Telematics integrates telecommunications and informatics to provide ICT (Information and Communications Technology) services. By applying GPS and mobile communications technologies, telematics supports vehicle-based applications such as automotive navigation systems. Several wireless communications technologies can be utilized for Telematics, including VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork), 2G, 3G, GPS, WiFi, WiMAX, DVB-T, DVB-H, and so on. Two major goals for vehicle-based Telematics are safety (e.g., to reduce crashes) and efficiency (e.g., to reduce congestion). In this talk, we introduce existing commercial Telematics services for safety and efficiency, and describe some ICT technologies for Telematics. Then we investigate the mobility management issues for wireless systems (such as WiMAX) that support Telematics applications.

Yi-Bing Lin (Taiwan) is Dean and Chair professor of College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). His current research interests include mobile computing and cellular telecommunications services. Dr. Lin has published over 200 journal articles and more than 200 conference papers. He is a senior technical editor of IEEE Network. He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications and IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology. Lin is the authors of the books Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture (Wiley, 2001), Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (John Wiley,2005), and Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (Wiley, 2008). He is an ISI highly-cited author in Computer Science area. Lin received numerous research awards including 2005 NSC Distinguished Researcher and 2006 Academic Award of Ministry of Education, Taiwan. Lin is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, and an IEE Fellow.