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DESCRIPTION:Urban Mobility Analytics: Using Data from Opportunistic Sensors
  to Improve Decisions\n\n \n\nHaris N. Koutsopoulos\n\nMIT and KTH\, Royal
  Institue of Technology\n\n \n\nThursday\, April 24\, 2014\n\n12pm-1pm\n\n
 168 Snell Engineering Center\n\n \n\n \n\nAbstract\n\nThe extensive deploy
 ment of Information and Communication Technologies allows the collection o
 f large amounts of transportation and mobility related data.  GPS\, smart 
 phones\, and smart cards (e.g. Charlie Card) are examples of opportunistic
  sensors that provide extensive disaggregate data on the movement of peopl
 e\, goods\, and vehicles on the urban network at a relatively low cost. Th
 is detailed urban traffic and transit activity data has the potential to a
 dvance the basic understanding of the behavior of urban transportation sys
 tems and enable applications such as real time operations monitoring\, tra
 nsport supply and demand management for sustainability\, planning and poli
 cy analysis. The talk explores these developments in the context of two ur
 ban transportation systems: traffic networks and transit systems.  We pres
 ent challenges in processing such data and discuss methods and building bl
 ocks for extracting useful information for operations planning and control
 \, communication and information on demand services\, and other applicatio
 ns. On the traffic side we discuss work related to the iMobility Lab\, an 
 urban laboratory with real time data from taxis in Stockholm\, and on the 
 transit side we explore the use of smart card data to infer the movement o
 f passengers in the system and characterize their travel patterns.\n\n \n\
 nBio\n\nHaris N. Koutsopoulos is a (Guest) Professor of Transport Science 
 at KTH\, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a research ass
 ociate in the Transit Research Program at MIT. He was Director of the Tran
 sport Platform at KTH\, a university-wide body to develop strategic direct
 ions\, coordinate related activities\, and promote multidisciplinary resea
 rch opportunities.  He also served as Head of the Traffic and Logistics Di
 vision. He received his Sc.Eng. from the National Technical University of 
 Athens\, and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Transportation Systems from MIT.
   His research focuses on modeling Intelligent Transportation Systems\, dy
 namic traffic assignment methods\, traffic and transit simulation at vario
 us levels of resolution\, driving behavior\, and model calibration. His cu
 rrent research investigates the use of data from opportunistic sensors for
  monitoring and control of traffic and transit systems\, understanding tra
 vel behavior\, and provision of real time information.  He established the
  iMobility laboratory at KTH (a computational infrastructure for the proce
 ssing of real time FCD and other data and their use for traffic monitoring
  and management\, multimodal travel planning\, and a platform for concept 
 development and education). He has published extensively in these areas an
 d received a number of awards (including the IBM Smarter Planet Award).
LOCATION:Snell Engineering Center\, 168
SUMMARY:Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Sem
 inar Series
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.northeastern.edu/event/department_of_civil_a
 nd_environmental_engineering_distinguished_seminar_series
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