CITS 2016 - Special Issue on Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems

Mobile Information Systems
(ISSN: 1574-017X, IF: 1.789)
Special Issue on
Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/misy/si/724285/cfp...
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The importance of computer networks on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has gained relevance in the last years. Initial research solutions have given way to international projects and, lastly, to regulations within the most prestigious standardization bodies (ISO, IEEE, CEN, and ETSI). Both the academia and main technological companies in the field agree on the key role of communications in future transportation, which will evolve from autonomous ITS capabilities to a vast number of applications supported by cooperation with the rest of vehicles in the surroundings and infrastructure local and remote entities.
We are now experiencing a turning point in the ITS area. The first market products are being released, standardization groups have matured, and cooperative systems involving both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications are seen now as feasible solutions that will make the transportation means more safety, efficient and easy to use. Even the U.S. Department of Transportation has recently announced its plans to integrate vehicle-to-vehicle communications in light vehicles. The achievements in the technological planes of navigation, cellular networks, short-range communications, and the Internet expansion to areas such as embedded computers and mobile devices, have supported with no doubt the research on cooperative ITS (C-ITS).
This special issue wants to exploit this momentum in C-ITS by inviting researches in the area to contribute with original works as well as review articles in the areas of vehicular communications, telematics, and GNSS application in ITS.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
? Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications and networking
? Experimental evaluation in C-ITS
? Emerging communication technologies in connected vehicles
? Standardization and regulation in C-ITS
? Vehicular applications and services in the areas of safety, traffic efficiency, and infotainment
? Location-based services for vehicles
? C-ITS in rains, airplanes, and ships
? Microaerial vehicle networks
? GNSS enhancement for ITS
? Novel road pricing schemes and solutions
? Cross-layer networking solutions for service provision
? IPv6 in C-ITS
? Secure vehicular communications
? Access control in vehicular-networked domains
? Handover treatment in mobile vehicle networks
? Internet of things and future Internet schemes in ITS
? Solutions for vulnerable road users
? Driving context-awareness middleware and services
? Data management in vehicular networks.
? 5G integration in vehicular communications.
Authors can submit their manuscripts via the Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/misy/cits/
Requests for additional information should be addressed to the Lead Guest Editor, José Santa (jose.santa-AT-cud.upct.es)
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Manuscript Due Friday, 23 October 2015
First Round of Reviews Friday, 15 January 2016
Publication Date Friday, 11 March 2016
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Editors:
José Santa (University Centre of Defence at the Spanish Air Force Academy, San Javier, Spain)
Joel Rodrigues (University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)
Rafael Toledo (Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Cartagena, Spain)
Fernando Pereñiguez (Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain)
Manabu Tsukada (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)