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ITS UK elects new leaders

ITS United Kingdom has elected Sharon Kindleysides of Kapsch and Dr Alan Stevens of the UK Transport Research Laboratory as chair and vice chair respectively. Kindleysides, who heads up Kapsch’s UK office has previously served as ITS (UK) vice chairman. She said she was particularly looking forward to “explaining and demonstrating how ITS can bring tangible benefits to the lives of the travelling public whilst helping transport bodies save money.” One of Kindleysides’ first duties was to sign a Memorandum
August 1, 2013 Read time: 1 min
ITS UK Japan MoU signing
ITS United Kingdom (288 ITS UK) has elected Sharon Kindleysides of 81 Kapsch and Dr Alan Stevens of the UK Transport Research Laboratory as chair and vice chair respectively. 

Kindleysides, who heads up Kapsch’s UK office has previously served as ITS (UK) vice chairman. She said she was particularly looking forward to “explaining and demonstrating how ITS can bring tangible benefits to the lives of the travelling public whilst helping transport bodies save money.” One of Kindleysides’ first duties was to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with 556 ITS Japan.

Nobukazu Kanesaki, director of international affairs for ITS Japan said: “I believe that it is in our mutual interest to collaborate on the development of ITS in the UK and Japan… this MoU will facilitate ITS development and deployment in the both countries.”

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