ITS America Names Best of 2015 Finalists

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) today announced the list of finalists for its 2015 Best of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Awards. The winners will be announced June 1 at the opening session of the 25th ITS America Annual Meeting & Exposition at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

The finalists are:

Best New Innovative Product, Service or Application

• Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority: “Capital Metro BRT, Real-Time Data & Mobile Ticketing App”
• Oregon Department of Transportation: “OR 217 Active Traffic Management”
• Xerox: “Xerox Vehicle Passenger Detection System”
• Drivewyze: “Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) Communication”

Best New Innovative Practice - Partnership Deployment

• Florida Department of Transportation & Waze: “SunGuide Software and Waze Traffic Feed Integration”
• Cubic Transportation Systems & Chicago Transit Authority: “Chicago Transit Authority Ventra Update: Open and Loving It”
• Oregon Department of Transportation & Oregon State Police: “Oregon Interoperability Service”

Best New Innovative Practice – Research, Design and Innovation

• Southwest Research Institute: “Connected Automation to Enhance Work Zone Safety”
• Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Honda R&D Americas, Inc.: “Honda and Qualcomm DSRC-based Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) and Other Vulnerable Road User Safety Project”
• Utah Department of Transportation: “UDOT Flex Lanes Project”

Best New Innovative Practice - Sustainability in Transportation

• MetroTech: “Santa Clara County Deployment”
• Utah Department of Transportation: “Winter Road Weather Index”

New this year, ITS America will honor a Best New Innovative Startup Company.