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The Intelligent Transportation
Systems Society
By Lindsay Elkins

embership in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) has been growing
since it became a full-fledged society two years
ago. And the society is attracting an unusual
array of new members, primarily civil and mechanical engineers. The reason is simple, notes the society's
2006 president, IEEE Fellow Feiyue Wang. The growth
is due to the impact of electronics-especially information, communications, and intelligent systems technologies-on traditional transportation disciplines.
Starting as an interest group in 1991, the society
became a council in 1999, before becoming a society in
2005. From December 2005 to December 2006, membership grew by 8.9 percent, to 1060 people.
FIELDS OF INTEREST Intelligent transportation systems
are used on roads, railways, and waterways, as well as in
passenger vehicles, trucks, and container ships.
PUBLICATIONS The society publishes the quarterly Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, which covers
the latest trends and research on everything from auton-

omous vehicles and artificial vision to global navigation
systems. The publication includes profiles of the inventors
and innovators behind such cutting-edge technologies.
The Web-only quarterly ITS Society Newsletter covers
society news, conference reports, and schedules of upcoming meetings. It also publishes overviews of research programs on intelligent transportation systems.
CONFERENCES ITSS sponsors six conferences that are
held periodically: the Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference; the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium;
the International Conference on Service Operations
and Logistics; the Intelligence and Security Informatics
Conference; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic
and Embedded Systems; and the International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety.
The two conferences this year are the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, which will be held from
13 to 15 June in Istanbul, Turkey, and the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, from
30 September to 3 October in Seattle.

AWARDS ITSS sponsors the Best Dissertation Award and
three awards that are new this year: the ITS Research
Award, the ITS Practice Award, and the ITS Lead Award.
The Best Dissertation Award is given to Ph.D. students
who have graduated in the previous three years. The
recipient is selected by the ITSS awards committee and
receives US $1000 plus a certificate.
Any IEEE member who has made significant contributions to the field is eligible to receive the ITS
Research and the ITS Practice awards. The prizes for
both awards are still being determined. The fourth
award, the ITS Lead Award, will go to government
organizations, research institutions, companies, and
university programs that have supported the society's
technologies. Its prize is yet to be determined.
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