CTS Events
SEMINAR
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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SEMINAR
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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SEMINAR
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.

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April 20, 2012

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

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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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Events

November 14, 2012
Seminar
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
November 7, 2012
Seminar
Mr. Thomas Murtha, CMAP, will address the CTS-IGERT community at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1127 SEO.
October 24, 2012
Seminar
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Bo Zou, CME, on Wednesday, October 24th, Room 1127 SEO, 4:00 p.m.
October 10, 2012
Seminar
Dr. Sybil Derrible, Assistant Professor, CME, will present a seminar at Wednesday, October 10th, 4:00p.m. in Room 1127 SEO.
September 12, 2012
Seminar
CTS Fellows will present their research in quad chart formats.
September 5, 2012
Seminar
Dr. Stephen Chen - Part 2 - seminar presentation entitled "iCar Reflections - A Reality Check", Wednesday, September 5th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1127 SEO.
August 29, 2012
Seminar
Mark Krivchenia, Office of Technology Management, will discuss The Role of the Office of Technology Management at UIC, Wednesday, August 29th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1127 SEO.
August 22, 2012
Seminar
Dr. Stephen Chen presents a seminar Wednesday, August 22, 2012
2:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE TIME)
Room 1127 SEO

Title: "iCar Reflections - A Reality Check"
July 11, 2012
Seminar
Dr. Derek Caveney, Toyota Technical Center of Ann Arbor, MI, will present a seminar on Wednesday, July 11th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1127 SEO.
June 13, 2012
Seminar
Please welcome Dr. Ethan Ying-en Ge, Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China
Wednesday, June 13th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1127 SEO
May 16, 2012
Seminar
Speaker - Mahmoud Javanmardi, CTS Fellow Room 1127 SEO 4:00 p.m.
May 9, 2012
Seminar
Speaker - Alex Blei, CTS Fellow Room 1127 SEO 4:00 p.m.
May 2, 2012
Seminar
Speaker - Karl Sturm, CTS Fellow Room 1127 SEO 4:00 p.m.
April 25, 2012
Seminar
Dr. Eyal Amir
Co-Founding Executive Officer of FasPark
Professor of Computer Science, UIUC
4:00 p.m., Room 1127 SEO
"FasPark: Dynamic Street-Parking Availability"
April 18, 2012
Seminar
Sol Ma, CTS Associate, will present a seminar on his research in Room 1127 SEO at 4:00 p.m.
April 11, 2012
Seminar
Michael Haynes Chicago Transit Authority Technology Management 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, Room 1127 SEO
April 4, 2012
Seminar
Speaker - Emily Mugler, CTS Fellow
Room 1127 SEO 4:00 p.m.
March 28, 2012
Seminar
Stephen E. Schlickman, JD
Executive Director of the University of Illinois Chicago
Urban Transportation Center

"The Urban Transportation Center Current & New Direction"
March 21, 2012
Seminar
SPRING BREAK!!
March 14, 2012
Seminar
Speaker - Daniel Ayala, CTS Fellow
Room 1325 SEO 4:00 p.m.
March 7, 2012
Seminar
Please join us in welcoming...
Dr. Hemanshu Kaul
Department of Applied Mathematics
Illinois Institute of Technology
4:00 p.m., Room 1127 SEO PLEASE NOTE ROOM
February 29, 2012
Seminar
Joseph L. Schofer
Professor of Civil Engineering & Transportation
Northwestern University

"Data for Decisions: What Do Transportation Decision Makers Want, Need and Use?" Room 1000 SEO, 4:00 p.m.
February 22, 2012
Seminar
Speaker - Piotr Szczurek, CTS Fellow Room 1325 SEO 4:00 p.m.
February 15, 2012
Seminar
Speaker - Troy Hernandez, CTS Fellow
February 8, 2012
Seminar
CTS Fellow James Biagioni presents a seminar entitled "Inferring Road Maps from GPS Traces: Survey and Comparative Evaluation"
November 30, 2011
Seminar
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.
November 16, 2011
Seminar
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.
November 9, 2011
Seminar
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.
October 31, 2011
Seminar
Dr. Christian S. Jensen, Professor, Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, will present a seminar entitled "On the Integration of Location into Web Querying". Please join us on Monday, October 31, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
October 26, 2011
Seminar
Dr. Glenn Geers, Technology Director of the Infrastructure, Transport & Logistics Business Team, NICTA, will present a seminar entitled "Introduction to Cooperative ITS" on Wednesday, October 26, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO
October 12, 2011
Seminar
Dr. Marco Nie, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University will present a seminar entitled "Markets for Tradable Mobility Rights" at 4:00 p.m. in Rm 1047 ERF.
July 15, 2011
Seminar
Karl Sturm, CTS-IGERT Fellow, PhD Candidate CME, will present a seminar entitled "An Evaluation of Driver Reactions to New Vehicle Parking Assist Technologies Developed to Reduce Driver Stress" at 2:30 in Rm 1000SEO.
July 8, 2011
Seminar
Troy Hernandez, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "An Efficient Explanation of Individual Classifications using Game Theory" at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
July 1, 2011
Seminar
Piotr Szczurek, CTS Fellow and CS PhD candidate, will present a seminar entitled "Forwards: A Map-Free Intersection Collision-Warning System for All Road Patterns" at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
June 24, 2011
Seminar
Emily Mugler, CTS Fellow and BioE PhD candidate, will present a seminar entitled "Driver inattention monitoring system for intelligent vehicles: A review" at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
June 17, 2011
Seminar
Josh Auld, CTS Fellow and CME PhD candidate, will present a seminar to update us on his research. 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO
June 10, 2011
Seminar
Tomas Gerlich, CTS-IGERT Associate, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will discuss the publication entitled "Geolocalization using Skylines from Omni-Images"
June 3, 2011
Seminar
Leon Stenneth, CTS-IGERT Associate, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will discuss the publication entitled "Using Mobile Phones to Determine Transportation Modes".
May 13, 2011
Seminar
Daniel Ayala, CTS Fellow and PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will present a seminar entitled "The Parking Slot Assignment Game" in Room 1000 SEO at 2:30 p.m., Friday, May 13th
April 15, 2011
Seminar
Dr. Satish Ukkusari, Purdue University, College of Civil Engineering, will present a seminar Friday, April 15th at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.

"Recent Advances in Dynamic Network Equilibrium Modeling for Intelligent Transportation Systems"
April 8, 2011
Seminar
Dr. David Boyce will present a seminar entitled "Unique User-equilibrium Road Traffic Flows for Two User Classes" on Friday, April 8, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
April 1, 2011

CTS welcomes Dr. Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Friday, April 1st at 2:30 p.m.

"Multi-Valued Byzantine Consensus"
March 18, 2011
Seminar
Dr. Mosheh Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of BioEngineering, will present a seminar, Friday, March 18 at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO, entitled "Highways and Ecology: Impacts of Highways on Native Species"
March 11, 2011
Seminar
No Seminar Scheduled for Friday, March 11, 2011
March 4, 2011
Seminar
Piotr Szczurek, LEAP Fellow and CS Phd candidate, will present a seminar entitled "Emergency Electronic Brake Light: When are Warnings Relevant to Drivers?" at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
February 25, 2011
Seminar
Bo Xu, CTS Fellow and PhD candidate, will present a seminar on Friday, Feb. 25th at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO
February 18, 2011
Seminar
Please join us at 2:30 pm in Rm 1000 SEO. Leon Stenneth, CS PhD candidate and IGERT Associate, will present a seminar entitled "Privacy-Aware Location Based Systems".
February 11, 2011
Seminar
Dr. Amitabh Chaudhary, Assistant Professor,Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, will present a seminar entitled "Online Algorithms for the Newsvendor Problem", February 11th, 2:30 p.m., Room 1000 SEO
February 4, 2011
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is pleased to co-host a seminar with Dr. Kouros Mohammadian, CME, on Friday, February 4, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.

Location: Room 1047 ERF - Please note change of location!
January 21, 2011
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is pleased to co-host a seminar with Dr. Kouros Mohammadian, CME, on Friday, January 21st at 2:30 p.m. Location: Room 1000 SEO
January 14, 2011
Seminar
CTS-IGERT welcomes Dr. Cem Saraydar, General Motors, Global Research and Development, who will present a seminar entitled "Reinventing the Automobile" on Friday, January 14th at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
December 3, 2010
Seminar
Please join CTS in welcoming Alwar Narayanan, Director of Research and Emerging Technologies, NAVTEQ, on Friday, December 3rd at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO. The seminar is entitled "Automatic Creation of 3D Maps".
November 19, 2010
Seminar
CTS-IGERT welcomes Dr. Dr. Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, Department of Urban Planning and Policy, UIC, who will present a seminar entitled "Information Technology in the Context of Transportation and Society" on Friday, Nov 19th at 2:30 in Room 1000 SEO.
October 22, 2010
Seminar
Mohamed Mokbel, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota will present a seminar entitled "Privacy and Personalization in Location-based Database Servers".
October 8, 2010
Seminar
Breton Johnson, Northwestern University, will present a seminar entitled "Opportunities and Tools to Enhance the Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Transportation Innovations"

September 17, 2010
Seminar
Sol Ma, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, will present a seminar this Friday, September 17th at 2:30 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO, entitled "Publish/Subscribe implementation in MANETs".
August 30, 2010
Seminar
Mahmoud Javanmardi, CTS Fellow and CME PhD candidate, will present a seminar on Monday, August 30th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO entitled "Congestion Pricing".
August 23, 2010
Seminar
Douglas Lundquist, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled, "Mobility Modeling Issues in Routing Performance", on Monday, August 23rd at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
August 16, 2010
Seminar
Tomas Gerlich, CTS IGERT Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Localization Methods in Challenging Environments" at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO
August 9, 2010
Seminar
James Biagioni, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Building a Transit Navigator: The TransitGenie Story" at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO
August 2, 2010
Seminar
Emily Mugler, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled, "Developing a better human communication network in transportation: increasing efficiency, safety and health" on Monday, August 2, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
July 26, 2010
Seminar
Stephen Vaughn, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled, "Healthy City Planning: The Role of Social Identity" on Monday, July 26, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
July 19, 2010
Seminar
Troy Hernandez, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Prediction of Travel Times for CTA Buses" on Monday, July 19th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
July 12, 2010
Seminar
Joel Booth, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Transportation Databases: A Brief Survey" on Monday, July 12,2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
July 9, 2010
Seminar
Daniel Ayala, CTS Fellow, presents "Survey of the Dynamic User Equilibrium in Traffic Networks" on Friday, July 9, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
June 7, 2010
Seminar
Bo Xu, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Disseminating and Querying Multimedia Traffic Information via Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks" on Monday, June 7th at 4:00 p.m.
May 14, 2010
Seminar
CTS welcomes Dr. Chad Williams, Assistant Professor, Bemidji State University, who will present a seminar entitled "Beyond Travel Patterns"

Monday, May 17th at 1:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.



Please note time - 1:00 p.m.
April 26, 2010
Seminar
CTS welcomes Dr. David Boyce, Northwestern University, who will present a seminar entitled "Predicting Road Traffic Flows for Urban Transportation Planning Practice and Implications for Commercial Software Developers"
April 19, 2010
Seminar
CTS welcomes Dr. Andrew Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electronic Visualization Laboratory, who will present a seminar entitled "Building a Better War Room"

Monday, April 19, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Room 1000
April 5, 2010
Seminar
CTS welcomes Dr. Aurelius Bernet, Metropolitan Space Laboratory, Scientific Association for Urban Simulation and Optimization, Zurich, Switzerland.
March 15, 2010
Seminar
CTS welcomes Dr. Jiawei Han, Database and Information Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who will present a seminar entitled, "Mining Moving Object and Traffic Data".

March 8, 2010
Seminar
CTS IGERT welcomes Dr. Jason Leigh, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, who will present a seminar entitled, "The OptIPuter Project".
February 22, 2010
Seminar
CTS-IGERT welcomes Dr. Milos Zefran, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIC. Dr. Zefran presents a seminar entitled "Feedback Control and Autonomous Driving" on Monday, February 22nd at 4:00 pm, Room 1000 SEO.
February 15, 2010
Seminar
CTS is pleased to present a seminar entitled "Recent Innovations in Travel Modeling" by Dr. Abolfazl Mohammadian, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
February 8, 2010
Seminar
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
January 29, 2010
Seminar
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.
January 25, 2010
Seminar
Caitlin Cottrill, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Surveying Privacy" on Monday, January 25, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
December 1, 2009
Seminar
Dr. Ramasamy Uthurusamy, former General Director of Emerging Technologies, Information Systems and Services Division of General Motors Corporation, will present a seminar entitled "Role of Strategy in Computational Transportation Science",
Download: Role of Strategy in Computational Transportation Science
November 24, 2009
Seminar
CTS welcomes Mr. Kevin Moran, NAVTEQ, who will present a seminar entitled "Digital Roadmaps, Driver Safety and Vehicle Efficiency - Smart Roads, Aware Drivers and Intelligent Vehicles - Closing the Loop with Digital Map-Enhanced Advanced Driver Assistance
November 17, 2009
Seminar
Josh Auld, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Activity Planning Processes in the ADAPTS Activity-Based Modeling Framework", Tuesday, November 17th
Download: "Activity Planning Processes in the ADAPTS Activity-Based Modeling Framework"
October 30, 2009
Seminar
CTS welcomes Dr. Darcy Bullock, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, who will present a seminar entitled
Download: "Visualization and Assessment of Arterial Progression Quality Using High Resolution Signal Event Data and Measured Travel Time"
October 27, 2009
Seminar
Please join CTS-IGERT in welcoming Dr. Rahim F. Benekohal who will present a seminar entitled, "Computational Intelligence in Optimizing oversaturated Traffic Signal Networks"
Download: "Computational Intelligence in Optimizing oversaturated Traffic Signal Networks"
October 20, 2009
Seminar
CTS-IGERT welcomes John Otto, Northwestern University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who will present a seminar entitled
Download: "Down the Block and Around the Corner: The Impact of Radio Propagation On Inter-vehicle Wireless Communication"
October 13, 2009
Seminar
CTS welcomes Dr. Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, on Tuesday, October 13th, 11:00 a.m. in Room 219 SEO (Please Note: New Location)
October 6, 2009
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is pleased to host a seminar by Joel Booth, CTS-IGERT Fellow. Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 11:00 a.m., Room 1000 SEO.


Download: "Natural Language Queries as Semantic (Sub) Networks"<
September 29, 2009
Seminar
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jie Lin, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, UIC, on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 11:00 - 12:00 noon, Room 1000 SEO.
Download: "Probe based Arterial Travel Time Estimation and Prediction - A Case Study of Using Chicago Transit Authority Bus Fleet as Probes"
September 22, 2009
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is pleased to host a seminar by Piotr Szczurek, entitled "Machine Learning Approach to Report Prioritization with an Application to Travel Time Dissemination", on Tuesday, September 22nd at 11:00 a.m. in Room 1000 SEO.
Download: "Machine Learning Approach to Report Prioritization with an Application to Travel Time Dissemination"
September 15, 2009

Discussion/presentation lead by Daniel Ayala, CTS-IGERT Fellow, Tuesday, September 15th at 11:00 a.m. in Room 1000SEO
Download: Invention2Venture.pptx
September 8, 2009
Weekly Seminar
Please join CTS IGERT in welcoming Dr. Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, who will present a seminar entitled "On Meta-Management of Spatio-Temporal Data", Tuesday, September 8, SEO 1000, 11:00 to noon.
Download: On Meta-Management of Spatio-Temporal Data
August 19, 2009
Orientation and Retreat
CTS IGERT Orientation and Retreat for Faculty, New and Continuing Students
August 10, 2009
Seminar
CTS IGERT is honored Dr. Patricia L. Mokhtarian will present, "If Telecommunication is Such a Good Substitute for Travel, Why Does Congestion Continue to Get Worse?" August 10th 2pm, SEO 1000. Please join us!
Download: If Telecommunication is Such a Good Substitute for Travel, Why Does Congestion Continue to Get Worse?
July 30, 2009
Seminar
CTS IGERT is honored Dr. Hubert Ley, the Traffic Simulation Team Leader in Transportation, Research and Analysis of the Computing Center at Argonne National Laboratory will present at the CTS-IGERT seminar Thursday, July 30th, 2-3 pm, SEO 1325.
Download: Transportation Modeling Activities at the Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center at Argonne National Laboratory
July 24, 2009
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is honored Dr. Prasad Sistla, Professor, Department of Computer Science will present at the IGERT seminar on Friday, July 24, 2009 SEO 1000, 2 pm to 3pm.
Download: Uncertainty in Trip Planning in Transportation Systems
July 16, 2009
Seminar
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.
Download: Attribute Constrained Rules-A new approach to filling in missing traveler data.
July 9, 2009
Meeting
IGERT Retreat Agenda
July 9, 2009
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is honored Dr. Kawamura Associate Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs will present at the CTS-IGERT Weekly seminar, 2 to 3 pm, SEO 1325. PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION CHANGE. Please join us!
Download: Economy of scale and the role of publicly available congestion information for local delivery industry: Agent-based simulation approach
July 2, 2009
Seminar
No CTS IGERT Seminar this week on July 2nd. Please join us on July 9th when Dr. Kawamura will present his research. Have a Safe Holiday!
June 25, 2009
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is honored fellow Josh Auld will present "Evaluating Transportation Impacts of Forecast Demographic Scenarios Using Population Synthesis and Data Transferability" at the weekly seminar, SEO 1000, 2 pm. Please check back for further details.
Download: Evaluating Forecast Demographic Scenarios Using Population Synthesis and Data Simulation
June 18, 2009
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is honored Bo Xu, PhD will present at the weekly seminar, SEO 1000, 2 pm. "Query Processing in Mobile Peer-to-peer Databases" Please join us.
Download: Query Processing in Mobile Peer-to-peer Databases (power point)
June 11, 2009
Seminar
CTS-IGERT is honored Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio will present Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Opportunities in Intelligent Transportation, at the weekly seminar. SEO 1000, 2 pm.
Download: Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Opportunities in Intelligent Transportation
June 5, 2009
Seminar
No CTS-IGERT Seminar This Week. Everyone is welcome to attend the seminar hosted by Professor Wolfson at 2:00 pm on June 5th, SEO 1000.



Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, PhD Associate Professor, Dpt of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
May 28, 2009
seminar
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, May 28th at 2:00 pm in SEO 1000. We are honored to have Stephen Chen Founder and Partner, Global Software Group, LLC present Vehicular Visions Challenges and Initiatives.
Download: Vehicular Visions Challenges and Initiatives
May 21, 2009
Seminar
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, May 21st at 2:00 pm in SEO 1000. We are honored to have David Zavattero the Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications for the City of Chicago present his research.
Download: The Nexus and Use of Planning and Operations Data
May 20, 2009
Seminar
May 20th Round Table Discussion led by Caitlin Cottrill. Please join us for lunch and lively discussion! SEO 1000, 12:00 pm.
May 14, 2009
Seminar
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, May 14th at 2:00 pm in SEO 1000. We are honored to have Paul Metaxatos from the Urban Transportation Center present his research.
Download: Some Issues in Transportation Demand Modeling and ITS Deployment Planning
May 7, 2009
No seminar presentation due to finals. Good luck on finals!

Download: Finals Week. Good luck on finals! No seminar.
April 30, 2009
Weekly Seminar
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, April 30th at 2:00 pm in SEO 1325. This is a slight change from SEO 1000, where the seminar is usually held. We are honored to have Stephen Vaughn present his research.
Download: Safety and Security issues with Non-motorized Transportation: An Examination of Potential Planning, Design and Technology Solutions
April 23, 2009
Weekly Seminar
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, April 23th at 2:00 pm in SEO 1000. We are honored to have Joseph DiJohn present "The Burnham Transportation Plan of Chicago: 100 Years Later." All Welcome.
Download: The Burnham Transportation Plan of Chicago: 100 Years Later
April 16, 2009
Weekly Seminar
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, April 16th at 2:00 pm in SEO 1000. We are honored to have Kermit Wies of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency For Planning present his research "Highlights of CMAP's Research and Analysis Work Program"
Download: Highlights of CMAP's Research and Analysis Work Program
April 9, 2009
Weekly Seminar
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, April 9th at 2:00 pm in SEO 1000. We are honored to have Katya Kisyova present, "Applied Access Control For Vehicular Networks". All Welcome.
Download: Applied Access Control For Vehicular Networks
April 2, 2009
SEMINAR
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, April 2nd at 2:00 pm in SEO 1000. We are honored to have Jerry Wilson from Motorola present "Location is Everything!" All Welcome.
Download: Location is Everything talk by Jerry Wilson
March 19, 2009
Seminar
The CTS-IGERT weekly seminar will take place on Thursday, March 19th at 2:00 pm in SEO 1000. This week, IGERT is honored to have Dr. Eriksson present on the TransitGenie.
Download: TransitGenie Building a context-aware, real-time transit navigator
March 12, 2009
Seminar
Caitlin Cottrill presents "An Overview of Approaches to Privacy Preservation in Intelligent Transportation Systems". Time: 2:00 pm Date: March 12, 2009 Location: SEO 1000
Download: An Overview of Approaches to Privacy Preservation in Intelligent Transportation Systems
March 5, 2009
Seminar
Daniel Ayala will present his work on Game Theoretic Randomization for Traffic Information Sharing Systems Time: 2:00 pm Location: SEO 1000
February 26, 2009

Joshua Auld will present his research on ADAPTS: Agent-Based Planning and Travel Scheduling-Update on Model Development and Data Collection. Thursday, February 26, 2:00 pm Room 1000 SEO
Download: ADAPTS: Agent-Based Planning and Travel Scheduling-Update on Model Development and Data Collection.
February 19, 2009
seminar
James Biagioni and Piotr Szczurek will present their research on "Tour-Based Mode Choice Modeling: Using an Ensemble of Conditional and Unconditional Data Mining Classifiers". Thursday, February 19, 2:00 pm Room 1325 SEO
Download: Tour-Based Mode Choice Modeling: Using an Ensemble of Conditional and Unconditional Data Mining Classifiers
February 12, 2009
seminar
Presentation by Joel Booth
February 5, 2009
seminar
Presentation by Doug Lundquist
January 29, 2009
seminar
Presentation by Chad Williams
January 22, 2009
seminar
Presentation by Caitlin Cottrill
December 12, 2008
seminar
Ian White,CEO, "Urban Mapping Inc."
December 8, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues
December 1, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues
November 24, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues
November 17, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues
November 10, 2008
seminar
Dr. Matthias Renz, "Managing and Mining Traffic in Road Networks"
November 3, 2008
meeting, seminar
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues, presentation by Jen Zhu
October 27, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues
October 20, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues
October 13, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues
Download: Empty Seats Traveling: Next-generation ridesharing and its potential to mitigate traffic- and emission problems in the 21st century (Nokia paper on bluetooth authentication)
October 10, 2008
seminar
Dr. Marco Nie, "Arriving on time: routing in a stochastic network"
Download: "Arriving on Time: Routing in a Stochastic Network"
October 6, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming/discussion continues
September 29, 2008
meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant brainstorming session
September 22, 2008
seminar
International research experience presentation: Josh Auld
Download: Josh Auld, "Toronto International Research Experience"
September 15, 2008
seminar
International research experience presentations: Doug Lundquist and Piotr Szczurek
Download: Doug Lundquist, "My Internship at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland"
September 8, 2008
seminar
International research experience presentations: Chad Williams and Caitlin Cottrill
Download: Chad Williams, "International research experience update"
Download: Caitlin Cottrill, "International Internship Summer 2008"
August 27, 2008
event
2008 CTS IGERT Orientation & Retreat
Download: Bo Xu, "Commercial Activities in Personalized Traveler Information"
August 20, 2008
event
Welcome back lunch for IGERT students
June 23, 2008
event, seminar
End-of-year lunch and seminar by Ting (Cathy) Zhong
June 16, 2008
seminar
Presentation by James Biagioni
June 2, 2008
seminar
Wenjing Pu, "Travel time prediction on signalized urban streets using AVL buses as probes"
May 19, 2008
Seminar
Roger Chen, "Travel Time Perception and Learning in Traffic Networks"
Download: Travel Time Perception and Learning in Traffic Networks
May 14, 2008
seminar
Dr. Pravin Varaiya, "TOPL: Tools for Operations Planning"
May 5, 2008
seminar
Presentation by Katya Kisyova
April 28, 2008
seminar
Presentation by Joel Booth
April 21, 2008
seminar
Dr. Kate Beard, "Exploring Events from Sensor Networks"
April 7, 2008
seminar
Presentation by Josh Auld
March 31, 2008
seminar
Presentation by Piotr Szczurek
March 17, 2008
seminar
City Logistics Seminar
Download: Vehicle routing and scheduling with soft time windows and the uncertainty of travel times
Download: Urban Freight Transport, Logistics and ITS
Download: Transport & Health
March 10, 2008
seminar
Presentation by Caitlin Cottrill
March 3, 2008
seminar
Dr. Thanasis Ziliaskopoulos, "Traffic Operations Modeling"
February 25, 2008
seminar
Presentation by Chad Williams
February 18, 2008
seminar
Presentation by Doug Lundquist
February 11, 2008
seminar
Yan Luo, "A Generic Platform for ITA Related Applications"
Download: A Generic Platform for ITA Related Applications
February 7, 2008
seminar
Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani, "Integrating User Responses to Pricing in Dynamic Network Micro-Assignment Models"
Download: Integrating User Responses to Pricing in Dynamic Network Micro-Assignment Models
Download: Toll Pricing and Heterogeneous Users
Download: Modeling User Responses to Pricing: Simultaneous Route and Departure Time Network Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Users
Download: A bi-criterion dynamic user equilibrium traffic assignment model and solution algorithm for evaluating dynamic road pricing strategies
February 4, 2008
seminar
Dr. David P. Weber, "The Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center (TRACC): Modeling, Simulation and High Performance Computing Resources for the US Department of Transportation at Argonne National Laboratory"
January 29, 2008
meeting
Executive Committee meeting
January 28, 2008
seminar
Bo Xu, "Progress and Plans for Intelligent Traveler Assistant Development"
January 18, 2008
Seminar
Dr. Der-Horng Lee, "Transportation Research and Available Resources in Singapore"
January 18, 2008
meeting
Interviews with CTS IGERT Fellows
January 17, 2008
meeting
Interviews with CTS IGERT Fellows
December 14, 2007
event
CTS IGERT Holiday Dinner
December 6, 2007
Seminar
1st Year IGERT Fellows' Research Presentations
November 29, 2007
Seminar
1st Year IGERT Fellows' Research Presentations
November 28, 2007
CME seminar
Dr. Yoram Shiftan, "The Use of Activity-Based Modeling to Analyze the Effect of Land-Use Policies on Travel Behavior"
November 1, 2007
seminar
Gerwin J. Tumbali, "Developing an Integrated, Multi-Modal Traveler Information System: The Chicagoland Experience"
Download: Developing an Integrated, Multi-Modal Traveler Information System: The Chicagoland Experience
October 25, 2007
Seminar
Dr. Fabián Bustamante, "Distributed Systems on Vehicular Networks - Challenges and Opportunities"
October 18, 2007
Seminar
Dr. Horst F. Wedde, "A Novel Class of Multi-Agent Algorithms for Avoiding Traffic Congestions Inspired by Honey Bee Behavior"
Download: A Novel Class of Multi-Agent Algorithms for Highly Dynamic Transport Planning Inspired by Honey Bee Behavior
October 11, 2007
Seminar
Kermit Wies, "CMAP's Research and Analysis Work Program"
October 5, 2007
UTC Seminar
Dr. Gleen Geers, "STaR: Smart Transport and Roads"
October 4, 2007
Seminar
Dr. Michael Shiffer, "Emerging Technologies and Transit Planning: Moving Bits to Move People"
Download: Emerging Technologies and Transit Planning: Moving Bits to Move People
September 28, 2007
Seminar
Josh Auld, "Activity and Route Choice Survey using GPS"
September 21, 2007
UTC Seminar
Richard (Rick) Weiland, "Intelligent Transportation Systems Standards- Why Do They Matter?"
September 20, 2007
Seminar
Yosef Lifshits, Follow-up to Preliminary ITA Demo System Proposal
September 13, 2007
seminar
Bo Xu, "A Preliminary Proposal of an ITA Demo System"
Download: A Preliminary Proposal of an ITA Demo System
September 6, 2007
Seminar
John DeLaurentiis, "Technology Programs"
August 27, 2007
Seminar
David Boyce, "What Can the World Learn From Singapore About Urban Transportation Systems?"
Download: What Can the World Learn From Singapore About Urban Transportation Systems?
August 23, 2007
Event
2007 IGERT Retreat Agenda
June 13, 2007
Seminar
Richard Fan, "A detailed description and theoretical analysis on clustering algorithms in VANETs"
May 31, 2007
Meeting
Executive Committee meeting
May 30, 2007
Seminar
Richard Fan, "Design and analysis on clustering algorithms in VANETs"
May 18, 2007
Meeting
IGERT Fellows: Year 1 Progress Report Presentations
May 18, 2007
Meeting
Curriculum Committee meeting
May 18, 2007
Reception
CTS IGERT End of Year 1 Lunch
April 25, 2007
Seminar
David Boyce, "Urban Travel Forecasting: What Was Learned in the Past 50 Years? How Should We Proceed in the Future?"
Download: Urban Travel Forecasting: What Was Learned in the Past 50 Years? How Should We Proceed in the Future?
April 18, 2007
Meeting
Intelligent Traveler Assistant discussion forum
April 11, 2007
Seminar
Doug Lundquist, "Extending SBSD for High-Density Environments"
April 4, 2007
Seminar
Piotr Szczurek, "Extracing Semantic Locations within a Mobility Context Retrieval Framework"
March 21, 2007
Seminar
Caitlin Cottrill, "Privacy Issues in ITS"
Download: Approaching Privacy in ITS
March 14, 2007
Seminar
Masaaki Tanizaki, "A technique for traffic information sharing systems based on information cost model"
March 7, 2007
Seminar
Ashfaq Khohkar, "Design of Energy Efficient Computations and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks"
Download: Design of Energy Efficient Computations and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
February 28, 2007
Seminar
David Zavattero, "ITS initiatives nationally and locally and the building of the Chicago TMC"
February 21, 2007
Seminar
Milos Zefran, "Application of hybrid optimal control to vehicle control and modeling"
February 14, 2007
Seminar
Chad Williams, "Spatial temporal mining of travel diaries"
Download: Spatiotemporal Pattern Mining For Travel Behavior Prediction
February 7, 2007
Seminar
Yosef Lifshits, "Memory management in wireless peer-to-peer devices"
November 2, 2006
Seminar
Barbara Di Eugenio, "Generating driving directions for intelligent vehicles interfaces"
October 26, 2006
Seminar
Yan Luo, "Data Dissemination in Mobile Peer-to-peer Networks"
October 19, 2006
Seminar
Doug Lundquist, "Demand-Driven Publish/Subscribe in Mobile Environments"
October 5, 2006
Seminar
Peng Fan,"A novel clustering framework in VANETs"