Intelligent Transportation Conference, Day One Tweets

Example of ITS

I’m spending a few days mingling with thousands and thousands of transportation professionals from all over the world at the Intelligent Transportation World Congress. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is simply just using electronics, computers and communications to move people and goods faster, safer, and cleaner.

Below are the tweets I sent from the sessions I attended on Tuesday, in order of last sent. See Wednesday’s tweets, and Thursday’s tweets.

• Data needed for transport environmental innovations, advances, but funding lags, & many don’t want to share data #ITSWC11
• Best question all week frm 3 conferences: will our kids’ kids use a steering wheel, or a credit card? #TechnologyAdvances
• If public/electeds only knew how hard #AASHTO, Rail-Volution, & ITS folks r wrkng to imprv community, econ vitality. #3conferences
• Walked in at end of talk that sounded interesting: Calif Smart #Truck Parking initiative. Anyone know abt it? #ITSWC11
• BTW for my west coast peeps: Cascadia Center’s Bruce Agnew influential in that #freight research & report #ITSWC11
• And then lays out some answers & a plan for change and invsmnt. Written by public & Private sector. #ITSWC11 cec.org
• That report asks “What would an efficient, competitive, environmentally sustainable freight system look like in 2030″ #ITSWC11
• ‎”Destination Sustainability” report frm cec.org – how to reduce freight GHGs in the int’l NAFTA corridors #ITSWC11
• Why “green up” #freight transport? It’s a growing sector, huge energy consumer, produces lotsa emissions. #ITSWC11
• I love a conference that has Dr. Pepper.
• It’s not fair to my small brain to have #RV11 & #ITSWC11 at same time. Can’t absorb & tweet all the good stuff. #TranspoGeekHeaven
• Q for you: am I tweeting too much, just right or what, from #ITSWC11 Keep it up or not? Feedback appreciated.
• Spkr from China conclusion: ITS invstmnts have created economic growth, reduced emissions #ITSWC11
• I could tweet for 24 hrs straight about all that China is doing in ITS. But I won’t. #ITSWC11
• ‎”10% imprvmnt in transport accessibility generates 2% gain in overall econ productivity” spkr quoting BPC report #ITSWC11
• ITS examples benefitting travelers – real time traffic info, signal synching, electronic traffic message signs #ITSWC11
• Why is ITS imprtnt? Can’t build our way out of congestion. ITS apps, projects=more efficient use of existing system #ITSWC11
• ‎73% of ITS revenue goes to companies with less than 500 employees. Fed investment in ITS = job growth #ITSWC11