IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
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| IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | |
|---|---|
| Title | IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Discipline | Intelligent transportation systems |
| Abbreviation | IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst. |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Country | United States |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| History | 2000–present |
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing research on technologies and systems for urban mobility, traffic management, and automated driving. The journal interfaces with fields such as robotics, computer vision, control theory, and wireless communications, attracting contributions from authors affiliated with institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tsinghua University. Articles often cite standards bodies and consortia including Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Organization for Standardization, 3GPP, SAE International, and European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
History
The journal was established at the turn of the 21st century, in the context of initiatives led by United States Department of Transportation, European Commission, and national research programs at National Science Foundation, Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Early editorial leadership included researchers from University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Cambridge, connecting communities around projects such as PATH (California PATH), Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment, and the DARPA Urban Challenge. Major conferences and workshops that shaped the field included IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACM Multimedia, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. Funding and policy influences involved agencies such as European Research Council, U.S. Department of Energy, UK Research and Innovation, and programs like Horizon 2020.
Scope and Topics
The journal covers topics intersecting with research agendas from MIT Media Lab, Oxford University, University of Tokyo, ETH Zurich, and National University of Singapore. Typical subject areas include sensor fusion and perception work linked to laboratories at California Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Imperial College London, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Contributions address algorithmic advances in machine learning developed at Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft Research, and Facebook AI Research as well as control and optimization approaches from Siemens, Bosch, Toyota Research Institute, and NVIDIA Research. System-level research connects with urban deployments involving Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Transport for London, Singapore Land Transport Authority, and Hong Kong Transport Department.
Editorial Board and Publication Process
Editorial governance involves senior editors and associate editors affiliated with institutions such as Princeton University, Columbia University, Yale University, Purdue University, and Delft University of Technology. Peer review follows standards common to journals like Nature, Science, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, with editorial policies referencing guidelines from Committee on Publication Ethics, Association for Computing Machinery, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Special issue guest editors have included scholars from Pennsylvania State University, Rice University, University of Toronto, and University of Sydney.
Abstracting and Indexing
The journal is indexed in major databases alongside titles such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (bibliographic note), Transportation Research Part C, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and Automatica. Indexing services include Scopus, Web of Science, INSPEC, EI Compendex, and Google Scholar profiles associated with authors from University of Waterloo, McGill University, Monash University, and Aalto University.
Impact and Reception
Citations and impact metrics are often compared with journals like IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Transportation Research Part B, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. The journal's influence is evident in policy documents produced by U.S. Department of Transportation, European Commission Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, and standards work at SAE International. Recognition of authors has been reflected in awards from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, ACM SIGMOBILE, and national academies such as National Academy of Engineering and Royal Society.
Notable Papers and Special Issues
Notable contributions have ranged from vehicle-to-vehicle communication protocols influenced by Cruise Automation and Waymo deployments to multi-agent planning frameworks related to research at Uber ATG and Zoox. Special issues have focused on themes connected to events and projects like DARPA Grand Challenge, European C-ITS platform, SMARTER Cities, and Mobility as a Service pilots in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Barcelona. Influential authors have come from Bell Labs, IBM Research, Bellcore, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, and Fujitsu Laboratories.
Access and Availability
The journal is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is available through institutional subscriptions held by libraries at Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Chicago, University of Melbourne, and Seoul National University. Many articles are discoverable via platforms used by consortia such as JSTOR, ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and aggregators servicing World Bank research libraries and corporate R&D centers at Honda Research Institute, Volvo Group, General Motors, and Ford Motor Company. Authors may deposit preprints on repositories affiliated with arXiv, ResearchGate, and institutional repositories at Cornell University, University of California, and University of Edinburgh.