ITS World Congress - Sep 21-25, 2009

The 16th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services

Intelligent Transportation Systems, or ITS, improves transportation safety & mobility and enhances productivity through the use of advanced IT and communications technologies. The ITS World Congress has been organized since 1994 by jointly by ERTICO, ITS-America and ITS Japan. The Volvo Group has been participating from the start

Volvo group has also been present at earlier conferences in the exhibition area first with a small booth at selected conferences Sydney (2001), Chicago (2002) and London (2006) together with ITS-Sweden and in an own booth in New York (2008) 

Volvo is main sponsor for conference 2009, http://www.itsworldcongress.com/

Overview of the Volvo Group participation

Opening/closing plenary, Executive & Special sessions

• A dedicated 100 square meter
• Volvo booth presenting active safety, transport security, transport effectiveness and group research&technology and the “Automated Safety Truck”
• Participation in the Vägverket-väst booth
• Participation in the European Commission booth including the “Cooperative Truck”
• Presentations in the Demonstration Theatre where ITS comes to life
• Outdoor Demonstration of Cooperative Systems
• Demonstration of DME concepts vehicle outdoors presenting Green Corridor
• Participation at the GreenCargo distribution centre in Jordbro
• Various technical papers

Volvo Technology  at the ITS World Congress

Volvo Trucks shows tomorrow’s vehicles at ITS in Stockholm

Volvo Trucks is displaying several exciting next-generation projects at ITS, the world congress for intelligent transport systems and transport services in Stockholm on September 21-25. Among its exhibits are “thinking” trucks that automatically handle some of the routine aspects of driving, communicate with other vehicles on the road and, if necessary, step in automatically in critical situations. The full press release:  in English - in Swedish

Volvo Logistics has been given the project management role to develop and set up the Volvo Group scenario at the Demo Theatre at ITS World Congress in Stockholm.
 
ITS World Congress official website: http://www.itsworldcongress.com/

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