The ITS Blog

January 29, 2025
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than just a “buzzword” – it is being integrated into many of the tools used by the supply chain and logistics industry today. AI has become such a hot topic and is considered vital to the future of the industry's technologies because it delivers a range of valuable benefits ... With that in mind, this article explores a sampling of AI use cases in supply chain and logistics ...

November 25, 2024
Brian Cronin
USDOT

In October 2024, seven local, State, and Federal transportation agencies gathered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to demonstrate the interoperability of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) applications and equipment ...

September 24, 2024
Brian Cronin
USDOT

This October, which is National Pedestrian Safety Month, the US Department of Transportation is emphasizing the safe system approach and boosting its efforts to improve safety for vulnerable road users. Everyone deserves to be safe while walking or rolling on our streets ...

September 18, 2024
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

Autonomous vehicles could have saved up to 1,300 lives, and prevented up to 5,000 major injuries in California over past three years, according to two a new study from Chamber of Progress ...

August 16, 2024
Brian Cronin
USDOT

With a steady stream of news articles, corporate announcements, and stories on the nightly news, we are hearing more and more about automated vehicles. The potential benefits that AVs could bring to our roadways in terms of safety, mobility, and accessibility are great, but realizing those benefits requires planning and coordination ...

July 15, 2024
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

More than 114,000 workers — and possibly up to 455,000 workers – will be employed over the next 15 years to meet AV production, distribution, maintenance, upgrades, and repair needs, according to a new report from the Chamber of Progress ...

May 01, 2024
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) finalized a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard that will make automatic emergency braking (AEB), including pedestrian AEB, standard on all passenger cars and light trucks by September 2029 ...

April 02, 2024
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

Waymo published research in December comparing Waymo Driver's crash rates to human drivers' over 7+ million rider-only miles from Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles ...

October 16, 2023
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

A September 2023 report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that ITS results in safety- and congestion-related benefits, as well as some potential environmental benefits ...

October 12, 2023
Pete Goldin
ITSdigest

A September 2023 report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlined several challenges that state and local agencies face when operating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) ...

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