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Over three days of plenary and panel sessions, workshops, technical tours, demonstrations, and networking events, Summit 2024 attendees will explore the latest technology-led solutions that can advance Australia’s aspirational transport goals around safety, sustainability, and inclusivity.
ITS Australia CEO Susan Harris said the annual Summit is an opportunity for critical discussions between policymakers and industry on how best to collaborate to deliver meaningful solutions at scale.
“Over the last 12 months, our sector has been grappling with several big issues – how to leverage new data sources equitably and with appropriate privacy protections in place; tackling the nation’s increasing road toll, which is defying our ambitious safety targets; and implementing new policies and in turn, rolling out the vehicles and infrastructure that will realise our sector’s sustainability goals,” said Ms Harris.
The ITS Summit is a critical forum for debating these big issues and turning ideas into action. Crucially, bringing together representatives from across the country for three days supports the development of solutions that can be delivered in a nationally harmonised manner. Without such agreements, progress will be much harder.
Susan Harris / CEO, ITS Australia
To enable attendees to participate in these important conversations, this year’s program has been developed around six major themes:
A committee of passionate leaders from policy, industry, and academia across the country has delivered the 2024 program.
Co-Chair of the Program Committee, Adele Beachley, Executive Director of SCATS at Transport for NSW, Summit’s Host State Partner, reflected on the significance of the approach to developing this year’s broad agenda.
“Our Committee, which represents all facets of Australia’s broad ITS industry, has convened over many months to curate a thought provoking agenda that will challenge the sector to collaborate over three days in Sydney, to deliver ideas and pragmatic solutions to the real world transport challenges we face as a nation,” said Ms Beachley.
The theme of collaborations to deliver unified solutions is a key pillar of our approach at Transport for NSW as we continue to build a better transport system in Australia’s largest State. A shining example of this is the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) – a NSW Government delivered solution that through national and international collaboration now operates in 63,000 intersections across 216 cities in 32 countries.
Adele Beachley / Executive Director, SCATS - Transport for NSW
Michael Hopkins, CEO of the National Transport Commission, who will deliver a keynote address in Sydney, sees the Summit as an opportunity to continue the critical conversation with industry on how the NTC is delivering the regulatory and legislative reform needed for the introduction of automated vehicles to Australian roads.
“There are some consistent themes coming through globally and locally on the issues we need to address to get ready for AVs,” said Mr Hopkins.
“Perceptions of safety have declined over the last couple of years and industry recognises this needs to improve. There is broad consensus that getting the regulatory environment right is critical.”
This year’s Summit is an opportunity to talk about the challenges Australia faces in not only landing a new national law, but in lining up state and territory regulations to create a nationally consistent approach.
Michael Hopkins / CEO, National Transport Commission
The ITS Australia Summit 2024 will take place from 13 to 15 August at Sydney’s International Convention Centre, exploring approaches to safe, sustainable and inclusive transport to deliver vibrant communities.
Find out more at: https://www.itsaustraliasummit.com.au/
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