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ITS America signs MoU with World Bank

During its Board of Directors meeting last week, ITS America signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Bank to formalise their desire to cooperate and exchange ideas about how transportation technologies that enhance information capture, analysis, communications, and sharing can improve surface transportation safety, mobility and environmental sustainability.
March 27, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
During its Board of Directors meeting last week, 560 ITS America signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the 2000 World Bank to formalise their desire to cooperate and exchange ideas about how transportation technologies that enhance information capture, analysis, communications, and sharing can improve surface transportation safety, mobility and environmental sustainability.

Jose Luis Irigoyen, Director of the Transport, Water, Information and Communications Technologies Department at the World Bank, joined ITS America’s President & CEO Scott Belcher in outlining a framework within which the two organisations may develop and undertake collaborative activities to more effectively purse their respective goals.

The MOU formalises the intent of ITS America and the World Bank to cooperate and collaborate on a number of activities, including including:

  •     Promoting academic, public and private sector exchange and joint research activities between the Participants;
  •     Delivering lectures and joint symposia;
  •     The exchange of research materials, publications and scientific information;
  •     Training and education;
  •     Implementing cooperative and joint research programs; and
  •     Supporting the development of harmonized standards that enhance the deployment of transportation technologies.

Project topics might include mechanisms for public-private financing, technology and knowledge transfer, intermodal transportation solutions, standards harmonization that have as their focus the role of transportation research and technology that addresses safety, mobility, and sustainable transportation.

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