CTS Events
SEMINAR
February 8, 2010

CTS Fellow Daniel Ayala will present a seminar entitled "Randomized Route Guidance for Car Navigation Systems" on Monday, February 8th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO

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SEMINAR
January 29, 2010

CTS welcomes Dr. Xin Chen, NAVTEQ Corporation, Research and Emerging Technologies, who will present a seminar entitled "Next Generation Map Making" on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.

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SEMINAR
January 25, 2010

Caitlin Cottrill, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Surveying Privacy" on Monday, January 25, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.

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CTS Happenings
January 7, 2010

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

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November 3, 2009

Second International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science

To be held in conjunction with The 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009)

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July 2, 2009

CTS IGERT Fellow Stephen Vaughn won a Research Grant for the 4th International Conference on Women's Issues in Transportation (2009)

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May 18, 2009

CTS IGERT Fellow Josh Auld presented "Evaluating Transportation Impacts of Forecast Demographic Scenarios Using Population Synthesis and Data Transferability" at the 12th TRB National Transportation Planning Applications Conference Houston, TX in May

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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: