Statement from ITS America President & CEO Shailen Bhatt on the American Jobs Plan

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March 31, 2021

WASHINGTON – ITS America applauds the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic and comprehensive American Jobs Plan. If implemented, these investments would create jobs and strengthen the economy while increasing transportation safety, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and making our system more equitable.

We agree it is critical to future-proof our infrastructure for the 21st century. Effectively pairing technology with infrastructure investments will allow us to intelligently rebuild our system while transforming outcomes for generations – saving tens of thousands of lives every year, decreasing air pollution in neighborhoods across the country, reducing congestion, and ensuring access to transportation for all.

For decades, people around the world have relied on the United States for innovation. Many share our transportation challenges, and today’s investments will ensure our global leadership.

ITS America looks forward to working with the Administration and Congress to create a transportation system that is safer, greener, and smarter.

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About ITS America
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America advances the research and deployment of intelligent transportation technologies to save lives, improve mobility, promote sustainability, and increase efficiency and productivity. Our vision is a better future transformed by intelligent mobility: safer, greener, smarter. For more information, please visit www.itsa.org

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Let’s Transform the Future Together.

Technology evolves faster than we can imagine the future. Rapidly evolving transportation innovations are being developed and deployed that promise to entirely reshape the way our transportation network operates, facilitating vast improvements to transportation safety and overall mobility. The promise of these innovations is apparent, but the deployment and application of these technologies is not without challenges. While technology disrupts the transportation ecosystem with new innovations and ideas, government, communities, private companies, and researchers must race to catch up to and contend with ideas never thought possible. How do we accelerate change and safely embrace new technology while promoting collaboration across industry to advance shared societal goals? Through nonprofits like the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America).

ITS America and its members have been at the center of these innovations, advocating for transformational technology to save lives, promote sustainability, and improve access to mobility.

Join us.

As advocates for transportation innovation throughout the world’s largest transportation network, ITS America’s public, private and academic members are dedicated to championing smart mobility strategies to ensure safe and thriving communities.
Ramin Massoumi, Global Solutions Director – Mobility, arcadis
Private companies, public agencies and academic institutions committed to influencing the future of intelligent transportation come together at ITS America. Every day, our members advance technology solutions that save lives and improve mobility across the country – in cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
Malcolm Dougherty, National Practice Executive, Transportation, Michael Baker International
At ITS America, our public, private and academic sector members are committed to deploying intelligent transportation technologies to save lives and improve mobility on our nation’s roads. While transportation constantly evolves, we will do all we can to ensure it continues to be the engine that drives our nation’s economy and contributes to improving our quality of life.
Carlos Braceras, Director, Utah Department of Transportation