The Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'09) is an annual forum sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Socity (ITSS). It gathers researchers from industry and universities to discuss research and applications for Intelligent Vehicles and Intelligent Infrastructures. The technical presentations are characterized by a single session format so that all attendees remain in a single room for multilateral communications in an informal atmosphere, most of the papers will be poster presentations. Papers dealing with all aspects of vehicle-related intelligent systems and cooperation between vehicles and infrastructures are solicited for IV'09.