Personal Mobility

This paper describes how the e-Port, e-Government, and e-Logistics strategies have been
rapidly development, increasingly accepted, and implemented successfully in emerging
economies throughout the world. For example, in Ukraine, a Web-based e-Business resource
is used to access the export regulations, commercial licensing & application information, and
network integration for electronic coordination among all ministries associated with the export
review. In Bulgaria, a national network to enable e-Government initiatives and e-Government
Architectural Governance model. In Belarus and Kazakhstan, the intergovernmental networks
has been used to promote electronic exchange and coordinate export applications, and
enhanced information sharing among State Customs Services, Export Control Services, and
other coordinating ministries through the e-Logistics Applications.

EDCPC, Inc.

One contribution of the USDOT Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Program has been the definition of a set of key national corridor performance measures consistently applied across multiple ICM sites. These measures represent both the bottom-line for ICM strategy cost-benefit evaluation and have been instrumental in supporting a discussion of how ICM impacts can be best characterized among key corridor stakeholders. Initially, the discussion on performance-driven corridor management among the participating ICM Pioneer Sites has been focused on measures derived from observed data. In the Analysis, Modeling and Simulation (AMS) phase of the effort (2009-10), however, attention turned to producing comparable measures derived from the outputs of different traffic simulation tools. This paper documents the algorithmic process developed in the ICM program and used to calculate key national measures of corridor performance.

Fellow, Transportation Analysis, Noblis

Presented at the 18th World Congress on ITS, October 2011, Orlando, Florida

Ride–sharing is a resource efficient mode of personal transportation. While the perceived benefits
of ride–sharing include reduced travel times, transportation costs, congestion, and carbon
emissions, its wide–spread adoption is hindered by a number of barriers. These include the
scheduling and coordination of routes, safety risks, social discomfort in sharing private spaces,
and an imbalance of costs and benefits among parties. To this extent, this paper describes implementation details of a system for ride–sharing that eliminates these barriers, in particular the
one relating to social aspects, by utilizing the concepts of social networks and social interest
groups. Realistic, city–wide simulations show that the proposed social ride–sharing system is
viable and effective.

Uppsala University

Aalborg University

Online Hungarian Forum for Mobility and Transport

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

The paper presents the concept and results for the development of a multi-modal
passenger information system on the web for the Attika Region, Greece. This is an
ambitious on-going project, which aims at collecting & processing real time and
historical traffic and transit data in order to synthesize dynamic guidance through the
Region’s web portal. The main innovation is the use of a dynamic traffic assignment
tool, which will exploit the available real time data in order to estimate travel time
forecasts for the entire urban, peri-urban and interurban road network. On top of that,
public transport schedules will be collected and maintained in order to calculate
public transport alternative routes for the internet users. To show the complexity of
this task alone, the Attika Region comprises of 9 different transit modes.

TREDIT SA

Infotrip SA

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Travel times for the freeway systems in Houston, Texas are computed using information from Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) sensors which read Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags issued by the local tolling authority. Demonstrations were conducted to determine the feasibility of utilizing anonymous wireless address matching (Bluetooth) as an alternative to RFID readers for the determination of link travel times on an urban arterial where tag penetration of the overall traffic might not be as great as on freeways. This paper is the result of that demonstration in February and March of 2009.

Texas Transportation Institute

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition