Senate Sets Hearing to Probe How IoT Can Improve Transportation

The Senate Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security Subcommittee plans a Tuesday hearing on how the IoT and other technologies can improve transportation. Witnesses include Carlos Monje, Department of Transportation assistant secretary-transportation policy; Los Angeles DOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds; Jordan Kass, president-managed services for logistics firm C.H. Robinson; Intel General Manager Doug Davis; and Robert Edelstein, senior vice president of construction and management firm AECOM. The 10 a.m. hearing will be in 253 Russell. Meanwhile, the Information Technology Industry Council Tuesday said it plans to develop a national IoT strategy so ITI can help policymakers understand the societal and economic benefits from an estimated 30 billion devices that will be connected through the IoT by 2020 (see 1606210041).