Modeling and Control Tools for Sustainable and Connected Mobility in Smart Cities

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

The Workshop is organized by the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Smart Cities

http://ieeecss.org/technical-committee/tc-sc

The workshop is complimentary for students. More for more info click here

Organizers

1. Silvia Siri

Associate Professor of Automatic Control

Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering

University of Genova


2. Andreas Malikopoulos

Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Delaware


Abstract

Emerging mobility systems, e.g., connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), shared mobility, truck platoons, electric mobility, provide the most intriguing opportunity for enabling users to better monitor transportation network conditions and make better operating decisions to improve safety and transportation efficiency. Emerging mobility systems are typical cyber-physical systems where the cyber component (e.g., data and shared information through vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication) can aim at optimally controlling the physical entities (e.g., CAVs, non-CAVs). It seems clear that the availability of vehicle-to-vehicle communication has the potential to reduce congestion by enabling vehicles to more rapidly account for changes in their mutual environment. Likewise, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, e.g., communication with traffic control centers, nearby buildings, and traffic lights, should allow for individual vehicle control systems to account for unpredictable changes in local infrastructure but also to receive guidance from the infrastructure. As transportation systems become increasingly complex with an expanded feature space, new modeling and control approaches are needed to understand the impact on system behavior that would result in improving safety, efficiency and sustainability. The workshop intends to stimulate a discussion on modeling and control for emerging mobility systems that could be eventually realized in smart cities.


Topics of interest

(1) Modeling and control for emerging mobility systems

(2) Mobility on Demand

(3) Optimization methods for emerging mobility systems

(4) Traffic signal control

(5) Sustainable and smart mobility

(6) Truck platooning

Speakers


  1. Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, Boston University

Talk: "Modeling and Control of Large-Scale Traffic Urban Networks"

  1. Christos Cassandras, Boston University

Talk: "Optimal Assignment Policies for Mobility-On-Demand Systems"

  1. Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia

Talk: "Modeling and control of connected and automated vehicles in freeway traffic"

  1. Jack Haddad, Israel Institute of Technology

Talk: "Traffic flow modeling and feedback control for future urban air mobility"

  1. Karl Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Talk: "Traffic state reconstruction and control using connected vehicles"

  1. Andreas Malikopoulos, University of Delaware

Talk: "A Socially-Efficient Emerging Mobility Market"

  1. Jonas Mårtensson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Talk: "Platoon coordination for trucks and the value of cross-fleet cooperation"

  1. Panagiotis Typaldos, Technical University of Crete

Talk: "Optimization-based path-planning for connected and non-connected automated vehicles"

  1. Bart De Schutter, Delft University of Technology

Talk: "Efficient model-based control methods for green urban traffic signal control"

  1. Silvia Siri, University of Genova

Talk: "Modelling Electric and Automated Buses in Urban and Extra-urban Areas"



Final program

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 (time in Italy)


Session 1: Sustainable and Connected Freeway Systems

14.00 - 14.25 A. Ferrara, "Modeling and control of connected and automated vehicles in freeway traffic"

14.25 - 14.50 K.H. Johansson, “Traffic state reconstruction and control using connected vehicles”

14.50 - 15.15 J. Mårtensson, “Platoon coordination for trucks and the value of cross-fleet cooperation”

15.15 - 15-40 P. Typaldos, “Optimization-based path-planning for connected and non-connected automated vehicles”


15.40 – 15.50 Break


Session 2: Sustainable and Connected Urban Systems


15.50 - 16.15 B. De Schutter, “Efficient model-based control methods for green urban traffic signal control”

16.15 - 16.40 C. Canudas-de-Wit, “Modeling and Control of Large-Scale Traffic Urban Networks”

16.40 - 17.05 J. Haddad, “Traffic flow modeling and feedback control for future urban air mobility”

17.05 - 17.30 S. Siri, “Modelling electric and automated buses in urban and extra-urban areas”

17.30 - 17.55 C. Cassandras, “Optimal Assignment Policies for Mobility-On-Demand Systems”

17.55 - 18.20 A. Malikopoulos, “A Socially-Efficient Emerging Mobility Market”