traffic

Managing the Impacts of Freight in California

Research Product Type
Policy Brief
This policy brief provides a statewide assessment of freight movement on all traffic congestion, and defines freight impact areas as severely congested roadway corridors with high volumes of trucks.

METRANS Spring 2024 Speaker Series: Evaluating Alternative Strategies for Traffic Reduction in Los Angeles

Using big-data from a rich network of detectors located on all freeways in Los Angeles that measure in real-time speed and flow (that is, car counts), this project will rely on statistical methods and interactive visualization techniques to develop a practical tool for policymakers to infer the effects of alternative strategies for reducing traffic congestion in Los Angeles. 

Modeling for Local Impact Analysis

  • Principal Investigator Petros Ioannou, Ph.D.
  • University of Southern California
This project developed a set of traffic simulation models for the Los Angeles/Long Beach region that allowed the researchers to evaluate impacts on transportation system efficiency and on the environment.
Project Status
Complete

Modeling for Local Impact Analysis

Research Product Type
Research Report
Researchers developed traffic simulation models that allowed them to evaluate the impact of new traffic flow control systems, vehicle routing, and other technologies on the efficiency of the transportation system.

Modeling multi-modal network equilibrium with active transportation and shared mobility

Research Product Type
Dissertation / Thesis
This study models the active transportation and vehicular travel traveling modes in a multi-modal network problem taking into account TNC services, such as, e-hailing, e-pooling, and express pool. The objective is to analyze passengers' choices among active transportation, solo driving, and TNC services, considering various trade-offs related to health, monetary, time, and inconvenience costs, and their subsequent impacts on traffic network performance.

Modeling the Impact of Road Grade on Driving Behavior, Vehicle Energy Consumption, and Emissions

  • Principal Investigator Haobing Liu, Ph.D.
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
This study addresses two issues: 1) how road grade impacts vehicle speed and acceleration distributions, and how such distributions vary across vehicle types, roadway types, traffic conditions, etc.; and 2) how significant the impact of integrating grade interactions is with respect to energy, emissions, and air quality modeling.
Project Status
Complete

Multi-Modal Travel in Yosemite Valley

Research Product Type
Research Report
In this study, the researchers examined traffic volumes and patterns in Yosemite Valley, the heart of Yosemite National Park.

Network Sensor Error Quantification and Flow Reconstruction Using Deep Learning

Research Product Type
Dissertation / Thesis
This study approaches the problem of quantifying the network sensor errors as a supervised learning problem and leveraging deep neural networks to map observed traffic flow counts to the systematic errors in the sensors. The author aims at building a model that could reconstruct the erroneous flow irrespective of the level of random noise in the sensors, which is unknown in the real-world.