congestion

This dissertation presents a comprehensive investigation into the co-optimization of vehicle trajectories and traffic signal timing at isolated signalized intersections.

Traffic congestion is a significant problem in major metropolitan areas in the United States. According to the Urban Mobility Report, in 2019 commuters on average lost about 54 hours in traffic congestion. The researchers developed three approaches to rideshare routing and evaluated their effectiveness in combating traffic congestion.

This White Paper presents recommendations for using information technology solutions to increase the efficiency of California’s multi modal freight system.

This paper studies the problem of offering incentives to organizations to change the behavior of their individual drivers (or individuals relying on the organization’s services).

With rapid population growth and urban development, traffic congestion has become an inescapable issue in large metropolitan regions. This research project studies the problem of offering incentives to organizations to change the behavior of their individual drivers (or individuals using their organization’s services).

Researchers at the University of Southern California developed a distributed algorithm for offering incentives to organizations to make socially optimal routing decisions designed to lower the traffic flow of congested roads without creating new congestion in other parts of the road network.

This policy brief shows how expanding highways typically increases - rather than reduces - traffic congestion.