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Held in Japan After an Interval of 9 Years, More Than 20,000 Participants from 65 Countries Exceeding the Targeted Number
FORUM8's DS Exhibited in Multiple Booths
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ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013
| Five Days with Cutting-edge Technology, Studies, and World Policies
about ITS |
For five days from October 14 to 18, "the 20th ITS World Congress
Tokyo 2013" was held in Tokyo International Forum (14th) and Tokyo
Big Sight (from 15 to 18).
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At the entrance of the exhibition area
of the 20th ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013 (Tokyo Big Sight) |
During the Period Typhoon 26 was approaching, which gave heavy damage to the metropolitan area. For stormy weather was anticipated on 16th, the congress session, exhibition, and showcase in the morning were called off. Besides, a demonstration of "Let's Experience Automated Driving in Odaiba" and other technical visits were cancelled whole day.
Nevertheless, according to the official statistics posted by the Japan Organizing Committee of ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013, the total number of participants throughout the period was 20,691 (3,940 registrants inclusive) from 65 countries and areas. The number of press people was 476 from in and outside of the country.
Compared with the targeted numbers (participating countries: over 60, participants: over 8,000, registrants: 4,000), the number of actual registrants was almost the same as the target, the actually participating countries exceeded the target by 8%, and the participants 2.5 times as many as the target. At the closing ceremony on 18th, Mr. Atsushi Yano, Chair of 2013WC BOD mentioned the unofficial figure, then-total participants of 16,900 by October 17, somewhat excitedly.
On the first day on 14th, the Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception were held in Tokyo Kokusai Forum as kick-off events of the Congress.
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The opening ceremony of the 20th ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013,
on October 14 at Tokyo Kokusai Forum
(Mr. Hiroyuki Watanabe, chairman of the Japan Organizing Committee
of ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013) |
The venue was moved on the following day of 15th to Tokyo Big Sight. Starting with Plenary Session (PL1) entitled "Open ITS to the Next: Aims and Lessons in Moving Towards the Next Stage," the Congress continued for 4 days till 18th, comprising about 250 sessions such as PL, Executive sessions, and Special interest sessions. At the same time, exhibition and showcases (demonstrations including test ride), and other diverse events took place.
On the last day of the Congress on18th, the final Plenary Session (PL3), "Beyond ITS: from Conventional Approaches to Four Aspects of 'Open'" was held after all the scheduled sessions, exhibitions, and events were over. Then the Closing Ceremony followed, passing the baton to the next Congress site, Detroit in the U.S.A.
Throughout the Congress, themes such as "Advanced driver assistance / automated driving" and "ITS big data" attracted attention. In individual sessions, services being provided in Japan such as ITS Spot Service rouse interest from foreign participants.
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The closing ceremony of the 20th ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013,
on October 18 at Tokyo Big Sight.
Mr. Takashi Oguchi, chairman of 2013WC IPC presented a summary. |
In the closing ceremony, Mr. Takashi Oguchi, 2013WC IPC Chair showed "Snapshots"
of the three poles of the world towards the Congress. For instance, America's
'snapshot' included "Big Data is changing the future of transportation,"
"The importance of the role of ITS in emergency response" as
well as "Growing adoption and deployment of connected vehicles"
and " Increased attention to international cooperation and standards."
European 'Snapshot' included items such as "Deployment predominates,"
"Integrated services emerging," "Automated & autonomous
vehicle studies growing," "Many Open Data and Big Data Initiatives,"
and "The concept of "Smart Cities" is spreading." Furthermore,
Asia-Pacific's "Snapshot" showed "Automated driving; gaining
a momentum," "Collaboration; the key for utilizing big data."
On the other hand, it also included the focus on "Transport issues
in Mega-cities / regions," and "Further and tighter collaboration
among the three regions and Asia-Pacific region."
| Diverse DS of FORUM8 Attracted Attention of ITS Community Overseas |
At the exhibition of the 20th ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013, FORUM8 exhibited items based on driving simulation using the 6k multi-cluster digital signage system including:
1) Presentation and the trial corner for new functions of UC-win/Road Ver.9 / ADAS functions,
2) F1 racing game using the network multi-driver synchronized driving,
3) Parking Solution based on VR-Cloud(R) and UC-win/Road,
4) UC-win/Road Train Simulator,
5) "G'Val", a tunnel operator training system, and
6) Ultra-micro data center.
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FORUM8 booth:
Diverse DS of FORUM8, such as driving simulation
based on a 6k multi-cluster digital signage system that also served
as a trial corner attracted much attention. |
It was UC-win/Road trial simulator that attracted attention most in particular from the visitors in and outside Japan. In addition, the trial corner of the 6K multi-cluster digital signage system was always crowded. Staff of BMIA, a French company that had developed G'Val visited our booth and said that they would like to exhibit the system at ITS World Congress Bordeaux to be held in 2015.
Other than these, use of various simulators was remarkable in the exhibition venue.
Many different exhibitors adopted UC-win/Road driving simulators in this Congress including: ITS trial simulator by Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited (NEXCO CENTRAL), DSSS trial simulator by National Police Agency and UTMS Society of Japan, VICS trial simulator by Vehicle Information and Communication System Center (VICS Center), COOPERATIVE ITS driving simulator by TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, three types of driving simulator that allow the user to try different concepts by AISIN SEIKI Co., Ltd., and simulator for the driver support system by FUJITSU Ltd. Realizing advanced and diverse functions of ITS, many of them were drawing the visitors' interest.
This report is the last installment of the serial story continued since the spring of 2012 over 8 volumes.
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| VICS trial simulator |
Three types of driving simulator
that allow the user to try different concepts by AISIN |
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COOPERATIVE ITS
driving simulator by TOYOTA |
Trial simulator by National Police Agency
and UTMS Society of Japan |
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ITS trial simulator exhibited jointly
by MLIT and expressway companies |
Simulator for the driver support system
by FUJITSU |
(Written by Takashi Ikeno) |
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