Thinking Aloud

In the final Thinking Aloud from Tokyo, Kevin Borras speaks to Intel about vehicle sensor data and car manufacturers' renewed interest in ITS. We hear from IBM, Siemens and Japanese company KKE, who are working on a project in Japan with PTV, we talk to a Thinking Highways columnist and look ahead to the world congress in four years' time. Plus we hear about Thinking Highways TV, the IRF annual meeting and the Thinking Highways documentary on Thinking Cities.

And Kevin Borras talks Japanese.

These shows are sponsored by Cubic Transportation Systems and Vitronic.

Thinking Aloud is on the road again in what has been a wet and windy Tokyo for this year's ITS World Congress. In today's programme, Kevin Borras talks to a grandee of British ITS, to FLIR ITS, Image Sensing Systems, ITS South Africa and Transcore.

Paul Hutton in London gives more details of two more big world shows and another taster from our new documentary on Thinking Cities available now on the Thinking Highways website.

These shows are brought to you by Vitronic and Cubic Transportation Systems. Many thanks to these businesses for supporting Thinking Aloud.

There's a third show from Tokyo available tomorrow.

In today's Thinking Aloud, Kevin Borras is in Tokyo for the ITS World Congress. He speaks to IBM about connected vehicles, to Ertico about the latest on the Ecall project, hears from Vitronic, Iteris and Esri and about an exciting idea from Japan.

Meanwhile Paul Hutton presses the buttons in London and brings you news about the latest Thinking Highways documentary and about two forthcoming shows in the Middle East, in the IRF meeting in Riyadh in November and December's Gulf Traffic show, where Thinking Highways will be presenting daily TV news shows.

There's also bad weather hitting Tokyo so the congress will be shut tomorrow morning, but we'll have another Thinking Aloud, even if Kevin has to interview people in their hotels!

These shows are sponsored by Cubic Transportation Systems and Vitronic. As always, we thank them for their support.

In this programme we hear from the head of ITS America, Scott Belcher, about the industry in California in particular and America as a whole.

We also talk to the organiser of the event, the CEO of one of California's biggest ITS companies, Iteris, and one of the exhibitors and speakers at the event.

These programmes are brought to you by Qvision Technology and Cubic Transportation Systems - click on their logos to the right to get more information.

There's a final show from ITS California tomorrow.

This is the last of the special Thinking Alouds from the ITS Australia summit in Sydney. In today's programme we hear more about connected vehicles with two companies' views, we have a tie-up between an Australian and a British company, hear about road safety, buses and two people from ITS Australia.

These programmes are sponsored by www.qvisiontechnology.com, cts.cubic.com and whereismaps.com (click their logos on the right to link to their websites).

Next week, w/b 30th September, Paul will be in San Diego to report from the important ITS California meeting, join him there.

Thinking Aloud comes from the ITS Australia Summit 2013 in Sydney, sponsored by WhereIs Maps by Sensis (www.whereismaps.com), Qvision (www.qvisiontechnology.com) and Cubic Transportation Systems (cts.cubic.com).

Today, Paul talks to the President of ITS Australia, digs deep into a potential major problem for connected vehicles, hears about WhereIs maps' new Locator service and its three-dimensional mapping and hears an idea for an innovative insurance policy which would encourage the take-up of ITS.

There'll be another show on Monday rounding up more from Sydney.

This Thinking Aloud is the first of three from the ITS Australia Summit 2013 in Sydney.

In this edition Paul Hutton talks to ITS Australia CEO Susan Harris, to Margaret Yova from the innovative moving video solution Qvision and to four exhibitors at the event, PTV, Vix, ITS New Zealand and Sensor Dynamics. There's also more about the IRF Annual Meeting in Riyadh (www.irf2013.org).

These programmes are sponsored by WhereIs Maps (www.whereismaps.com), Qvision (www.qvisiontechnology.com) and Cubic Transportation Systems (cts.cubic.com).

If you're not in Sydney then these shows are still very much worth a listen, with lots to educate and inform.

In the first of many Thinking Aloud programmes between now and Christmas, we celebrate 20 years of America's EZ Pass system, by talking to the man whose idea it was, Larry Yermack. He talks not only about the history of the project but also its effect on ITS today. We also hear about an exciting new initiative by ITS UK, the IRF annual meeting in Riyadh and Kevin Borras discusses the Thinking Highways webinars. There's also news about forthcoming shows from Australia and California.