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Strategy Institute, in collaboration with ITS Canada, will present the "Planning and Enabling Smart Transportation Summit" on December 7 and 8, 2010, in Toronto, Ontario. Click here for details.
ITS Canada's Awards Program was created to specifically recognize, within our membership and beyond, Canadian ITS leaders, projects, programs and initiatives that have contributed significantly to advancing ITS. There are five categories in the awards program, and this year’s recipients are as follows:
- Distinguished Canadian ITS Member of the Year Award
Mr. Keenan Kitasaka, TransLink
- Larger Metropolitan Areas, Provincial, or Federal ITS Project/Program Award
Thermal Imaging Inspection Program, Alberta Ministry of Transportation
- Smaller Metropolitan Area and Rural ITS Project/Program Award
Autonomous Monitoring Station, Ontario Ministry of Transportation
- New Canadian Commercial Technology/Innovation or Research and Development Award
Vehicle Fingerprinting, 407 Electronic Toll Road
- ITS Canada Michel Van Aerde Memorial Scholarship Award
Karim Ismail, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia
For next year’s awards program, a call for nominations will be made in late fall 2010. Please join ITS Canada in congratulating all of our 2010 award recipients.
Over 325 ITS experts from Canada, the United States and 13 other countries attended the 13th Annual Conference and General Meeting of ITS Canada in Ottawa, Canada’s National Capital, from June 13 through 16, 2010. Over 90 technical papers were presented, along with a number of Executive Sessions focused on topical themes. Some 40 exhibitors benefited from the significant attendance. The conference was sold out three weeks prior to the event, a first for ITS Canada.
The overall theme of the Conference was “ITS for Efficient, Safe and Clean Transport” and speakers from around the world explored the topics with enthusiasm. Executive Sessions included a focus on the Connected Vehicle, with three separate technical sessions devoted to it, and a Plenary including Mike Schagrin from the US DOT and Mike Noblett, Chair of ISO Technical Committee 204 (ITS) and Senior Executive with IBM. A new stream including Urban Transit and Transportation was featured, along with New Advances, Integrated Operations and Commercial Transportation. Three special sessions focused on Privacy Issues, the new Canadian ITS Architecture, and Traveller Information Systems. Finally, a new track specializing in Emerging International Markets was conducted, and colleagues from ITS India, ITS China, ITS UK, ITS Malaysia, and ITS Korea participated. The Vice Chair of the 17th World Congress in Busan also made a special presentation to delegates. To order a CD of Conference presentations and papers, click here.
ITS Canada’s gala dinner at the spectacular national Museum of Civilization featured the first annual ITS Canada Awards of Excellence, with four categories of technology supremacy, and ITS Canada's longstanding Michel Van Aerde Memorial Scholarship for Canada’s most deserving graduate student in ITS. With Canada having just won the prestigious Young Innovator Award at the International Transport Forum of the OECD, it was a fitting close.
ITS CANADA PRIZE WINNERS:
FEEDBACK SURVEYS RE TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Free registration at 2011 ACGM was won by
Roy Hulli, IBI Group
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TRADE SHOW PASSPORT GAME
GPS was won by
Robert Chan, Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
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GOLF DRAW
Won by Mark Pinet, AECOM, and Scott Stewart, IBI Group
After the Conference, Dr. Ilham Benyahia, Professor, Department of Computing and Engineering at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, a member of ITS Canada, was interviewed by Radio-Canada regarding the Conference and intelligent transportation systems (in French). Click here to access the audio link from June 25, 2010.
Next year’s conference is already confirmed for early June in Vancouver, British Columbia, and it will be still bigger and better than 2010! Canada also awaits a decision of the World Congress Selection Committee to host the 2014 World Congress in Toronto.
View the web page for additional Conference details.
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