ITS Asia Pacific Forum 2020: early bird registrations
Early bird registrations are open for the 17th ITS Asia Pacific Forum 2020 with the opportunity of saving up to $AUS200 (£109).
ITS Australia says the forum, whose theme is ‘ITS Innovation Creating Liveable Communities’, “will demonstrate Australia’s new initiatives and adapted learnings from the advances of our neighbouring megacities”. Key topics will include Mobility as a Service, autonomous vehicles, data analytics and network development.
The event will take place at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibit
Early bird %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external registrations falsehttps://www.$aus200itsap2020.com/buy-tickets/?utm_source=DigitalMarketing&utm_medium=Emailfalsefalse%>are open for the 17th ITS Asia Pacific Forum 2020 with the opportunity of saving up to $AUS200 (£109).
858 ITS Australia says the forum, whose theme is ‘ITS Innovation Creating Liveable Communities’, “will demonstrate Australia’s new initiatives and adapted learnings from the advances of our neighbouring megacities”. Key topics will include Mobility as a Service, autonomous vehicles, data analytics and network development.
The event will take place at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre in Queensland, Australia from 25-28 May 2020.
Daimler subsidiary Car2go has made its electric car rental service available to Parisian users in a 77km square area within the city’s Périphérique motorway.
Drivers are charged between €0.24 to €0.34 per minute depending on the location and time of the rental, and can charge the vehicles at around 1,100 charging stations in the French capital.
The details flesh out Car2go’s announcement last year of plans to deploy 400 electric Smart EQ Fortwo vehicles in the city. The company intends to add more ve
London has the best public transport system in the world - but the UK capital’s roads are among the most congested, says a new report.
Here Technologies’ Urban Mobility Index ranked transit efficiency in 38 cities based on their public transport frequency, density and coverage as well as how public transport performs against car speed.
Just behind London are Zurich, Toronto, Washington, DC and Stockholm.
However, London was ranked 34th for congestion.
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Boeing has completed a test flight of its autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype in the US.
The electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft was developed through a collaboration between Boeing subsidiary companies Boeing NeXt and Aurora Flight Services.
Boeing NeXt works with regulatory agencies and industry partners to help introduce new mobility modes and ensure autonomous and piloted air vehicles safely coexist.
Steve Nordlund, vice president and general manager of Boeing NeXt, sa
ITS Australia has appointed Professor Majid Sarvi from the University of Melbourne to its board of directors.
Sarvi, the founder of transport technology programme AIMES, is the first academic to join the board.
AIMES (Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem) includes the university’s live test bed on Melbourne’s streets, and has close links with Michigan Department of Transportation.
Sarvi described it as a “great honour to be elected by my peers in the ITS industry and to have the opportunity t