Mathematics of Traffic Flow Modeling, Estimation and Control

December 7 - 9, 2011

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome and Opening remarks by Russ Caflisch and Alex Bayen
9:20 Mathematical modeling (1) Session Chair: Dan Work
9:20 - 10:00
Halina Frankowska (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))

Strong and Weak Boundary Conditions for Solutions of Scalar Conservation Laws

10:10 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:20
11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 Mathematical modeling (2) Session chair: Halina Frankowska
1:30 - 2:10
Anya Desilles (École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées)

Viability approach to Hamilton-Jacobi-Moskowitz problem involving variable regulation parameters

2:20 - 3:00
Alberto Bressan (Pennsylvania State University)

Nash equilibria for models of traffic flow.

3:10 - 3:30 Break
3:30 Panel: future directions in control, estimation and modeling using PDEs
3:30 - 3:35 Moderator: Miroslav Krstic (UC San Diego)
3:35 - 5:00 Panelists: Michael Herty (Universität Kaiserslautern), Petros Ioannou (USC), Alberto Bressan (Penn State), Tong Li (University of Iowa)
5:00 - 6:30 Reception and Poster Session at IPAM
5:30 - 6:30 Posters: Aude Hofleitner, Sebastien Blandin, Amelio Maurizi, N. Farhi, T. Saumtally, Alexander Zuyev

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Estimation and stochastics (1) Henry Liu
9:00 - 9:40
Markos Papageorgiou (Technical University of Crete)

Macroscopic Traffic Flow Modeling Rendered Useful

9:50 - 10:30
Daniel Work (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Traffic monitoring using GPS enabled smartphones

10:40 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 11:50
Lyudmila Mihaylova (Lancaster University)

Scalable Bayesian Approaches for Freeway Traffic Systems
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12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 Modeling, Estimation and stochastics (2) Session Chair: Michael Zhang
1:30 - 2:10
Corrado Lattanzio (University of l'Aquila)

Micro-Macro Coupled Models in Car Traffic Flow

2:20 - 3:00
Alexandros Sopasakis (Lund Institute of Technology)

Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Lane/Class Traffic

3:10 - 3:30 Break
3:30 Panel: impacts of new technology for traffic monitoring and control research
3:30 - 3:35 Moderator: Joan Sollenberger (California DOT)
3:35 - 5:00 Panelists: Olli-Pekka Tossavainen (Nokia Corporation), Emiliano Cristiani (Octotelematics), (Chris Scofield (INRIX), Christopher Flores (Sensys Networks).

Friday, December 9, 2011

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Control (1) Session Chair: Jean-Patrick Lebacque
9:00 - 9:40
9:50 - 10:30
Jean-Patrick Lebacque (IFSTTAR/GRETTIA)

Stochastic macroscopic traffic modeling

10:40 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 11:50
Rinaldo Colombo (University of Brescia)

On the Macroscopic Modeling of Crowd

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 Control (2) Session Chair: Michael Zhang
1:30 - 2:10
Wenlong Jin (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

A kinematic wave theory of multi-commodity network traffic flow

2:20 - 3:00
Roberto Horowitz (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and Control of Freeway Traffic Corridors

3:10 - 3:30 Closing Remarks by Alex Bayen