Workshop III: Traffic Control

Part of the Long Program New Directions in Mathematical Approaches for Traffic Flow Management
October 26 - 30, 2015

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 26, 2015

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Illumination Room)
9:00 - 9:50
Carlos Canudas de Wit (GIPSA Lab)

Distributed Games in Traffic Ramp Metering

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Roberto Horowitz (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

 

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
José Ramón Domínguez Frejo (Universidad de Sevilla)

Distributed and Hybrid Model Predictive Control for freeway traffic networks

 
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Nikos Geroliminis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))

Hierarchical Control of congestion in smart cities with big multi-sensor data

 
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
5:00 - 6:30 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Montasir Abbas (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Agent-based modeling, simulation, and control—some applications in transportation
PDF Presentation

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Murat Arcak (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Formal synthesis for traffic control

 
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Pravin Varaiya (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Doubling throughput on urban roads by platooning

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Alex Kurzhanskiy (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Macroscopic Modeling of Freeway Networks with Managed Lanes

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Christos Cassandras (Boston University)

Adaptive traffic light control

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Konstantinos Ampountolas (University of Glasgow)

Urban traffic congestion: store-and-forward modelling and mitigation approaches

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Apostolos Kotsialos (University of Durham)

Computational algorithms for predictive control of traffic in motorway networks

 
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Friday, October 30, 2015

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Petros Ioannou (University of Southern California (USC))

Load Balancing in Multimodal Transportation Systems

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Gabriel Gomes (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Convex relaxation problems in traffic control

 
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Antonella Ferrara (Università di Pavia)

Event-Triggered Control of Freeway Traffic Systems

 
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50