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Transportation & Infrastructure

Dan Work, associate professorInstitute for Software Integrated Systems (302B!)

Civil & Environmental EngineeringElectrical Engineering & Computer Science

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• Vision– Define next generation of traffic

control.

• Research objectives– Develop traffic control algorithms

where the vehicles are the actuators

– Simulation and field tests to demonstrate the elimination of stop-and-go traffic

• Team– Benedetto Piccoli (Rutgers

Camden)– Benni Seibold (Temple)– Jonathan Sprinkle (former co-PI),

now Roman Lysecky (Arizona)

NSF CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Control of Vehicular Traffic Flow via Low Density Autonomous Vehicles

Drive by wire SUV

U of A Cognitive Autonomous Test (CAT) vehicle

Field testing in Urbana

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• Vision– Array of Things: Next generation urban

sensing• Video • Environmental sensors• Sound

• Research objectives– Building the research infrastructure to

enable science of smart cities– $3.1M NSF instrument – 500 nodes in Chicago in ~2018

• Team– Charlie Catlett (U. Chicago)– Kathleen Cagney (U. Chicago)– Michael Papka (Northern Illinois U.)– Peter Beckman (Argonne)

NSF MRI: Development of an Urban-Scale Instrument for Interdisciplinary Research

CDOT & AoT Workshop on urban mobility

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• Vision– Large traffic datasets will

lead to new understanding of the effects of extreme events on urban transportation systems

• Research objective– Develop new exploratory

data analysis methods from multilinear algebra & computational topology

• Team– Rich Sowers (UIUC)

NSF IMEE: Signatures and Barcodes: Data-driven Understanding of Transportation System Performance during Extreme Events

Typical Week

Pace (min/mi)

-- Sandy-- Typical week

Hurricane Sandy

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Hurricane Sandy (5.5 days)

Snowpocalypse(4.4 days)

Hurricane Irene(1.8 days)

[Sponsors: NSF & NCSA]