IEEE ITS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

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 PhD Dissertation Award Call for Application 17 ITS Podcast 18 Conferences and Call for Papers 2015 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference - CFP 20 IEEE SOLIrsquo2015 - 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 papersepisode at T-ITS ITS Mag and ITS Podcast 33 Officers and Committee Chairs 34

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SYSTEMS

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SOCIETY NEWS

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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 httpgooglformsxpgl8WLt9F 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

3

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 implica-tions of ITS As we all well know the primary goals of ITS are to improve vehicle safety traf-fic 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 re-ducing air pollution and greenhouse gases But there is a lot more social implications that we often donrsquot think about especially when we talk about the emerging fields of connected and automated vehicle systems A few examples Individual privacy is certainly a concern as we make our vehicles increasingly ldquoconnectedrdquo

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

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 ldquowill they be saferdquo and ldquowill traffic con-gestion be reducedrdquo 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

Message from the President

4

Cybersecurity is certainly an important issue in everyday life dealing with our computers

and other devices Not a week goes by without hearing how someonersquos 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 donrsquot have the proper cybersecurity safeguards If some entity maliciously broadcasted false basic safety messag-es potentially dangerous crashes would likely occur

I believe that as our ITS society continues to grow we will likely have to deal with an increas-ing 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 ac-tively involved in SSIT Again our role is not to simply conduct ITS research and advance ITS technology itrsquos also about understanding the policy and social implications of what we do Matt Barth IEEE ITSS President 2014-2015

5

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 Reuterrsquos products and services Beginning with V 1 (1) 2009 the ITS Magazine will be indexed and abstracted in Science Citation Index Expanded Journal Citation ReportsScience Edition and Current ContentsEngineering 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 in-creasing 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 au-thors 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-to-sensor 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 net-work 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 tech-nology reviews future trends and reports on successful implementations It is also open to poli-cy 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 Aacutengel Sotelo Editor in Chief IEEE ITS Magazine

6

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 societalenvironmental impact of ITS There is no doubt that ITS research and the ITS research commu-nity are expanding around the globe ITSC 2014 attracted a record number (834) of submis-sions 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 Evalu-ation 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 2014rsquos 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 appli-cation 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

Conference Report 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems

7

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 ldquoIntelligent Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation Systemsrdquo and ldquoIntelligent Vehicle in Chinardquo 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

8

9

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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

10

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 ldquostate of the societyrdquo speech

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

4

Cybersecurity is certainly an important issue in everyday life dealing with our computers

and other devices Not a week goes by without hearing how someonersquos 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 donrsquot have the proper cybersecurity safeguards If some entity maliciously broadcasted false basic safety messag-es potentially dangerous crashes would likely occur

I believe that as our ITS society continues to grow we will likely have to deal with an increas-ing 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 ac-tively involved in SSIT Again our role is not to simply conduct ITS research and advance ITS technology itrsquos also about understanding the policy and social implications of what we do Matt Barth IEEE ITSS President 2014-2015

5

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 Reuterrsquos products and services Beginning with V 1 (1) 2009 the ITS Magazine will be indexed and abstracted in Science Citation Index Expanded Journal Citation ReportsScience Edition and Current ContentsEngineering 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 in-creasing 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 au-thors 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-to-sensor 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 net-work 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 tech-nology reviews future trends and reports on successful implementations It is also open to poli-cy 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 Aacutengel Sotelo Editor in Chief IEEE ITS Magazine

6

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 societalenvironmental impact of ITS There is no doubt that ITS research and the ITS research commu-nity are expanding around the globe ITSC 2014 attracted a record number (834) of submis-sions 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 Evalu-ation 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 2014rsquos 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 appli-cation 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

Conference Report 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems

7

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 ldquoIntelligent Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation Systemsrdquo and ldquoIntelligent Vehicle in Chinardquo 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

8

9

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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

10

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 ldquostate of the societyrdquo speech

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

5

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 Reuterrsquos products and services Beginning with V 1 (1) 2009 the ITS Magazine will be indexed and abstracted in Science Citation Index Expanded Journal Citation ReportsScience Edition and Current ContentsEngineering 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 in-creasing 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 au-thors 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-to-sensor 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 net-work 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 tech-nology reviews future trends and reports on successful implementations It is also open to poli-cy 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 Aacutengel Sotelo Editor in Chief IEEE ITS Magazine

6

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 societalenvironmental impact of ITS There is no doubt that ITS research and the ITS research commu-nity are expanding around the globe ITSC 2014 attracted a record number (834) of submis-sions 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 Evalu-ation 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 2014rsquos 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 appli-cation 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

Conference Report 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems

7

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 ldquoIntelligent Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation Systemsrdquo and ldquoIntelligent Vehicle in Chinardquo 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

8

9

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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

10

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 ldquostate of the societyrdquo speech

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

6

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 societalenvironmental impact of ITS There is no doubt that ITS research and the ITS research commu-nity are expanding around the globe ITSC 2014 attracted a record number (834) of submis-sions 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 Evalu-ation 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 2014rsquos 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 appli-cation 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

Conference Report 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems

7

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 ldquoIntelligent Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation Systemsrdquo and ldquoIntelligent Vehicle in Chinardquo 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

8

9

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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

10

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 ldquostate of the societyrdquo speech

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

7

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 ldquoIntelligent Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation Systemsrdquo and ldquoIntelligent Vehicle in Chinardquo 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos 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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

8

9

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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

10

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 ldquostate of the societyrdquo speech

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

8

9

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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

10

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 ldquostate of the societyrdquo speech

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

9

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 Peoplersquos Republic of China He presented a talk on ldquoThe Development Status and Prospect of Transportation Information Intelligence in Chinardquo Prof Matthew J Barth Yeager Families Professor at the College of Engineering University of California-Riverside presented the sec-ond keynote ldquoThe Role of Connected Vehicles in Sustainable Transportation Issues and Re-search Opportunitiesrdquo Finally Prof Bin Ning President of Beijing Jiaotong University deliv-ered a speech titled ldquoThe Key Issues of Intelligent Control for Rail Systemsrdquo 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

10

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 ldquostate of the societyrdquo speech

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

10

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 ldquostate of the societyrdquo speech

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

11

Next the winners of three IEEE ITSS Awards (ie IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award and IEEE ITS Institute Lead Award) the Best PhD Dissertation Award as well as the ITSC 2014 Best Paper Awards were announced and present-ed

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

12

As the former IEEE ITS Fellow Evaluation Chair Prof Fei-Yue Wang recognized three distin-guished colleagues who have made extraordinary contributions to ITS research and was elected as the IEEE Fellow in its class of 2014

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

13

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 ban-quet 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 wel-comed everyone to Spain for ITSC 2015

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

14

In the morning of Oct 10 a plenary award presentation session took place The winners of the IEEE ITSS Awards and the Best PhD 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 ses-sion

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

15

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 So-ciety

ITSC 2014 attracted a record number of paper submissions and participants As a proxy indica-tor of the quality of the technical program ITSC 2014rsquos paper acceptance rate is markedly low-er 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 re-searchers and practitioners Additionally the IEEE ITSC 2014 Conference Smart App allowed participants to easily access the conference program and read conference papers on their mo-bile 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

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

16

IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award

IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award

IEEE ITS Institutional Lead Award

Call for Nominations The prestigious

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 researchdevelopment 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 Applica-

tion 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 us-

ers of the developed application and organizations attesting to the workrsquos 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 Pal-mas 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 brendanmorrisunlvedu

Brendan Morris VP for Membership

17

IEEE ITSS Best PhD 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 inter-

disciplinary 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 PhD

candidate highlighting the significance of the problem the technical approach taken appli-cation context and potential and the scope of the dissertation

3 Sample published paper(s) in English based on the dissertation written primarily by the PhD 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 applicantrsquos dissertation advisor that assesses the sig-

nificance of the research attests to the originality of the work and comments on the engage-ment 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 Award-eesrsquo work will be featured in ITSS Transactions ITS Magazine and ITS Newsletter when appro-priate Evaluation A dedicated selection committee will evaluate all qualified applications for the IEEE ITS Best PhD Dissertation Awards and make selections Submission Deadline Please submit the application materials by email before June 20 2015 to ITSS Vice President for Membership at brendanmorrisunlvedu Brendan Morris VP for Membership

Place Prize Amount (USD)

1st $2000

2nd $1000

3rd $500

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ITS Podcast

ITS Podcast New Episodes

Please circulate this

We have a few interesting new episodes online for your enjoy-ment

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 inter-viewed 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 Compiegravegne and Head of the research group ldquoAutomation Embedded Systems and Robotics in France We also have Dr Marek Kurdej who was PhD candidate at Bonni-faitrsquos 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 In-telligent Transportation Systems Magazine

ITS Podcast Episode 24 Traffic Modeling Control and Optimiza-tion 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 itsspodcastgmailcom

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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 follow-ers 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 in-boxes Unverified emails will not count as valid Third step When you know they subscribed send an email and subscription date list to itsspod-castgmailcom with ldquoFollower-get-a-Followerrdquo 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 javiersanchezmedinaieeeorg itsspodcastgmailcom

WWWITSC2015ORG

The 18th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 15 ndash 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 Columbusrsquo

first voyage to the Americas

General Chair

Javier Saacutenchez-Medina

Program Chair

Miguel Aacutengel 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 httpwwwitsc2015orgimportant-dates

Regular and Special Session submissions DEADLINE April 15

Workshop and Industry Track submissions DEADLINE May 15

Please visit the conference website at httpwwwitsc2015org for news and updated deadlines You

can also follow us at Twitter (ITSC2015) and Facebook (ITSC2015)

Paper Submission

Submit your paper here httpitsc2015exordocom

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

httpwwwitsc2015orgsubmit-your-paper

Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award

A ldquoBest Paper Awardrdquo and a ldquoBest Student Paper Awardrdquo 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)(httpwwwitsc2015orgkeynote-speakers)

Philip T Krein Professor and Grainger Endowed Directors 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 amp Simulation Laboratory Technical

University of Crete Greece

Hermann Winner Technische Universitaumlt 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

WWWITSC2015ORG

Special Sessions Tutorials Workshops and Demonstrations (tentative)

Special Sessions (httpitsc2015orgspecial-sessions)

SS1 Human Factors in Urban Traffic ndash 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 (httpitsc2015orgtutorials-workshops)

Workshops

WS1 The First International Workshop on Intelligent Public Transports ndash 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 MediaBig Data for Transportation Systems Analysis

WS8 Education in ITS

Tutorials

Tut1 Tutorial on SUMO - Simulation Urban Mobility (by Prof Peter Wagner (DLR))

Demos

We plan to have the Verdino Project (httpverdinowebsulles) 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

httpwwwitsc2015orgsubmit-your-special-session-proposal

httpwwwitsc2015orgsubmit-your-workshop-or-tutorial-proposal

Proposals for organizing Demonstrations can be send to itsc2015gmailcom

Registration Fees

Please check-out our registration fees site (httpwwwitsc2015orgregistration) We have a few innovations there that may be of your interest

especially to recognize volunteersrsquo efforts and to help colleagues in developing countries to attend IEEE ITSC2015

Topics - The technical areas include but are not limited to the following

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

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

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2015 June 28 - July 1 The 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Coex Seoul Korea httpwwwiv2015org September 15-18 ITSC2014 The 18th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Canary Islands Spain httpwwwitsc2015org Submission due by April 15 MMarch 11-14 VISIGRAPP 2015 10th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision Imaging and Computer Graphic Applications Berlin Germany httpwwwvisigrapporg March 17-27 ITS Cooperative Mobility Services Event 4 Helmond Netherlands httpwwwetsiorgindexphpnews-eventsevents846-plugtests-2015-itscms4 March 26-27 7th ETSI ITS Workshop Berlin Germany httpwwwetsiorgITSWorkshop April 5-8 Intertraffic Amsterdam 2016 Amsterdam Netherlands httpwwwintertrafficcomintertraffic-amsterdam April 21-23 SAE 2015 World Congress amp Exhibition Detroit Michigan USA httpwwwsaeorgcongress

Massimo Bertozzi Paolo Grisleri

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 itsconfsceuniprit

25

2015 June 28 - July 1 The 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Coex Seoul Korea httpwwwiv2015org September 15-18 ITSC2014 The 18th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Canary Islands Spain httpwwwitsc2015org Submission due by April 15 MMarch 11-14 VISIGRAPP 2015 10th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision Imaging and Computer Graphic Applications Berlin Germany httpwwwvisigrapporg March 17-27 ITS Cooperative Mobility Services Event 4 Helmond Netherlands httpwwwetsiorgindexphpnews-eventsevents846-plugtests-2015-itscms4 March 26-27 7th ETSI ITS Workshop Berlin Germany httpwwwetsiorgITSWorkshop April 5-8 Intertraffic Amsterdam 2016 Amsterdam Netherlands httpwwwintertrafficcomintertraffic-amsterdam April 21-23 SAE 2015 World Congress amp Exhibition Detroit Michigan USA httpwwwsaeorgcongress

Massimo Bertozzi Paolo Grisleri

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 itsconfsceuniprit

26

April 28-29 19th International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA 2015) Harnack House Berlin Germany httpwwwamaade May 11-14 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2015-Spring) Glasgow Korea httpwwwieeevtcorgvtc2015spring May 20-22 International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Systems Lisbon Portugal httpwwwvehitsorg May 21-23 20th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society REAL CORP 2015 Ghent Belgium httpwwwcorpat May 25-30 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015) Seattle WA USA httpwwwicra2015org June 3-5 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2014) Buzios Rio de Janeiro Brasil httpwwwbatlabufmsbrisie2015 June 7-12 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015) Boston MA USA httpwwwpamitcorgcvpr15 August 5-7 International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory - ISTTT Kobe Japan August 9-12 NRITS National Rural ITS Conference Snowbird UT USA httpwwwnritsconferenceorg September 7-11 International Conference on Imahe Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2015) Genova Italy httpwwwiciap2015eu

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September 6-9 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2014-Fall Boston MA USA httpwwwieeevtcorgvtc2015fall Submission due by March 16 September 21-23 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control Novotel Manly Pacific Sidney Australia httpwwwmsc2015org Submission due by April 1 September 28 - October 3 IEEERSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015) Hamburg Germany httpwwwiros2015org October 5-9 ITS World Congress 2015 Bordeaux France httpitsworldcongresscombordeaux-2015 October 30 - November 6 25th World Road Congress httpwwwpiarcseoul2015orgwrcs Seoul Korea November 8-13 Seminar on Vision for Autonomous Vehicles and Probes httpwwwdagstuhldedeprogrammkalendersemhpsemnr=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 track-

ing with lidar sensor FORTIN BENOIT LHERBIER REacuteGIS 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 Cooper-

ative 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 FERNAacuteNDEZ RODRIacuteGUEZ ADRIAacuteN FERNAacuteNDEZ CARDADOR ANTONIO CUCALA ASUNCIOacuteN DOMIacuteN-

GUEZ MARIacuteA 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 moving vehicles

trajectories for efficient extracting semantic data DACIERNO ANTONIO SAGGESE ALESSIA VENTO MARIO

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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 Neuromuscu-

lar 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 statisti-

cal 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 behav-

iors XU LI HU JIE JIANG HONG MENG WUQIANG

Evaluation of the Effects of a Personal Mobility Vehicle on Multiple Pedestri-

ans 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 Distrib-

uted 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 Sen-

sor Data JAHANGIRI ARASH RAKHA HESHAM

Managing Emergency Traffic Evacuation with a Partially-Random Destination

Allocation Strategy A Computational-Experiment-based Optimization Ap-

proach 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 AN-

DREJ 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 DANDREA ELEONORA DUCANGE PIETRO LAZZERINI BEATRICE MARCELLONI FRANCESCO

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Reducing the Cost of the High-Speed Railway Communications from Propaga-

tion Channel View HE RUISI ZHONG ZHANGDUI AI BO GUAN KE

Smooth and Controlled Recovery Planning of Disruptions in Rapid Transit

Networks CADARSO LUIS MAROacuteTI GAacuteBOR MARIacuteN AacuteNGEL

Stability and Scalability of Homogeneous Vehicular Platoon Study on Influ-

ence 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 TORBJOumlRN

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 On Convolutional Neural

Networks With A Pre-Training Strategy HUANG YUE WU RUIWEN SUN YE WANG WEI DING XINGHAO

Vehicle Type Classification Using Semi-Supervised Convolutional Neural Net-

work 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 Measure-

ment 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 Infra-

structure 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 DW Michelson DG Briso-Rodriguez C 2 Wireless Sensor Networks for Condition Monitoring in the Railway Industry A Survey Hodge VJ OKeefe S Weeks M Moulds A 3 Looking at Vehicles on the Road A Survey of Vision-Based Vehicle Detection Track-ing and Behavior Analysis Sivaraman S Trivedi MM 4 Artificial Co-Drivers as a Universal Enabling Technology for Future Intelligent Vehi-cles 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 JC Trivedi MM

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1 Experience Results and Lessons Learned from Automated Driving on Germanys 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 Moni-toring 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 Kummerle R Stachniss C Burgard W

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Most popular papers on IEEE ITS Magazine

1 Experience Results and Lessons Learned from Automated Driving on Germanys 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 Moni-toring 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 Kummerle R Stachniss C Burgard W

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