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Chair: Yongqi Dong
Co-Chair(s): Xin Pei
Advisor:  Bart van Arem, Haneen Farah

Short Description

The ITSS Technical Committee on Automated Mobility in Mixed Traffic aims to foster collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and students across disciplines, promoting innovative research, professional activities, and industry-academia partnerships. It focuses on advancing knowledge and addressing challenges in mixed traffic through data-driven methods, behavioral modeling, safety analysis, state-of-the-art AI applications, and policy development, while organizing events to facilitate knowledge sharing and community engagement.

Goal

This committee is committed to fostering collaboration among multidisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and students in relevant fields of automated mobility and mixed traffic. The committee aims to promote interdisciplinary research, professional activities, industry-academia partnerships, and international collaborations. It will provide a platform for knowledge sharing, showcasing emerging datasets and state-of-the-art modelling methods, as well as identifying research gaps and future research directions.

Committee Activities

Activity Plan

The committee members have organized several events under the IEEE ITSS Conferences and will continue to contribute to the society through the following activities:

  • Organize special sessions/workshops/tutorials related to Automated Mobility and Mixed Traffic during the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), and other renowned conferences;
  • Initiate new journal special issues on Automated Mobility in Mixed Traffic at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, and other top-tier journals;
  • Hold online workshops and symposiums frequently for fast knowledge exchange;
  • Develop a research community website with a mailing list (draft already available);
  • Promote the committee during ITSC 2025 with its website and mailing list;
  • Establish and release an open-sourced resource repository for sharing resources;
  • Designing a summer school on mixed traffic with the cooperation of the IDEA League.

Upcoming events in 2025

Currently, the committee members are planning to organize the third edition for the workshop on “Automated Mobility in Emerging Mixed Traffic” with a theme on Emerging Mixed Autonomy in the Era of AI, and the second edition of Tutorial on “Reproducibility in Transportation Research: A Hands-on Tutorial” to be held during ITSC 2025 in November, Gold Coast, Australia. Workshop and tutorial proposals have been submitted.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Automated mobility and mixed traffic related datasets;
  • Data collection, processing, managing, and publishing;
  • Mixed traffic status prediction (long/medium/short term);
  • Behavioural modelling and interaction in mixed traffic;
  • Traffic flow in mixed traffic;
  • AI in data-driven research for mixed traffic;
  • LLM and VLM applied for AVs;
  • Meaningful human control in mixed autonomy;
  • Robustness, transparency, and trustworthiness of AI in mixed traffic;
  • Impact evaluation methods of mixed traffic;
  • Empirical evaluation of different vehicle automation levels;
  • Driving behavioral adaptation in mixed traffic;
  • Energy consumption/demand in mixed traffic;
  • Empirical studies and field tests about mixed autonomy;
  • Assumptions and simulation models for mixed traffic;
  • Open-access and reproducibility of research in mixed traffic;
  • Policies, regulations, and codes of practice.

In cooperation with COTA (Chinese Overseas Transportation Association), a forum titled “Women Scientists in Transportation” is scheduled during the 25th joint COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2025) on July 22-25, 2025, in Guangzhou, China.

Lastly, the committee actively welcomes new members to join and support its initiatives, enabling even greater achievements as the committee grows. Promotions of the proposed committee will be online soon after the approval.

Activity Report

Committee Members

Audrey Bruneau, Toyota Motor Europe, Belgium
Bart van Arem, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Cathy Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Chang Liu, Institute for Computer Science and Control (HUN-REN SZTAKI), Hungary
Charlotte Fléchon, PTV Group, Germany
Danjue Chen, North Carolina State University, USA
Erwin de Gelder, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Netherlands
Fangchieh Chou, Nissan Alliance Innovation Lab – Silicon Valley, USA
Felix Fahrenkrog, BMW Group, Germany
Haneen Farah, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Haoxuan Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Irene Martínez, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Jianye Xu, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jie Zhu, Volvo Cars, Sweden
Lina Kattan, University of Calgary, Canada
Makridis Michail, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Maria Laura Delle Monache, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Panagiotis Angeloudis, Imperial College London, UK
Saeed Rahmani, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Selpi Selpi, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Solmaz Razmi Rad, the Department of Road Transport (RDW), Netherlands
Soyoung Ahn, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Tianyi Li, University of Minnesota, USA
Vahid Hashemi, Audi AG, Germany
Wanjing Ma, Tongji University, China
Xin Pei, Tsinghua University, China
Yiyun Wang, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Yongqi Dong, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Zhe Fu, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Zuduo Zheng, University of Queensland, Australia

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