'ITS in 2008': Special Megasession Features Wireless, Internet Role in Future Transportation; Transportation Secretary Slater Set To Join Panel.Business Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000 Four leaders from the intelligent transportation industry will be joined by federal transportation secretary Rodney Slater Perhaps you would like to read about one of:
Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the 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 See ITS. ) 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 slat·er n. 1. One employed to lay slate surfaces, as on roofs. 2. See pill bug. 3. See sow bug. Noun 1. 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 The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center located in Boston's Back Bay has 193,000 square feet (0 m) of exhibit space and can accommodate up to four concurrent events. . ITS America Chairman Joseph M. Giglio Jr. will moderate the megasession panel. On the agenda: -- The role of wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. 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 (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and , 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 Not-for-profit An organization established for charitable, humanitarian, or educational purposes that is exempt from some taxes and in which no one in profits or losses. 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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