SEMINAR
December 1, 2009
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",
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SEMINAR
November 24, 2009
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
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SEMINAR
November 17, 2009
Josh Auld, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Activity Planning Processes in the ADAPTS Activity-Based Modeling Framework", Tuesday, November 17th
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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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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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Events
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 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" | August 24, 2006 Meeting IGERT Retreat Agenda |
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