Taiwan won hosting rights for the 2029 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), following three unsuccessful bids over the past decade, the Intelligent Transportation Society of Taiwan said in a statement on Sunday.
The group and the Taipei City Government submitted a bid to host the event, with Brisbane, Australia, the only other contender, and the winner was announced after a vote ahead of this year’s ITS World Congress, which opened in Dubai on Monday.
The ITS World Congress is the largest global event for the intelligent transport industry. The 2029 event was scheduled to take place in the Asia-Pacific region.
Photo courtesy of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Taiwan via CNA
The event in the past few years has attracted more than 10,000 visitors from more than 60 countries, the Taipei-based Intelligent Transportation Society said.
“We made the world understand that Taiwan is capable and qualified to host the world congress,” society president Shih Yi-fang (施義芳) said in the statement.
The ITS World Congress rotates between three regions every year: Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific, it said.
In a separate statement released on Monday, society vice president Philip Tseng (曾詩淵) said that the 2029 event would be held in September with the theme of “Harmonizing an AITS World.”
AITS stands for Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems and the ITS World Congress in Taipei would showcase the latest smart transport technologies and how to utilize AI to quickly identify and solve problems, Monday’s statement said.
The use of AI is intended to promote developments in the technology and tourism sectors, it added.
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