Momentum Issue #122 - ITS America

May 23, 2023

ITS America Leads Inaugural Digital Infrastructure Week

Last week, to continue to advocate for digital infrastructure and modernizing the transportation system, ITS America and its members launched a new event during the annual Infrastructure Week: Digital Infrastructure Week. This inaugural event saw the creation of a new website, digitalinfrastructurefuture.com that hosts a media tool kit, a blog and will be the home for ITS America’s digital infrastructure work – including our ITS America Digital Infrastructure Strategy to be released Summer 2023, along with other resources in the coming years.

We heard from nine of our Digital Infrastructure Working Group members in blog posts starting last Monday, including:

What is Digital Infrastructure? By ITS America CEO Laura Chace and COO Kristin White

From Typewriters to Laptops: Digitization Means Flexible Hardware and Software Solutions. By Kurtis McBride, CEO Miovision

Building Smarter, Safer Roads: How Digital Infrastructure Can Transform Transportation. By Mark de la Vergne, Vice President, Project Development & External Affairs, Cavnue

The HERE and NOW for Digital Infrastructure. By Shervin Esfahani, VP Global Marketing & Communications, Rekor

Creating More Efficient Transportation Systems and Safer, More Equitable Personal Mobility. By Jim Misener, Sr. Director of Product Management and V2X Ecosystem Lead, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Paving the Way for Smart Roads. By Pablo Ferrando, Head of Innovation and Jen Duthie, PE PhD, Senior Innovation Manager at Cintra

The New Infrastructure – A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity to Improve Citizen Outcomes. By Sajid Khan, GM, Smart Cities & Transportation, Intel Corp.

LA DOT and the Transportation Infrastructure of the Future. By Connie Llanos, Interim General Manager, LADOT

Digitizing the Work Zone is the Key to Greater Safety. By Simon Topp, Chief Commercial Officer, one.network

Please read these contributions to Digital Infrastructure Week and contact us if you want to join us in this work!

Unlocking federal funding: Free New Tools to Help You Get Federal Funding for Transportation Tech.

ITS America member AECOM developed a tool to help members unlock federal funding with their new “BIL and IRA Fund Navigator”, a technology-driven solution that cuts through the complexity of BIL and IRA funding opportunities, federal funding requirements, and how to successfully advance Justice 40 equity goals. Members can click here for free access to AECOM’s FundExplorer tool; You can also watch the previously recorded webinar here on the FundExplorer Tool.

Please contact membership@itsa.org if you have any questions.

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.