'ITS in 2008': Special Megasession Features Wireless, Internet Role in Future Transportation; Transportation Secretary Slater Set To Join Panel
WASHINGTON, Apr 27, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Four leaders from the intelligent
transportation industry will be joined by federal transportation secretary
Rodney Slater to share visions of how the Internet and wireless technology will
affect the way Americans travel in the year 2008, in a new "megasession" at the
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS
America) in Boston May 3.
Featured panelists at this newly scheduled event are Don Vendetti, director of
product development, AT&T, Gerald Conover, manager, external product and
technology assessment, Ford Motor Company. and Gonzalo Bustillos, director,
automotive business development, Microsoft Corp. and Richard Mudge, president,
Compass Services Division, U.S. Wireless. Secretary Slater is the cabinet member
who directs the federal $40+ billion dollar annual transportation program.
The "megasession" is a new style program for ITS America that crosses many
disciplines within the ITS industry - guaranteeing a large turnout of the more
than 3,000 ITS industry leaders expected at the four-day Tenth Annual Meeting of
ITS America. The session is set from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Room 210 of the
Hynes Convention Center. ITS America Chairman Joseph M. Giglio Jr. will moderate
the megasession panel.
On the agenda:
-- The role of wireless communications in transportation.
-- What is available in the vehicle and over the Internet?
-- How big will the market be in 2008?
-- What is "free" to the consumer and what will be available for
a fee?
-- What will the government provide?
-- What technologies will be packaged together?
-- Whose customer is ITS? OEM, Internet or wireless?
Said Giglio; the megasession "will peer into the future of intelligent
transportation and the innovations that are now driving the industry's growth.
This will be a wide-ranging view of the future that anyone interested in using
technology in transportation to save lives, time and money should want to
attend."
ITS America, based in Washington, D.C., is the not-for-profit organization that
represents over 1,000 commercial companies and governments that use technology
in transportation to save lives, time and money. The Society has chapters in 31
states and international affiliates in Europe and Asia.
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Copyright (C) 2000 Business Wire. All rights reserved.
CONTACT: ITS America, Washington
Roger King, 202/484-4665 (DC)
617/954-3775 (Boston)
KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS
INTERNET
TELEVISION/RADIO
TRANSPORTATION
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WASHINGTON, Apr 27, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Four leaders from the intelligent
transportation industry will be joined by federal transportation secretary
Rodney Slater to share visions of how the Internet and wireless technology will
affect the way Americans travel in the year 2008, in a new "megasession" at the
Tenth Annual Meeting of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS
America) in Boston May 3.
Featured panelists at this newly scheduled event are Don Vendetti, director of
product development, AT&T, Gerald Conover, manager, external product and
technology assessment, Ford Motor Company. and Gonzalo Bustillos, director,
automotive business development, Microsoft Corp. and Richard Mudge, president,
Compass Services Division, U.S. Wireless. Secretary Slater is the cabinet member
who directs the federal $40+ billion dollar annual transportation program.
The "megasession" is a new style program for ITS America that crosses many
disciplines within the ITS industry - guaranteeing a large turnout of the more
than 3,000 ITS industry leaders expected at the four-day Tenth Annual Meeting of
ITS America. The session is set from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Room 210 of the
Hynes Convention Center. ITS America Chairman Joseph M. Giglio Jr. will moderate
the megasession panel.
On the agenda:
-- The role of wireless communications in transportation.
-- What is available in the vehicle and over the Internet?
-- How big will the market be in 2008?
-- What is "free" to the consumer and what will be available for
a fee?
-- What will the government provide?
-- What technologies will be packaged together?
-- Whose customer is ITS? OEM, Internet or wireless?
Said Giglio; the megasession "will peer into the future of intelligent
transportation and the innovations that are now driving the industry's growth.
This will be a wide-ranging view of the future that anyone interested in using
technology in transportation to save lives, time and money should want to
attend."
ITS America, based in Washington, D.C., is the not-for-profit organization that
represents over 1,000 commercial companies and governments that use technology
in transportation to save lives, time and money. The Society has chapters in 31
states and international affiliates in Europe and Asia.
Distributed via COMTEX.
Copyright (C) 2000 Business Wire. All rights reserved.
CONTACT: ITS America, Washington
Roger King, 202/484-4665 (DC)
617/954-3775 (Boston)
KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS
INTERNET
TELEVISION/RADIO
TRANSPORTATION
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with Hyperlinks to your home page.
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