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PRESS RELEASE: ITS Canada Announces Award 2020 Winners
Posted by: ITS Canada

June 5th, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ITS Canada Announces Award 2020 Winners

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, June 5, 2020- The Intelligent Transportation Society of Canada (ITS Canada) is pleased to announce the 5 winners of the 2020 ITS Canada Awards Program.

2020 marks the 11th year of the ITS Canada Awards Program, which was originally created to better serve and profile members and young professionals and by acknowledging significant and defining people, projects, and innovations in our Canadian ITS marketplace.

“ITS Canada is thrilled to recognize the 2020 winners’ contributions and achievements to the Canadian ITS marketplace and beyond,” says Usha Elyatamby, Chair of the Awards Program.

Distinguished Service ITS Canada Member Award

Mr. Richard B. Easley, E-Squared Engineering

ITS Project/Program Award (Municipal/Provincial/Federal

EcoDrive II by City of Ottawa

Canadian ITS R&D/Innovation Awards

A real-time Multi-Modal Traffic Monitoring System based on 3D Lidar Technology by Blue City Technology

Information Fusion in Detection, Recognition, and Classification of Road Infrastructure from Remote Sensing Data by the University of Alberta

ITS Young Professional Award

Mr. Kevin Henry, ESCRYPT

To view an in-depth overview of the 2020 Award Winners, please CLICK HERE

This year's Award Winners will be celebrated during the virtual Awards Ceremony on Monday, June 15, 2020 at 12:30 pm EDT. To register for this event, please click here.

About ITS Canada
ITS Canada is a not-for-profit, national association which focuses on Intelligent Transportation Systems. We are the hub for mobility technologies. We support mobility technologies through championing the benefits, fostering and promoting innovation, integrating the expertise, products, and services of our members and enabling communication for learning and collaboration. Our members include all levels of governments, private sector companies, academic institutions, and other associations.

For further information, please contact Janneke van der Zee, Managing Director, ITS Canada, (905) 593-0947, janneke@itscanada.ca.

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