Technical Programme - ITS European Congress 2025

Call for Contributions

Join leading mobility experts at the ITS European Congress 2025 in Seville to discuss current pivotal smart mobility and transport topics.

Share knowledge, exchange best practices, and expand your network for business growth.

The Call for Contributions opens on 10 October 2024.

Up to

3,500

Participants Expected

+100

Programme Sessions

5,000

Sqm Exhibition space

The Call for Contributions opens on 10 October 2024

Contribute to the Technical Programme

The Technical Programme of the Congress will include a range of Specialist Sessions that offer experts from the global ITS community an opportunity to address the status of smart mobility from a technical perspective, focussing on research and innovation, and the impact related to the deployment of new technologies. The Specialist Sessions will explore and examine topical mobility issues, covering the practical, economic, technological, organisational and societal aspects of ITS.

Organised Sessions

Special Interest Sessions
Strategic Future Sessions

Organised at the request of groups of international experts developing and deploying ITS, these sessions delve deeper into, and beyond, the state of the art, the remaining challenges and key trends.

Paper Sessions

Technical Papers
Research Papers

These sessions contribute to the ITS body of knowledge with reports ranging from the operational use of systems and deployment of services to research and development of new applications.

Shape tomorrow's mobility

16 - 20 September 2024

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Congress Topics

CCAM Deployment

CCAM impact assessment: societal implications, industrial & economic opportunities
Innovative solutions: automated vehicles, technology enablers
CCAM challenges: standards, regulation, legislation and policy
Integration with existing infrastructure and networks
Deployment and scaling up: business models, blocking points, lessons learnt
Opportunities, challenges and implications of AI for CCAM

Emergent technologies: Data and services for mobility

Mobility data and artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR)
Data sharing and interoperability
Communications technology (5G and beyond)
Cyber security challenges
Clean & green technologies and services
ITS for innovative aerial services (IAS)

Societal aspects of mobility for people and goods

Equity and accessibility for all (including cultural & geographical factors)
User embracement and workforce implications
Innovation in public transport systems and services
New services for freight and logistics (including automation and robotics)
Responsible and sustainable logistics
Deployment barriers, lessons learned, opportunities and impact

Resilient and safe mobility for today and of the future

Modelling for resilient mobility
Data technology and reliability for resilience
Cyber security solutions for smart infrastructure, traffic management, or mobility networks
Adapting mobility for changing climate (infrastructure, vehicle operations)
Life-cycle sustainability
Social, business, legislation and regulatory aspects

Key Dates

The Congress offers some of the best learning opportunities – being able to learn about state-of-the-art/-practice in ITS from practitioners and researchers. My experience is that every individual contribution – session proposal or paper – results in a robust and compelling technical program that has ‘something for everyone!’

Focus on what stands your session/paper apart from the others, what is unique and how does it link to the ITS Congress themes.

I have been a presenter in most of the ITS World Congresses starting from the first one in Paris. I have always been happy about the possibility to learn something new in the ITS domain, network with key ITS experts, make new friends among those experts, and renew old valuable friendships during the Congresses.

All proposals must be submitted online in English.

Proposals must be original and address technology issues or the institutional, business, societal or economic aspects of ITS.

All submissions must include the name, organisation, country and email address of the paper author/SIS & SFS organiser.

SIS & SFS proposals must also include these details of the moderator and at least three confirmed speakers.

All Paper submissions must be in the template on the submission portal.

All session speakers, moderators and paper presenters must register by the announced deadline and pay the appropriate speaker/moderator Congress fee.

Sessions without registered speakers by the given deadline may lose their lots to others from the reserve list.

Acceptance of proposals is not linked to sponsorship, which is negotiated separately.

Notifications

Session organisers will receive the European Programme Committee decisions via email by the stated deadline.

Some organisers may be asked to combine their sessions to avoid duplication.

Speaker confirmations will also be requested.

Conditionally accepted papers will require authors to address the reviewers’ comments before being fully accepted.

Authors of fully accepted papers will have a chance to update them closer to the Congress date.

For All Submissions

Each completed submission will receive an auto-generated acknowledgment email with the ID number and contact details of the submitter. This confirmation of receipt does NOT signify acceptance.
Please note: Speakers who commit to speaking and/or moderating in more than two specialist sessions run the risk of having overlapping schedules, which the Congress organisers may not be able to resolve.
While making your travel arrangements, please note that the specialist sessions will be organised in time slots from 09:00 on Monday 2 June until 16:15 on Wednesday 4 June. The notifications about dates/times will be sent in April 2025.
The organisers will carefully plan the distribution of the different sessions to give the utmost choice to the Congress delegates, moderators and speakers. With a final programme involving more than 400 speakers and moderators, it will be highly unlikely that we will be able to accept any requests for moving sessions from one slot to another.

IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE!

The Government of Dubai requires event organisers to obtain a speaker permit for all presenters (speakers and moderators) at the 2024 ITS World Congress 60 days prior to the event. The submission deadline for the Technical Programme is therefore unlikely to be extended.

Submit your contributions by 15 December!