The ITS Blog

April 03, 2017
Paul Kompfner and Maria De Rycke
ERTICO

The ITS Observatory is not just Europe's first online catalogue of ITS deployment and "who's who" directory of the ITS community, it's a bright new channel for you to broadcast news of the smart transport and mobility systems you own and operate, or that you supply ...

March 30, 2017
Kara Macek
Governors Highway Safety Association

GHSA projects an 11% increase in the number of persons on foot killed on US roadways last year, compared to 2015. This would represent the steepest year-to-year increase since record-keeping began, both in terms of number of deaths and percent increase ...

March 20, 2017
Deborah Hersman
National Safety Council

NSC and USDOT established the Road to Zero initiative with the goal to eliminate traffic fatalities within 30 years. As part of the initiative, USDOT committed $1 million a year for 3 years, and NSC is dedicating $1 million over 3 years, to fund Safe System Innovation Grants. Now we are pleased to announce the grant recipients ...

March 16, 2017
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

The US President revealed a budget proposal today that includes cuts to transportation programs, including elimination of transportation TIGER Grants ...

March 13, 2017
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

Three USDOT Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Sites — New York City, Wyoming and Tampa — are designing, building, and testing an extensive deployment of integrated wireless in-vehicle, mobile device, and roadside technologies. The USDOT recently released new fact sheets about all three sites. Here are a few of the details ...

March 10, 2017
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

Are drivers actually ready for the rapid onslaught of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in the consumer vehicle market? A new Technology Demonstration Study (TDS) was conducted to determine whether drivers who are unfamiliar with ADAS technologies experience a change in their knowledge about and attitudes towards – including trust, usefulness, apprehension, and interest in purchasing – those technologies after they have learned about them ...

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 ...

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