ITS America and its Partners Kick Off Digital Infrastructure Week

Statements & Press Releases

Issues:

Smart Infrastructure

May 15, 2023

Washington, DC – Today, ITS America along with its members and partners kicked off Digital Infrastructure Week as a part of the Infrastructure Week event. The goal of the event is to raise awareness of the role digital infrastructure and investments in technology will play in creating more commutable, efficient, and safer cities.

Digital Infrastructure Week will consist of the new digitalinfrastructurefuture.com website, blog posts from across the transportation industry on digital infrastructure issues, and social media highlights. The goal of the week will be to provide a better understanding of the connection between hard infrastructure and digital infrastructure. Just as we invest in paved roads and concrete bridges, communities must invest in technology and innovation like transportation technologies that provide data and meaningful insights to modernize transportation and future mobility.

“We are in an era of change, Americans are tired of unnecessary road deaths, the climate impacts of inefficient transportation systems, and lack of access to basic necessities like doctors, groceries, and good jobs,” said ITS America President and CEO Laura Chace. “We have an opportunity through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to make plans for a future where just as much thought is put into the digital infrastructure that builds our transportation system as the steel and concrete that make up the physical roads.”

Digital Infrastructure Week will run May 15-19, concurrent with United for Infrastructure’s Infrastructure Week and content will be available through digitalinfrastructurefuture.com and ITS America social media channels.

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About ITS America

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America advances the research and deployment of intelligent transportation technologies to save lives, improve mobility, promote sustainability, and increase efficiency and productivity. Our vision is a better future transformed by transportation technology and innovation: Safer, Greener, Smarter. For All. For more information, please visit www.itsa.org.

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