Chairs:

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


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

Important Dates

July 25th, 2021 (extended)	Paper submission
August 18th, 2021	Notification of acceptance
August 31st, 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.

Full papers must be at most 10 pages long, short papers must be at most 6 pages long and poster must be at most 3 pages long and all them must be formatted according to Springer format.

Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by EasyChair. Please submit your paper at:

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




TPC Members

• Antonella Molinaro (Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
• Farzad Arabikhan (University of Portsmouth, UK)
• Francesco Viti (University of Luxembourg)
• Ariane Dupont (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Yusak Susilo (Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien, Austria)
• Achille Fonzone (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)