Welcome to the September 2025 issue of VTS Mobile World – your IEEE Vehicular Technology Society newsletter.

This edition features a video on IEEE Senior Membership, a call to fill the position of Book Editor for the IEEE Press Vehicular Technology book series, and chapter news from Region 10. We also have our standard excerpts from the Connected and Automated Vehicles, Transportation Systems, and Mobile Radio columns in the June 2025 edition of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, as well as recently published papers from the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (including the new special issue on OTFS) and the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

As always, I am always available to hear your feedback; just send me a note at Richard.Yu@ieee.org.  Read More...

Are you ready to take the next step in your IEEE membership journey? IEEE Senior Member is the highest grade for which members may apply. IEEE Admissions and Advancement (A&A) has published an informative video on Senior Member benefits and the applications process.   Read More...

The IEEE Press Series on Vehicular Technology is seeking a new Series Editor.   Read More...

Panimalar Engineering College, in association with the VTS Student Branch Chapter at Panimalar Engineering College-Chennai, organized an engaging Google Meet session: “GitHub Launchpad – Zero to Repo.”   Read More...

Euro NCAP plans to overhaul its rating system in 2026 with a more comprehensive framework that will assess vehicles across four key phases: safe driving, crash avoidance, crash protection, and post-crash safety.   Read More...

Norway is making rapid progress in the area of digitalization and will be the first country to control and monitor its approximately 4,200-km railway network and more than 350 stations from a central interlocking system.   Read More...

Recent developments have indicated increasing interest in utilizing existing communication infrastructure for wireless sensing, presenting new opportunities in various innovative scenarios, as highlighted by the 3GPP TR 22.837 SA1 use cases.   Read More...

This month, the IEEE OJVT features two recent articles: one on a new localization algorithm for vehicles in urban scenarios after the failure of the main localization source, and another on integrating LLMs with UAVs. We also introduce an OJVT special issue on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS).   Read More...

In this paper, a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) Terahertz (THz) wireless system is proposed for indoor and outdoor transmissions.   Read More...

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