The approaching Highways UK occasion on the NEC (Nationwide Exhibition Centre) in Birmingham (October 15-16) will showcase partnership and exhibition alternatives on the ITS World Congress 2027, which is to happen on the similar venue.
An invite-only Open Day will happen on the Crowne Plaza on the NEC Campus on Wednesday October 15, and in addition features a tour of the NEC and halls set out for a serious transport present. You possibly can apply for a spot by emailing Jordan Cowley right here.
The leaders of ERTICO-ITS Europe and the West Midlands crew organising and internet hosting the 2027 Congress are additionally encouraging enter from Europe’s wider community of nationwide ITS Associations, highlighting that their helpful cooperation and energetic participation shall be essential for making a world-beating occasion.
Sending a message to the ITS Nationals community Plenary assembly in Warsaw just lately Chris Lane, strategic head of transport innovation at TfWM (Transport for West Midlands) and main planning for the congress, highlighted the co-operative nature of the plans for 2027.
“That is the primary time the UK has hosted the ITS World Congress since London in 2006,” mentioned Lane. “The ITS Nationals community have instructed us they need a Congress not simply within the West Midlands however showcasing the improvements of the West Midlands – exhibiting the options being delivered in and round Birmingham because the UK’s first Future Transport Zone.
“We’ll be exhibiting off the perfect of the West Midlands too, from soccer and Shakespeare to Cadbury’s and curry. We actually wish to hear extra about what you’d prefer to expertise in Birmingham – the deep experience of the Nationals community is significant in delivering a profitable and helpful congress.”
“The ITS Nationwide community represents the heartbeat of Europe’s transport innovation ecosystem,” added Joost Vantomme, CEO of ERTICO. “Their collaboration and perception are important as we form a Congress that displays the power and variety of our group. Collectively we’re constructing not simply an occasion, however a platform to attach concepts and rework transport for the following era.”
Contributors shall be exhibiting the true mobility improvements in Birmingham, exhibiting how ITS advanced with a sequence of demonstrations and technical visits, in addition to the congress’s famend convention programme and exhibition.
“All members of the ITS Nationals community are huge supporters of the ITS World Congress and are excited to be concerned within the planning for Birmingham 2027,” added ITS Nationals chair Dónal Hodgins. “Our collaboration with ERTICO can solely ship good issues for the sector as we use the Congress to spice up the attention and deployment alternatives of transport expertise.”
The ITS Nationals community brings collectively 27 associations to develop and share finest follow in working ITS Nationwide Associations, connecting the fee-paying members of ITS Nationwide Associations to one another, and supporting members to attend nationwide, European and international ITS Congresses, and to assist ERTICO and different our bodies with the supply of them. Between them they’ve 1,200 private and non-private members, made up of roads authorities, academia and main suppliers and consultants, to micro SMEs and start-ups.
The thirty third ITS World Congress takes place on the NEC from October 25-29, 2027.
