By Prof. Francisco Falcone, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain.
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are foreseen as one of the fundamental elements in order to achieve the goal of more sustainable and user friendly cities and envioronments. ITS present many challenges as well as opportunities in terms of design and implementation, such as optimization of transport routes, multi-modal transportation systems, driver assistance systems or autonomous vehicles, among others. In this presentation we will overview some of these challenges and the role that information systems and particularly, wireless systems play in the future adoption of ITS within the framework of Smart Cities and Smart Regions.

Biography

Francisco Falcone (M05, SM09) received his Telecommunications Engineering Degree (1999) and PhD in Communications Engineering (2005), both at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) in Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Microwave Commissioning Engineer at Siemens-Italtel. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as Radio Network Engineer in Telefónica Móviles. In 2009 he co-founded Tafco Metawireless, a spin off devoted to complex EM analysis. From 2003 to 2009 he was also Assistant Lecturer at UPNA, becoming Associate Professor in 2009. His research area is artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios and wireless system analysis. He has over 380 contributions in journal and conference publications. He has been recipient of the CST Best Paper Award in 2003 and 2005, Best PhD in 2006 awarded by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Doctorate award 2004-2006 awarded by UPNA, Juan Lopez de Peñalver Young Researcher Award 2010 awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and Premio Talgo 2012 for Technological Innovation.