The thirty first ITS World Congress kicks off on the Georgia World Congress Middle in Atlanta with a packed Sunday (August 24, 2025) of convention periods
The primary day of programming contains a complete of 25 occasions throughout a number of venues, underneath the theme, Deploying As we speak, Empowering Tomorrow, bringing collectively transportation leaders, researchers, and expertise innovators from across the globe.
You could find the complete programme on the occasion web site however there follows our choose of 5 highlights to contemplate as you intend your day…
• AASHTO Worldwide Day, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Room A315
Now in its second decade, AASHTO Worldwide Day presents a novel platform for world transportation leaders to share experiences and foster cross-border collaboration. This 12 months’s theme, “mart Tech, Secure Journey: Worldwide Approaches to Safer Roadways, will highlight how rising applied sciences and confirmed ITS methods are making roads safer worldwide.
The session will characteristic insights into how completely different nations are deploying ITS instruments to reinforce visitors operations, scale back crashes and fatalities, and finally save lives. This foundational session units the stage for the week’s discussions on worldwide cooperation in clever transportation techniques.
• SIS09: World Cup 2026 – Shaping the Way forward for Transportation and Infrastructure in Cities, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Room A311
Because the 2026 FIFA World Cup approaches, main U.S. cities together with Atlanta and Los Angeles are making vital investments in transportation and infrastructure. This panel brings collectively management from host cities, FIFA, and ITS America consultants to share insights and finest practices for profitable World Cup planning from infrastructure and mobility views.
Speackers embody, Solomon Caviness, Transportation Commissioner, Atlanta DOT; Seleta Reynolds, Chief Innovation Officer, Los Angeles Metro; Sarah Abel, Senior Technical Lead, Rising Applied sciences & Progressive Mobility, ITS America; Clyde Higgs, CEO & President, Atlanta BeltLine and Jack Longworth, New Jersey DOT
• SIS15: Secure Interplay Between Degree 4 Automated Mobility and Different Street Customers, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | Room A313
As SAE Degree 4 automated mobility providers turn into actuality, protected and clean driving by automated automobiles in combined visitors situations turns into vital to success. This session focuses on the interplay between automated automobiles and different street customers like pedestrians and cyclists, exploring key applied sciences together with V2X communication and cooperative techniques at intersections.
Audio system embody Manabu Umeda, Yurie Toyama, Yozo Hiraiwa and Takahiko Uchimura, from The College of Tokyo; Robert Brydia, Division Head, Texas Transportation Institute (TTI); advert Francis McKinney, Head of Expertise, Zenzic
• AASHTO: Good Strikes – Leveraging Expertise and ITS to Enhance Transportation Operations– 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Room A313
This session explores how states can higher make the most of expertise to handle and function transportation techniques, together with creating nationwide digital infrastructure. The dialogue will cowl completely different state approaches to expertise deployment and delve into using expertise on multinational corridors.
Featured Speaker: Russell McMurry, Commissioner, Georgia Division of Transportation, will showcase Georgia DOT’s initiatives to deploy V2X expertise at scale all through the state. Georgia has launched into tasks to put in fiber-optic cable and ITS gadgets alongside all interstates, commercializing darkish fiber and empty conduit through public-private partnership contracts.
• Infrastructure-Automotive Expertise Laboratory (iATL) Tech Tour, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
This hands-on tour of the iATL consists of each indoor laboratory experiences and outside demonstrations of Day One Security Purposes on Alpharetta’s roadways. Individuals will witness stay views of choose cities’ transportation infrastructure, together with lively visitors alerts, college zone security beacons, and real-time transit sign precedence and emergency car preemption.
The outside demonstrations showcase related car functions together with college zone security alerts, work truck warnings, pedestrian crosswalk alerts, purple mild operating warnings, and ‘prepare for inexperienced’ notifications. This immersive expertise demonstrates real-world ITS functions in motion. Tech Excursions have to be booked upfront and added to an current registration.
Notable DOT and Public Company Participation
Different notable DOT and public sector audio system throughout the first day embody…
Jean Ruestman, Administrator at Michigan DOT’s Workplace of Passenger Transportation, who will lead discussions on enhancing rural transit entry with expertise, addressing fairness points in transportation innovation deployment. (SIS02: Enhancing Rural Transit Entry with Expertise, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM, Room A312)
Alan Davis, Division Director of Operations at Georgia DOT, who’s collaborating within the world scan of rising applied sciences for transportation system administration and operations. (SIS06: Rising Applied sciences for Transportation System Administration and Operations: A International Scan, 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM, Room A312)
Joshua Montgomery, Community Automation Engineer at Georgia DOT, who will current analysis on securing sign operations networks, highlighting cybersecurity issues in related infrastructure. (PS08: Site visitors Movement Monitoring and Management, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Room A314)
Past the Classes
The opening day additionally options specialised workshops, together with the Digital Infrastructure Workshop (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM), which explores how digital infrastructure can improve security, effectivity, and interoperability throughout all transportation modes. The workshop is designed to foster collaboration between private and non-private sector stakeholders.
With periods masking car automation, micromobility, cybersecurity, fairness options, and worldwide cooperation, Sunday units a complete basis for the week forward. The range of subjects – from AI and standardization to group engagement and emergency response applied sciences – displays the broad scope of clever transportation techniques and their affect on world mobility.
The opening day demonstrates Atlanta’s position as each host metropolis and residing laboratory, with real-world deployments and testing amenities offering attendees with tangible examples ITS in motion.
Photos: UNIS Vienna Inventive Commons through Flickr, AdobeStock
