There are three tutorials scheduled for Sunday, August 26. Since
the tutorials run concurrently, please register for only one tutorial.
All tutorials will be held at the Oakland Marriott Civic Center.
Tutorial 1 - Simulation
Models in ITS System Design
Sunday, August 26, 9am - Noon
Fee: $55
Pre-registration is REQUIRED
Register now:
online
/ PDF form
Instructors:
Sumit Ghosh, Ph.D., Thomas E. Hattrick Professor of Information
Systems Engineering and Director of the Computer Engineering Program
and Secure Network Design Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ. Prior
to his appointment at Stevens, he was chair for research and graduate
programs in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at
Arizona State University and a member of the faculty at Brown
University. He received his doctorate from Stanford University.
Sghosh2@stevens-tech.edu
Tony Lee, Ph.D., Vitria Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale CA.
Dr. Lee's current responsibilities include development of XML
infrastructure within the BusinessWare platform. He is co-author
with Dr. Ghosh of Modeling and Synchronous Distributed Systems:
Analyzing Complex Systems and Intelligent Transportation Systems:
New Principles and Architectures. He received his doctorate in
computer engineering from Brown University. Tlee@vitria.com
Description:
One difficulty in ITS system design is lack of reliable, realistic
traffic estimates that enable the system designer to predict traffic
demand patterns. This tutorial provides students with an understanding
of how to develop robust and accurate models by focusing on estimates
of a few key traffic behaviors. Through interactive discussion
and software demonstrations, students will learn why many large
simulators, including MIT's simulator for the Boston Tunnel project,
fail to meet criteria set by the Simulation Institute at the University
of Central Florida in a project commissioned by the US DOT.
The tutorial begins by explores how to decompose complex ITS
systems; how to develop models for individual components; and
how to synthesize them into an asynchronous, distributed simulation
that quickly executes autonomously on a network of workstations.
Tutorial 2 - Applications of
PeMS: A Freeway Performance Measurement System
Sunday: August 26, 9am - 4pm
Fee: $150
Pre-registration is REQUIRED
Register now:
online
/ PDF form
Instructors:
Pravin Varaiya, Ph.D., Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor
in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at the University of California Berkeley. Varaiya is a Fellow
of IEEE and a Member of National Academy of Engineers. He was
Director, California PATH Program, 1994-97. He is a member of
the Editorial Boards of Transportation Research-C, Economic Dynamics
and Control, Discrete Event Dynamical Systems. varaiya@eecs.berkeley.edu
Also sharing in the instruction will be Chao Chen, Karl
Petty, Alex Skabardonis, all members of the PeMS Development
Group.
Description:
The Freeway Performance Measurement System (PeMS) project is a
collaboration between the California PATH program and Caltrans.
PeMS receives traffic data from California highways and incident
data from the California Highway Patrol, archives these data,
and processes them in real time to produce useful information
for the public, performance monitoring, operations, planners,
and decision makers. PeMS will soon be deployed throughout California.
PeMS is accessed over the Internet at http://transacct.eecs.berkeley.edu/.
The PeMS tutorial will cover:
- PeMS design goals, communications, hardware,
and software
architectures
- The routine applications of PeMS
- Findings about traffic behavior that depend on
analysis of massive
amount of data
- The major data processing algorithms
- Future developments
For an introduction to PeMS see the
online documentation.
Tutorial 3 - Traffic Flow Modeling
and Control
Sunday: August 26, 9am - 4pm
Fee: $150
Pre-registration is REQUIRED
Register now:
online
/ PDF form
Instructors:
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete,
Greece
Prof. Alexander Skabardonis, Associate Research Engineer
Institute of Transportation Studies, and Adjunct Professor of
Civil Engineering, University of California Berkeley, USA Dr.
Skabardonis has been researching traffic engineering and control
systems for over 20 years. Recent projects include freeway service
evaluation, control strategies and route guidance for signal control
networks and ATMIS modeling tools. He teaches courses in ITS in
the graduate engineering program.
Description:
The design, analysis, and evaluation of Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) requires a thorough knowledge of traffic flow analysis
techniques as well as of powerful methodologies from the areas
of optimization, control, networks, and dynamic systems. The purpose
of this workshop is to provide an overview of the most significant
methods and their applications for traffic flow modeling and control.
Traffic Flow Modeling: The
course will begin with traffic flow modeling and validation that
includes a coverage of the various traffic flow models, the modeling
of traffic networks, and simulation tools. Next, the models' practical
application and suitability for the evaluation of various ITS
scenarios will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on the underlying
models' theory, calibration and validation procedures, and analysis
of the results.
Traffic Control: The state-of-the
art techniques on freeway control, road traffic control, and integrated
control employing ramp metering, signal control, and route guidance
via application of modern optimization, control, and estimation
techniques, together with several case studies will be presented.
For questions on registering for the tutorials, please contact:
Peter Ray
c/o Electronics Research Laboratory
273 Cory Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
Fax Number: 1-510-643-2356
pray@eecs.berkeley.edu
kathy@its.washington.edu
July 9, 2001
