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The 18th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 15 – 18 September 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.itsc2015.org/cfp
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The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. IEEE ITSC 2015 welcomes articles in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, dealing with new developments in theory, analytical and numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, demonstration, advanced deployment and case studies, results of laboratory or field operational tests, under the general theme of Smart Transportation for Safety and Sustainability. IEEE ITSC 2015 is organized by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria located in the Canary Islands (Spain), last known stop to Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the Americas.


Important Dates
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Here we have the Important Dates: http://www.itsc2015.org/important-dates

- Regular Session and Special Session Full-paper submission deadline: MAY 1, 2015, 23:59 WEST (GMT+1) (EXTENDED AND FINAL DEADLINE)
- Industry Track and Workshop Full-paper submission due May 15, 2015, 23:59 WEST (GMT+1) (FINAL DEADLINE)

Please, visit the conference website at http://www.itsc2015.org for news and updated deadlines! You can also follow us at Twitter (@ITSC2015) and Facebook (ITSC2015).


Paper Submission
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Submit your paper here: http://itsc2015.exordo.com

Complete manuscripts in PDF format must be electronically submitted for peer-review, following the standard IEEE conference proceedings format. Detailed submission instructions can be found here: http://www.itsc2015.org/submit-your-paper.


Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award
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A “Best Paper Award” and a “Best Student Paper Award” will be conferred to the author(s) of a full paper presented at the conference, selected by the Awards Committee.


Best Reviewers and Best Associate Editor Award
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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.


Journal and Magazine Publication of Selected Papers
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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.


Keynote Speakers (tentative)
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* Philip T. Krein, Professor and Grainger Endowed Director's Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IL, USA
* Tsuguo Nobe, Chief Advanced Service Architect and Director at Intel Corporation, Japan
* Markos Papageorgiou, Director of Dynamic Systems & Simulation Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, Greece
* Hermann Winner, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany


Special Sessions, Tutorials, Workshops and Demonstrations
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Special Sessions (http://itsc2015.org/special-sessions)

SS1. Human Factors in Urban Traffic – Characteristics, Challenges and Solutions of Prospective Assistance Systems
SS2. Wireless Vehicular Communications
SS3. Automated Driving
SS4. Intelligent Pedestrian traffic and Evacuation dynamics
SS5. Urban Transport Systems: Modelling and Control
SS6. ITS for Public Transport
SS7. Computer Vision and Imaging Systems in Transportation
SS8. Parallel Transportation Management Systems
SS9. Cooperation in complex networks of vehicles
SS10. Advances in motorway traffic control
SS11. Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation, ATSS 2015
SS12. Advanced Technology for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety
SS13. Environment perception for automated on-road vehicles

Workshops and Tutorials (http://itsc2015.org/tutorials-workshops)

Workshops:

WS1. The First International Workshop on Intelligent Public Transports – Toward the Next Generation of Urban Mobility
WS2. Intelligent Transportation Systems for Multimodal Operations
WS3. Advanced Traffic Signal Systems on the Crossroads between Past and Future
WS4. Advancing the Microscopic Traffic Simulations Towards Realistic Modelling of Driver Behaviour and Reliable Evaluation of Safety
WS5. New Tendencies of Artificial Intelligence in Dynamic Modeling and Optimization of Traffic Network
WS6. Data-Enabled Advancements in Transportation Theory and Application
WS7. Mapping the Landscape of Social Media/Big Data for Transportation Systems Analysis
WS8. Education in ITS
WS9. Crowdsourcing and Social Transportation
WS10. Connected Vehicles and Cooperative Systems
WS11. Vehicular Networks Applications: From Physical Layer to Clouds
WS12. COSSMO - Cooperative Sensing for Smart Mobility
WS13. Use of Parallel Computing in Network Traffic Simulation

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

Demos:
1. We plan to have the Verdino Project (http://verdino.webs.ull.es) demonstrated at IEEE ITSC2015.
2. More to come...

Proposals for organizing Demonstrations are welcome: itsc2015@gmail.com


Registration Fees
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Please check-out our registration fees site (http://www.itsc2015.org/registration)! We have a few innovations there that may be of your interest, especially to recognize volunteers' efforts and to help colleagues in developing countries to attend IEEE ITSC2015.


Organizing Committee (see full list at www.itsc2015.org)
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General Chair: Javier J. Sanchez-Medina (javier.sanchez.medina@ieee.org)

Program Chair: Miguel Angel Sotelo Vazquez (miguel.sotelo@uah.es)

Program Co-Chairs:
Cristina Olaverri Monreal (cristina.olaverri@ait.ac.at)
Jeffrey Miller (jeffrey.miller@usc.edu)
Alberto Broggi (broggi@ce.unipr.it)

General Vice-Chair for Local Arrangements: Alexis Quesada Arencibia (aquesada@dis.ulpgc.es)

Finance Chair (Treasurer): Itziar Alonso (ialonso@dit.ulpgc.es)


Topics
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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