ITS honors visionaries

Four leaders in the transportation technology industry were inducted in the ITS America Hall of Fame during an awards ceremony at the 22nd meeting and exposition. Former House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar and Gerald Conover, who previously advocated for ITS at Ford, were on hand to receive the honors.
May 22, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
James Oberstar (left) and Gerald Conover (right) with ITS America President and CEO Scott Belcher
Four leaders in the transportation technology industry were inducted in to the 560 ITS America Hall of Fame during an awards ceremony at the 22nd meeting and exposition. Former House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar and Gerald Conover, who previously advocated for ITS at 278 Ford, were on hand to receive the honours.

Both Conover and Congressman Oberstar were early advocates of ITS as the country transitioned away from the interstate era to today when transportation officials have to use technology to add capacity or reduce traffic.

“This honour is deeply touching for me, deeply satisfying,” said Congressman Oberstar. “I’ve been blessed with being able to not only see ITS technology come of age, but to see how transportation has come to completely rely on ITS on a daily basis.”

Thomas Larson, a founder of the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, and Robert MacLennan, the former Deputy Assistant Director of Public Works for the City of Houston, were honoured posthumously.

ITS America also honoured several state chapters at the awards ceremony. ITS Georgia and ITS Virginia were named Outstanding State Chapters while ITS New York and ITS Arizona won the Membership Growth Awards for increasing their membership numbers.

%$Linker: Asset 4 42435 0 oLinkExternal <span class="mouselink">www.ITSA.org</span> www.itsa.org false /EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=42435 false false%>

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • e-Vignette advantage is simplicity and high compliance, says AGES
    October 23, 2012
    The e-Vignette system of collecting and controlling road user charges has the advantage of simplicity while achieving high compliance from drivers, says service provider AGES. The electronic vignette has superseded the paper vignette as a convenient and faster service without the expense of printing and distributing physical authorisation for road use. Vignette road charging services are time based, requiring neither costly on-board equipment nor interaction with roadside infrastructure. The e-Vignette is i
    Read More
  • Transdyn unveils new TMS
    May 21, 2012
    Transdyn, Inc. has recently designed, built and installed a Traffic Management System (TMS) for Transurban’s I-495 Express Lanes in Northern Virginia. The project included the addition of four new lanes on the Virginia side of the Capital Beltway and replacing $260 million-worth of ageing infrastructure. When it opens later this year, it will be one of the most technologically advanced roadways in the world and will provide faster, more predictable travel times to users.
    Read More
  • ITS America webinar: Off-the-Shelf Road Incident Management
    June 3, 2015
    The ITS America webinar to be held at 2pm Eastern US time on 11 June 11 will focus on Off-the-Shelf Road Incident Management (RIM), presented by Gewi, which recently implemented the first phase of this system for a European customer. The session will focus on the advantages of a system which can be customized to each organisation’s specific response plan, based on the type of incident. Beyond accidents, the RIM system enables organisations to handle traffic infrastructure events as projects, managed by
    Read More
  • EMX Ultraloop detects moving and stopped vehicles
    March 3, 2014
    American company EMX Industries, a specialist in detectors based on inductive, magnetic, ultrasound, microwave and infrared technologies, is participating at Intertraffic Amsterdam 2014 to introduce Ultraloop, an exclusive inductive a loop detector that is capable of differentiating between moving vehicles and vehicles that come to a complete stop on the inductive loop. The company points out that this function is useful in preventing false detection by cross traffic. Also being featured is the USVD-4X v
    Read More

Highlighted Content