Special Issue on the 2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium & Workshop [Guest Editorial]

The 2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE-IV-13) was held in the City of Gold Coast, Australia, from 23 June to 26 June 2013. The Intelligent Vehicles Workshop sessions were also part of the Symposium and were held on 22 June 2013. The Symposium, together with its Workshops, attracted 320 paper submissions (288 submissions to the Symposium and 32 submissions to Workshops). A total of 232 papers were accepted and included in the Symposium program (206 Symposium papers and 26 Workshop papers). In recognition of the quality of its papers, the Symposium was invited to this Special Issue of the ITS Magazine. After the Symposium, eight symposium and workshop papers were initially invited to this Special Issue based on the scores obtained and comments received from the IEEE-IV-13 Reviewers, and the Best Paper Award Committee members. The authors of each of those eight papers were requested to submit extended versions of their papers within the given time frame. Seven symposium and workshop papers were then received and all underwent a rigorous review and revision process conducted by the Special Issue Editors and their reviewers. Finally, five papers met the paper review criteria within the given time frame as set by the Magazine Publisher. These five papers are therefore included in this special issue and are co-authored by researchers from Australia, Germany and Spain. A brief overview of the papers is presented.