Dear IEEE VTS Members, As IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society President, and a fellow active IEEE Vehicular Technology Society member, I would like to personally invite you to join IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) for the remainder of the year. A discounted combined membership will be offered in 2022. For now, consider adding ITSS at noRead More
Lian Zhao, VTS Toronto Chapter Chair The IEEE VTS Toronto Chapter currently has 55 members and is situated in Toronto, Canada. The current officers are: Lian Zhao, Chair, Ryerson University, Canada Khalid Hafeez, Vice-chair (External), Ontario Tech University, Canada Ajmery Sultana, Vice-chair (Membership Engagement), Ryerson University, Canada The IEEE Toronto Section, parent section to VTSRead More
IEEE VTS Board of Governors Election Call for Nominations Elections for five (5) members of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) for the term 2022-2024 will be held between May and July 2021. This notice serves as an open call for nominations of qualified candidates. Valid nominations will be reviewed by the VTSRead More
Article by Abbas Jamalipour I am truly excited to have the honor and privilege to continue serving as President of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2021. IEEE VTS has been my home for the past two decades, and I have seen great things in this Society that are truly unique. We are starting this yearRead More
Fabrice Labeau, VTS Board of Governors Elections Committee Chair As is customary at the beginning of each calendar year, newly elected members will be joining the VTS Board of Governors. The election took place over the course of the summer, and the following candidates have been elected for a 3-year term extending from 2021 toRead More
Article By: Gordon L. Stüber, VTS Awards Committee Chair VTS awards recognize those individuals and groups who contribute to and support the purposes of IEEE in general and of VTS, in an exceptionally worthy manner. Open nominations for awards are due 1 April each year, with nomination forms available on the VTS website. Normally, theRead More
Article By: Abbas Jamalipour While I write this message for the last month of year 2020, we are still waiting for a solution to the global pandemic, already several months after it was started. I hope everyone around the world will have a better year in 2021. This year was indeed one of the mostRead More
Article By: Gordon L. Stüber, IEEE VTS Awards Committee Chair IEEE VTS offers six prestigious awards that recognize outstanding individual accomplishment. The IEEE VTS website provides additional information about the awards, eligibility of candidates, as well as nomination forms. Please consider nominating an eligible candidate. The due date for nominations is 1 April 2021. Nominations are welcome forRead More
Article By: Gerhard Bauch, VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee Chair IEEE Fellow recognizes IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number of new IEEE Fellows selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the totalRead More
Article by Neeli R. Prasad First and foremost, we want to thank you very much for your continued membership with IEEE VTS through these unprecedented times. With your loyalty and support, we are able to continuously provide our members with valuable benefits and actively develop our product offerings and services. Put simply, you make whatRead More
Article by Kamesh Namuduri, Chair, IEEE VTS Ad Hoc Committee on Drones IEEE VTS is pleased to announce an Innovation Challenge in Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Communications for current undergraduate and graduate college and university students. Objective—Participants engineer a working solution for coordination between two UASs to accomplish a task jointly. The objective is toRead More
Article by Abbas Jamalipour As we start the last quarter of this year, people around the world are still battling the effects of one of the biggest global health crises in living memory. Throughout this very challenging year, we have all experienced and learned alternative ways to continue what we were doing, and at times,Read More