CTS Events
SEMINAR
July 24, 2009

CTS-IGERT is honored Dr. Prasad Sistla, Professor, Department of Computer Science will present at the IGERT seminar on Friday, July 24, 2009 SEO 1325, 2 pm to 3pm. Please check back for further details and join us!

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SEMINAR
July 16, 2009

CTS IGERT is honored Chad Williams a CTS IGERT fellow will present "Attribute Constrained Rules: A new approach to filling in missing traveler data." SEO 1325, 2 pm to 3 pm. PLEASE NOTE: This is a change from the usual location of SEO 1000.

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SEMINAR
July 9, 2009

CTS-IGERT is honored Dr. Kawamura Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs will present at the CTS-IGERT weekly seminar. Please check back for more details and join us! SEO 1

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CTS Happenings
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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April 22, 2009

CTS-IGERT Trainee Chad A. William's collaborative work accepted for publication! "Attribute Constrained Rules For Partially Labeled Sequence Completion" Authors: Chad A. Williams, Peter C. Nelson, and Abolfazl Mohammadian.

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April 17, 2009

CTS-IGERT Trainee Caitlin Cottril presented her research "An Overview of Approaches to Privacy Preservation in ITS" at the Urban Transportation Center on April 17, 2009.

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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: