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16th International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems Telecommunications 15 to 17 October 2023 · Lisbon, Portugal Conference record
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Programme

Three days, six ways to exchange an idea

The edition combined set piece sessions with formats built for interruption, disagreement and a prototype that refuses to cooperate.

3 Conference days in Lisbon

Programme

01

The shape of the programme

The conference ran across three days in Lisbon. Its programme moved between shared sessions for the whole audience and focused sessions where a specialist conversation could go further.

The published record described the formats rather than a complete timetable. Rather than invent speakers, rooms or times, this page records the structure set out in the record: plenaries and invited talks, thematic workshops, demonstrations, panel discussions, oral papers and a poster exchange.

The special sessions added focused blocks on rail positioning, rail wireless links, maritime communications and vehicle network reliability.

No invented timetable. This archive does not publish a minute by minute schedule because the source record did not contain one. The formats, session types and dates are recorded; the clock is not.
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The formats

  • Format 01

    Plenary sessions

    A single room and a shared agenda. Plenaries gave the whole conference a common starting point.

  • Format 02

    Invited talks

    Invited speakers brought perspectives from senior research and industry.

  • Format 03

    Thematic workshops

    Working sessions on a defined problem, with more room for exchange than a formal paper slot allows.

  • Format 04

    Demonstrations

    Projects, startups and industry teams showing working systems on the floor, with a short pitch to the room.

  • Format 05

    Panel discussions

    Structured disagreement between people who approach the same transport problem from different institutions.

  • Format 06

    Oral papers and posters

    Accepted papers were presented in an oral session or at a poster, depending on what suited the work.

03

How the programme was built

The route began with the call. Authors submitted full papers or demo abstracts; special session papers followed a later deadline. The technical programme committee reviewed each submission for merit and novelty.

Accepted papers were then placed. Some suited an oral presentation. Others worked better as a poster, where a visitor could stop, ask a question and look at the detail. Demonstrations had their own floor presence and a two minute pitch.

The result was a programme with more than one centre of gravity. A delegate could spend a day in the main track, disappear into a rail session and still meet the same people at a demo later.

What an oral paper slot offered

A fixed period to present a result to an audience that had chosen that track. The value was in the questions afterwards, when the assumptions behind a model met the constraints of an operator.

What a poster offered

A slower conversation. Posters worked well for work in progress, for measurement campaigns and for results whose importance lay in the detail rather than the headline.

What a workshop offered

A room small enough for disagreement. Workshops could test a definition, compare methods or agree on the next measurement the field needed.

What a demo offered

Evidence. A working system can be inspected, questioned and made to fail in front of the person who built it.

04

Dates and practical links

The conference opened on 15 October 2023 and closed on 17 October 2023. Author deadlines fell before the event: 27 July for regular papers and 3 August for special session papers.

Registration conditions and the published fee scale are recorded separately, as are the venue and the routes to the campus.

Plan around the edition. The travel guide covers the campus, the airport route and the nearest underground station. The registration record covers fees and conditions.

Reference shelf

These links give context for the programme topics. They are not session sponsors unless named on the partners page.