ITS America’s Smart Solution Spotlight award honors companies and organizations for developing and deploying Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to create a safer, cleaner, more efficient and sustainable transportation system.
Since 2010, ITS America has recognized numerous ITS technologies and projects that have made a real-world impact, or have demonstrated near-term potential, to improve public safety, enhance mobility, create more livable communities, strengthen our country’s economic competitiveness, and promote the environmental sustainability of our nation’s surface transportation systems.
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ITS America Smart Solution Spotlight Award Winners
2013
Airbiquity, Inc. and Nissan North America
ITS Solution: Electric Vehicle Telematics Technologies
Automatic
ITS Solution: Smartphone application that makes driving more efficient
TransCore
ITS Solution: Transmetric Server 6
2012
Streetline, Inc.
ITS Solution: Integrated smart parking platform
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
ITS Solution: Texas Permitting and Routing Optimization System (TxPROS)
Meritor WABC
ITS Solution: OnGuard,™
New York City Department of Transportation
ITS Solution: Midtown in Motion
City of Pleasanton, California
ITS Solution: The “Intersector”
2011
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
ITS Solution: ParkPGH Application
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)
ITS Solution: Rural Intersection Conflict Warning System
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and TRANSCOM
ITS Solution: Real-Time Traffic Information Website
New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and Turnpike Authority
ITS Solution: Trumpit Smartphone Application
ITS Joint Program Office, U.S. DOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration, and the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership (CAMP) and the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium
ITS Solution: Connected Vehicle Technology
2010
Getaround, Inc.
ITS Solution: Car Sharing Service
Vehicle Probe Project, a partnership between the I-95 Corridor Coalition, the University of Maryland and INRIX
ITS Solution: One-Stop Trip Planner Tool for East Coast Travelers
Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT)
ITS Solution: GDOT’s Regional Traffic Operations Program (RTOP)
ZoomSafer
ITS Solution: Mobile phone software to prevent distracted driving
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
ITS Solution: Electronic Overhead Highway signs
Lifespan Technologies
ITS Solution: Bridge sensors, wireless and information technologies
Salt Lake City’s MAX Bus Rapid Transit
ITS Solution: MAX 3500 South BRT
INRIX®
ITS Solution: INRIXTraffic.us
Massachusetts Department of Transportation
ITS Solution: Developers Initiative
95 Express Project
ITS Solution: Innovative use of technology, transit, tolling and transportation demand management to significantly improve the traffic flow on I-95 in the Miami metropolitan region
Avego Shared Transport program
ITS Solution: Real-time on-demand commuting smartphone application
Houston TranStar
ITS Solution: Web-based Evacuation Status Map
PrePass
ITS Solution: PrePass is an intelligent transportation system (ITS) technology to weigh, identify and prescreen trucks while they are driving at highway speeds toward inspection stations.
The City of Detroit, The Road Commission for Oakland County (RCOC), Wayne County, and The Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART), the suburban Detroit bus system
ITS Solution: Southeastern Michigan Snow and Ice Management (SEMSIM)
City of Portland Oregon and The Climate Trust
ITS Solution: Traffic Signal Optimization& Retirement of Carbon Credits