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VEHITS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of the International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS) is to bring together engineers, researchers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems.
This conference focuses on innovative applications, tools and platforms in all technology areas such as signal processing, wireless communications, informatics and electronics, related to different kinds of vehicles, including cars, off-road vehicles, trains, ships, underwater vehicles, or flying machines, and the intelligent transportation systems that connect and manage large numbers of vehicles, not only in the context of smart cities but in many other application domains.

Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of VEHITS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the VEHITS conference website.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. CONNECTED VEHICLES
2. DATA ANALYTICS
3. INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
4. INTELLIGENT VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES
5. SMART MOBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SERVICES


AREA 1: CONNECTED VEHICLES


  • Big Data and Vehicle Analytics
  • Communication Protocols
  • Connected Services
  • Cooperative Driving and Traffic Management
  • Security and Safety
  • V2V, V2I, V2X
  • Vehicular Networks

AREA 2: DATA ANALYTICS


  • Accident Analysis and Prevention
  • Analytics and Optimization
  • Analytics for Intelligent Transportation
  • Big Data & Vehicle Analytics
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Traffic Management Reporting Systems & Road and Rail Traffic Management
  • Vehicle Information Systems and Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics

AREA 3: INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE


  • Big Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation
  • Congestion Management and Avoidance
  • Information Systems and Technologies
  • Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems
  • Public Transportation Management
  • Real-Time Incident Detection
  • Road Safety and Transport Security
  • Traffic Theory, Modeling, and Simulation
  • Urban Mobility and Multimodal Transportation

AREA 4: INTELLIGENT VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES


  • Automotive Control and Mechatronics
  • Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving Control
  • Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving Perception
  • Driver Behavior Analysis
  • Navigation Systems
  • Off the Road Vehicles
  • Pattern Recognition for Vehicles
  • Traffic and Vehicle Data Collection and Processing
  • Vehicle Environment Perception
  • Vision and Image Processing

AREA 5: SMART MOBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SERVICES


  • Automated Road Transport
  • City Mobility and Ecodriving
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Energy & Battery Management
  • Novel Regulatory and Compliance Frameworks Related to Intelligent Transport
  • Ride Hailing Services
  • Smart Grid and V2G
  • Systems Modeling and Simulation
  • Transport for People with Disabilities

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

VEHITS 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 18 - 20 May, 2026

Paper Submission: January 5, 2026
Authors Notification: March 3, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: March 17, 2026

Paper Submission: February 17, 2026
Authors Notification: March 24, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: April 6, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: January 20, 2026

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: January 20, 2026

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: April 10, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: April 10, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: April 10, 2026

SECRETARIAT

VEHITS Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: vehits.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://vehits.scitevents.org

VENUE

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Karsten Berns, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Jeroen Ploeg, Siemens Industry Software Netherlands B.V., Netherlands
Arnaud de La Fortelle, Heex Technologies, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Giannis Adamos, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Chaodit Aswakul, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Ramachandran Balakrishna, Caliper Corporation, United States
László Bokor, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Avinoam Borowsky, Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel
Pedro J. S. Cardoso, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Rodrigo Castelan Carlson, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Ángel Cuenca, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Gianluca Di Flumeri, Sapienza University
Teresa Donateo, University of Salento, Italy
Paul Green, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, United States
Benjamin Heydecker, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Sin C. Ho, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Govand Salih Kadir, University of Kurdistan-Hewler, Iraq
Hongchao Liu, Texas Tech University, United States
Juraj Machaj, University of Zilina, Slovak Republic
Sven Maerivoet, Transport & Mobility Leuven, Belgium
Qinggang Meng, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Yetis Sazi Murat, Pamukkale University, Turkey
Dimitrios Nalmpantis, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Fawzi Nashashibi, INRIA, France
Suhail Odeh, Bethlehem University, Palestine (State of)
Jun-Seok Oh, Western Michigan University, United States
Efi Papatheocharous, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
Brian Park, University of Virginia, United States
Alexander Paz, Queensland University of Technology, United States
Bo Qin, Independent Researcher, China
Prakash Ranjitkar, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Nirajan Shiwakoti, RMIT University, Australia
Barys Shyrokau, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Junfang Tian, Tianjin University, China
Vicente R. Tomás, University Jaume I, Spain
Lourdes Trujillo, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Costin Daniel Untaroiu, Virginia Tech, United States
Meng Xu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

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