ITS America applauds V2I infrastructure Act

Regina Hopper, president and CEO of ITS America, has responded to the introduction of the Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Safety Technology Investment Flexibility Act of 2015 by US Senators Gary Peters and Roy Blunt. The Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Safety Technology Investment Flexibility Act of 2015 authorizes states to use existing surface and highway transportation funding provided by the National Highway Performance Program, the Surface Transportation Program and the Highway Safety Improvement Program to in
June 5, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
Regina Hopper, president and CEO of 560 ITS America, has responded to the introduction of the Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Safety Technology Investment Flexibility Act of 2015 by US Senators Gary Peters and Roy Blunt.

The Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Safety Technology Investment Flexibility Act of 2015 authorizes states to use existing surface and highway transportation funding provided by the National Highway Performance Program, the Surface Transportation Program and the Highway Safety Improvement Program to invest in V2I projects as they upgrade highway infrastructure.

"This legislation will ensure that state and local agencies can invest in Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) safety technologies that will allow 'smart' infrastructure to communicate in real-time with vehicles to prevent crashes and respond to traffic conditions as part of a connected transportation network," said Hopper. "We applaud Senators Gary Peters and Roy Blunt for their leadership in promoting innovative technology solutions to improve highway and vehicle safety. We look forward to working with them to support this critical legislation."

“Connected vehicles and infrastructure are the next frontier of the American auto industry and vehicle safety, and we must ensure that states can make the necessary investments to implement these critical safety technologies,” said Senator Peters.

“Vehicle-to-infrastructure wireless technology enables vehicles to communicate with each other and the world around them, helping to improve safety, prevent car accidents, and relieve traffic,” Senator Blunt said.

The Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Safety Technology Investment Flexibility Act of 2015 has broad support from transportation industry leaders including 278 Ford, 948 General Motors, the 2094 Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the 4946 Association of Global Automakers, 1028 Cisco and ITS America—the High Tech Transportation Association.

“The auto industry has dedicated significant resources to developing innovative technologies to protect occupants in the event of a crash. Connected vehicle technologies like Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) systems represent the next generation of auto safety that could help to prevent crashes from happening in the first place,” said Mitch Bainwol, president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.

“This legislation allows states the freedom to innovate by demonstrating and deploying these technologies to reduce accidents and save lives,” said John Bozzella, President and CEO of the Association of Global Automakers.
Location Based Systems

Related Content

  • Tecsidel’s Pan-American Highway tunnel eases Lima’s traffic woes
    December 4, 2018
    The Pan-American Highway connects the US and Canada with Latin America, running for thousands of miles from Alaska in the north to Argentina in the south. Mauro Nogarin finds that one tunnel built underneath it is now providing relief for thousands of travellers each day On the Pan-American Highway, the lengthy series of roads which spans both American continents - from the US state of Alaska to the Latin American country of Argentina - ITS solutions are many and varied. One of these, in Peru’s capital
    Read More
  • US incident management needs national standardisation
    January 26, 2012
    I-95 Corridor Coalition's Tom Martin discusses the state of the art in incident management and what visitors to this year's ITS World Congress can expect of the first ever Emergency Responder-Incident Management Day. Developments in incident management are driven in the main by need. A bald statement, and one which holds no surprises, it nevertheless quantifies the evolutionary process within the I-95 Corridor Coalition over the last decade and more. Spread over 16 states from Maine to Florida, the Coalitio
    Read More
  • Russia invests in ITS technology
    May 11, 2012
    Russia’s transport systems are developing on a grand scale with ITS central to the plans, thanks in no small part to a recently relaunched ITS Russia. Jon Masters interviews the organisation’s chief executive officer Vladimir Kryuchkov Over coming years many of the biggest deployments of new technology for transport are likely to be seen in Russia. For a political and economic superpower, the world’s biggest country has only recently started to harness ITS for the good of its transport networks. But the sca
    Read More
  • Driverless vehicles just around the corner?
    February 28, 2013
    umors that self-driving taxis are about to hit the streets of Las Vegas have turned out to be untrue… but the age of the driverless vehicle is only just around the corner, as Pete Goldin finds out. From Herbie the Love Bug to Knight Rider to the cast of the Pixar film Cars, the autono­mous auto has long been a beloved icon in the entertainment industry. But how close is the fiction to fact? The general public might be surprised to find out just how soon autonomous vehicles could be driving on our roadways.
    Read More

Highlighted Content