ITS World Conference 2025
Washington, D.C. – ITS World Congress 2025, the largest gathering of intelligent transportation system professionals in the world will be heading to Atlanta, Georgia on August 24-28, 2025, at the Georgia World Congress Center. The event, hosted in partnership with ITS America and produced by RX, is pleased to announce this year’s theme will be “Deploying Today, Empowering Tomorrow,” reinforcing that the industry is actively deploying technology right now that will build safer roads and a stronger economy for the future.
ITS Ireland Conference 2024
The ITS Ireland Conference and AGM will take place in the Galway Bay Hotel from Thursday 17th to Friday 18th October, 2024.
Further details will be available soon.
Roads Authority Interest Group
The ITS Roads Authority Interest group will be held in the Galway Bay Hotel preceding the opening of the ITS Ireland Conference 2024
Summary details as follows:
Event: ITS Roads Authority Interest group
Venue: Galway Bay hotel, The Promenade, Galway, H91 W295
Date: Thursday 17th Oct 2024
Time: 10.00 -12.30 (followed by a Light Lunch provided 12.30pm to 2pm)
AET Webinar: Transport politics: Engaging with political stakeholders
Transport politics: Engaging with political stakeholders
FREE Webinar: Thursday, 3 October 2024
11.00 - 12.00 CEST / 10.00 - 11.00 BST
How do transport planners and researchers influence decision makers? In this webinar, we examine the importance of political engagement in shaping the debate around transport and influencing outcomes to move plans forward.
“Transport politics: Engaging with political stakeholders”
Lewis North, Head of Public Affairs for Rail Partners (UK), will discuss how to engage with politicians and other key stakeholders. Drawing upon examples from the railway in Great Britain, he will examine the importance of media interventions and political engagement. This session will explore tactics to achieve results and influence government policy, while also exploring how to respond to challenges to policy positions and ways of managing setbacks.
Following the presentation will be a short response from John Martin, Head of Climate Engagement, Ireland Department of Transport. The webinar will be chaired by AET Board member, Conall Mac Aongusa.
Speaker
Lewis has over 10 years of experience in UK and EU public affairs, communications, and campaigning. Prior to working at Rail Partners, where Lewis leads on political engagement, he worked in external affairs roles in several arms-length bodies, including the Environment Agency, the Charity Commission and Network Rail. He started his career as a political adviser to a Member of the European Parliament where he advised on environmental policy and media relations.
Lewis North,
Head of Public Affairs
Rail Partners (UK)
Webinar Information
AET Transport and Mobility Forum webinars are FREE and are hosted on the Zoom platform.
For further registration details, please go to AET Transport and Mobility Forum and follow the link to register for the webinar.
Register Here
JCT Traffic Signals Symposium
For 28 years the JCT Symposium and exhibition has been bringing traffic signal practitioners together with manufacturers and to maintain a sense of community amongst signals engineers. It is intended to run as an affordable conference that is accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of experience and that encourages the exchange of knowledge, experience and good practice.
Mobility Day at FMCI
Future Mobility Campus and University of Galway will be hosting a Mobility Day at FMCI on the September 9th. The event is organised in partnership with Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at University of Galway, this workshop is part of the Irish mobility data space project MaaS4IRL and will be hosted at FMCI, Shannon, Co. Clare.
FMCI will be offering tours and demonstrations of our key automotive dataset gathering vehicles and projects. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to witness innovation in action and connect with industry leaders.
You can register for the free event – here or at the link below:
ITS Ireland BBQ Cork
Following on the success of our Networking event in Dublin, ITS Ireland will be hosting the second BBQ networking event in Cork. This event will take place on 22nd August 2023, the venue being Crawford and Co, Anglesea Street, Cork.
There will be providing a presentation leading up to the BBQ evening. The venue for the Presentation will be the Council Chamber, Cork City Council, City Hall, Anglesea Street, Cork, T12 T997 (Old building)
Bookings close by Friday 16th August.
Agenda
5.00pm Networking / Registration
5.30pm Presentations
6.00pm Networking
6.30pm BBQ
Cork
ITS Ireland BBQ
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to catch up with fellow ITS Ireland members at The Odeon, Harcourt Street
There will be Barbeque food and drinks, including vegetarian and / or vegan options once such dietary requirements are notified to us at time of booking, which will be follow by presentations which will be confirmed at a later date.
EU ITS Directive update
ITS Ireland is delighted to host an exclusive webinar on the recently revised ITS Directive (EU) 2023/2661. Victoire Champenois from the European Commission’s Directorate-General on Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) will be providing an overview of the main changes from the 2010 ITS Directive (2010/40/EU) as well as the next steps for implementation, while Dr. John McCarthy from Arup will be analysing what the Directive means from an Irish context.
Webinar: Exploring project funding opportunities for ITS National Organisation members across Europe
Exploring project funding opportunities for ITS National Organisation members across Europe
The WayFinding Centre
ITS Ireland members are invited to register for a visit to The WayFinding Centre on Botanic Road, Glasnevin.
The Wayfinding Centre is an innovative, multi-functional centre which will be driven by the need to make transport accessible for everyone. Further information is available on https://thewayfindingcentre.ie/.
Basic Introduction to Traffic Signals for SCATS based regions
This course is designed to provide anyone whose work involves traffic modelling or traffic signal design with a basic understanding of the most important traffic signal concepts when dealing with SCATS based controllers.
This course is suitable for anyone involved in traffic modelling or design and who are new to traffic signals or would like to refresh their understanding of important traffic signal concepts. It is suitable for complete beginners and no prior knowledge of traffic modelling or design of traffic signals is required. The course covers the determination of safety critical timings such as intergreens and clearance times and looks at the both the Austrian method and the method typically applied in countries like Ireland (which are different).
ITS Nationals - Intertraffic 2024
In co-operation with our colleagues in ITS Nationals, this year ITS Ireland is proud to announce that we will be representing our members at Intertraffic Amsterdam at Stand 02.308
Transport Research Arena 2024
In 2024, Transport Research Arena (TRA) takes place in Dublin, Ireland from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 of April. Transport Research Arena (TRA) is the foremost European transport event that covers all transport modes and all aspects of mobility.
Transport Research Arena (TRA) offers a great venue for researchers, policy makers and industry representatives to get together and contribute to the discussion on how research and innovation can reshape the transport and mobility system. The conference provides a unique opportunity to hear about mobility trends in different parts of Europe, learn from achievements in industry as well as share best practices of policies and deployments.
For more information and registration click HERE
ITS Ireland IP Networking training course
ITS Ireland will host a two-day training course entitled; Understanding of Networks, hardware devices and TCP/IP ethernet networks in Dublin as follows: Date: 26th and 27th March 2024 Location: Crown Plaza Hotel, Blanchardstown Cost: €800 for members of ITS Ireland (includes training, coffee breaks and lunch) Course details: Details of the course are provided as attachments to this email.
Visit to TII’s Motorway Operations Control Centre
ITS Ireland members are invited to register for next month’s visit to Transport Infrastructure Ireland’s Motorway Operations Control Centre (MOCC). The MOCC which was upgraded in 2020 is used to monitor Motorway and Tunnel Operations.
2023 Annual ITS Ireland Conference
ITS Ireland invites professionals with an interest in Intelligent Transportation Systems to our 2023 Annual Conference which will be held on Thursday 5th October and Friday 6th October in the Rochestown Park Hotel.
ITS European Congress
ITS European Congress 2023
From May 22 to 24, 2023 Lisbon (Portugal) will host the ITS 2023 European Congress, organized by ERTICO-ITS Europe and dedicated entirely to the latest trends in smart mobility and transport digitization. The ITS European Congress is part of a bigger cluster of ITS Congresses and rotates between Europe, the Asia Pacific region and the Americas. For all European Congresses, ERTICO and its Partners work closely with the European Commission and the host city to deliver an outstanding event built around three pillars:
International Programme sessions and presentations with top speakers from the industry
Demonstrations of the current transport technologies developed and deployed throughout the world
Exhibition of cutting-edge companies
More information: ITS European Congress 2023
Communications Cabling introduction course
ITS Ireland is hosting an online Communications Cabling introduction course presented by www.totalcommstraining.com, covering Fiber optic and structured cabling. Numbers are limited to ten participants. Course contents COPPER Introduction to datacomms cabling Health and Safety Application of datacomms cabling in the networking environment Current datacomms cabling terminology and standards Datacomms cabling bandwidths and performance Datacomms cabling components Communications cabling installation procedures and working practices Datacomms Testing overview FIBRE The theory of Light Fibre optic transmission The ‘how’ and ‘why’ fibre optic cabling is used in a datacomms environment How optical fibres work Current standards and terminologies Identification of fibre optic…
Networking Event
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Networking Event
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
CAV Ireland Networking Event
Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility solutions offer enormous opportunities to create a more user-centred and inclusive mobility system, improve road safety, reduce emissions, and ease congestion, ultimately providing significant economic, environmental and social benefits to Ireland.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together stakeholders from across industry, academia, research, transport authorities and support agencies to discuss and promote CAV progress in Ireland.