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ITS World Congress to focus on ‘empowering cities’ by smart mobility

October’s ITS World Congress in Singapore will address topics under the theme ‘Smart Mobility, Empowering Cities’. The congress is being organised by the Land Transport Authority of Singapore and the Intelligent Transport Society Singapore in collaboration with ITS Asia-Pacific, ITS America and Ertico – ITS Europe. ITS International is the event’s official media partner. Autonomous vehicles, multimodal transport, cybersecurity and data privacy will be covered at this year’s event. Delegates and participa
June 27, 2019 Read time: 1 min

October’s ITS World %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 link-external Congress false https://itsworldcongress2019.com/ false false%> in Singapore will address topics under the theme ‘Smart Mobility, Empowering Cities’.

The congress is being organised by the 918 Land Transport Authority of Singapore and the 5023 Intelligent Transport Society Singapore in collaboration with 5858 ITS Asia-Pacific, 560 ITS America and 374 Ertico – ITS Europe. ITS International is the event’s official media partner.

Autonomous vehicles, multimodal transport, cybersecurity and data privacy will be covered at this year’s event. Delegates and participants will be able to take part in demonstrations, technical tours, a policy roundtable, plenary and congress sessions and to see a range of exhibitors.

It will take place at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre from 21-25 October.

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