Paul Hutton

摘要

I'm writing this foreword while sitting in a cafe on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne at the end of a hugely enjoyable ITS World Congress. There's more about the event inside this issue, but I thought I'd expand on a few of the thoughts that have struck me through the week. The engagement of the Australian political class - if I can call it that - this week has been hugely impressive. The Prime Minister himself couldn't make it here because he has a lot of issues to deal with in Canberra (with a small majority) but he was still engaged enough to record a welcome for the event and to reiterate a commitment to ITS, but other politicians were here, and not just to be seen but to actually ask questions and learn more about the technology.