Welcome to the February 2026 issue of VTS Mobile World – your IEEE Vehicular Technology Society newsletter.

This edition features a call for award nominations; chapter news, including congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Chapter-of-the-Year Award; two featured articles and a call for papers from OJVT; and enlightening column excerpts from the Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation Systems, and Mobile Radio columns in the December 2025 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.  Read More...

Submit your award nominations for this year’s James Evans Avant Garde Award, Early Career Award, VTS Outstanding Service Award, Stuart Meyer Memorial Award, and VTS Women's Distinguished Career Award by 1 April 2026. Additional information about the awards and eligibility of candidates is available at the VTS website. Please consider nominating an eligible candidate.  Read More...

This presentation—Canada's Accomplishments and Plans in CAVs—will take place Wednesday 18 February 2026, 7pm UTC-5.

Registration to attend this online event is open now. This effort is sponsored by the VTS Industry Engagement Committee.  Read More...

VTS proudly recognizes the IEEE VTS Portugal Section Chapter as the 2025 IEEE VTS Chapter-of-the-Year Award winner. The award was presented at IEEE VPPC 2025 in Hangzhou, China on 23 October 2025.  Read More...

VTS Distinguished Lecturer Ibrahim Haskara delivered a technical keynote lecture—EV Propulsion Control & Energy Management—at Escuela Politécnica Nacional on 14 November 2025.  Read More...

MY 6G Summit 2025, a major milestone in Malaysia’s journey toward next-generation connectivity, was held on 3 December 2025 at the TMRND, Cyberjaya, Malaysia.  Read More...

On 26 August 2025, Nicolas Corsini (Illinois Institute of Technology) gave a talk on The Future of Ambulance Detection: Towards Safer Roads and Smarter Travel.  Read More...

The demo series—hosted by Telecom-Paris and supported by major industry players, including BMW, Stellantis, Qualcomm, Nokia, Orange, MediaTek, LG, and others—emphasized Europe’s role in shaping the connected mobility ecosystem.  Read More...

Future Maintenance Technologies (FMT), in partnership with NXTGEN Industries, has embarked on a transformative project to develop an automated inspection system for train track infrastructure.  Read More...

The ITU-R sets a 6G/IMT-2030 vision that treats nonterrestrial networks (NTNs) as native to the system, while the 3GPP moves from Release 20 (Rel-20) studies to Release 21 (Rel-21) specifications to operationalize terrestrial network (TN) and NTN (TN/NTN) convergence, positioning/synchronization, and handset viability.  Read More...

OJVT’s 2025 Best Paper Award winner, an invited paper on practical requirements and a taxonomy for evaluating defense mechanisms against evasion attacks within an automotive context, and a call for papers of a new special issue vehicular digital twins, are brought to you this month by the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology.  Read More...

This paper explores a cross-orbital link construction method aimed at reducing communication delay in the LEO satellite constellations.  Read More...

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