Winner of the Best Paper Award is:

– Next Generation of Virtual Stops for Future Mobility Solutions
Louis Calvin Touko Tcheumadjeu
(German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transportation System),
Johannes Rummel
(German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institue of Transportation
Systems)

– Aircraft cruise alternative trajectories generation: a mixed RRG-clustering approach
Andréas Guitart (ENAC),
Jean-Claude Lebègue (Sopra Steria/ENAC),
Céline Demouge (ENAC),
Daniel Delahaye (ENAC),
Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft),
Eric Feron (KAUST)

As society develops, the relevance of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) become more and more visible. ITS can make transport safer, more efficient, and more sustainable by applying information and communication technologies to all
transportation modes. Moreover, the integration of existing technologies can create new services.

The full potential of ITS will be more visible if deployed worldwide. To achieve this goal, research poses as a major player in developing and deploying key ITS technologies, and contributing to standardization, interoperability between transport modes and countries, cross-border continuity of services, among other uses.

To achieve its full potential, ITS still needs to overcome barriers, some of which of technological nature. Deployment costs, funding restrictions that prevent investment facilitation, investments, privacy and liability concerns, uncertain demand, and lack of legislation are just some of the constraints limiting the rolling-out of ITS implementation in several situations.

Limited communication or too ‘technical’ communication on the benefits of new technologies to those who make decisions about whether to invest in new technology development (policymakers), can also be an obstacle for faster deployment of ITS. Policymakers need a clear description of the benefits of new technologies including cost-benefit analyses that would enable them to compare traditional solutions with the new ones.

Lack of or limited cooperation between research and industrial sectors is another aspect that is slowing down the uptake of research results by the market. It is not often that research results are likely to be developed in the short- or even medium-term, but this is not always understood by the industry that wants to obtain quick results from their investments in ITS. A space for interaction and joint reflection about ITS between researchers, policymakers, and the industry is paramount to promote ITS solutions and pursue its benefits.

We welcome contributions from the following fields:

• Advanced Public Transportation Management
• AI and deep learning in ITS
• Air, Road, and Rail Traffic Management
• Approaches to sustainable transportation
• Autonomous Driving; Connected Car
• Behavioral modeling in ITS
• Big data in ITS and Data-Driven Innovation
• BlockChain and Big Data-enabled Intelligent Vehicular Communication
• City Logistics and last mile
• Cloud computing, Fog computing
• Commercial Vehicle Operations
• Computer Vision for ITS
• Connected and automated vehicles
• Cooperative driving technologies
• Cooperative ITS and Autonomous driving
• Cyber-physical-social systems for ITS
• Data Science for Cooperative ITS
• Disruptive technologies for ITS
• Driver and Traveler Support Systems
• Edge Intelligence for Internet of Vehicles
• Electric Vehicles
• Electronic Payment Systems
• Emergency Management
• Emissions, Noise, Environment
• Human Factors, Travel Behavior
• Intelligent Logistics
• Intelligent urban construction for smart mobility
• Intelligent Vehicles
• Intermodal Freight
• Intent-based Networking for 5G-Envisioned Internet of Connected Vehicles
• ITS Field Tests and Implementation
• ITS for Last Mile Logistics
• ITS for Smart Cities
• ITS in Epidemic Areas
• ITS user services
• Management of Exceptional Events: Incidents and Evacuation
• Modelling, Control and Simulation
• New trends in ITS
• Pandemic impact in ITS and deliver process
• Parallel learning and parallel systems
• Ports, waterways, and vessel traffic management
• Probe Information Systems
• Public policy, and regulatory and societal issues in ITS
• Public Transit Planning and Operation in the Era of Automation, Electrification, and Personalization
• Safe and secure ITS
• Security, privacy and safety systems
• Sensing, Detectors and Actuators
• Sensors, detectors and actuators in ITS
• Shared and smart mobility
• Traffic management and intelligent infrastructure (road, freight, public transport)
• Traffic modelling and simulation
• Traffic Theory for ITS
• Transportation Networks
• Travel and traffic information
• V2X communications in ITS
• Vehicle Localization
• Vision, and Environment Perception

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MatchSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH.

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal [IF: 3.007 (2021)]

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (Open Access)

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

This event is organized by EAI.

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