The 2023 WTS International Annual Conference, The Great Intersection, will be held on May 10–12, 2023 (with pre-conference activities starting on May 9th) at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center, located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, GA and within the bustling Centennial Park District. Atlanta is a city known for its vibrant history and modern progress in equity and inclusion — in transportation and beyond.
Expansion of ITS systems has accelerated in Qatar this year, with rapid deployment of a traffic control system in Doha.
Less than 10 years from now an extensive system of ITS technology will be operating in Qatar, informing and directing users of the country’s roads. That can be stated with confidence for a number of reasons: the world’s richest country per capita will host the World Cup in 2022 and is understood to be planning to develop sophisticated systems of ITS for road safety and traffic managemen
Greece has successfully completed the first tests of its automatic emergency call system, eCall, within the framework of the eCall pilot national research project, a European initiative intended to bring rapid assistance to motorists involved in a collision anywhere in the European Union. eCall uses a device installed in vehicles that will automatically dial 112 (the pre-assigned European emergency number) in the event of a road accident and wirelessly send airbag deployment, impact sensor information and G
