16th edition · Lisbon 2023
Communications that move transport forward.
ITST 2023 brought the people who design, test and operate transport communications to Lisbon for three days of research, demonstrations and practical debate.
- Edition
- 16th international meeting
- Dates
- 15 to 17 October 2023
- Venue
- Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
The series
A meeting point for transport and telecommunications
ITST began in 2000 as a forum created by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan. Since then the series has travelled through Asia and Europe, gathering transport operators, engineers and research teams around a shared question: how should vehicles, tracks, ships, aircraft and the networks between them communicate?
The 16th edition met at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. Its programme followed the intent of earlier editions: place academic results beside industrial experience, and give working demonstrations the same attention as published papers.
Research scope
Seven tracks, one connected field
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Track 01
Radio and spectrum
Spectrum sharing, interference control, propagation studies, antenna design and the radio links that carry safety critical messages.
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Track 02
Connected vehicles
Communication inside the vehicle, between vehicles, between vehicles and roadside systems, and between vehicles and the people who share the road.
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Track 03
Network design
Architectures for mobile and cloud assisted transport networks, including roadside computing, delay tolerant links and software defined control.
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Track 04
Protocols and data flow
Medium access, routing, mobility management, transport services and the rules that move data between moving nodes.
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Track 05
Cooperative services
Automated driving support, traffic management, freight coordination, shared mobility, electric mobility and emergency response.
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Track 06
Testing and standards
Interoperability trials, conformance work, access technology measurement, positioning performance and lessons from live testbeds.
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Track 07
Open questions
Security, privacy, energy use, scale and the research agenda that follows from all of them.
Ways to take part
A programme built for exchange
The conference mixed formal presentation with the less formal moments where research usually moves forward: questions after a talk, a prototype on a table, a corridor conversation between an operator and a laboratory.
Five named formats carried the discussion, with a poster exchange alongside. Each one had a different job, from setting the agenda to testing whether an idea works outside the laboratory.
Plenary sessions
Shared starting points for the whole conference.
Invited talks
Perspectives from senior researchers and industry.
Thematic workshops
Focused working sessions on live problems.
Demonstrations
Working systems shown by projects and startups.
Panel discussions
Structured disagreement about what comes next.
Poster exchange
Early results discussed at close range.
Lisbon
An engineering school at the centre of the city
The congress centre sits in the Civil Engineering building on the Alameda campus of Instituto Superior Técnico, on floors 01 and 02. The address is Av. Rovisco Pais 1, Lisboa.
Saldanha is the nearest underground station. The airport is a short metro ride away, and several city bus routes stop within walking distance of the campus.
Publication
Written work with a route to the field
The call invited original research that had not appeared elsewhere and was not under review by another conference or journal. Regular papers were limited to seven pages. Demo abstracts were limited to two.
Every submission went through review on scientific merit and novelty. Accepted work was programmed as an oral presentation or as a poster, and the call directed work that was accepted and then presented to IEEE Xplore, with EI indexing.
- Regular paper
- Up to seven pages
- Demo abstract
- Up to two pages
- Review
- Merit and novelty
Presentation formats included oral sessions and poster exchange.
Stewardship
Chaired from Lisbon, guided by the series
General chairs
Teresa VazãoINESC ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Fernando Mira da SilvaINESC ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Technical programme chairs
Alexey VinelHalmstad University, Sweden
Marion BerbineauIFSTTAR, France
Paulo PereiraINESC ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
A steering committee drawn from universities and research institutes across the series supported the local team. The technical programme committee reviewed submissions and shaped the sessions.
Special sessions added focused conversations on satellite positioning for rail, wireless links for rail, maritime communications and the reliability of vehicle networks.
Use the record
Where to go next
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For authors
Registration record
Fees, deadlines and the conditions that applied to accepted papers.
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For visitors
Venue and travel
The campus, the journey from the airport and where to stay in Lisbon.
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For partners
Sponsors and exhibitors
The organisations behind the edition and the case for showing work at it.
Questions about the edition?
The conference desk and the committee record are both available in this archive.