How AI Can Improve Transportation

Webinars

October 31, 2023 | 2:00–3:00 pm ET

Artificial intelligence is an evolving and important tool with many potential applications in the field of transportation. This webinar will inform the transportation industry at a basic level about the opportunities that AI offers and draw on insights from a recent policy brief published by the Eno Center. This discussion will describe some of AI’s history and most common methods to make AI less intimidating and more approachable so that more transportation practitioners feel confident thinking and talking about AI.

AI technology is already in widespread use for consumer-facing products, and there are many ways AI could be applied within the transportation industry to improve safety outcomes and operations or reduce costs to agencies and taxpayers. However, it is not as easy as applying an existing algorithm to a transportation challenge.

Audience members will hear examples of how AI is and could be applied to improve transportation practice across both public agencies and travel modes, including a case study of one specific technology improving transit operations.

Speakers:

– Renee Autumn Ray, Senior Director of Transportation Policy, Hayden AI

– Laura Chace, President & CEO, ITS America

Let’s Transform the Future Together.

Technology evolves faster than we can imagine the future. Rapidly evolving transportation innovations are being developed and deployed that promise to entirely reshape the way our transportation network operates, facilitating vast improvements to transportation safety and overall mobility. The promise of these innovations is apparent, but the deployment and application of these technologies is not without challenges. While technology disrupts the transportation ecosystem with new innovations and ideas, government, communities, private companies, and researchers must race to catch up to and contend with ideas never thought possible. How do we accelerate change and safely embrace new technology while promoting collaboration across industry to advance shared societal goals? Through nonprofits like the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America).

ITS America and its members have been at the center of these innovations, advocating for transformational technology to save lives, promote sustainability, and improve access to mobility.

Join us.

As advocates for transportation innovation throughout the world’s largest transportation network, ITS America’s public, private and academic members are dedicated to championing smart mobility strategies to ensure safe and thriving communities.
Ramin Massoumi, Global Solutions Director – Mobility, arcadis
Private companies, public agencies and academic institutions committed to influencing the future of intelligent transportation come together at ITS America. Every day, our members advance technology solutions that save lives and improve mobility across the country – in cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
Malcolm Dougherty, National Practice Executive, Transportation, Michael Baker International
At ITS America, our public, private and academic sector members are committed to deploying intelligent transportation technologies to save lives and improve mobility on our nation’s roads. While transportation constantly evolves, we will do all we can to ensure it continues to be the engine that drives our nation’s economy and contributes to improving our quality of life.
Carlos Braceras, Director, Utah Department of Transportation