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Finalists for 2011 Best of ITS Awards announced

ITS America has announced the list of finalists for the 2011 Best of ITS Awards. Winners will be announced at the 18th ITS World Congress and ITS America Annual Meeting which being held in Orlando, Florida, in October.
April 17, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
560 ITS America has announced the list of finalists for the 2011 Best of ITS Awards. Winners will be announced at the 18th 6456 ITS World Congress and ITS America Annual Meeting which being held in Orlando, Florida, in October.

The finalists in the Best New Innovative Products, Services, or Applications category are:

  • Carnegie Mellon University, “Tiramisu Transit”
  • City of  Minneapolis, “First Avenue Dynamic Parking Lane”
  • Florida DOT District Four, “Maintenance Inventory Management System”
  • 61 Houston Transtar, “Cost Effective Arterial Network Travel Times”
  • ICX Transportation Group, “New Jersey 511 and Data Fusion Engine”
  • King County, DKS Associates, and 4033 ConSysTec, “King County Metro Transit ITS Architecture Deployment”
  • Mississippi DOT, “Video Migration”
  • 1789 San Diego Association of Governments, “T-PeMS Development and Deployment”
  • University of Maryland CATT Lab, “The Regional Integrated Transportation Information System”

Finalist in the Best New Innovative Practices category are:

  • Chicago DOT, “Chicago Traffic Tracker”
  • Florida DOT District Six, “95 Express Marketing and Outreach Program”
  • Florida Turnpike, “Specialty Towing and Roadside Repair Program”
  • Houston TranStar, “Real Time Travel Time Monitoring System for Hurricane Evacuation Routes”
  • Iteris and the City of Long Beach, “Douglas Park Adaptive Traffic Control Program”
  • New York State DOT, “Universal Smart Roadside Electric Screening Platform for Commerical Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Program”
  • Pinellas County Public Works, “The Integration of Environmental Sensors into Pinellas County's Smart Tracs Advanced Traffic Management System”
  • TransCore and NYC DOT, “Large Scale Urban Traffic Management Using a Wireless Network”
  • Vermont Agency of Transportation, “RWIS-VMS Automation”

Finalists will be recognised and the winners announced during a special awards ceremony sponsored by 1072 Fontinalis Partners on Monday, 17 October at 5.00 pm during the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

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