Mathematics of Traffic Flow Modeling, Estimation and Control - IPAM

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

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:20
Welcome and Opening remarks by Russ Caflisch and Alex Bayen
09:20-09:20
Mathematical modeling (1) Session Chair: Dan Work
09:20-10:00
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
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-13:30
Mathematical modeling (2) Session chair: Halina Frankowska
13:30-14:10
Anya Desilles (École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées)
Viability approach to Hamilton-Jacobi-Moskowitz problem involving variable regulation parameters
14:20-15:00
Alberto Bressan (Pennsylvania State University)
Nash equilibria for models of traffic flow.
15:10-15:30
Break
15:30-15:30
Panel: future directions in control, estimation and modeling using PDEs
15:30-15:35
Moderator: Miroslav Krstic (UC San Diego)
15:35-17:00
Panelists: Michael Herty (Universität Kaiserslautern), Petros Ioannou (USC), Alberto Bressan (Penn State), Tong Li (University of Iowa)
17:00-18:30
Reception and Poster Session at IPAM
17:30-18:30
Posters: Aude Hofleitner, Sebastien Blandin, Amelio Maurizi, N. Farhi, T. Saumtally, Alexander Zuyev

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:00
Estimation and stochastics (1) Henry Liu
09:00-09:40
Markos Papageorgiou (Technical University of Crete)
Macroscopic Traffic Flow Modeling Rendered Useful
09:50-10:30
Daniel Work (Vanderbilt University)
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-13:30
Modeling, Estimation and stochastics (2) Session Chair: Michael Zhang
13:30-14:10
Corrado Lattanzio (University of l'Aquila)
Micro-Macro Coupled Models in Car Traffic Flow
14:20-15:00
15:10-15:30
Break
15:30-15:30
Panel: impacts of new technology for traffic monitoring and control research
15:30-15:35
Moderator: Joan Sollenberger (California DOT)
15:35-17:00
Panelists: Olli-Pekka Tossavainen (Nokia Corporation), Emiliano Cristiani (Octotelematics), (Chris Scofield (INRIX), Christopher Flores (Sensys Networks).

Friday, December 9, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:00
Control (1) Session Chair: Jean-Patrick Lebacque
09:50-10:30
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-13:30
Control (2) Session Chair: Michael Zhang
13:30-14:10
Wenlong Jin (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
A kinematic wave theory of multi-commodity network traffic flow
14:20-15:00
Roberto Horowitz (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and Control of Freeway Traffic Corridors
15:10-15:30
Closing Remarks by Alex Bayen