Be a part of T-Tech 2020 – submit your ideas

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Preparations for New Zealand’s Future Transport Conference are under way.

ITS NZ is calling for abstracts.

Innovators, local government, universities and industry should submit their ideas for consideration by the T-Tech programme committee.

Abstracts are brief outlines of the paper or presentation you wish to make to those attending the conference.

Maintaining a high quality of programme is key for ITS NZ and therefore we do not include commercial sales promotions.

However, if your project, research or innovation is groundbreaking and you are willing to share outputs please do submit as we want to hear from leaders in this space.

To have your abstract considered it needs to align with at least one of the conference themes and be both original and informative.

Submissions are to be made via the website www.ITSNZ.org.

Being selected to present on a paper or presentation has rewards.

Prizes are given for the best paper and best presentation and you could win $5000 of travel towards an international transport conference of your choice.

The prizes are part of ITS NZ’s commitment to furthering innovation, research and skills development in New Zealand.

Earlybird tickets for the conference in Wellington in May 2020 are expected to go on sale in December.

Visit www.ITSNZ.org for more information.

ITS NZ appoints two new board members.

ITS NZ has appointed Dr Douglas Wilson and Dr Helen Fitt to two newly created director positions for representatives from academia.

ITS NZ recognises the value that academia plays in skills development and in producing important research and so universities were
encouraged to apply for the roles and both candidates made very strong applications.

Helen Fitt lecturers at Lincoln University, and may be familiar to EVtalk readers as she is a fellow in Lincoln University’s Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Tourism, which currently has a focus on the use of electric vehicles in tourism.

She is a guest lecturer with the university’s Advanced Energy and Transport Planning Masters course and was a founding member of the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles working group while at the University of Canterbury.

We were very pleased to receive her application as she won best presentation at T-Tech 2019 Conference in Christchurch along with Angela Curl (now at Otago University). Her social science focus reflects ITS NZ’s broader scope of focus, looking at how future transport solutions can benefit or challenge our society, culture and human behaviour.

Dr Doug Wilson is a senior lecturer in Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a founding member of the Transportation Research Centre (TRC) at the University of Auckland.

Wilson is actively involved in the Intelligent Transport Systems and Transportation engineering community and currently is the director of the University of Auckland Transportation Engineering Laboratories.

Prior to becoming an academic he had more than 15 years’ experience working for agencies and private consultancies.

Working with the ITS NZ Board, he aims to assist transport agencies, policy makers and industry to better utilise the skills, expertise and resources of the tertiary sector to help research, develop and trial new ITS technologies.