An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is an advanced application that aims to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable users to be better informed and make safer,more coordinated,and 'smarter' use of transport networks.
Telematics is an interdisciplinary field encompassing telecommunications,vehicular technologies,electrical engineering,and computer science. Telematics can involve any of the following:
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) is a unit of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). It was created in 2005 to advance transportation science,technology,and analysis,as well as improve the coordination of transportation research within the department and throughout the transportation community.
The Industrial Technology Research Institute is a technology research and development institution in Taiwan. It was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Hsinchu City,Taiwan,with branch offices in the U.S.,Europe,and Japan.
The Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT),formerly the Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM),is a component of the U.S. Department of State responsible for providing modern,secure,and resilient information technology and services.
A smart city is an urban area that uses digital technology to collect data and to operate/provide services. Data can be collected from citizens,devices,buildings,cameras. Applications include traffic and transportation systems,power plants,utilities,urban forestry,water supply networks,waste disposal,criminal investigations,information systems,schools,libraries,hospitals,and other community services. Smart cities are characterized by the ways in which their local governments monitor,analyze,plan,and govern the city. In a smart city,the sharing of data extends to businesses,citizens and other third parties who can derive benefit from using that data. The three largest sources of spending associated with smart cities as of 2022 were visual surveillance,public transit,and outdoor lighting.
Robin Chase is an American transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar. She is also the founder and former CEO of Buzzcar,a peer-to-peer car-sharing service,acquired by Drivy. She also started the defunct GoLoco.org,a vehicle for hire company. She is co-founder and executive chairman of Veniam,a vehicle network communications company. She authored the book,Peers Inc:How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism.
Vivek Kundra is a former American administrator who served as the first chief information officer of the United States from March,2009 to August,2011 under President Barack Obama. He is currently the chief operating officer at Sprinklr,a provider of enterprise customer experience management software based in NYC. He was previously a visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
The New York City Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI),formerly known as the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT),is the department of the government of New York City that oversees the City's "use of existing and emerging technologies in government operations,and its delivery of services to the public". Although the agency's primary purpose is to facilitate the technology needs of other New York City agencies,the department is best known by city residents for running the city's 311 "citizens' hotline," established in 2003. Its regulations are compiled in title 67 of the New York City Rules.
The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) was established by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2000 as an R&D centre for information and communications technologies. The Institute states its objective as 'enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness in technology-based industries through applied research'.
World Class IT:Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs is a 2009 IT management book by Peter A. High that aims to provide a framework by which CIOs and other executives can promote IT within a business. High outlines five principles which align IT with business strategy and allow companies to monitor and improve IT's performance. The book highlights a 2000s trend that views IT as a digital nervous system which delivers corporate thinking to business units,partners and customers. Since the 2009 publication,the book has also been published in Mandarin and Korean editions.
Peter H. Appel was the administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). From 2009 to 2011 Appel was the Obama administration point person on transportation technology issues and research. He left RITA in late 2011 for the private sector to work on emerging technologies in the transportation industry.
Cordell Schachter is an American technology manager who has held positions in both public service and commercial firms. He is the Chief Information Officer of the United States Department of Transportation and was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the New York City Department of Transportation from 2008 to 2021.
Iteris Inc. is an American company based in Austin,Texas that provides software,hardware and services for smart mobility infrastructure management,including software as a service,cloud-enabled managed services,consulting and advisory services,and sensors and other devices that record and predict traffic conditions. Iteris Inc. was established in 2004. The company from which it was formed,Odetics Inc.,was originally founded in 1969,in Anaheim,California and incorporated in Delaware in 1987. Joe Bergera has served as the company's president and chief executive officer since 2015,and Iteris reported revenue of $156.1 million in fiscal year 2023,ending March 31.
Technology Business Management Council is a Washington-based non-profit organization with the goal of creating and promoting “best practices for running IT as a business.”As of January 2018,the TBM Council has about 5,100 CIO,CTO,&CFO members who are advancing technology business management standards and education across all industries. Its current board of directors includes executives from AIG,Aflac,Apptio,Cisco,Dollar General,First American,Intuit,Great West Life,MasterCard,Micron,Nationwide,Red Ventures,Stanley Black &Decker,SunTrust,Tyson Foods,and the University of Pennsylvania.
The Centre for Process Innovation Limited,trading as CPI,is a British technology and innovation social enterprise covering the agricultural and food technology,energy storage,health technology,materials,and pharmaceutical industry markets,with an emphasis on sustainable solutions and improving healthcare. CPI's headquarters are in Redcar,North Yorkshire. Established in 2004 by the UK Government agency ONE NorthEast,the company was one of five centres of excellence in a long-term strategy to "reposition the North-East [of England] on the world stage for research and development".
LaVerne H. Council,MBA,DBA was the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer for the Office of Information and Technology within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Council assumed this role in July 2015. President Obama nominated Council to the role in March 2015. Council was confirmed by the 114th Congress on June 23,2015,making Council the first female CIO of a Cabinet-level federal agency. She managed a $4.2B Information Technology (IT) appropriation,the first centralized and only IT appropriation in the federal government.
Science and technology in Kazakhstan –government policies to develop science,technology and innovation in Kazakhstan.
JM Family Enterprises,Inc. (JMFE) is a diversified automotive company. It is ranked by Forbes as the 17th largest privately held company in the U.S. The company is ranked on the Fortune "100 Best Companies to Work For" list,and was No. 9 on the InformationWeek 500 list of the nation's leading information technology innovators.
