Trends in Our ITS Society [President´s Message]

As I end my term as President of the ITSS, it??s a good time to reflect on the Society and its future. During the past two years we have seen one of the worst economic recessions in global history, yet our society has remained held its own and remains on solid footing. While we have taken some conference losses, others have done better than expected, and as result our budgets are meeting their projections and are within tolerances. On the publications front we are exceeding all expectations, and we now have the number one transportation publication in the world (IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; according to most recent impact factors) and you´re now reading our outstanding new magazine. In addition, our Newsletter continues to provide timely and interesting information. Likely as a result of the economic woes, our membership has remained relatively stagnant over the past two years, but we´ve also had no major loss of membership.