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A report by Akhilesh Srivastava President ITS India Forum
The ITS World Congress 2025 in Atlanta, USA, opened with unprecedented energy, drawing over 5,600 delegates, 224 exhibitors, and representatives from 57 countries. This year’s theme, “Deploying Today, Empowering Tomorrow,” is particularly fitting for India, which made a strong presence at the Congress. The showcasing by Indian companies brought to the forefront India’s innovations, policies and vision for intelligent mobility.
Designed as a hub of ideas, technologies, and partnerships, the India Pavilion highlighted India’s breakthroughs from FASTag to Multi Lane Freeflow Tolling to AI-driven road safety enforcement and connected vehicle solutions. The Pavilion was a live showcase of India’s journey from implementation at scale to future-ready innovations. It attracted global collaborations with delegations from Europe, the US and Asia-Pacific wanting to explore partnerships in V2X deployments, AI integration and sustainable transport solutions. Th pavilion also promoted policy dialogue with policymakers, technocrats and industry leaders, serving as a forum for bilateral and multilateral engagements on standards, investments and large-scale pilots.
The India Panel was dedicated to ITS India’s tolling transformation – from the FASTag success story to Multi Lane Free-flow Mobility – was a model of how digital infrastructure could transform everyday transport. Technology-driven Road Safety 2.0 showcased how India was using AI-powered enforcement, safe driving score systems and connected vehicle alerts to address its road safety challenge and align with UN’s 2030 Decade of Action on Road Safety.
The urban mobility and logistics efficiency panel emphasised AI-driven traffic management, multimodal integration and EV-friendly infrastructure to reduce congestion and improve logistics competitiveness and Vision 2047 was the roadmap for Viksit Bharat 2047, linking intelligent mobility to national goals of sustainability, economic growth and carbon reduction.
Delegates were keen to learn how India managed to implement the world’s largest electronic tolling system, how AI and data lakes are being deployed at a national scale and how innovative pilots from school zone safety audits to connected vehicle pre-emption for emergency vehicles were shaping safer and smarter roads.
The congress included a comprehensive program with:
- Demonstrations of V2X and VRU Safety Technologies are showcasing how connected mobility can save lives.
- Technical tours to AI labs and transport control centres underlining the transformative role of digital tools.
- Plenary sessions with global CEOs, government officials and researchers focusing on the same themes that India was championing including safety, sustainability and scalable deployment.
The ITS World Congress 2025 represented a strategic inflection point for India’s ITS journey. There was:
- Visibility and Credibility where Indian standards, policies and innovations influenced international discourse
- Drawing of Investment by connecting Indian innovators with global investors and companies seeking markets of scale and readiness — areas where India excels.
- Policy Momentum as India’s policymakers engaged with their global peers, with learnings and collaborations strengthening India’s ongoing projects.
- Exporting of Indian Models. Just as UPI transformed global fintech, India is now poised to export ITS solutions to developing countries facing similar urban and road safety challenges.
The stage is getting set for forging International Partnerships in AI, V2X and sustainable transport; pilot collaborations with global ITS players; shaping standards for next-generation tolling, connected vehicles and digital enforcement and positioning India as a global hub for ITS solutions by 2030.