Month: January 2017

January 10-14, 2016, Washington, DC, USA

The AHB45(3) Subcommittee held a workshop on Sunday January 10, 2017, during the 2016 TRB Annual Meeting. The workshop was titled: “Towards Surface Transportation Networks’ Automation: Opportunities and Challenges”.  The workshop presented the latest developments and opportunities associated with Connected and Automated Transportation Systems while detailing the traffic related research challenges that still need to be answered. The workshop had the following speakers:

1. Mr. Thomas H. Phillips, Leidos’ Director of Operations and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
2. Mr. Jeff Pierson, Global Corporate Strategy at Verizon (Specializing in Internet of Things - IoT, Transportation, and Smart Cities)
3. Mr. Andrew R. Lacher, MITRE’s Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Research Strategist
4. Mr. Kevin Dopart, USDOT’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office’s Program Manager for Vehicle Safety and Automation
5. Mr. Soumya Dey, DDOT Director of Research and Technology Transfer

For further information, please click on the following link:  https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/interactiveprogram/Details/2512

July 19-21, 2016, San Francisco, USA

On Wednesday July 20, 2016, the AHB45(3) Subcommittee held a breakout session at the AVS2016 Symposium titled: Traffic Flow of Connected Automated Vehicles. The session featured the following speakers:

1. Dr. Hani Mahmassani (Northwestern University)
2. Dr. Pravin Varaiya (University of California, Berkeley)
3.  Dr. Osman Altan, Federal Highway Administration
4. Mr. Simon Calvert, TNO
5. Mr. Jan-Niklas Meier, CAMP

The presentations were followed by discussions on innovative modeling of CAV traffic flow, CAV based traffic control and management methods, cyber-physical communication frameworks, and related technologies translatable to traffic flow modeling.

Further information may be found through the link below:
http://www.automatedvehiclessymposium.org/program/breakouts/breakout21

The subcommittee would like you to know about the following special call for papers:

Journal of Advanced Transportation
a- Special Issue Title: “Advances in Modelling Connected and Automated Vehicles”

Guest Editors:

• Xiaobo Qu (University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, xiaobo.qu@uts.edu.au)
• Xiaopeng Li (University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, xiaopengli@usf.edu)
• Meng Wang (Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, m.wang@tudelft.nl)
• Vinayak Dixit (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, v.dixit@unsw.edu.au).

b- Manuscript Submission Deadline: 17 February 2017

c- Expected Publication Date: 7 July 2017.

d- Additional Information: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jat/si/724042/cfp/

The George Washington University Transportation Engineering Program and the AHB45 Subcommittee on Traffic Flow Modeling for Connected and Automated Vehicles (AHB45(3)) are inviting you to submit your abstract(s) to the 2017 Traffic and Granular Flow Conference (TGF17) that will be held in Washington DC, USA, between the 19th and the 22nd of July, 2017. The conference will be held immediately prior to the ISTTT 22 that will take place at the Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, USA) between the 24th and 26th of July, 2017.  All accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference in plenary or poster sessions. Authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper. All papers accepted for a poster or oral presentations will appear in the book of proceedings published by Springer. A selection of authors will be invited to publish an extended version of their papers in a special (journal) issue. The theme of the conference is: “From Molecular Interactions to Internet of Things and Smart Cities: The Role of Technology in the Understanding and the Evolution of Particle Dynamics”. The topics covered include but are not limited to: connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), granular flow and dynamics of granular materials, pedestrian detection and modeling, collective motion in biological systems, nano-particles and molecular dynamics, complex networks and Internet of Things (IoT). The deadline for abstract submission is January 30, 2017.

January 8-12, 2017. Washington, DC, USA

 

Join us in the AHB45(3) Subcommittee workshops and session at the TRB 2017 Annual Meeting.

 

The two workshops organized by our AHB45(3) Subcommittee are:

• Workshop 134
  Emerging Needs for Improving Simulation Models in the Immediate, Intermediate, and Long-Term Horizons (Sunday January 8, 2017, 9AM—12PM; Convention Center 103A) (Details)
• Workshop 898
  Active Transportation and Demand Management in Connected and Automated Traffic Systems: Data Collection and Analytics, Modeling and Control (Thursday January 12, 2017, 8AM-12:00PM; Convention Center 101) (Details)

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The session based on our special call for papers is :

• Session 237
  Traffic Flow Modeling of Connected and Automated Transportation Systems (Monday January 9, 2017, 8AM-9:45AM; Convention Center 101)

 

Our Sub-Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday January 10, 2017, from 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM, at the Marriott Marquis Ballroom, Salon 9 (M2). We look forwards to seeing you there.