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11/10/04 |
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Olivier Mossé, Chief Executive of ITS ERTICO has suggested the task of organising future World Congress should be in the hands of a single body, perhaps centred on London.
Speaking at a meeting hosted by ITS United Kingdom in the City of London on Thursday, a few days before his departure for the 2004 ITS World Congress in Nagoya, Mossé made it clear that his preference would be for the task to be given to a single contractor who would assume the logistical and financial risks inherent in such an undertaking.
"The role of the three regional Intelligent Transport Societies has changed over the past few years," said Mossé. "We are not experts at organising a congress and it makes sense to give the job to those who are. My thoughts are that this should be a single organisation, perhaps based in London, who would deal with all aspects of the World Congress wherever it is held in the world."
A series of meetings have been proposed with ITS America and ITS Japan to take the matter forward but while no decision has yet been taken, sources within ERTICO have indicated that the idea is being taken seriously. The new arrangements are unlikely to affect the planning for next year's event in San Francisco or those for London in 2006.
In separate news, Mossé said that he expected a decision early next year on the country to host the ITS Europe Congress in 2008. Shortlisted for the job are Switzerland, Belgium and France.
Meanwhile an announcement from the Czech Republic of the dates of an international conference due to be hosted in Prague in March next year had to be hastily withdrawn. The dates clash with a meeting of the Comite Europeen de Normalisation (CEN) due to be held in Stockholm. "The conference dates will be moved," said Pavel Pribyl of ITS&S Czech Republic.
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