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Xuegang (Jeff) Ban

Xuegang (Jeff) Ban
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — banx
Name: Xuegang (Jeff) Ban
Title:Assistant Professor
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~banx
Bio Dr. Ban's research focuses on modeling and simulation that aim to reveal the complex dynamic, stochastic, and evolving interactions among the critical components of transportation systems, with the purpose to develop effective, efficient, and sustainable methodologies to mange wide-area and multi-modal transportation systems. His current research interests are Theoretical and algorithmic issues of dynamic traffic network modeling; Sensor-aided modeling and simulation, especially the application of mobile traffic sensors (such as GPS-enabled cellular phones) for transportation system performance measurement, state estimation, optimal traffic control and management, and related issues on privacy protection; Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that focuses on applying information technologies to various traffic/transportation applications.

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Education Ph.D. Transportation Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005) M.S. Computer Sciences (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003) B.S. Automotive Engineering (Tsinghua University, 1997)
Scholarly Works:
  • Ban, X., Hao, P., and Sun, Z.B., 2011. Real time queue length estimation for signalized intersections using sample travel times from mobile sensors. Transportation Research Part C, in press.
  • Hoh, B., Iwuchukwu, T., Jacobson, Q., Gruteser, M., Bayen, A., Herrera, J.C., Herring, R., Work, D., Annavaram, M., and Ban, X, 2011. Enhancing Privacy and Accuracy in Probe Vehicle Based Traffic Monitoring via Virtual Trip Lines. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, in press.
  • Holguin-Veras, J., Torres, C.A., and Ban, X., 2011. On the comparative performance of urban delivery vehicle classes. Transportmetrica, 1-24.
  • Ban, X., Chu, L., Herring, R., and Margulici, J.D., 2010. A sequential modeling framework for optimal sensor placement for multiple ITS applications. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering 137(2), 2011.
  • Ban, X., Li, Y., Skabardonis, A., and Margulici, J.D., 2010. Performance evaluation of travel time estimation methods for real time traffic applications. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 14(2), 54-67.
  • Herrera, J.C., Work, D.B., Herring, R., Ban, X., and Bayen, A., 2010. Evaluation of traffic data obtained via GPS-enabled mobile phones: the Mobile Century field experiment. Transportation Research Part C, 18(4), 568-583.
  • Ban, X., Ferris, M., Liu, H., 2010. Numerical studies on reformulation techniques for continuous network design problems with asymmetric user equilibrium. International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems, 1(1), 52-72.
  • Ban, X., and Liu, H., 2009. A link-node discrete-time dynamic second best toll pricing model with a relaxation solution algorithm. Networks and Spatial Economics 9(2), 243-267.
  • Ban, X., Herring, R., Hao, P., and Bayen, A., 2009. Delay pattern estimation for signalized intersections using sampled travel times. Transportation Research Record 2130, 109-119.
  • Ban, X., Liu, H., Ferris, M.C., and Ran, B., 2008. A link-node complementarity model and solution algorithm for dynamic user equilibria with exact flow propagations. Transportation Research, part B, 42(9), 823-842.
  • Ban, X., Chu, L., and Benouar, H., 2007. Bottleneck Identification and Calibration for Corridor Management Planning. Transportation Research Record 1999, 40-53.
Recognitions:
  • National Science Foundation CAREER award May 2011
  • UTRC’s 2008 Best Paper Award University of Transportation Research Center, Region 2, 2008

Jose Holguin-Veras

Jose Holguin-Veras
Tue, 2010-10-05 09:26 — ROOTJ2
Name: Jose Holguin-Veras
Title:William H. Hart Chair Professor
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE)
Website: http://transp.rpi.edu/~jhvweb/index.shtml
Bio Professor Holguin-Veras’s research emphasizes: the integration of state of the art economic principles into transportation modeling, so that a complete picture could be developed on the broader impacts of transportation activity on the economy and the environment; and the study of the behavior of the participating agents to support sustainable policies. His work includes a broad spectrum of research tracks ranging from: basic research on transportation modeling, research on the behavioral responses of agents to pricing and other sustainable policies, research on simplified modeling techniques, i.e., to estimate demand using secondary data. The latter techniques are bound to benefit developing countries because they minimize the need for expensive data collection efforts.

His leadership positions at key international research organizations include: Vice-President for Logistics of the Pan-American Conferences of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Elected Member of the Council for the Association for European Transport, member of the International Organizing Committee of the City Logistics Conferences, member of three Technical Committees and invitational Task Forces on freight modeling at the Transportation Research Board. He is member of a number of editorial boards, Review Chair for freight transportation at the Transportation Research Board, and Transportation Editor at Networks and Spatial Economics.

Holguin-Veras is the author of dozens of articles on transportation modeling and economics.
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Education Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Transportation M.S., Universidad Central de Venezuala Transportation B.S., Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo Civil Engineering
Recognitions:
  • Recipient of the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2001)
  • Recipient of a Proclamation from the City Council of New York honoring his research accomplishments and contributions to local communities (April 17, 2001)
  • Recipient of the Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award, 1996 (Council of University Transportation Centers)
  • Recipient of a 2007 School of Engineering Excellence in Research Award

Jack M. Reilly

John M. Reilly
Mon, 2011-02-07 16:32 — Anonymous
Name: John M. Reilly
Title:Professor of Practice
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE)
Bio Dr. Reilly has had over 35 years experience inthe design, management and operations of transportation systems. He was Deputy Executive Director of the Capital District Transportation Authority, a regional transportation operating agency with a fixed route bus and paratransit fleet, regional Medial brokerage and two railroad passenger terminals. His primary areas of responsibility include: capital project planning and development, grant and contact administration, service and cooperate planning, information technology, service contracting and facility management.

He managed development of a new passenger rail station at Rensselaer (NY), the 10th busiest Amtrak station in the country. His responsibility included supervision of design, arranging tenant leases, developing plans for property management and financial management.

He is currently the project manager for a World Bank project on methods of measuring transit service capacity and quality in developing countries. He is also an advisor to the World Bank on Transit Intelligent Transportation System Project in several cities in China and India.

He directed transportation related studies, particularly in the area of transit data management and operations analysis (rail and bus) for a number of transit systems including the Denver Regional Transit District, Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, Charlotte Area Transit System, Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments, Santa Cruz Transportation Authority, AC Transit, Metropolitan Transit System (San Diego), PACE, (suburban Chicago), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority New York State Department of Transportation. He was a consultant to New York State Senate High Speed Rail Task Force.
He is a c0-principal investigator for a park and ride facility study in New York City and a study of using automatic vehicle location system data to improve time management for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.
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Education B.S., M. Eng., Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Recognitions:
  • German Marshall Fund of the United Stated, Environmenatl Fellow, 1998
  • Eno Foundation for Transportation - International Transit Studies Program Fellow, 1996
  • New York Public Transit Association Hall of Fame, 2006

Thomas C Sharkey

Thomas C Sharkey
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — sharkt
Name: Thomas C Sharkey
Department Industrial and Systems Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~sharkt
Bio

Assistant Professor Thomas Sharkey received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida in August 2008, where he was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. His dissertation focused on developing algorithms to solve several nonlinear supply chain optimization problems, with an emphasis on problems that integrate facility location and inventory planning decisions. Prior to his doctoral studies, Dr. Sharkey received his B.S. and M.S.E in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in May 2004. He is the recipient of an Excellence in Research award from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the University of Florida in April 2007 and an Undergraduate Achievement award from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of Johns Hopkins University in May 2004. At Rensselaer, Dr. Sharkey will teach courses on the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms for optimization problems. His re

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Education Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering (University of Florida, 2008), M.S. Mathematical Sciences (Johns Hopkins University,, B.S. Mathematical Sciences (Johns Hopkins University)

William Wallace

William Wallace
Tue, 2010-10-05 09:27 — wallaw
Name: William Wallace
Title:Yamada Corporation Professor
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering
School Architecture
Center Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE) Network Science and Technology Center (NeST)
Website:http://www.dses.rpi.edu/people/faculty.cfm?facultyID=wallaw
Bio His research interests are generally in:

Analytical Approaches to Emergency Management: Research focuses on the development of models for disaster management, including transportation of hazardous materials. Investigating the development of Decision logic for crisis management.
The Process of Modeling: The acquiring of an expert's judgment and experience and its subsequent codification in a form amenable to representation by a complex model is the objective of this research. Present work is concerned with (i) designing an automated means of support for this process, (ii) the use of visual, both 2D and 3D, and (iii) studying ways and acquiring knowledge about the usual or exceptional occurrence.

On-going research includes Decision Support for Group Improvisation; the development and assessment of a blackboard architecture for supporting improvisation by emergency response teams supported by NSF, Visualization and the Process of Modeling (with Professor Willemain) supported by NSF; Trust and Knowledge Management: The Develop and Implementation of Graph-Theoretic Models for the Assessment of Trust in Sources of Knowledge -- supported by NSF. The Impact of the World Trade Center Attack on Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies, supported by NSF, and Wireless Advanced Travelers Information Systems, supported by FHA and NYSDoT.
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Education Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Recognitions:
  • Yamada Corporation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Excellence in Research Award, SoE
  • INFORMS President's Award
  • Fellow, IEEE
  • DSES Faculty Award for Excellence
  • IEEE Third Millennium Medal, Engineering Management Society
  • Best Student Paper (with R.G. Arunasalam, J.T. Richie, W. Regan, and O. Gur-Ali), Portland International Conference on Management and Engineering and Technology
  • Del and Ruth Karger Dissertation Prize, DSES
  • International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference Award
  • Horwood Critique Prize for Outstanding Paper, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Conference
  • Outstanding Case Award, Rand Graduate Institute/Duke University Public Policy Curricular Materials Development Program