Norwegian industry stalwart plus Austria, Netherlands, UK and Türkiye win inaugural ITS Nationals Awards

The network of national Intelligent Transport Systems associations has hosted its first annual awards ceremony in the Swiss capital Bern, and honoured ITS veteran Trond Hovland with the title “Network Person of the Year”.

The five winners were:

  • National Policy Champion Award (sponsored by The Traffic Group) – ITS Austria
  • Membership Champion Award (sponsored by Ohmio) – Connekt, ITS Netherlands
  • Next Generation Champion Award (sponsored by IDASO) – Intelligent Transport Systems UK
  • Excellence in Transportation Award (sponsored by Neology) – ITS Türkiye
  • Network Person of the Year Award (sponsored by SWARCO) – Trond Hovland, ITS Norway

Mr Hovland won the award, sponsored by SWARCO, in honour not only of his work in the last year, but for a career championing transport technology.  He has been Managing Director of ITS Norway since 2009 and before that worked for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration for almost 18 years, holding several management positions and heading up large ICT procurement projects in the road and traffic data sector.

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