Tulio N. Bittencourt

Tulio Bittencourt, Monitoring of Structural Integrity of Mixed Concrete-Steel Railway Bridges

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Tulio Bittencourt, Monitoring of Structural Integrity of Mixed Concrete-Steel Railway Bridges Some fundamental concepts of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and its application were presented. The application of these techniques to study the structural integrity of mixed concrete-steel railway bridges is addressed. Some examples were presented to illustrate some possible uses of SHM in different circumstances.…

Mladen Čičić, Macroscopic Traffic Control Using Connected Autonomous Vehicles

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Mladen Čičić, Macroscopic Traffic Control Using Connected Autonomous Vehicles Traffic congestion is a constantly growing problem, with a wide array of negative effects on the society. Even though classical traffic control methods have long been successfully used to alleviate congestion, they are not universally employed, in part due to the necessity of installing additional equipment…

Michael Pack

Michael Pack, Director of the CATT Laboratory, University of Maryland

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Michael Pack, Director of the CATT Laboratory, University of Maryland The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab) has been collecting probe-based vehicle speeds and trajectory data since 2008 for the bulk of the United States.  These data provide the timestamped location of travelers at frequent intervals to provide details on trip origins and…

Francesco Corman

Francesco Corman, Disruption Management in Railway Networks

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Francesco Corman, Disruption Management in Railway Networks A major problem of public transport, and railways in particular, is to improve quality of operations by updating an offline timetable to the ever-changing delays situation, in order to improve performance of the transport system. In railway systems, this relates to reducing train delays by reordering, retiming, or…

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Saurabh Amin, Analytics-Driven Operations for Critical Infrastructure Resilience

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Saurabh Amin, Analytics-Driven Operations for Critical Infrastructure Resilience This talk presents a prescriptive analytics framework for designing inspection and response operations of service utilities facing risks of natural disasters and security attacks. In the first part of the talk, we introduce a stochastic orienteering and network probing problem for localizing failures in the aftermath of…

Shengchuan Zhao

Shengchuan Zhao, Transportation Infrastructure Development Under Rapid Motorization in China

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Shengchuan Zhao, Transportation Infrastructure Development Under Rapid Motorization in China Professor Shengchuan Zhao, Dean of the School of Transportation and Logistics at Dalian University of Technology, presents a seminar on Transportation Infrastructure Development Under Rapid Motorization in China. The talk will cover the following subjects: Rapid Economic Growth and Motorization Transportation Infrastructure Development Dynamics of…

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Ricardo Daziano, Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Travel Behavior Analysis

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Ricardo Daziano, Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Travel Behavior Analysis The transportation ecosystem is moving toward new modalities and technologies. At the same time, technology is enabling new ways to collect and analyze travel-behavior data.  In fact, developments in the technologies related to virtual reality (VR) and gaming platforms can be used to produce highly realistic, immersive, and interactive experiences for data…

Alejandro Henao, How is ride-hailing affecting mobility and energy use?

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Alejandro Henao, How is ride-hailing affecting mobility and energy use? How is ride-hailing affecting mobility and energy use? Disruptive technology and emerging mobility services are redefining passenger travel. Ride-hailing companies (such as Uber, and Lyft) are one such service that gained rapid market share in the past few years and have a notable impact across…