Intelligent Transportation Society of Massachusetts

The Intelligent Transportation Society of Massachusetts (ITS Massachusetts) is a non-profit, non-partisan, broadly based coalition of business, labor, institutions of academia, and public agencies - all concerned with the improvement of intermodal surface transportation in Massachusetts. For over a decade ITS Massachusetts has served as the premiere organization advocating and supporting Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the Commonwealth. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) utilize advanced technologies and communications to improve the safety, security and efficiency of the surface transportation system. ITS Massachusetts serves as a forum and a resource for information about ITS projects, activities, and opportunities throughout the state. Our goal is to increase awareness of local ITS projects and ITS benefits among local policymakers, political leaders and the general public. ITS Massachusetts is one of twenty-four regional chapters of ITS America.

18th ITS Massachusetts Annual Meeting and Conference

“Opportunities for Regionalization”

Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
State Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza, Boston MA

The 18th ITS Massachusetts Annual Meeting and Conference will be held Wednesday, May 8, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the State Transportation Building at 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA.

“Opportunities for Regionalization.” This year’s ITS Massachusetts Annual Meeting will be the first truly New England-based ITS gathering and is cosponsored by ITS Connecticut, ITS Rhode Island, and ITS professionals from New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont! Join us for the largest gathering of the Intelligent Transportation Systems community in the region. This topic builds on last year’s theme of “Improving ITS Operations Regionally and Locally.”

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*****New Event this Year! 2nd Day ITS America Workshop: Improving Highway Safety with ITS
Thursday, May 9 at MassDOT District 6, 185 Kneeland Street, Boston, 9:00 am to 1:30 pm*****

PLEASE NOTE: The event is free of charge but is limited to the first fifty registrants (complimentary lunch provided)

Audience: ITS and Safety Professionals – planners, operators, designers, emergency management or maintenance personnel

This workshop is an abbreviated version of the two-day National Highway Institute course aimed at increasing awareness of the potential to gain highway safety improvements through the deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies at the highway system, mainstream (highway improvement project) and standalone project level, and accelerate the introduction and evaluation of ITS applications by increasing the recognition of their contribution to making highways safer. The course draws from the participants own experiences deploying ITS for highway safety improvements and reviews procedures and requirements of safety strategic planning and the ITS deployment process.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
• Discuss participant’s highway safety challenges and triumphs
• Identify general uses of ITS to improve highway safety
• Identify and demonstrate how ITS can contribute to improved highway safety and traffic operations through a case study
• Identify and discuss the current status of highway safety and the need to continuously improve highway safety programs
• Identify and discuss ITS-supported countermeasures that can be employed to address highway safety priority areas identified in the participant’s jurisdictions
• Iden tify and discuss organizational and individual-level actions for potential ITS and Safety collaboration in the future at the planning level and necessary activities to enable the actions

To register, please check the box on your ITS MA registration form. If you have already registered, please send an email request to bboykan@engineers.org

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Exhibitor/Sponsor Forms should be submitted by April 26, 2013. Click for Information and Exhibitor/Sponsor Form. For questions related to sponsors and exhibitors, please call either Cathy Burns at 203-981-0232 (Catherine.Burns@jacobs.com); or Bob Clinton at 617-877-7764 (rclinton@gfnet.com).

Download a Registration Form: Click Here (opens in separate window as Word doc)

Download a Preliminary Schedule: Click Here (opens in separate window as Word doc)

For conference questions, contact Annual Meeting Chair, Peter Sutton at Peter.Sutton@state.ma.us.