Report in closing Session at ITS World Congress, Copenhagen – September 2018.

We’ve had more than 250 sessions and over 500 technical papers. An extensive exhibition, a wide-ranging set of demonstrations to show what can be done right now and the Smart Cities Pavilion bringing to life the ideas that were discussed in the sessions. Under its headline theme Next Generation Integrated Mobility: Driving Smart Cities the Congress was organised into 7 Tracks. I’ll give quick comments on some of the key activities within each one.

In October 2001 in Sydney I took part in the first World Congress to be held in Australia. It was a vibrant meeting despite its being in the shadow of New York in September that year. I looked back at some of the titles of papers and sessions and was struck by how often words appeared like Possible, Potential, Early and Prototype.