Call for Papers: VEHICULAR 2026 || March 8 - 12, 2026 - Valencia, Spain

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- VEHICULAR 2026, The Fifteenth International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications

VEHICULAR 2026 is scheduled to be March 8 - 12, 2026 in Valencia, Spain under the InfoWare 2026 umbrella.

The submission deadline is November 16, 2025.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

All events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site, online, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, pdf slides.

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============== VEHICULAR 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


VEHICULAR 2026, The Fifteenth International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/VEHICULAR26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitVEHICULAR26.html


Event schedule: March 8 - 12, 2026


Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: November 16, 2025.


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: https://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


VEHICULAR 2026 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPVEHICULAR26.html

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VEHICULAR 2026 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Hot topics in vehicular systems

Advanced vehicle safety systems; Driver assistance systems; Sensing, vision and perception; Human factors in urban traffic; Driver reactions and predictions; Driver tracking systems; Predict red-light running violations; Rear-view pedestrian detection; Urban truck energy-efficient driving systems; A priori map data; Multi-lane vehicular traffic models; Traffic signs-based fog density models; Social interaction and signaling; Collision avoidance systems; Driving in crowded scenes; Delay estimation; Advances in motorway traffic control; Traffic signal adaptive routing; Long-term trajectory predictions; Visual warnings and accident prevention; Head-up display; Speed harmonization; Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications; Unmanned ground vehicle paths; Free space detection; Autonomous vehicle in urban environments; Road side sensors; Automated vehicle operation; Motion planning; Navigation tracking; Urban traffic hotspots detection; Pedestrian walking activity recognition and prediction; Pedestrian and bicyclists safety; Evacuation dynamics; Sparse and noisy smartphone location data; Energy management for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; Heavy-duty vehicles; Freeway traffic management; Adaptive video-streaming dissemination; Streaming content from a vehicular cloud; Wireless degrading communication sensing; Secure information transfer in V2V communication; Coordination of terrestrial vehicles and drones; Carsharing and charging stations; Real-time learning for incident prediction; Carpooling; Bottlenecks in massive crowd flow networks; Pollution models; Driving and urban planning; Mini-drones and taxi-drones; Aeronautical communication with hybrid (manned/unmanned) vehicles; Traffic control with manned and unmanned aerial vehicles; Manned aerial vehicles

Fundamentals on communication and networking

Intelligent vehicular networking; Vehicular communications; Vehicular mobile ad hoc networks; Vehicle-to-infrastructure communications; Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication; Vehicle-to-vehicle communication; Cellular and satellite communications for vehicular systems; Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks; Future vehicular systems; Vehicular applications

Protocols and mechanisms

Routing protocols for vehicle-to-vehicle communications; MAC layer technologies; Physical layer and RF level technologies; Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination; Channel modeling; Modulation and coding; Multi-channel organization and operation; Antenna technologies; In-vehicle sensor networks

Vehicular data

Mining vehicular data; Vehicular data acquisition; Vehicular data analysis; Vehicular data dissemination; Vehicular datasets; Floating car data (FCD); Business models for vehicular data; Ownership of vehicular data; Vehicular data services; Vehicular data centers

Unmanned vehicles

Terrestrial unmanned vehicles; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Underwater unmanned vehicles; Unmanned sea surface vehicles; Collision control; Traffic surveillance challenges; Path planning and estimation; Communication between unmanned vehicles; Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles in civil airspace; Unmanned vehicular clusters; Designing unmanned vehicular-based systems; Safety of unmanned vehicles; Legal aspects of unmanned vehicular systems; Testbeds and pilot experiments.

Security

Embedded security; Automotive security; Secure automotive communication (on-board and off-board like V2X); Safety and security co-engineering; Tuning protection; Component protection; Vehicular integrity protection; Secure (over-the-air) update; Separation techniques for vehicular networks; Protection of the vehicular safety functionality; Immobilizers; Data privacy (of connected vehicles)

Evaluation

System evaluation methodologies; Performance characterization and analysis; Mobility analysis and vehicle traffic analysis; Safety and non-safety applications; Security issues and countermeasures; Privacy issues; Reliable and fast handover; Green vehicular communications and networking; Power control and scalability issues

Vehicle powering

Renewable energy and vehicles; Green cars; Biofuels; Electrical vehicles; Solar powering cars; Hybrid electric vehicles; Long-term car batteries; Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; Residential charging stations; Dual-source energy storage

Management and tracking

Networks and systems management; High-speed mobility management; Radio resource, QoS support, and interference management; Channel management; Incident detection; Vehicle tracking

Subliminal characteristics

Driver-centric interfaces; Modalities for subliminal interfaces (visual, auditory, tactile/haptic, olfactory); Perception of subliminal information; Characteristics of subliminally delivered information; Unobtrusive techniques for driver s state detection; Mitigation or regulation interfaces

Experiments and challenges

Simulation frameworks and real-world testbeds; Standardization in safe autonomous systems; Implementation of mobile IP and migration of IPv6; Testbed experiments and measurements; Business models and policies


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VEHICULAR 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComVEHICULAR26.html


IARIA Ambassadors

Steve Chan, Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory, USA
Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Monika Maria Moehring, Study Centre for Blind and Disabled Students, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Gie en Germany
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Les Sztandera, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Andreas Rausch, TU Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Timothy Phan, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Manuela Vieira, CTS/ISEL/IPL, Portugal
Luigi Lavazza, Universit dell'Insubria - Varese, Italy