The ITS Blog

February 27, 2017
Kara Macek
Governors Highway Safety Association

As autonomous vehicles (AVs) merge into our nation’s traffic, the most pressing safety challenge for states will be preparing human drivers. While these vehicles have the potential for tremendous safety benefits, AVs will be sharing the road with traditional driver-operated cars for many decades, perhaps forever ...

February 23, 2017
Deborah Hersman
National Safety Council

Our complacency is killing us. Americans believe there is nothing we can do to stop crashes from happening, but that isn't true. The US lags the rest of the developed world in addressing highway fatalities. We know what needs to be done; we just haven't done it ...

February 22, 2017
Michele Nellenbach
Bipartisan Policy Center

The Bipartisan Policy Center's Executive Council on Infrastructure announced the Coalition to Modernize American Infrastructure, which will set a foundation for the 2017 infrastructure debate ...

February 21, 2017
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

Part of the funding problem may be that ITS is still viewed by many decision makers as conceptual rather than real world. ITS is often categorized as research and development for the future, rather than as a very effective real world solution that delivers ROI today ...

February 16, 2017
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

The emergence of autonomous vehicles and many other electronic components render the current 12-volts (v) battery nearly unusable ...

February 14, 2017
Craig Hurst
FASTR

FASTR (Future of Automotive Security Technology Research) released a manifesto, Toward Tomorrow’s "Organically Secure" Vehicle, declaring the organization's intentions. FASTR seeks to enable innovation in automotive security by marshaling industry-wide collaboration on the actionable applied and theoretical R&D needed now to drive systematic coordination of cybersecurity across the entire supply chain and ensure trust in the connected and autonomous vehicle of the future ...

February 13, 2017
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

“Funding is a fundamental issue. We have to make trade-offs. Do I make this investment in ITS, or do I make sure three more bridges stand up? That is the biggest obstacle I see to ITS.”

February 09, 2017
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

US Senate Democrats unveiled a $1 trillion infrastructure plan on January 24. If ITS in the US needs anything, it is a solid injection of funds ...

February 07, 2017
Francois Fischer
ERTICO-ITS Europe

Europe has joined together to launch AUTOPILOT, a project to enable safer highly automated driving thanks to smart and connected objects and Internet of Things ...

February 01, 2017
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

Paris launched its first driverless electric shuttle bus service on January 23, with the goal of curbing the congestion and pollution that many Parisians blame for a range of health concerns ...

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