Month: October 2013
Transportation Seminar on Adaptive Signal Control Systems, Nov. 12 @ Noon, 513 Weil
Dr. Gregory Brodski, President of AGA Group, Inc., will be presenting on Adaptive Signal Control Systems on Tuesday, November 12, 2013, from 12 pm to 1 pm in 513 Weil.
Read more »Assessing the Impacts of Development in the Transportation Network
Siva Srinivasan, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Civil & Coastal Engineering The impact of a development (for example a shopping center) on the transportation system is traditionally captured in terms of the number of additional trips added to the network. While the trip rate is appropriate to capture the effect of a development locally (say at a near […]
Read more »Simulation-Based Robust Optimization for Signal Timing & Setting
Lihui Zhang, Yafeng Yin and Scott Washburn Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering University of Florida Traffic congestion is one of the most severe problems that threaten the economic prosperity and quality of life in many societies. According to a report by Federal Highway Administration, traffic congestion in the U.S. costs approximately $200 billion a […]
Read more »Optimization Models for Problems in Emergency Situations
By: Panos Pardalos, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor (ISE), and Ashwin Arulselvan, doctoral student (ISE) Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering This article is based on ongoing research under CMS Project # 2008-005 Purpose of study: Minimize the total evacuation time for a given highway network Approach: Make traffic flow more efficiently by identifying lanes to be […]
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