In the fourth and final daily podcast from the ITS World Congress in Vienna, Paul Hutton finds out what's worrying a man who's been to all 19 of the congresses, gets news from Traficon, IRF and Hodos Media, talks to Swarco, InnovITS snd Navtech Radar, while Kevin Borras really does give his two cents about an aspect of the congress's organisation and Sarah Hawkes investigates Vaisala. There's also AustriaTech's guide to Vienna and Kapsch pay tribute to a great event.

In the third of four daily podcasts from the ITS World Congress in Vienna, Paul Hutton finds out what ITS America make of the event, learns more about the collaboration between ITS South Africa and Nigeria, talks to Mott MacDonald, IBM, Aim Sun, Intertraffic and about Fotsis while Sarah Hawkes investigates Alcolock. There's also Kevin Borras's two cents and Austriatech's guide to Vienna.

In the second of four daily podcasts from the ITS World Congress in Vienna, Paul Hutton finds out about a collaboration between the ITS associations in Australia and Canada, talks to Traficon, Mott MacDonald and TRL while Sarah Hawkes finds out about a new Advanced Driver Assistance System, Kevin Borras gives his two cents and Austriatech help with their guide to Vienna. It really would be a crime not to listen.

In this edition, from the 19th ITS World Congress in Vienna, host Paul Hutton and reporters Kevin Borras and Sarah Hawkes bring you a guide to the show. It includes details of two new innovations from Swarco, ITS-related gaming technology, details of the space exhibition and what Siemens are doing with satellite navigation. There's also an interview with ITS Ireland and a suggestion from the hosts of what to do in Vienna.

In this edition Paul talks to one of the longest-serving ITS professionals, Professor Phil Blythe of Newcastle University in Great Britain. As part of a feature about the ITS World Congress we hear from Traficon, TomTom, AGD and Kapsch, bring you the latest news, Thinking Highways editor Kevin Borras tells us what's going to be in the next edition and in our off-beat series of stories from ITS professionals we hear how one of the world's biggest bands got a schoolboy into trouble.

Show 4 of Thinking Aloud is online now - in this edition of our new regular podcast Paul Hutton talks Bluetooth with the ITS UK Young ITS Professional of the Year, Martin Mildenhall of Transport for Greater Manchester, discusses the success (both on and off the field/track/lake/velodrome) of London's Olympics with Thinking Highways' editor in chief Kevin Borras and hears from Mary Treen as she reveals what she does in her spare time, when she isn't being TRL's Senior Communications and Campaign Manager.

In our third show Paul talks to Dorset County Council's Peter Speroni about how the town of Weymouth on the south coast of England is planning to cope with the influx of an extra 60,000 visitors a day as it plays host to the 2012 Olympic sailing events, chats with Thinking Highways' editor-in-chief Kevin Borras about the hot-off-the-press June/July issue of the Europe/Rest of the World edition which, unsurprsingly, features a number of Olympic-related articles (one by the aforementioned Speroni) and finishes by catching up with ITS software development specialist Matt Jones. Matt is currently working on a project to introduce a new smart ticketing system for London but Thinking Aloud is more interested (on this occasion) in his previous life as a BBC Radio 4 announcer.

Thinking Aloud Show 3, presented by Paul Hutton and produced by Danny Cox, is avalable to listen to or download now.

In Show 2 of Thinking Aloud, Paul Hutton talks to Xerox's Richard Harris about the extraordinary achievements of Job Klinjhout, who sadly died in June, and to GEWI's Jim O'Neill as he pays tribute to his colleague and ITS broadcasting pioneer David Marsh who recently passed away. A double obituary is not typical podcast fodder but listen as both Richard and Jim talk glowingly of their much-missed friends and colleagues.

Paul also talks to ITS expert Steve George, Thinking Highways editor in chief Kevin Borras and finds out what Transport for Greater Manchester's award-winning Martin Mildenhall gets up to in his spare time.

The first edition of "Thinking Aloud"

In the last of three podcasts from the ITS California conference in San Diego, Paul Hutton talks to keynote speaker Alice Tornquist from Qualcomm about the company's innovations in ITS. He also speaks to organiser Jane White and four more of the companies on the exhibition floor.

We also hear about a new live TV streaming innovation from Thinking Highways magazine and ITS UK, and hear about two forthcoming shows in the Middle East.

These programmes are possible thanks to the generous sponsorship of two Californian ITS companies – global mass transit business Cubic Transportation Systems (cts.cubic.com) and moving video solution start-up company Qvision (www.qvisiontechnology.com). Please check out their websites by clicking on their logos to the right.