Organizing Committee

Committee Chairman

Michael Noblett, Connexis LLC

Program Manager

Michael Freitas, Ygomi LLC 

Subcommittees:

Advisory Council to the Chairman
Dennis Foderberg, Short Elliott Hendrickson

Government Relations
Larry Yermack, Telvent Farradyne

International Relations
Gerald Conover, PRC & Associates
Harry Voccola, NAVTEQ

Local Arrangements
Matt Edelman, TRANSCOM

Marketing & Communications
Catherine Sweeney, MTA Bridges and Tunnels

Operations & Planning
Bill Russell, Eberle Design Inc.

Program
Richard Weiland, Ygomi LLC

VII Technology Demonstrations
Patrick McGowan, Telvent Farradyne

ITS Sector Liaisons:

Automotive - David Acton, Connexis LLC
Financial - John Peracchio, Peracchio & Company LLC
Research & Education - Chelsea "Chip" White, III, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wireless Communications - Janice Partyka, TechnoCom

15th World Congress International Program Committee

Chair

Richard Weiland, Ygomi LLC, USA 

Americas

John Augustine, ITS Joint Program Office, U.S. Department of Transportation, USA
Scott Belcher, Intelligent Transportation Society of America, USA
Hamed Benouar, Sensys Networks Inc. , USA
Gerry Conover, PRC Associates, USA
Pete Costello, PBS&J, USA
Richard Easley, E-Squared Engineering, USA
Ewa Flom, Federal Highway Administration, USA
Michael Freitas, Ygomi, LLC, USA
John Funny, Grice and Associates, Inc., USA
Dawn Hardesty, Noblis, USA
John Harding, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, USA
William Johnson, Transport Research, Education, and Development Services, Canada
Manjunathan Kumar, California Center for Innovative Transportation, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Michael Noblett, Connexis LLC, USA
James Pol, Federal Highway Administration, USA
Robert Rausch, TransCore, USA
Ed Roberts, New York State Department of Transportation, USA
Lou Sanders, American Public Transportation Association, USA
Rick Schuman, Inrix, USA
Carol Schweiger, TranSystems Corp, USA.
Ed Seymour, Texas Transportation Institute, USA
Susan Shaheen, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Piyushimita Thakuriah, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Harry Voccola, NAVTEQ, USA
Chelsea “Chip” White, III, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
James Wright, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, USA
Wei-Bin Zhang, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Europe

Jacob Bangsgaard, FIA Foundation
Vincent Blervaque, ERTICO-ITS Europe
Phil Blythe, University of Newcastle, UK
Uwe Daniel, Silicon Networks, Germany
André-Gilles Dumont, Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland
Richard Harris, WSP Development and Transportation, UK
Juhani Jääskeläinen, European Commission, DG INFSO
Christer Karlsson, ITS Sweden, Sweden
Job Klijnhout, ITS Congress Association
Meng Lu, ARS Traffic & Transport Technology, the Netherlands
Willy Maes, European Commission, DG TREN
Jean-Pierre Médevielle, Deputy Director General, INRETS, France
Herman Meyer, CEO, ERTICO-ITS Europe
Olivier Mossé, President, ITS Congress Association
Michael Nielsen, International Road Transport Union - IRU
Paul Potters, Connekt/ITS Netherlands, the Netherlands
Michael Sena, Michael Sena Consulting AB, Sweden
Alan Stevens, TRL, UK
Svend Tøfting, North Denmark Region, Denmark
Kees Wevers, NAVTEQ, the Netherlands

Asia Pacific

Hajime Amano, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
Yousuke Akatsu, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Japan
Daisuke Aoki, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
S.K.Jason Chang, National Taiwan University, Chinese-Taipei
Guo Jifu, Beijing Transportation Research Center, China
Katsushi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yang Kou, National ITS Center, China
Kaneo Kubo, ITS Japan
Young-Jung Moon, The Korea Transport Institute, Korea
Nobuyuki Ozaki, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Flett Steele, South Australian Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, Australia
Tongyan Qi, Research Institute of Highway, China