WASHINGTON, DC, July 13, 2009 - The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), in partnership with IBM and Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations (STCI), recently announced a new global challenge to identify innovative ideas for combating transportation congestion.

The ITS Congestion Challenge is the first global competition to identify the best ideas to reduce congestion and mitigate its impact on the economy and environment. The competition is open to entrepreneurs, commuters, transportation experts, researchers in all fields, universities, and citizens around the world. All ideas will be reviewed, discussed and rated by an open global community.

The best ideas to solve the problem of traffic congestion will be selected and the winner will be announced during the 16th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems in Stockholm, Sweden, September 21-25, 2009. The winner will receive a cash investment of $50,000 USD in addition to development and implementation support so that the winning idea becomes a real-world solution.

For additional information on the challenge and to enter submissions, interested participants should visit http://www.itsa.org/challenge.

Participants will be able to post solutions, collaborate in an open community to improve entries and vote for the best ideas to reduce congestion and mitigate its impact. Winners will be announced during the 16th World Congress of ITS in Stockholm in September 2009. The deadline to submit entries is July 31, 2009.

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