ITS RESEARCH LAB IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MAGAZINE • 139 • SUMMER 2017 Mission R ITS (Robotics for Intelligent Transportation Systems) is a research team of Inria, the French national institute for com- puter science and applied mathe- matics. It aims to design and develop advanced sustainable mobility sys- tems for people and goods with the objective to improve the safety and the efficiency of road transport. More specifically, RITS develops, demonstrates and tests some in- novative technologies covering the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the traffic manage- ment systems going all the way to fully automated vehicles. History Created in 1994 under the name IMARA, RITS is now a 22-years old team covering wide research topics RITS Team at Inria Cristina Olaverri Monreal, Editor Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MITS.2017.2675779 Date of publication: 20 April 2017 EDITOR’S NOTE Please send your proposal on profiling research activities of your or other ITS research groups & labs in the ITS Research Lab Column to Cristina Olaverri Monreal via olaverri@technikum-wien.at Lab name: RITS Affiliation: INRIA Website: https://team.inria.fr/rits Established: 1994 Research Focus: Robotics, ITS Director: Fawzi Nashashibi Contact Info: Address: Inria, Rits Team, 2 Rue Simone Iff, CS 42112, 75589 Paris Cedex 12, France. Phone: +33 – 682 424 259/ +33 – 180 494 191 Email: Fawzi.Nashashibi@inria.fr Fawzi Nashashibi, Director Anne Verroust- Blondet, Senior researcher Jean-Marc Lasgoutte, Senior researcher Raoul de Charrette, Senior researcher INRIA’s ADAS and Cybercar (Driverless Vehicle) platforms.