Computational Transportation Science

CTS Events

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November 14, 2012

Dr. Nebiyou Tilahun, UPP, presents a seminar entitled "An agent based model of origin destination estimation (ADOBE)" Wednesday, November 14th at 4:00 pm in Rm 1127 SEO

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November 7, 2012

Mr. Thomas Murtha, CMAP, will address the CTS-IGERT community at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1127 SEO.

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October 24, 2012

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Bo Zou, CME, on Wednesday, October 24th, Room 1127 SEO, 4:00 p.m.

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CTS Happenings

September 25, 2012

Award Received by Joshua Auld, CTS-IGERT alumnus.

April 20, 2012

Congratulations to James Biagioni, CTS Fellow and CS PhD candidate, winner of the Dean's Scholar award.

January 2, 2012

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

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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April 11, 2012

Michael Haynes Chicago Transit Authority Technology Management 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, Room 1127 SEO

Mr. Haynes will be accompanied by Chris Pable, a graduate of UIC. They will present information on several topics using transit data to improve operational support as well as the passenger experience. They will briefly present five years of bus bunching and big gap data analysis. Next we will show some innovation with real-time data to support bus operations. Finally, they will showcase an in-house web-based application called CTA Discover. The application is designed to aid customers in finding the closest CTA service and multi-modal arrival information. The CTA Discover application also powers the recently deployed bus shelter signs. Bios:Michael Haynes is a Senior Project Manager with the Chicago Transit Authority in the Technology Management Division. He has worked for the CTA for over seven years and currently manages the BusTracker, Automated Voice Annunciation and real-time location systems. He has a Master's inCivil Engineering specializing in Transportation from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College in Easton, PA.

Chris Pable is a Senior Code Developer with the Chicago Transit Authority in the Technology Management Division. He has worked for CTA for a year and a half developing various applications and network security. Chris has a BA in English (Computational Linguistics) and a BS in Computer Science with a specialization in Information Assurance from UIC.