Intelligent Transport Systems – From research and development to the market uptake

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are vital to increase efficiency, safety, mobility and tackle Europe's growing emission and congestion problems. They can make transport safer, more efficient and more sustainable by applying information and communication technologies to all modes of transport. Moreover, the integration of existing technologies can create new services.

The full potential of ITS can only be achieved if deployed worldwide. Research has a major role to play in developing and deploying key ITS technologies, and contributing to standardisation, interoperability between transport modes and countries, and cross-border continuity of services.

On the other hand a deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems also faces some barriers, only some of which are technological. Deployment costs, funding restrictions that prevent from facilitating investments, privacy and liability concerns, uncertain demand, and lack of legislation have limited the roll-out of ITS implementation in a number of cases.

The objective of the conference is to twofold:

1. to enable researchers in ITS to share their achievements and findings in different areas of Intelligent Transport Systems
2. to bring together the relevant ITS stakeholders and to address the following questions:

• What role has research and end users in developing ITS solutions?
• How to maximise the use of research outcomes by industry?
• Should ITS be a priority for regional smart specialisation strategy?

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Travel and traffic information
• Traffic management and intelligent infrastructure (road, freight, public transport)
• Cooperative ITS and Autonomous driving
• Safe and secure ITS
• Big data in ITS
• Cloud computing, Fog computing
• Localisation
• Traffic modelling and simulation
• Sensors, Detectors and Actuators
• ITS user services
• Approaches to sustainable transportation
• ITS for Smart Cities

All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries.

Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as EAI's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Accepted authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to Special Issue in EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems.