{"id":2730,"date":"2026-07-17T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:30:19","slug":"taipei-wins-rights-to-host-intelligent-transport-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/taipei-wins-rights-to-host-intelligent-transport-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Taipei wins rights to host intelligent transport event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan won hosting rights for the 2029 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), following three unsuccessful bids over the past decade, the Intelligent Transportation Society of Taiwan said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group and the Taipei City Government submitted a bid to host the event, with Brisbane, Australia, the only other contender, and the winner was announced after a vote ahead of this year\u2019s ITS World Congress, which opened in Dubai on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ITS World Congress is the largest global event for the intelligent transport industry. The 2029 event was scheduled to take place in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2024\/09\/18\/P02-240918-008.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Members of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Taiwan and Taipei City Government officials in Dubai on Sunday gesture and hold a document detailing Taiwan\u2019s hosting rights for the 2029 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems on Monday.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Photo courtesy of the \bIntelligent Transportation Society of Taiwan via CNA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event in the past few years has attracted more than 10,000 visitors from more than 60 countries, the Taipei-based Intelligent Transportation Society said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe made the world understand that Taiwan is capable and qualified to host the world congress,\u201d society president Shih Yi-fang (\u65bd\u7fa9\u82b3) said in the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ITS World Congress rotates between three regions every year: Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a separate statement released on Monday, society vice president Philip Tseng (\u66fe\u8a69\u6df5) said that the 2029 event would be held in September with the theme of \u201cHarmonizing an AITS World.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AITS stands for Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems and the ITS World Congress in Taipei would showcase the latest smart transport technologies and how to utilize AI to quickly identify and solve problems, Monday\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of AI is intended to promote developments in the technology and tourism sectors, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan News-Wed, Sep 18, 2024\uff1a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2024\/09\/18\/2003823963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2024\/09\/18\/2003823963<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan won hosting rights for the 2029 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), following three unsuccessful bids over the past decade, the Intelligent Transportation Society of Taiwan said in a statement on Sunday. The group and the Taipei City Government submitted a bid to host the event, with Brisbane, Australia, the only other contender, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/its-taiwan.org.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}