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California’s transportation chief urges ITS-led push on safety, ZEVs and port modernization
Summary
California Transportation Secretary Toks Omishakin told the ITS World Congress that the state’s 'core 4' priorities — safety, climate action, equity and economic prosperity — will guide intelligent-transportation deployments, with targets for ZEVs, a nearly $2 billion Otay Mesa East port investment and expanded testing of connected and automated vehicles.
Toks Omishakin, secretary of the California State Transportation Agency, used a keynote address at the ITS World Congress in Los Angeles to lay out how California plans to use intelligent transportation systems to pursue four priorities: safety, climate action, equity and economic prosperity.
Omishakin said California accounts for about 10% of U.S. roadway fatalities and cited roughly 4,258 deaths last year on the state’s transportation system, calling for a safe-system approach and more deployment of proven countermeasures. "If you don't believe the science, believe your eyes," he told the audience when describing rising climate impacts such as floods and extreme heat.
The secretary outlined aggressive…
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