Connectionists: CfP - Special track on ”FITS – Future Intelligent Transport Solutions” at IDC 2021

[gcabri@unimore.it]

IDC 2021
The 14th International Symposium on  Intelligent Distributing Computing  
(IDC 2021)
16-18 September 2021, Scilla (Reggio Calabria), Italy
http://idc2021.unirc.it

Special track on
”FITS – Future Intelligent Transport Solutions”
http://www.idc2021.unirc.it/stFITS.html


Track Description:

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) may be defined as a set of 
procedures, systems and technologies that allow optimizing the transport 
systems for both people and goods. Generally, they are intended to 
provide innovative services for different transport modes and traffic 
management issues as well as information to users for improving their 
travel experience and allowing them a better use of the transport networks.

ITSs are a combination of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) 
and automation with Transport Engineering methods and models and they 
cover infrastructure, vehicles and users, traffic and mobility 
management, as well as interfaces among several transport modes.

In the last years, efforts in ITS researches have been mainly addressed 
to facilitate the development of automated/autonomous transport vehicles 
(CAV), provide tools and methods for transport service integration 
(MaaS) and explore vehicle-sharing (VS) topics.

Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs) are vehicles capable of detecting 
its environment and moving safely with little or no human input. In 
principle, such vehicles have the potential to change dramatically the 
way people travel and make road transport safer and smoother. Although 
CAVs are still prototypes, many researches have been conducted in this 
field, covering both technological and transport management issues.

In the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) perspective, intermodal transport 
processes are particularly relevant due to the high number of involved 
players, which requires constant and timely interactions and information 
exchange to achieve transport mode integration. It may integrate both 
vehicle-sharing services and transit systems, provide travel choices to 
users also in the light of sustainable mobility and facilitate 
cooperation among transport operators, which at the end could produce 
more efficient transport services.

Vehicle sharing (VS) is an urban mobility service that allows users to 
reserve a vehicle (e.g., car, bike) and rent it for a short period by 
paying for its use. This service is planned within sustainable mobility 
policies, to facilitate the transition from vehicle ownership to shared 
use, in order to reduce the need for private vehicle without reducing 
the flexibility of their own mobility exigencies. Vehicles are then 
considered services rather than consumer goods

In the above perspectives, models, approaches, architectures, systems 
and methods for ITS topics are of particular interest for solving both 
computational and communication problems and management and planning 
transport issues.



The topics, which need to be addressed from the ITS perspective, 
include, but are not limited to:
•         Blockchain for ITS
•         CAV security issues
•         Data management
•         Informed transport choices
•         ITS potentialities for remote and rural areas
•         Mobile data for prediction and modelling
•         Mobile Edge
•         Modelling user behaviour in ITS contexts
•         Pedestrian detection and protection in transport automated 
environments
•         Safety and security
•         Service integration
•         Shared mobility
•         System Interoperability
•         The role of ITS in addressing and achieving Sustainable 
Development Goals
•         Transport management
•         Trust and reputation in Vehicle-Shared systems
•         Understanding user needs and expectations of CAVs
•         User acceptance of CAVs
•         V2V
•         V2X


Co-Chairs:

Maria Nadia Postorino       –   University of Bologna, Italy
Giacomo Cabrì                  –   University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, 
Italy
Antoine Berthet                  –   CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay 
University, France


Important Dates

June 6th, 2021        Paper submission
June 30th, 2021      Notification of acceptance
July 11th, 2021       Final paper submission
September 16th-18th, 2021           Symposium dates


Submission of Papers

All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which 
will be published by Springer.
Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by EasyChair. Please 
submit your paper at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2021

Please, during the submission process specify this Special Track as 
topic FITS – Future Intelligent Transport Solutions



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| Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Full Professor
| Rector's Delegate for Teaching
| Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche
| Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
| e-mail giacomo.cabri at unimore.it
| tel. +39-059-2058320  fax +39-059-2055216
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