ITS America

Intelligent Transportation Society of America
Abbreviation ITS America
Formation 1991
Type Non-governmental organization
Purpose Help save lives, time and money and sustain the environment through broad deployment of interoperable ITS technologies
Headquarters 1100 New Jersey Ave. SE
Suite 850
Washington, DC 20003
Region served
United States
Website http://www.itsa.org

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) is a Washington, D.C. based membership and advocacy group for the development and deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the United States. ITS America was established in 1991 as a not-for-profit organization to foster the use of advanced technologies in surface transportation systems. In late 2017, Shailen Bhatt was named as the CEO of ITS America.

ITS America membership is composed of state and city public agencies, private companies, research institutions and academia, and includes automakers, telecommunications, traditional IT and emerging technology, consumer apps and industrial electronics, road, transit and other transportation infrastructure operators and the research community[1]

The organization is one of the participants and hosts of the 2017 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems held from October 29 to November 2, 2017 in Montreal, Canada[2], the 2018 congress in Copenhagen[3] and will host the 2020 ITS World Congress in Los Angeles, California. The 2018 ITS America Annual Meeting was held in Detroit, Michigan from June 4-7. The 2019 ITS America Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., June 4-7, 2019.


See also

  • Official website
  • "Top 5 Takeaways from ITS America 2018 on the V2X Path Forward". June 7, 2018.

References

  1. ↑ "Our Members". ITS America.
  2. ↑ "Official ITS World Congress website".
  3. ↑ "Online programme".
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