<p>This issue of ITS International contains a feature article based on interviews with leading figures of the ITS associations of the United States, Europe, Japan and Malaysia. A key point made is the importance of political leadership or policy direction in driving take up and implementation of ITS technology.<br> <br>This industry actually need not complain of a lack of drive on the part of politicians, or so it seems from other projects reported in this issue. True, the US would welcome a new transport bill and the promise of assistance for long term planning that reauthorisation would bring. ITS professionals in Malaysia also are hopeful of a political champion to drive their cause; to take systems such as electronic tolling onwards to next stages of development.<br>&nbsp;</p><p>기사원문보기 : <a href=&quot;http://www.itsinternational.com/sections/comment-interview/comment/no-lack-of-political-drive-on-its/&quot;>http://www.itsinternational.com/sections/comment-interview/comment/no-lack-of-political-drive-on-its/</a></p>