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Editor: Alberto Broggi University of Parma, Italy broggi@ce.unipr.it I n t e l l i g e n t T r a n s p o r t a t i o n S y s t e m s 10 1094-7167/02/$17.00 ? 2002 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Europeans have coined a term for this exciting field: telematics—that is, the use of computers to receive, store, and distribute information over a telecommunications system. The automotive industry quickly adopted the term to describe any system that provides location-based ser- vices for a vehicle over the wireless telecommunications network. In other words, telematics now generally refers to any aut