Integrative Vehicle-Traffic Control in Connected/Automated Cities Overview The Importance of Integrative Vehicle-Traffic Control In the United States, gasoline consumption by the transportation sector in 2016 was about 143.37 billion gallons, a daily average of about 9.33 million barrels. At the same time, traffic congestion on urban roads causes extra fuel consumption as well as additional…
Automated Truck Lanes in Urban Area for Through and Cross Border Traffic Overview Automated Vehicles and Highway Capacity In the current driving system, a significant amount of lateral and longitudinal space between vehicles is required for safety and psychological reasons. The longitudinal separation increases as the speed of the vehicle increases, and larger spaces are…
Dual Rebalancing Strategies for Electric Vehicle Carsharing Operations Overview Challenges in Vehicle Rebalancing for Car Sharing Services Car sharing is a smart mobility paradigm where a population of users share usage of the vehicles. This can be done through booking vehicles for specific time slots from specific locations that are returned to the same locations…
Development of Advanced Weigh-In-Motion (A-WIM) System for Effective Enforcement of Overweight Trucks to Reduce their Socioeconomic Impact on Major Highways Obstacles in Overweight Truck Screening Currently, overweight truck enforcement is generally conducted at static weighing stations or by traffic troopers using a portable weighing scale. Static weighing stations are equipped with truck scales (trucks stop…
An Artificial Intelligence Platform for Network-wide Congestion Detection and Prediction Using Multi-source Data Overview With the rapid growth of urban populations, traffic problems are getting worse in terms of increased traffic congestion and lengthened delays. Urban traffic congestion has become a critical problem that not only affects the people’s daily lives, but also restricts the…
Deliverables The main deliverable for this project was a smartphone navigation app that addresses the specific mobility needs and priorities of seniors, improving their ability to travel around their cities. After the prototype was developed, the researchers recruited seniors to test the app for a few weeks, and then gathered their feedback. In order to…
Development of an Open Source Multi-Agent Virtual Simulation Test Bed for Evaluating Emerging Transportation Technologies and PoliciesPrincipal Investigator: Joseph ChowThe Need for a Novel Open-Source Transportation Model Transportation modeling requires substantial transportation data and time-consuming effort for operation and transportation management and policy decision analysis. Large-scale transportation model development is based on various transportation data…
A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Developing Effective Policies to Reduce the Impact Costs of Overweight Vehicles on Roads and Bridges The Cost of Overweight Vehicles Overweight trucks and vehicles represent a significant cost to transportation agencies in all states. This is due to their contribution to the deterioration of road pavement and bridge decks and girders.…
Integrated Analytics and Visualization for Multi-Modality Transportation Data Overview This research project aimed to develop a data-driven approach for modeling cities, with a focus on pedestrian dynamics, which play a fundamental role in urban planning. It focused on detecting and counting objects such as pedestrians, cars, and bicycles in visual data sources that can provide…
Emerging Leaders in Transportation 2018 Overview The Emerging Leaders in Transportation program develops early-career transportation professionals to develop and promote innovations within their organizations. The two-day program includes professional development with executive leaders, communication work through networking activities, and site visits to major transportation management locations. The Emerging Leaders program has grown in popularity: for…