Constructing Transportation System Intelligence
Constructing Transportation System Intelligence
Pravin Varaiya
Presenter: PRAVIN VARAIYA, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Mohan Trivedi, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego - contact Prof. Trivedi through his assistant at nroselli@cvrr.ucsd.edu.
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2002
Time: 2:00PM, Reception to follow
Location: CMRR Auditorium, UCSD Campus, La Jolla (directions and parking information)
Live Webcast: http://earth.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/encoder/varaiya.rm
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Courtesy: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Calit2]
Abstract: The integration of Information Technology at all levels of the transportation system can construct the "intelligence" in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). But this integration is a long, difficult process of the search for, and exploitation of, the numerous opportunities in the dense, interconnected set of operations, planning and investment procedures that constitute today's transportation systems.
The lecture gives a glimpse of the opportunities for enhancing the productivity of freeway systems. The discussion is based on three years of experience with the Performance Measurement System or PeMS, a database system that collects and stores large amounts of loop detector data from California freeways. PeMS applications convert the data into useful information. We illustrate how this information can improve system management, challenge current understanding of freeway traffic behavior, and assist travelers. All the examples are from Los Angeles freeways.
Bio: Pravin Varaiya is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1975 to 1992 he was also Professor of Economics at Berkeley. His research is concerned with communication networks, transportation, and hybrid systems.
He has taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Varaiya has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He received an Honorary Doctorate from L'Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including "Discrete Event Dynamical Systems" and "Transportation Research---C". He has co-authored three books and more than 250 technical papers. The second edition of "High-Performance Communication Networks" (with Jean Walrand) was published by Morgan-Kaufmann in 2000. "Structure and interpretation of signals and systems" (with Edward Lee) will be published by Addison-Wesley this year.
Questions: Please contact Leah Bellacera at 858-822-5793 or lbellace@ucsd.edu.
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