1. 1 VP-Technical Activities Report Daniel Zeng ITSS VP for Technical Activities zeng@email.arizona.edu ITSS ExCom meeting Las Vegas, NV February 27, 2010

2. IEEE ITSS Technical Activities Most Active TCs Mechatronic & Embedded Systems New Leadership (Yangquan Chen; Primo Zingaretti) 2009, 2010, 2011 ASME/IEEE MESA (IEEE CSS co-sponsorship) Planned TITS special issue & AE/reviewer recommendations ISI for Transportation Systems 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 IEEE ISI 2010 Border Security workshop 2009, 2010 Pacific-Asia ISI workshop 2009, 2011 BioSurveillance workshop Joint technical activities with SMCS

3. IEEE ITSS Technical Activities Most Active TCs (Contd.) Logistics & Services New Leadership (adding Jim Sporer and Liangjie Zhang) SOLI 09, 10 Joint activities with INFORMS Artificial Trans. Systems & Simulation Workshop on ATS and Simulation in 2009 and 2010 played a leading role in IV 09 autonomous vehicle competition Comm. Networks New Leadership (add Onur Altintas) ITSC 10 special session IEEE VNC 09 (ITSS and ComSoc)

4. Most Active TCs (Contd.) Traffic & Travel Mgmt. 1st Workshop on Traffic Behavior, Modeling and Optimization as part of ITSC 10 Joint activities with TRB and INFORMS FHWA open data standards International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals 2009 & 2010 Mobile Comm. ITSC 09 and 10 special sessions; help w/ future IEEE VNC IEEE VehiMobi 2009; IEEE NiVi 2009; IEEE IVCS 2009 TC Website Joint activities with IEEE CS Society

5. 5 TCs Needing Attention Public Transportation Management Public Transportation Management Intelligent Water Transportation Systems Intelligent Water Transportation Systems Railroad Systems and Applications Railroad Systems and Applications ITS for Air Traffic ITS for Air Traffic Port Automation and Management Port Automation and Management Vehicular Safety Technologies and Applications Vehicular Safety Technologies and Applications Software Infrastructure in ITS Software Infrastructure in ITS

6. Conference Coordination Working closely with ITSC 2010 Program Chair Working closely with ITSC 2010 Program Chair All TC Chairs have been automatically assigned AE role All TC Chairs have been automatically assigned AE role Multiple special sessions being organized Multiple special sessions being organized All TCs helping recruit reviewers All TCs helping recruit reviewers Proposal: starting in ITSC 2011, experimenting with at least 3 tracks from Proposal: starting in ITSC 2011, experimenting with at least 3 tracks from Communications Networks, Mobile Comm., Traffic and Travel Mgmt, Logistics & Services Communications Networks, Mobile Comm., Traffic and Travel Mgmt, Logistics & Services How to help with IV? How to help with IV? 6

7. Technical co-Sponsorship Approval Process Technical co-sponsorship requests need to be formally submitted to both VP for conferences & VP for technical activities. Technical co-sponsorship requests need to be formally submitted to both VP for conferences & VP for technical activities. These 2 VPs make a joint recommendation. If approval is recommended, the VP for Adm. Will be notified and a request for ExCom votes broadcasted to the ExCom mailing list. These 2 VPs make a joint recommendation. If approval is recommended, the VP for Adm. Will be notified and a request for ExCom votes broadcasted to the ExCom mailing list. VP for conferences and VP for technical activities inform the submitters of the evaluation outcome. Applicable IEEE Conf. report forms need to be filed. VP for conferences and VP for technical activities inform the submitters of the evaluation outcome. Applicable IEEE Conf. report forms need to be filed. 7

8. ITSS Website www.ieee.org/itss and www.ieeeitss.org (thanks to Charlie) www.ieee.org/itss and www.ieeeitss.org (thanks to Charlie)www.ieee.org/itsswww.ieeeitss.orgwww.ieee.org/itsswww.ieeeitss.org Current ITSS Web content updating procedurals Current ITSS Web content updating procedurals Jointly between VP for Technical Activities and VP for Administrative Affairs Jointly between VP for Technical Activities and VP for Administrative Affairs Alberto’s suggestions Alberto’s suggestions 8

9. ITSS Website - Operations IEEE Tech Navigator database: continued work on ITS portion IEEE Tech Navigator database: continued work on ITS portion Closer coordination with the Newsletters & Magazine to post feature articles Closer coordination with the Newsletters & Magazine to post feature articles Better coordination with the Transactions & possibly ITS conferences to feature most popular Xplorer downloads Better coordination with the Transactions & possibly ITS conferences to feature most popular Xplorer downloads RSS feeds already online RSS feeds already online An award section featuring recipients of past ITSS awards and their work (starting with 09 awardees) An award section featuring recipients of past ITSS awards and their work (starting with 09 awardees) A TC Corner (committed so far: MESA; Comm. Networks; Mobile Comm.) A TC Corner (committed so far: MESA; Comm. Networks; Mobile Comm.) IEEE ITSS Tech nical Activ ities