World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

The World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (commonly known as the ITS World Congress) is an annual conference and trade show to promote ITS technologies. ERTICO (ITS Europe), ITS America and ITS AsiaPacific (Secretariat: ITS Japan) are its sponsors. Each year the event takes place in a different region (Europe, Americas or Asia-Pacific). The 2017 World Congress will be held in Montreal, Canada from October 29 to November 2.

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are advanced applications which, without embodying intelligence as such, aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks. They are considered a part of the Internet of things.

The first ITS World Congress was held in 1994 in Paris followed by the 2nd Yokohama in 1995 and the 3rd Orlando in 1996. The rotation of the venue location among the regions of the world continued:

• 1997 4th Berlin • 1998 5th Seoul • 1999 6th Toronto • 2000 7th Torino • 2001 8th Sydney • 2002 9th Chicago • 2003 10th Madrid • 2004 11th Nagoya • 2005 12th San Francisco • 2006 13th London • 2007 14th Beijing • 2008 15th New York City • 2009 16th and its Post Congress Report • 2010 17th Busan • 2011 18th Orlando • 2012 19th Vienna • 2013 20th Tokyo • 2014 21st Detroit • 2015 22nd Bordeaux • 2016 23rd Melbourne and its Post Congress Report

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