“Leading the Digital Transformation of Transport with ITS”
Organized by the Intelligent Transportation Systems Association of Türkiye without considering profit, SUMMITS is aimed to be the most comprehensive and rich-content event of our country in the field of smart mobility and digitalization of transportation and to be the gateway to the world.
We create synergies and collaborations by bringing together industry organizations.
1While we aim to convey the experiences of experts and officials in the field of smart mobility and digitalization of transportation from the public, private sector, universities and NGOs to the participants, we do not forget about start-up companies.
3While we mediate the delivery of the works carried out in our country and in the international arena to the stakeholders, we open the door to cooperation between the stakeholders.
2It is an event that includes panels, presentations, exhibition space, trainings and bilateral meetings in order to guide the ITS studies in our country in line with the developments in the world.
4Minister of Transport and Infrastructure
Abdulkadir URALOĞLU was born in Trabzon in 1966.
He graduated from the Civil Engineering Department of Karadeniz Technical University in 1988 and started his career in the private sector as a Field Engineer in the same year.
In 1989, he began his career at the General Directorate of Highways as a Survey Team Engineer in the Erzurum 12th Regional Directorate of Highways. There he served respectively as Survey Team Engineer, Inspection Engineer, and Inspection Chief at the Ankara 4th Regional Directorate of Highways from 1990 to 1998. In 1998, he was appointed as the Construction Chief Engineer at the Erzurum Regional Directorate of Highways.
He became the Deputy Regional Director for the 10th Region in Trabzon in 2003 and he was appointed as the Regional Director for the 6th Region in Kayseri in 2005. He became the Regional Director for the 7th Region in Samsun in 2006.
He briefly served as the Regional Director for the 14th Region in Bursa in 2009 before returning to Samsun, where he held the position of Regional Director for a total of 6.5 years.
He was appointed as the Regional Director for the 2nd Region in Izmir in 2012. He was appointed as the General Director of Highways through a Presidential Decree on July 23, 2018.
URALOĞLU made significant contributions to the development and implementation of projects in the context of the Emergency Action Plan initiated in 2003. He played a key role in the development of divided highways, hot mix asphalt roads, and the implementation of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) highway projects.
He was also actively involved in providing transportation and disaster relief efforts during various natural disasters, including floods and earthquakes in locations like Ünye (2018), Araklı (2019), Rize-Artvin (2021), Ayancık (2021), Kastamonu (2021), Antalya-Muğla wildfires (2021), Elazığ (2020), Izmir (2020), and the February 6th earthquake.
In addition to his responsibilities in the General Directorate of Highways, URALOĞLU has held leadership positions in organizations like the Roads Turkish National Committee (YTMK), Highways Foundation (KAV), and TT Mobil Board of Directors.
Abdulkadir URALOĞLU is married and has three children.
Head of Strategy Development Department, Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure
Mücahit Arman was born in Samsun in 1964. He graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering at Middle East Technical University in 1986 with a degree in Civil Engineering. In 1989, he completed his thesis on "Life Cycle Analysis of Flexible Pavements" at Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences of the same university and graduated as a Civil Engineer.
Starting his career as a Planning Engineer in the Planning Department of the General Directorate of Highways in 1987, Arman was appointed as the Planning Chief in 1998. In 1999, he attended the Transportation Engineering program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States for one year with a scholarship from the International Road Federation, where he conducted research on transportation network system modeling, transportation economics, decision support systems, and traffic engineering.
From 2000 to 2002, he served as the Deputy Director of the Planning Department, and from 2002 to 2011, he held the position of Director of the Strategic Planning Department.
Arman, who was appointed as the Head of the Strategy Development Department in 2011 and the Deputy General Manager of Highways in 2017, was appointed as the Head of Strategy Development of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure with the Presidential Decree No. 2023/382 published in the Official Gazette No. 32276 dated August 11, 2023.
Throughout his tenure at the General Directorate of Highways, Arman actively participated in various projects, including Geographically Based Project Management System, 3D Image-Based Highway Inventory Information System, planning and economic/financial analysis of highway projects, especially Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) highway projects under the Public-Private Partnership model, and Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Mücahit Arman, who is married and has 1 child, speaks English.
SUMMITS, which is the first and the only event of our country in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, is supported by many public and private sector organizations, especially by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. It is an international event, where senior officials, those who lead the ITS sector and representatives from our country participate as speakers. Participation to event by professionals is important, as it is the event where prominent projects are exhibited, opportunity to meet start-ups, industry experts, exchange ideas, and see successful ITS projects and applications in our country.
Other prominent features of SUMMITS are as follows:
-It is the only event where ITS industry stakeholders come together in Türkiye,
-Start-up companies are given special importance and opportunity to share their projects/ideas,
-“Path of the Mind Awards in Transportation ”, where successful ITS projects are awarded, are presented at this event.
The SUMMITS’27 International ITS Summit, which we have successfully organized three times so far, will be held for the fourth time on April 13-14-15, 2027. We believe that this summit, which we give much more importance to, due to the 100th anniversary of Turkish Republic, will be an organization worthy of this year with your contributions and assistance, and we look forward to your contribution and assistance.
SUMMITS'27 invites organizations across the broad spectrum of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) ecosystem to play a role in the ongoing development of smart mobility. The SUMMITS Program offers a unique opportunity for delegates to learn about the latest ITS technologies and new mobility concepts. Experts, researchers, policy makers, solution providers from the transport sector and all related sectors invites you to SUMMITS 2027 to share innovative ideas and lessons learned, and to discuss the mobility challenges cities face today and how they can be overcome with ITS solutions.
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