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Undoubtedly, intelligent transportation systems will be part of our lives in the future. Our vehicles will incorporate many different electronic devices that improve mobility by increasing safety, reducing pollution, reducing travel times, and enhancing road-network efficiency. Such devices will result from research activities spread over many different areas such as computer science, electronics, communications, control, robotics, and signal processing. This multidisciplinary nature increases the problem's complexity because it requires knowledge transfer and cooperation among different research areas. This column, written in cooperation with the recently established IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Council, will focus on different aspects of future transportation systems, starting in this issue with an overview of the IEEE ITSC and its mission. Future articles will cover vehicle and infrastructure issues and will describe the most advanced projects worldwide. For further information and to make suggestions, contact me at broggi@ce.unipr.it; www.ce.unipr.it/people/broggi