The 15th ITS World Congress-"ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives"

Creation date: 16 December 2008

The 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) took place from 16 to 20 November 2008, in New York and was organised by ITS America with the support of ITS Japan and ERTICO-ITS Europe.
10.000 delegates, amongst who over 900 were European, attended this annual meeting point of transport executives from around the world to share high-tech transport insights and experiences. 

The largest ITS event consisted of over 300 plenary, executive, special and technology sessions with over 1000 papers delivered, complemented by a large exhibition and many demonstrations, most notably on-the street demonstration of the U.S. Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) systems, technical tours and many workshops and other events.With the theme of "ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives", the main objective of the World Congress on Intelligent

Transport Systems (ITS) is to promote awareness and deployment of ITS technologies and services.

Previous and current experiences have shown that impact assessments still need to be carried out to show the real benefits of such systems, proper investments need to be made in the right technologies, and last but not least, people need to be informed and understand the great potential of these high-tech systems.