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Vol. 17, No. 2 April 2015
In This Issue
Society News and Announcements
Message from the Editor ................................................................................ 2
Message from the President ........................................................................... 3
ITS Magazine selected for coverage in JCR .................................................. 5
Conference Report: IEEE ITSC 2014 ............................................................ 6
2015 IEEE ITS Awards Call for Nomination .............................................. 16
2015 IEEE ITSS Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award Call for Application ....... 17
ITS Podcast .................................................................................................. 18
Conferences and Call for Papers
2015 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference - CFP ............. 20
IEEE SOLI’2015 - CFP ............................................................................... 22
IEEE RFID-TA 2015 - CFP ......................................................................... 23
IEEE ICVES 2015 - CFP ............................................................................. 24
Conference Calendar .......................................................................................... 25
Forthcoming papers at Transactions on ITS ...................................................... 28
Forthcoming papers at ITS Magazine ................................................................ 32
Most popular papers/episode at T-ITS, ITS Mag. and ITS Podcast .................. 33
Officers and Committee Chairs ......................................................................... 34
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SOCIETY NEWS
From the Editor
Javier Sanchez-Medina
Hello everyone! Spring is coming, finally! We have good stuff in this
new issue.
We have great news coming form our sister publication the IEEE ITS
Magazine, and its inclusion in the JCR index report. We have also
some wrapping up comments from our last record beating IEEE
ITSC2014 conference in QingDao, China.
We are eager to listen your suggestions for contents of this Newsletter. We have enabled a
Google form for you to send them here: http://goo.gl/forms/xpgl8WLt9F You can send us ITS
related conferences, news, etc. We are aiming at making this Newsletter the publication you
need!
Javier Sanchez-Medina
EiC of the ITS Newsletter
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Message from the President
Social Implications of Intelligent Transportation Systems
I have been spending a lot of time lately talking with some of the key individuals who helped
established our IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Society so many years ago. I was
amazed that a number of different IEEE societies were involved when our ITS society emerged,
including the controls society, communications society, vehicular technology society, robotics
and automation society, and the systems-man-cybernetics society. When I attend the IEEE
Technical Activities Board (TAB) meetings, I get to interact with the different presidents of
these sister societies and they often comment how ITS continues to be a fun, exciting, and
growing area of research. Indeed, many of these societies often have ITS themes in their own
activities.
During the latest IEEE TAB meeting, I also got a chance to meet the president from the Society
on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), an IEEE society that we really never interacted
with previously. Based on one of our conversations, I quickly thought about the social implications of ITS. As we all well know, the primary goals of ITS are to improve vehicle safety, traffic mobility, and to reduce environmental impacts. All three of these goals have a significant
social impact: we are saving lives, improving economics through greater efficiencies, and reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases. But there is a lot more social implications that we
often don’t think about, especially when we talk about the emerging fields of connected and
automated vehicle systems. A few examples:
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Individual privacy is certainly a concern as we make our vehicles increasingly “connected”.
By having GPS tracking and connecting vehicles to each other and the Internet, there are a
number of potential privacy issues that crop up, with whole host of societal implications.
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There has been a lot of discussion on how vehicle automation will impact society as a
whole. In addition to the usual questions such as “will they be safe?” and “will traffic congestion be reduced?”, we are now understanding that vehicle automation will likely open up
new mobility options for the young, elderly, and disabled. This will certainly improve our
societal quality of life; however, will it lead to an increase of vehicular trips with potential
increased traffic congestion? Time will certainly tell.
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Cybersecurity is certainly an important issue in everyday life, dealing with our computers
and other devices. Not a week goes by without hearing how someone’s latest server got
hacked and private information has been compromised. However, there could even be far
worse safety ramifications in the realm of connected vehicles, if we don’t have the proper
cybersecurity safeguards. If some entity maliciously broadcasted false basic safety messages, potentially dangerous crashes would likely occur.
I believe that as our ITS society continues to grow, we will likely have to deal with an increasing number of social implications related to ITS technology. As such, I am now taking steps to
affiliate our ITS society with the SSIT society, designated a liaison from our society to be actively involved in SSIT. Again, our role is not to simply conduct ITS research and advance ITS
technology, it’s also about understanding the policy and social implications of what we do.
Matt Barth
IEEE ITSS President, 2014-2015
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ITS Magazine selected for coverage in JCR
I am pleased to inform you that the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine has been
selected for coverage in Thomson Reuter’s products and services. Beginning with V. 1 (1)
2009, the ITS Magazine will be indexed and abstracted in: Science Citation Index Expanded,
Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, and Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and
Technology. The amount of articles, reports and news that we have included in the latest issues
of the Magazine is getting gradually increased, something that goes hand in hand with the increasing activity of the ITS Society and its members. Our purpose is to continue our path of
growth and quality in an attempt to provide our readers with the most innovative information in
the field of ITS.
In this issue of the ITS Magazine we include a challenging Special Issue on Connected Vehicles
technologies. This Special Issue covers aspects such as integration of vehicular networks and
traffic infrastructure, cooperative vehicle localization techniques, gamification tools for fuel
saving, and the use of 5G antennas in very fast moving vehicles. In addition, our regular feature
articles deal with a variety of different technical aspects of ITS. Thus, in a first article the authors approach the design of a data-driven geospatial-enabled transportation digital platform
aiming at improving the analysis of freeway performance on the grounds of big data techniques.
A second feature presents a study on the potential impact of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-tosensor communications in urban parking areas, with a view to decreasing the parking cruising
time for individual drivers by means of information provision. A third feature article introduces
a unifying framework for understanding and applying different robust network designs based on
the context of design goals and traffic disturbances, such as increase in demand or drop in network capacity.
As usual, I would like to encourage prospective authors to share their research, innovation, and
recent results with our society by submitting high-quality articles and tutorials that are of strong
practical relevance to the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Let me remind you that
the ITS Magazine intends to focus on papers with a strong link to applications, surveys, technology reviews, future trends, and reports on successful implementations. It is also open to policy, or educational issues. I am looking forward to receiving your contributions. Please, consider
the ITS Magazine as the vehicle to make the scientific community aware of your research.
Miguel Ángel Sotelo
Editor in Chief IEEE ITS Magazine
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Conference Report: 17th International IEEE
Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
By
General Chairs: Nanning Zheng, Fei-Yue Wang
Program Chairs: Daniel Zeng, Christoph Stiller, Azim Eskandarian
The 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2014)
was successfully held on October 8-11, 2014 at Hyatt Regency in Qingdao, China, a beautiful
coastal city. Over 600 participants from 37 countries participated in the conference.
As a premier gathering of the ITS community, ITSC 2014 covered a wide range of ITS topics,
including basic ITS research, new technologies, a variety of ITS applications, and societal/
environmental impact of ITS. There is no doubt that ITS research and the ITS research community are expanding around the globe. ITSC 2014 attracted a record number (834) of submissions. Following the rigorous peer-review process, a total of 501 full papers and 38 extended
abstracts were accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings. China led with the
largest number of submissions (217), followed by Germany (64), and the United States (49).
The ITSC 2014 Award Committee selected 3 Best Student Papers and 2 Best Papers.
ITSC 2014 Best Student Papers
The "Floor-Wall" Traffic Scenes Construction for Unmanned Vehicle Simulation Evaluation
Li, Yaochen; Liu, Yuehu; Zhang, Chi; Zhao, Danchen; Zheng, Nanning
Influence of Information Flow Topology on Closed-Loop Stability of Vehicle Platoon
with Rigid Formation
Zheng, Yang; Li, Shengbo; Wang, Jianqiang; wang, Le Yi; Li, Keqiang
Pedestrian Crossing Prediction Using Multiple Context-Based Models
Bonnin, Sarah; Weisswange, Thomas H.; Kummert, Franz; Schmuedderich, Jens
ITSC 2014 Best Papers
Index Modulated OFDM with Interleaved Grouping for V2X Communications
Cheng, Xiang; Wen, Miaowen; Yang, Liuqing; Li, Yuke
Recursive Conflict Resolution for Cooperative Motion Planning in Dynamic Highway
Traffic
Schwarting, Wilko; Pascheka, Patrick
ITSC 2014’s technical program included 63 parallel sessions, 2 tutorials, 9 workshops, and 9
special sessions. ITSC 2014 also experimented with a new category of papers with strong application flavor, presented in a newly-created industry track. This industry track has attracted a
good number of submissions and was very well-received at the conference.
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On Oct. 8 of 2014, more than 200 participants attended pre-conference workshops and tutorials
covering merging research and technological areas in ITS.
Among these events, workshops on “Intelligent Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation Systems”
and “Intelligent Vehicle in China” organized on-site intelligent vehicle demonstrations, which
attracted many participants.
In the morning of Oct. 9, Prof. Fei-Yue Wang, the conference General Co-Chair, opened the
conference. Dr. Xiaoming Liu, the Director General of Transportation Department, Ministry of
Transport of the People’s Republic of China, and Mr. Zhenxi Xu, the Vice Mayor of Qingdao
City, made welcome remarks, respectively.
In the morning of Oct. 9, Prof. Fei-Yue Wang, the conference General Co-Chair, opened the
conference. Dr. Xiaoming Liu, the Director General of Transportation Department, Ministry of
Transport of the People’s Republic of China, and Mr. Zhenxi Xu, the Vice Mayor of Qingdao
City, made welcome remarks, respectively.
The plenary keynote session included three presentations. The first keynote speaker was Prof.
Xiaoming Liu, the Director General of Transportation Department, Ministry of Transport of the
People’s Republic of China. He presented a talk on “The Development Status and Prospect of
Transportation Information Intelligence in China.” Prof. Matthew J. Barth, Yeager Families
Professor at the College of Engineering, University of California-Riverside presented the second keynote, “The Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation: Issues and Research Opportunities.” Finally, Prof. Bin Ning, President of Beijing Jiaotong University delivered a speech titled “The Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systems.” This diverse set of
influential ITS leaders shared with the participants both academic and practitioner perspectives
of state-of-the-art technological advancements and future trends.
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The plenary keynote session included three presentations. The first keynote speaker was Prof.
Xiaoming Liu, the Director General of Transportation Department, Ministry of Transport of the
People’s Republic of China. He presented a talk on “The Development Status and Prospect of
Transportation Information Intelligence in China.” Prof. Matthew J. Barth, Yeager Families
Professor at the College of Engineering, University of California-Riverside presented the second keynote, “The Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation: Issues and Research Opportunities.” Finally, Prof. Bin Ning, President of Beijing Jiaotong University delivered a speech titled “The Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systems.” This diverse set of
influential ITS leaders shared with the participants both academic and practitioner perspectives
of state-of-the-art technological advancements and future trends.
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Most of the parallel sessions were very well attended.
In the evening of Oct. 9, the ITSC 2014 Conference Banquet and Award Ceremony were held.
First, the Deputy Secretary-General of Qingdao Municipal Government, Mr. Xinzhu Zhang,
welcomed all the participants and proposed a toast. Second, Prof. Matt Barth, the President of
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, gave a “state of the society” speech.
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Next, the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (i.e., IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award,
IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award, and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award), the Best Ph.D.
Dissertation Award, as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and presented.
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As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair, Prof. Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distinguished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected
as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014.
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Dr. Weiqiang Chen, the CEO of HiSense Transtech Co., Ltd, the conference sponsor, gave a
short presentation.
As an ITSC tradition, the handover ceremony was held towards the end of the conference banquet. Mr. Xinzhu Zhang, the Deputy Secretary-General of Qingdao Municipal Government,
handed over a bell to Prof. Javier Sanchez Medina, the General Chair of ITSC 2015, who welcomed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015.
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In the morning of Oct. 10, a plenary award presentation session took place. The winners of the
IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award delivered presentations to showcase
the best ITS research that our community offers.
In the afternoon of Oct. 10, nearly 40 authors presented their research work in the poster session.
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A special ITSC Student Activities event was organized in the evening of October 10, hosted by
Prof. Brendan Morris, the IEEE ITS Society Student Activities Chair. Over 50 people attended
the event, meeting their colleagues from around the world, and learning about ITS and ITS Society.
ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants. As a proxy indicator of the quality of the technical program, ITSC 2014’s paper acceptance rate is markedly lower than that in recent past years. The newly-created industry track showcased recent advances in
ITS research with direct industry relevance, discussed emerging trends and challenges with
practical implications, and facilitated interactions between academic researchers, industry researchers, and practitioners. Additionally, the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed
participants to easily access the conference program, and read conference papers on their mobile devices. We are very delighted that ITSC 2014 was a success overall!
Before concluding this report, we would like to thank the members of the International Program
Committee, authors, reviewers, session chairs, and organizers of the affiliated workshops and
tutorials, for making the technical program a success. The entire ITSC 2014 local team who
helped put the conference together deserved our sincere gratitude. Our special thanks go to
Xueliang Zhao, Nan Zhang, Hongxia Zhao, Chengrong Zhang, Tan Wang, Xuejing Li, and
many other volunteers and staff members for their hard work. Finally, we would like to thank
all ITSC 2014 participants to make the event a productive and enjoyable one.
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IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award
IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award
IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award
Call for Nominations
The prestigious
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IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award,
IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award, and
IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award
are conferred annually to honor ITS researchers, practitioners, and research/development teams
who have made significant contributions to research in ITS related fields (for ITS Research
Award), developed and deployed successful ITS systems or implementations (for ITS Application Award), and demonstrated leadership in promoting ITS technologies (for ITS Institutional
Lead Award). These awards have been established to recognize, promote, and publicize major
research contributions, application innovations with real-world impact, and ITS institutional
leadership.
Nomination Materials
Each nomination must consist of the following materials:
(1) A 5-page summary statement providing sufficient detail for evaluation of the innovations
and impact of the work.
(2) At least 3 letters of recommendation from the recognized peer researchers, customers or users of the developed application, and organizations attesting to the work’s significance and
impact.
Evaluation
A dedicated selection committee will evaluate all qualified nominations for these IEEE ITS
Awards. Awards will be announced in September 2015 at the ITSC 2015 conference in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, where the recipients will give featured presentations of their work.
Submission Deadline
Please email nominations before June 1, 2015 to ITSS Vice President for Membership at
[email protected].
Brendan Morris
VP for Membership
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IEEE ITSS Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Call for Applications
IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation in any ITS
area that is innovative and relevant to practice. This award is established to encourage doctoral
research that combines theory and practice, makes in-depth technical contributions, or is interdisciplinary in nature, having the potential to contribute to the ITSS and broaden the ITS topic
areas from either the methodological or application perspectives.
Application Materials
Each application must consist of the following materials:
1. A doctoral dissertation written by the applicant in any language, no more than 18 months
prior to the submission deadline.
2. A summary of the dissertation in English of up to 3 pages in length written by the Ph.D.
candidate, highlighting the significance of the problem, the technical approach taken, application context and potential, and the scope of the dissertation.
3. Sample published paper(s) in English based on the dissertation written primarily by the
Ph.D. candidate in scientific journals such as the IEEE Transactions on ITS or the IEEE ITS
Magazine.
4. Listing of all publications by the applicant in the related field(s).
5. A letter of recommendation from the applicant’s dissertation advisor that assesses the significance of the research, attests to the originality of the work, and comments on the engagement of the applicant in the ITS field and the IEEE ITS Society.
Prize and Presentation
The winners will receive a cash prize and invitation to be recognized and present their work in
September 2015 at the ITSC 2015 conference in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Awardees’ work will be featured in ITSS Transactions,
ITS Magazine, and ITS Newsletter, when approPlace
Prize Amount (USD)
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A dedicated selection committee will evaluate all
qualified applications for the IEEE ITS Best Ph.D.
Dissertation Awards and make selections.
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Submission Deadline
Please submit the application materials by email before June 20, 2015 to ITSS Vice President
for Membership at [email protected].
Brendan Morris
VP for Membership
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ITS Podcast
ITS Podcast New Episodes
Please, circulate this!
We have a few interesting new episodes online for your enjoyment!
ITS Podcast Episode 22: First Distinguished
Lectures Series Event in Japan, with Tsuguo
Nobe and Shinpei Kato
Last November, the IEEE ITS Society started its Distinguished
Lecture Series with an event organized by our Japanese Chapters,
the Nagoya Chapter and the Tokyo Chapter. They organized a
super attractive event, aiming in particular to our future colleagues, in the University of Tokyo.
They could attend to a lecture by Mr. Tsuguo Nobe, from Intel, and professor Shinpei Kato,
from Nagoya University, on Autonomous Driving. For this special occasion we have interviewed both of them, so all our selected community can learned better how was it.
ITS Podcast Episode 23: Map-aided Evidential Grids for Driving
Scene Understanding, with Prof. Bonnifait and Dr. Kurdej
We have prepared a new episode for our very special community. We have a very interesting
interview with Prof. Philippe Bonnifait, Professor in Robotics and Automation at the University
of Technology of Compiègne and Head of the research group “Automation, Embedded Systems
and Robotics, in France. We also have Dr. Marek Kurdej, who was PhD candidate at Bonnifait’s centre when we recorded this interview and is now Doctor and Researcher at quasardb.
We talked about Driving Scene Understanding and a recent publication of this group in the Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine.
ITS Podcast Episode 24: Traffic Modeling, Control and Optimization, Theory and Applications with Prof. Papageorgiou
For this new episode, the central content is an amazing interview with our very renowned and
successful colleague, professor Markos Papageorgiou. This interview has been recorded by our
new volunteer, the young brilliant professor Hilmi Berk Celikoglu.
Please, check it out and feedback the show with your comments at the podcast website or at our
social networking accounts: LinkedIn, Twitter (@ITSPodcast), Facebook, Google+ or by email:
[email protected]
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ITS Podcast
ITS Podcast Follower-get-a-follower
We are running a new contest to celebrate the second anniversary of the ITS Podcast next May,
2015. The follower that can get the largest amount of new followers to subscribe to the ITS
Podcast email list, will win an i-Pad to better enjoy the ITS Podcast.
How to contend? He or she has to provide with a list of the email addresses of the new followers attracted and the approximate date of their subscription. To participate, you have to attract at
least 30 new subscribers.
Fist step: Go and find as many potential ITS Podcast followers you can find.
Second step: Send them the email list subscription
link, inviting them to subscribe
Very important: when they use that link to intro their email addresses, they will have to confirm
their intention to join our distribution through a confirmation email they will receive in their inboxes. Unverified emails will not count as valid.
Third step: When you know they subscribed, send an email and subscription date list to [email protected] with “Follower-get-a-Follower” as abstract.
Please, help us! You can win an i-Pad.
The winner will be published and interviewed at the May 2015 ITS Podcast episode.
Thanks for your support and help!
Javier Sanchez-Medina
EiC IEEE ITSS ITSPodcast
[email protected]
[email protected]
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The 18th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 15 – 18 September 2015
The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
Society. IEEE ITSC 2015 welcomes articles in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, dealing with new developments in theory,
analytical and numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, demonstration, advanced deployment and case studies, results of
laboratory or field operational tests, under the general theme of Smart Transportation for Safety and Sustainability. IEEE ITSC 2015 is
organized by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria located in the Canary Islands (Spain), last known stop to Christopher Columbus’
first voyage to the Americas.
General Chair
Javier Sánchez-Medina
Program Chair
Miguel Ángel Sotelo
Program Co-Chairs
Cristina Olaverri Monreal
Jeffrey Miller
Alberto Broggi
General Vice-Chair
Alexis Quesada Arencibia
Important Dates
Here we have the Important Dates: http://www.itsc2015.org/important-dates
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Regular and Special Session submissions DEADLINE: April, 15.
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Workshop and Industry Track submissions DEADLINE: May, 15.
Please visit the conference website at http://www.itsc2015.org/ for news and updated deadlines. You
can also follow us at Twitter (@ITSC2015) and Facebook (ITSC2015).
Paper Submission
Submit your paper here: http://itsc2015.exordo.com
Complete manuscripts in PDF format must be electronically submitted for peer-review, following the
standard IEEE conference proceedings format. Detailed submission instructions can be found here:
http://www.itsc2015.org/submit-your-paper.
Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award
A “Best Paper Award” and a “Best Student Paper Award” will be conferred to the author(s) of a full
paper presented at the conference, selected by the Awards Committee.
Best Reviewers and Best Associate Editor
We will give a "Best ITSC2015 Reviewer Award" and a "Best ITSC2015 Associate Editor Award" to
those volunteers that show the best performance during the reviewing process. The scientific quality
of ITSC2015 depends almost entirely in our volunteers' efforts and we want to pay tribute to them
like this.
Keynote Speakers (tentative)(http://www.itsc2015.org/keynote-speakers)
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Philip T. Krein, Professor and Grainger Endowed Director's Chair in Electric Machinery
and Electromechanics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IL, USA
Tsuguo Nobe, Chief Advanced Service Architect and Director at Intel Corporation, Japan
Markos Papageorgiou, Director of Dynamic Systems & Simulation Laboratory, Technical
University of Crete, Greece
Hermann Winner, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Journal and Magazine Publication of Selected Papers
Selected papers of exceptional quality will be invited for submission to a special issue of the IEEE
Transactions on ITS or the IEEE ITS Magazine. Authors will be asked to revise their papers
according to the standards of the Transactions or the Magazine.
WWW.ITSC2015.ORG
Special Sessions, Tutorials, Workshops and Demonstrations (tentative)
Special Sessions (http:/itsc2015.org/special-sessions)
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SS1. Human Factors in Urban Traffic – Characteristics, Challenges and Solutions of Prospective Assistance Systems
SS2. Wireless Vehicular Communications
SS3. Automated Driving
SS4. Intelligent Pedestrian traffic and Evacuation dynamics
SS5. Urban Transport Systems: Modelling and Control
SS6. ITS for Public Transport
SS7. Computer Vision and Imaging Systems in Transportation
SS8. Parallel Transportation Management Systems
Workshops and Tutorials (http:/itsc2015.org/tutorials-workshops)
Workshops:
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WS1. The First International Workshop on Intelligent Public Transports – Toward the Next Generation of Urban Mobility
WS2. Intelligent Transportation Systems for Multimodal Operations
WS3. Advanced Traffic Signal Systems on the Crossroads between Past and Future
WS4. Advancing the Microscopic Traffic Simulations Towards Realistic Modelling of Driver Behavior and Reliable Evaluation of
Safety
WS5. New Tendencies of Artificial Intelligence in Dynamic Modeling and Optimization of Traffic Network
WS6. Data-Enabled Advancements in Transportation Theory and Application
WS7. Mapping the Landscape of Social Media/Big Data for Transportation Systems Analysis
WS8. Education in ITS
Tutorials:
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Tut1. Tutorial on SUMO - Simulation Urban Mobility (by Prof. Peter Wagner (DLR))
Demos:
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We plan to have the Verdino Project (http://verdino.webs.ull.es) demonstrated in ITSC2015.
More to come...
Proposals for special sessions, tutorials, and workshops should be submitted via the conference submission website (Deadline: April 1, 2015).
Detailed submission instructions can be found here:
http://www.itsc2015.org/submit-your-special-session-proposal
http://www.itsc2015.org/submit-your-workshop-or-tutorial-proposal
Proposals for organizing Demonstrations can be send to [email protected]
Registration Fees
Please check-out our registration fees site (http://www.itsc2015.org/registration)! We have a few innovations there that may be of your interest,
especially to recognize volunteers’ efforts and to help colleagues in developing countries to attend IEEE ITSC2015.
Topics - The technical areas include but are not limited to the following:
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Transportation Networks
Advanced Public Transportation Management
Ports, Waterways, Inland navigation, and
Vessel Traffic Management
Modeling, Simulation, and Detection of
Vulnerable Road Users and Animals
Air, Road, and Rail Traffic Management
ITS User Services
Emergency Management
Artificial Transportation Systems
Transportation Electrification
Emissions, Noise, Environment
Management of Exceptional Events: Incidents
and Evacuation
Security, Privacy and Safety Systems
Transportation Smartification
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Commercial Vehicle Operations
Intelligent logistics
Sensing, Detectors and Actuators
Connected and Probe Vehicles
Big Data and Naturalistic Datasets
Communication in ITS
Cooperative Techniques and Systems
Intelligent Vehicles
Vision, and Environment Perception
Electric Vehicle Transportation Systems
Electronic Payment Systems
Smart Mobility
Traffic Theory for ITS
Modeling, Control and Simulation
Human Factors, Travel Behavior
ITS Field Tests and Implementation
Driver and Traveler Support Systems
WWW.ITSC2015.ORG
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Conference Calendar
By Massimo Bertozzi and Paolo Grisleri
This section lists upcoming ITS-related conferences,
workshops, or exhibits. Contributions are welcome;
please send announcements to [email protected].
Massimo Bertozzi / Paolo Grisleri
2015
June 28 - July 1
The 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium
Coex, Seoul, Korea
http://www.iv2015.org
September 15-18
ITSC2014: The 18th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
http://www.itsc2015.org/
Submission due by: April 15
MMarch 11-14
VISIGRAPP 2015: 10th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and
Computer Graphic Applications
Berlin, Germany
http://www.visigrapp.org/
March 17-27
ITS Cooperative Mobility Services Event 4
Helmond, Netherlands
http://www.etsi.org/index.php/news-events/events/846-plugtests-2015-itscms4
March 26-27
7th ETSI ITS Workshop
Berlin, Germany
http://www.etsi.org/ITSWorkshop
April 5-8
Intertraffic Amsterdam 2016
Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://www.intertraffic.com/intertraffic-amsterdam/
April 21-23
SAE 2015 World Congress & Exhibition
Detroit, Michigan, USA
http://www.sae.org/congress/
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April 28-29
19th International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA
2015)
Harnack House, Berlin, Germany
http://www.amaa.de/
May 11-14
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2015-Spring)
Glasgow, Korea
http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2015spring/
May 20-22
International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Systems
Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.vehits.org/
May 21-23
20th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information
Society REAL CORP 2015
Ghent, Belgium
http://www.corp.at
May 25-30
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015)
Seattle, WA, USA
http://www.icra2015.org
June 3-5
IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2014)
Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
http://www.batlab.ufms.br/isie2015
June 7-12
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015)
Boston, MA, USA
http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/
August 5-7
International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory - ISTTT
Kobe, Japan
August 9-12
NRITS National Rural ITS Conference
Snowbird, UT, USA
http://www.nritsconference.org/
September 7-11
International Conference on Imahe Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2015)
Genova, Italy
http://www.iciap2015.eu
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September 6-9
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2014-Fall
Boston, MA, USA
http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2015fall/
Submission due by: March 16
September 21-23
IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control
Novotel Manly Pacific, Sidney, Australia
http://www.msc2015.org/
Submission due by: April 1
September 28 - October 3
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015)
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.iros2015.org
October 5-9
ITS World Congress 2015
Bordeaux, France
http://itsworldcongress.com/bordeaux-2015
October 30 - November 6
25th World Road Congress
http://www.piarcseoul2015.org/wrcs/
Seoul, Korea
November 8-13
Seminar on Vision for Autonomous Vehicles and Probes
http://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/semhp/?semnr=15461
Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
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Forthcoming papers on IEEE Transactions on ITS
A model-based joint detection and tracking approach for multi-vehicle tracking with lidar sensor
FORTIN, BENOIT; LHERBIER, RÉGIS; NOYER, JEAN-CHARLES
A multiple train trajectory optimization to minimize energy consumption and
delay
ZHAO, NING; ROBERTS, CLIVE; HILLMANSEN, STUART; NICHOLSON, GEMMA
An Autonomous Driving System for Unknown Environment using a Unified
Map
SHIM, INWOOK; CHOI, JONGWON; SHIN, SEUNGHAK; OH, TAE-HYUN; LEE, UNGHUI; AHN, BYUNGTAE;
CHOI, DONG-GEOL; SHIM, DAVID HYUNCHUL; KWEON, IN SO
Analysis of Traffic Performance of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Cooperative Vehicles
SCARINCI, RICCARDO; HEYDECKER, BENJAMIN; HEGYI, ANDREAS
Automated Extraction of Urban Road Facilities Using Mobile Laser Scanning
Data
YU, YONGTAO; LI, JONATHAN; GUAN, HAIYAN; WANG, CHENG
City Vehicle Routing Problem (City VRP): A Review
KIM, GITAE; ONG, YEW SOON; HENG, CHEN KIM; TAN, PUAY SIEW; ZHANG, ALLAN
Coordinated Adaptive Cruise Control System with Lane-Change Assistance
DANG, RUINA; WANG, JIANQIANG; LI, SHENGBO; LI, KEQIANG
Design of robust and energy efficient ATO speed profiles of metropolitan
lines considering train load variations and delays
FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, ADRIÁN; FERNÁNDEZ CARDADOR, ANTONIO; CUCALA, ASUNCIÓN; DOMÍNGUEZ, MARÍA; GONSALVES, TAD
Design of Traffic Safety Control Systems for Emergency Vehicle Preemption
Using Timed Petri Nets
HUANG, YI-SHENG; WENG, YI-SHUN; ZHOU, MENGCHU
Designing
huge
repositories
of
trajectories for efficient extracting semantic data
D'ACIERNO, ANTONIO; SAGGESE, ALESSIA; VENTO, MARIO
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moving
vehicles
Development of a Deceleration-based Surrogate Safety Measure for Rear-end
Collision Risk
TAK, SEHYUN; KIM, SUNGHOON; YEO, HWASOO
Development of a Driver Lateral Control Model by Integrating Neuromuscular Dynamics into the Queuing Network-based Driver Model
BI, LUZHENG; WANG, MINGTAO; WANG, CUIE; LIU, YILI
Development of efficient nonlinear benchmark bicycle dynamics for control
applications
WANG, EVERETT; ZOU, JUNCHENG; XUE, GENGPING; LIU, YIJUN; YANG, LI; FAN, QUN
Driver Gaze Tracking and Eyes Off the Road Detection System
VICENTE, FRANCISCO; HUANG, ZEHUA; XIONG, XUEHAN; DE LA TORRE, FERNANDO; ZHANG,
WENDE; LEVI, DAN
Dynamic prediction of vehicle cluster distribution in mixed traffic: A statistical mechanics-inspired method
JERATH, KSHITIJ; RAY, ASOK; BRENNAN, SEAN; GAYAH, VIKASH
Efficient Sampling based Motion Planning for On-road Autonomous Driving
MA, LIANG; XUE, JIANRU; KAWABATA, KUNIAKI; ZHU, JIHUA; MA, CHAO; ZHENG, NANNING
Establishing style-oriented driver models by imitating human driving behaviors
XU, LI; HU, JIE; JIANG, HONG; MENG, WUQIANG
Evaluation of the Effects of a Personal Mobility Vehicle on Multiple Pedestrians Using Personal Space
PHAM, THAI; NAKAGAWA, CHIHIRO; SHINTANI, ATSUHIKO; ITO, TOMOHIRO
Exponential Contrast Restoration in Fog Conditions for Driving Assistance
NEGRU, MIHAI; NEDEVSCHI, SERGIU; PETER, RADU
Feedback Coordinated Ramp Control of Consecutive On-Ramps using Distributed Modeling and Godunov Based Satisfiable Allocation
AGARWAL, SHAURYA; KACHROO, PUSHKIN; CONTRERAS, SERGIO; SASTRY, SHANKAR
Frailty Models for the Estimation of Spatiotemporally Maximum Congested
Impact information on Freeway Accidents
CHUNG, YOUNSHIK; RECKER, WILL
Learning to Detect Vehicles by Clustering Appearance Patterns
OHN-BAR, ESHED; TRIVEDI, MOHAN
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Machine Learning Transportation Mode Recognition using Mobile Phone Sensor Data
JAHANGIRI, ARASH; RAKHA, HESHAM
Managing Emergency Traffic Evacuation with a Partially-Random Destination
Allocation Strategy: A Computational-Experiment-based Optimization Approach
LV, YISHENG; ZHANG, XIQIAO; KANG, WENWEN; DUAN, YANJIE
Measurements and Analysis of Large-Scale Fading Characteristics in Curved
Subway Tunnels at 920 MHz, 2400 MHz, and 5705 MHz
GUAN, KE; AI, BO; ZHONG, ZHANGDUI; LOPEZ, CARLOS; ZHANG, LEI; BRISO, CESAR; HROVAT, ANDREJ; ZHANG, BEI; HE, RUISI; TANG, TAO
Modeling Traffic Control Agency Decision Behavior for Multi-modal Manual
Signal Control under Event Occurrences
DING, NAN; HE, QING; WU, CHANGXU; FETZER, JULIE
Multi-objective Optimization for Train Speed Trajectory in CTCS High-speed
Railway with Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm
SHANGGUAN, WEI; YAN, XIHUI; CAI, BAIGEN; WANG, JIAN
Multiple Concentric Gating Traffic Control in Large-Scale Urban Networks
KEYVAN-EKBATANI, MEHDI; YILDIRIMOGLU, MEHMET; GEROLIMINIS, NIKOLAS; PAPAGEORGIOU,
MARKOS
Neuro-adaptive Fault-tolerant Approach for Active Suspension Control of
High Speed Trains
LI, DANYONG; SONG, Y. D.; CAI, WENCHUAN
On Curve Negotiation: from Driver Support to Automation
BOSETTI, PAOLO; DA LIO, MAURO; SAROLDI, ANDREA
Prediction of Railcar Remaining Useful Life by Multiple Data Source Fusion
LI, ZHIGUO; HE, QING
Queue Length Estimation Using Connected Vehicle Technology for Adaptive
Signal Control
TIAPRASERT, KAMONTHEP; ZHANG, YUNLONG; WANG, XIUBIN; ZENG, XIAOSI
Reading the Road: Road Marking Classification and Interpretation
MATHIBELA, BONOLO; NEWMAN, PAUL; POSNER, INGMAR
Real-Time Detection of Traffic from Twitter Stream Analysis
D'ANDREA, ELEONORA; DUCANGE, PIETRO; LAZZERINI, BEATRICE; MARCELLONI, FRANCESCO
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Reducing the Cost of the High-Speed Railway Communications: from Propagation Channel View
HE, RUISI; ZHONG, ZHANGDUI; AI, BO; GUAN, KE
Smooth and Controlled Recovery Planning of Disruptions in Rapid Transit
Networks
CADARSO, LUIS; MARÓTI, GÁBOR; MARÍN, ÁNGEL
Stability and Scalability of Homogeneous Vehicular Platoon: Study on Influence of Information Flow Topologies
ZHENG, YANG; LI, SHENGBO; WANG, JIANQIANG; CAO, DONGPU; LI, KEQIANG
The Driving Safety Field Based on Driver-vehicle-road Interactions
WANG, JIANQIANG; WU, JIAN; LI, YANG
Tracking With a High Resolution 2D Spectral Estimation Based Automotive
Radar
ASKELAND, STEIN-ARNE; EKMAN, TORBJÖRN
Traffic signal optimization for oversaturated urban networks: queue growth
equalization
JANG, KITAE; KIM, HYUNGJOO; JANG, IN GWUN
Vehicle Detection Techniques for Collision Avoidance Systems: A Review
MUKHTAR, AMIR; XIA, LIKUN; TANG, TONG
Vehicle Logo Recognition System Based
Networks With A Pre-Training Strategy
On
Convolutional
Neural
HUANG, YUE; WU, RUIWEN; SUN, YE; WANG, WEI; DING, XINGHAO
Vehicle Type Classification Using Semi-Supervised Convolutional Neural Network
DONG, ZHEN; WU, YUWEI; PEI, MINGTAO; JIA, YUNDE
Vehicle Verification Using Features from Curvelet Transform and Generalized
Gaussian Distribution
GUO, JING-MING; PRASETYO, HERI; FARFOURA, MAHMOUD; LEE, HUA
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Forthcoming papers on IEEE ITS Magazine
A New Decentralized Bayesian Approach for Cooperative Vehicle Localization
based on fusion of GPS and VANET based Inter-vehicle Distance Measurement
ROHANI, MOHSEN; VIGNERON, VINCENT; GRUYER, DOMINIQUE; GINGRAS, DENIS
An Enhanced Histogram of Oriented Gradients for Pedestrian Detection
ZHAO, YONG; ZHANG, YONGJUN; CHENG, RUZHONG
BUS-VANET: A Bus based Vehicular Network Integrated with Traffic Infrastructure
JIANG, XIAOXIAO; DU, DAVID
Chinese license plate localization in multi-lane with complex background
based on concomitant colors
DUN, JINGYU; ZHANG, SANYUAN; YE, XIUZI; ZHANG, YIN
Computer assisted analysis of drivers' body activity using a range camera
KONDYLI, ALEXANDRA; SISIOPIKU, V; ZHAO, LIANGKE; BARMPOUTIS, ANGELOS
In the Passenger Seat: Investigating Ride Comfort Measures in Autonomous
Cars
ELBANHAWI, MOHAMED; SIMIC, MILAN; JAZAR, REZA
Making 5G adaptive antennas work for very fast moving vehicles
PHAN-HUY, DINH-THUY; STERNAD, MIKAEL; SVENSSON, TOMMY
Multimedia Services in Cloud-based Vehicular Networks
JIAU, MING-KAI; HUANG, SHIH-CHIA; HWANG, JENQ-NENG.; VASILAKOS, ATHANASIOS
The Impact of Cooperative Perception on Decision Making and Planning of
Autonomous Vehicles
KIM, SEONG-WOO; LIU, WEI; ANG JR., MARCELO; FRAZZOLI, EMILIO; RUS, DANIELA
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Most popular papers on IEEE Transactions on ITS
1. Challenges Toward Wireless Communications for High-Speed Railway
Bo Ai ; Xiang Cheng ; Kurner, T. ; Zhang-dui Zhong ; Ke Guan ; Rui-Si He ; Lei
Xiong ; Matolak, D.W. ; Michelson, D.G. ; Briso-Rodriguez, C.
2. Wireless Sensor Networks for Condition Monitoring in the Railway Industry: A Survey
Hodge, V.J. ; O'Keefe, S. ; Weeks, M. ; Moulds, A.
3. Looking at Vehicles on the Road: A Survey of Vision-Based Vehicle Detection, Tracking, and Behavior Analysis
Sivaraman, S. ; Trivedi, M.M.
4. Artificial Co-Drivers as a Universal Enabling Technology for Future Intelligent Vehicles and Transportation Systems
Da Lio, M. ; Biral, F. ; Bertolazzi, E. ; Galvani, M. ; Bosetti, P. ;Windridge, D. ; Saroldi,
A. ; Tango, F.
5. Video-based lane estimation and tracking for driver assistance: survey, system, and
evaluation
McCall, J.C. ; Trivedi, M.M.
Most popular papers on IEEE ITS Magazine
1. Experience, Results and Lessons Learned from Automated Driving on Germany's
Highways
Aeberhard, M. ; Rauch, S. ; Bahram, M. ; Tanzmeister, G. ; Thomas, J. ; Pilat, Y. ; Homm,
F. ; Huber, W. ; Kaempchen, N.
2. Driver Behavior Profiling Using Smartphones: A Low-Cost Platform for Driver Monitoring
Castignani, G. ; Derrmann, T. ; Frank, R. ; Engel, T.
3. Three Decades of Driver Assistance Systems: Review and Future Perspectives
Bengler, K. ; Dietmayer, K. ; Farber, B. ; Maurer, M. ; Stiller, C. ;Winner, H.
4. Learning Driver Behavior Models from Traffic Observations for Decision Making and
Planning
Gindele, T. ; Brechtel, S. ; Dillmann, R.
5. A Tutorial on Graph-Based SLAM
Grisetti, G. ; Kümmerle, R. ; Stachniss, C. ; Burgard, W.
Most popular episode on IEEE ITS Podcast
1. ITS Podcast Episode 21: NOTICE. Traffic Incidents Reporting
Prof. Samy El-Tawab
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