ITS America’s 12th Annual Meeting & Exposition
takes place April 29-May 2 at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach,
Calif.
Operating under the theme “Securing Our Future,”
ITS America’s Annual Meeting & Exposition version 12 marks the first
under the guidance of President and CEO Neil D. Schuster, who took the reigns
at ITS America last fall.
Transportation Management + Engineering offers a brief overview of the Megasessions, sessions, exhibit area and the Awards Gala which make up the core of the event, as well as various meetings and tours at North America’s largest gathering of ITS professionals.
Megasessions
A total of three Megasessions are pegged for this
year’s event. The first Megasession, scheduled Monday, April 29, from
9-11 a.m., features keynote speaker Samuel “Sandy” Berger, who
served as national security advisor to President Clinton. As an expert in
international affairs, Berger offers ITSA 2002 attendees perspective on the
long-term im-pact of Sept. 11 with an emphasis on the related issues of
security and transportation.
The second Megasession, held Tuesday, April 30, from 1:30-3
p.m. is titled “ITS and Homeland Security.” This session involves
senior federal transportation officials discussing how their policies and
organizations have changed as a result of Sept. 11.
The final Megasession, “ITS and the Transportation
Infostructure,” is slated for Wednesday, May 1, 1:30-3 p.m. This session
offers insight from industry experts on how information can be collected from
both the roadway and the vehicle.
Sessions/exhibition area
Over 70 total sessions covered under seven session
tracks—Infrastructure, Infostructure, Vehicles, Enabling Technologies,
Telematics Devcon, ITS Deployment and The Future of ITS—are scheduled
daily from Monday, April 29, through Thursday, May 2.
From Monday through Wednesday, some sessions run
concurrently with the exhibition hall hours so plan accordingly.
Be sure to stop by and see us in booth #743 as we celebrate
our first year as TM+E.
ITS Awards Gala
The evening of Tuesday, April 30, honors those at the
forefront of intelligent transportation. The ITS Awards Gala features
categories designed to reflect the industry’s deployment needs. Award
winners will be recognized in the following seven categories: advocacy;
consumer product launch; education and training; marketing campaign;
partnership deployment; research program; and return on investment.
Council, committee, task force
Throughout the four days of the Annual Meeting &
Exposition, a number of ITS America council, committee, and task force meetings
take place. Readers of TM+E may find interest in the System Architecture
Committee, the Advanced Rural Transportation Systems Committee, the Electronic
Payment Systems Task Force, the Advanced Public Transportation Systems
Committee, the Advanced Transportation Management Committee and the Education
& Training Committee meetings, to name a few.
ITS tours
ITS-related tours have been set up to the Pasadena Traffic
Management Center (Monday and Thursday); the City of Los Angeles Automated
Traffic Surveillance and Control Center (Tuesday and Thursday); the District 7
Transportation Management Center (Tuesday and Wednesday); the Port of Long
Beach (Tuesday and two tours on Wednesday); and the area’s Metro Rapid System
(Tuesday and Wednesday). TME
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