CTS Events
SEMINAR
November 30, 2011

Dr. Yanfeng Ouyang, UIUC, Associate Professor, presents a seminar entitled "Characterization, Prediction and Field Validation of Traffic Oscillation Propagation under Nonlinear Car-Following Laws", Wednesday, November 30, 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.

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SEMINAR
November 16, 2011

Dr. Bhaskar DasGupta, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UIC, presents a seminar entitled "On Communication Protocols that Compute Almost Privately" on Wednesday, November 16, 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.

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SEMINAR
November 9, 2011

Please join us for a presentation by Alejandro Blei, CTS Fellow and PhD Candidate Department of Urban Planning, on Wednesday, November 9th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1325 SEO.

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CTS Happenings
January 2, 2012

James Biagioni, CTS Fellow, receives "Best Presentation Award" at SenSys2011

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July 30, 2010

Dr. Ouri Wolfson, Dr. Phillip Yu, and Leon Stenneth, CS student and CTS Associate, recently had a paper accepted to the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2010).

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June 30, 2010

Emily Mugler, BioE PhD student and CTS-IGERT fellow, recently won an award "Most Original Poster" at the International Brain-Computer-Interface 2010 meeting in Asilomar, CA.
Congratulations Emily!

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January 7, 2010

Congratulations to Dr. Ouri Wolfson, Director - CTS-IGERT, who was selected as an AAAS Fellow!

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IGERT: PhD program in Computational Transportation Science

For application information, please click here.

We are a new multidisciplinary doctoral training program at the University of Illinois at Chicago educating specialists in the information technology aspects of transportation science. Our Computational Transportation Science (CTS) fellows are developing technologies in which sensors, travelers computers (e.g., PDAs), in-vehicle computers, and computers in the static infrastructure are integrated into a collaborative environment. They are also investigating how these technologies are adopted as well as the implications of their adoption. The envisioned environment will enable solutions to transportation problems ranging from dynamic ride-sharing, real-time multi-modal routing and navigation, to autonomous/assisted driving, to inferring travel patterns via data mining.

CTS is funded by the National Science Foundation via an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant. The grant provides two-year IGERT fellowships to 25-30 Ph.D. students over a five-year period, as well as supporting a new curriculum and internship training for students.

The main components of the CTS program are course-work, research projects, and development of the Intelligent Traveler Assistant (ITA) experimental prototype that demonstrates the research results. Some of the research projects and the prototype will be done in collaboration with our partners through internships.

Our IGERT fellows are selected from Ph.D. students in the following five core departments:

  1. Computer Science
  2. Urban Planning and Policy
  3. Civil and Materials Engineering
  4. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  5. Information and Decision Sciences
These departments reside in the colleges of Engineering, Business, and Urban Planning and Public Affairs.

Integral to CTS is the participation of several research partners: