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Welcome to the November 2026 issue of VTS Mobile World – your IEEE Vehicular Technology Society newsletter.
This edition features the 2027 VTS Board of Governors (BoG) officer election results; a call for nominations for the IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturers Program; news from the IEEE Seattle Section Joint Chapter; and enlightening articles contributed by experts, gathered from the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation Systems, and Mobile Radio columns in the September 2026 edition of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. It also includes recently published papers from the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, providing valuable insights.
As always, I am always available to hear your feedback; just send me a note at Richard.Yu@ieee.org.
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| VTS Elections |
| 2027 Board of Governors Officers |
| Jae Hong Lee, VTS Nominations Committee Chair |
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The VTS Board of Governors held its annual officer elections at VTC2026-Fall in Boston, Mass this past September. This article contains the results.
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| Call for Nominations |
IEEE VTS Distinguished
Lecturer Program |
Weihua Zhuang, VTS Distinguished Lecturer Selection
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The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Selection Committee is seeking nominations for the VTS Distinguished Lecturers class starting July 2027. The deadline for submission of nominations is 31 December 2026.
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| IEEE Seattle Section Joint Chapter |
| Building Trust into AI-Mediated Systems |
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The IEEE Seattle Section Joint Chapter with VTS features their Secretary Shubham Anandani and his research on building trust into AI-mediated systems.
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| Connected and Automated Vehicles |
| Global Regulation on Automated Driving Systems |
| Katrin Sjöberg |
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The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) WP.29 approved a new harmonized global regulation on automated driving systems (ADSs) in June of this year.
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| Transportation Systems |
| Broken Rail Detection |
| Yousef Kimiagar |
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Rail transportation around the world is increasingly considered as a main mode of transportation for the reason of being rapid, cost effective, eco-friendly, and reliable.
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| Mobile Radio |
| Perspectives on 6G Architecture |
| Jordi Perez-Romero |
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On 2 June 2026, the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) released two new publications that present the operators’ perspectives on the path toward 6G.
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| From the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology |
| Recent Articles in the OJVT |
| Edward Au, IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology Editor-in-Chief |
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This month, the IEEE OJVT features a technical review on safety assessment and V&V on automated driving systems, and an article on the integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.
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| From the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| Eco-VLA: An Eco-driving Framework |
| Wei Li, Jing Yang, Ziyu Song, Gyanendra Kumar, Linhe Ge, and Tejasvi Allad |
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This study introduces Eco-VLA, an innovative eco-driving framework based on the VLA model with reinforcement fine-tuning to enhance energy efficiency in autonomous vehicles.
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Editor-in-Chief
F. Richard Yu
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