility and change outcomes for generations - greener communities and more resilient systems, increased access and equity, and safer, smarter streets for all.
We expect more than 300 innovative companies exhibiting ground-breaking transportation technologies at the LA Convention Centre. Space is still available for the 2022 event, so if you’re interested, please contact Adam Balsam at abalsam@ rxglobal.com for more details and to reserve your space!
ITS America members are eager to engage with others around the world who share our vision of a better future transformed by intelligent mobility – one that is safer, greener, smarter, and more equitable. We look forward to a transformational event September 18-22, 2022.
Laura Chace, ITS America president & CEO