INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS http://www.ieee.org/its IEEE ITS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER Editor: Prof. Bart van Arem, [email protected] Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2005 ITSC Executive Committee ————– President: Charles J. Herget, [email protected] President-Elect 2005: Fei-Yue Wang, In This Issue ... [email protected] Society News 3 Vice President Conferences: Paul Kostek, . [email protected] From the Editor ....................... 3 Vice President Publications: Message from the IEEE ITS Society President ...... 3 Emily Sopensky, [email protected] Calendar of Society Events ................. 4 Vice President Finance: Message VP Conferences ................... 5 William Scherer, [email protected] Message VP Publications .................. 7 Vice President Technical Activities: Last words from a VP Technical Activities ......... 9 Daniel Zeng, Message VP Technical Activities .............. 10 ... [email protected] 2005 IEEE Annual Election ................. 11 Vice President for Adminstrative Ac- tivities: Bookreview .......................... 14 Daniel J. Dailey, . [email protected] IEEE Trans. on ITS Report ................. 15 ————– IEEE Transactions on ITS - Index ............. 17 Transactions Editor: Alberto Broggi, . [email protected] Conference Reports 20 Newsletter Editor: Bart van Arem, Technical Contributions 28 ...... [email protected] Non-Society ITS News 36 A Glimpse on the Web .................... 36 Information for contributors ————– Results of AHS demonstration experiment ......... 37 Announcements, feature articles, books Upcoming Conferences, Workshops and Symposia ..... 44 and meetings reviews, opinions, letters to the editor, professional activities, ab- stracts of reports, and other material Web Archive of interest to the ITS community is so- All past issues of this Newsletter can be reached through the licited. 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Please direct all inquiries or requests to IEEE Copyrights Office. 1 THE IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS SOCIETY —————————————— President: ................................................ Charles J. Herget, Alameda, CA 94502, USA President-Elect 2005: ........ Fei-Yue Wang, CAS, China and U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Vice President Conferences: ................................. Paul Kostek, Seattle, WA 98103, USA Vice President Publications: ........ Emily Sopensky, The Iris Company, Arlington, VA 22207, USA Vice President Finance: ..... William Scherer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904. USA Vice President Technical Activities: .................. Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Vice President Administrative Activities: ...... Daniel J. Daily, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Transactions Editor: ..................... Alberto Broggi, Universit`adi Parma, Parma, I-43100, Italy Newsletter Editor: ... Bart van Arem, University of Twente, Enschede, NL-7500AE, The Netherlands COMMITTEES Awards Committee: Chip White (Chair): . [email protected] Conferences and Meetings Committee: Paul Kostek (Chair): . [email protected] Constitution and Bylaws Committee: Fei-Yue Wang (Chair): . [email protected] Fellow Evaluation Committee: Robert Fenton (Chair): . [email protected] Finance Committee: Bill Scherer (Chair): . [email protected] History Committee: E. Ryerson Case (Chair): . [email protected] Long Range Planning Committee: Pitu B. Mirchandani (Chair): . [email protected] Nominations and Appointments Committee: Fei-Yue Wang (Chair): . [email protected] Publications Committee: Emily Sopensky (Chair): . [email protected] Standards Committee: Jason Geng (Chair): . [email protected] Student Activities Committee: Sudarshan S. Chawathe (Chair): . [email protected] Technical Activities Committee: Daniel Zeng (Chair): . [email protected] RECTIFICATION In the first newsletter of 2005, a technical paper ’Rhodes to Intelligent Transport Systems’ was published. Erroneously not all authors were mentioned. The paper ’ Rhodes to Intelligent Transport Systems’ was authored by Prof. Pitu Mirchandani and Prof. Fei-Yue Wang. We apologize to the authors and the readers for the inconvenience. Bart van Arem Editor in Chief 2 Society News From the Editor by Bart van Arem Dear Readers, I am pleased to offer you the third Newsletter of the Intelligent Transport Systems Society of the IEEE. In this newsletter you will find a lot of news on conferences and the development of our ITS Society. We have reports on the recent conferences on Intelligent Vehicles and Intelligence and Security Informatics. Our research review section focuses on research in Japan. The email announcement is sent to approximately 10.000 addresses around the world. The March and June issue were downloaded 1,600 and 850 times this year respectively. We also observe that readers also tend to download previous issues when a new newsletter is issued. We have already started new content such as book reviews and reviews of research programs. But in order to develop the content and appearance of the newsletter even further we want to now the opinion of our readers. Please take a few minutes time and complete our on-line questionnaire at: http://www.aida.utwente.nl/en/ITSS Newsletter Survey/ In the December issue of the newsletter we will publish the results. Meanwhile, if you have contributions that you would like to share with our readers, do not hesitate to contact us. I hope you will enjoy this newsletter. Bart van Arem Message from the IEEE ITS Society President by Charles J. Herget I want to start off by expressing our gratitude on behalf of the Society to Stefano Stramigioli for his many years of service to both the Council and the Society. Last year, he served as Editor of this Newsletter, and this year he served as Vice President for Technical Activities and he is currently the Program Chair for this year’s ITS Conference. Earlier this year, Stefano asked to step down from his position as VP Technical Activities because of other commitments. I am pleased to announce that Prof. Daniel Zeng has agreed to take over as VP Technical Activities, and the Board of Governors approved his appointment at its meeting in June in Las Vegas. You can read 3 articles by both Prof. Stramigioli and Prof. Zeng elsewhere in this Newsletter. The ITS Society is governed by a Board of Governors (BoG) that consists of fifteen elected members and nine officers of the Society. Starting this year, members of the Society will elect five members to the BoG for a three-year term. All of the current elected members of the BoG were elected last year the ITS Council’s Administrative Committee. This year will be the first time the members of the Society elect their represen- tatives. The Nominations and Appointments Committee has come forward with an excellent slate of candidates. The nominees (named in random order) are Benjamin Coifman, Takaaki Hasegawa, Hsinchun Chen, Steve E. Watkins, Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Brian K. Johnson, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Petros Ioannou, Ka C. Cheok, and Jason Geng. Members of the Society should have received their ballot from IEEE by now or will receive one soon. Please be sure to vote. Ballots are due back at IEEE no later than October 14, 2005. The Board of Governors elects the officers of the Society. Starting in 2006, there will be nine officers. The present officers were elected by the ITS Council’s Administrative Committee. All of the officers are elected to a two-year term except for the president. The president is elected to serve a one-year term as president-elect before serving a two-year term as president and then serving another one-year term as past- president. The terms of the other officers are staggered so that each year four officers are elected to begin their term on January 1 of the following year. The next election of officers will be held at the Board of Governors meeting in Vienna on September 17, following this year’s ITS Conference. The officers to be elected are the Vice Presidents for Conference Activities, Member Activities, and Publi- cation Activities and the Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on ITS. I am always interested in hearing if there are any suggestions for improving the operation of the Soci- ety or if there are any other activities that you think the Society should be undertaking. Please send me an email at [email protected] if you have any comments. Charles Herget President, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Calendar of Society Events by Daniel J. Dailey Up Coming events for ITSS: ITS Society Meetings: IEEE ITS Society Board of Governors Vienna, Austria September 17,2005 IEEE ITSC 2005 September 13-16, 2005 Vienna, Austria Chair: Reinhard Pfliegl - [email protected]