Last week’s ITS America 28th Annual Meeting & Expo saw some of the ITS industry’s biggest players gathering in Washington, DC. ITS International produced three Daily News magazines at the show, covering launches, deals, products and highlights from a packed speaker programme. For all the stories and digital editions of the Daily News, go to: www.itsamericalive.com
June 11, 2019
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All digital issues are available on our Daily News website
Last week’s 560 ITS America 28th Annual Meeting & Expo saw some of the ITS industry’s biggest players gathering in Washington, DC. ITS International produced three Daily News magazines at the show, covering launches, deals, products and highlights from a packed speaker programme. For all the stories and digital editions of the Daily News, go to: %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external www.itsamericalive.comfalsehttp://www.dailynews-online.com/itsamerica2019/falsefalse%>
ITS America is accepting paper and session proposals for its annual meeting in Washington, DC on 4-7 June 2019.
Submissions based on this year’s theme - ‘Intelligent Mobility: Safer, Greener, Smarter’ - should relate to topics on intelligent mobility: moving people, data and freight.
Authors of the accepted papers will present findings in a session organised by ITS America’s programme committee which will feature a moderator appointed by the event
The deadline for US college students to take part in ITS America’s annual essay competition is fast approaching – entries must be in by Sunday 14 April.
The competition, sponsored by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), invites students of transportation, engineering and public policy to share ‘thought provoking’ visions for the future of transport.
The topic is: ‘How do you envision disruptive technologies impacting transportation systems to make them safer, greener or smarter over the next 10 years?’
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Ride-hailing company Lyft has recalled 3,000 electric bikes from cities in the US because of concerns over their braking systems.
The brands affected are Citi Bike in New York, Capital Bikeshare in Washington, DC, and the Bay Area’s Ford GoBike.
A similar statement on each company’s website says: “We recently received a small number of reports from riders who experienced stronger than expected braking force on the front wheel. Out of an abundance of caution, we are proactively removing the pedal-assi
