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Sponsor: USDOT/UTC

PSR-UTC Fellowship: Cody Nehiba

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 25, 2017 - March 23, 2018

Project Team

Cody Nehiba

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // PSR Dissertation Fellowship: NEHIBA
(Subcontract to University of Southern California)

Related Publications

Phd Dissertation | Jun 2019

Essays on Transportation Externalities

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PSR-UTC Fellowship: Jiangbo Yu

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 25, 2017 - March 23, 2018

Project Team

Jiangbo (Gabe) Yu

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // PSR Dissertation Fellowship: YU
(Subcontract to University of Southern California)

Related Publications

Phd Dissertation | Jan 2018

Paradigms of Identifying and Quantifying Uncertainty and Information in Constructing a Cognition-Modeling Framework of Human-Machine Transportation Systems

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PSR-UTC Fellowship: Brian Casebolt

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 25, 2017 - March 23, 2018

Project Team

Brian Casebolt

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // PSR Dissertation Fellowship: CASEBOLT
(Subcontract to University of Southern California)

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

PSR-UTC Fellowship: Monica Ramirez-Ibarra

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 25, 2017 - March 23, 2018

Project Team

Monica Ramirez-Ibarra

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // PSR Dissertation Fellowship: RAMIREZ-IBARRA
(Subcontract to University of Southern California)

Related Publications

Phd Dissertation | Sep 2022

Electrification, Connectivity, & Active Demand Management: Addressing the traffic, health, and environmental justice impacts of drayage trucks in Southern California

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PSR-UTC Fellowship: Elaine Gilbert

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 25, 2017 - June 15, 2018

Project Team

Elaine Gilbert

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // PSR Dissertation Fellowship: LUONG
(Subcontract to University of Southern California)

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

PSR-UTC Fellowship: Priscilla Chu

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 23, 2019 - June 12, 2020

Project Team

Priscilla Chu

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // PSR Dissertation Fellowship: CHU
(Subcontract to University of Southern California)

Related Publications

MS Thesis | Jun 2020

Synthesis of California Port Competitiveness Issues and Policy Recommendations

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Assessing the Impacts of Truck Traffic on Residential Property Values: A Southern California Case Study. Dissertation Grant for PhD Candidate Wei Li

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

August 1, 2009 - December 31, 2010

Principal Investigator

Jean-Daniel Saphores

Project Team

Wei Li

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // UCTC Dissertation Fellowship: 7070
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Freight, Logistics, & Supply Chain Travel Behavior, Land Use, & the Built Environment

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Related Publications

Phd Dissertation | Jan 2011

Assessing Benefits and Costs of Urban Environmental Attributes in a Hedonic Framework: Three Southern California Case Studies

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Research Grant – Inchul Yang

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

August 1, 2009 - March 31, 2011

Principal Investigator

r-jayakrishnanR. (Jay) Jayakrishnan

Project Team

Inchul Yang

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // UCTC Dissertation Fellowship: 7084
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project Summary

A multi-agent Advanced Traffic Management and Information Systems (ATMIS) framework is proposed. Multiple private traffic information service providers cooperate or compete with each other in the ATIS market which most existing studies look at as a one-supplier system, mostly run by a public agency. Subscribers to private information services become probe vehicles and report traffic data as well as travel diaries (individual path-based data) to the private vendors. A Traffic Management Center (TMC), i.e., public agency optimizes network-wide traffic signal controls, for which a dynamic traffic optimization model (or algorithm) is developed in an integrated fashion at the network level on the basis of path- based data with traffic information supply and route guidance. In the framework, the private companies provide the path-based data used in the traffic signal optimization model to the public agency and in return get the optimized traffic signal control plans which are essential in predicting future traffic conditions. The study is simulation-based, as the path-based data collection systems are only expected in the near-future. The study results are expected to develop insights on the benefits from such cooperative public-private operations and provide the impetus for private and public investment in the necessary data collection infrastructure. 

Related Publications

Phd Dissertation | Jan 2011

The Interplay of Urban Traffic Route Guidance, Network Control and Driver Response: A Convergent Algorithmic and Model-based Framework

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Spring 2010 Dissertation Award – Lima Koptich

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

August 1, 2010 - July 31, 2011

Principal Investigator

Jean-Daniel Saphores

Project Team

Lima Kopitch

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // UCTC Dissertation Fellowship: 7484
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Areas of Expertise

Infrastructure Delivery, Operations, & Resilience

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project Summary

Accidents are the largest source of external costs related to transportation with an estimated annual cost that exceeds $200 billion in the United States alone. Accidents lead to traffic backups that can result in secondary accidents.  The purpose of this project is to investigate empirically whether the implementation of Changeable Message Signs (CMS), which belong to Intelligent Transportation System tools, can reduce secondary collisions by providing motorists with real-time traffic information. I will first review previously published methods of estimating secondary accidents to clarify the definition of secondary accidents and offer improvements. I will then study a 74-mile portion of Interstate 5 from the Mexico-US border to Orange County, CA that has 12 CMS, 3 of which are in southbound direction.  This freeway has 4 to 6 lanes in each direction, and a maximum AADT volume of 230,000 vehicles. For this study area, I put together a unique dataset that includes accident data for year 2008 combined with detailed weather data.  I will rely on counting and regression models to estimate the number of secondary incidents based on the number of primary accidents, weather conditions, time of day, traffic conditions and the availability of information.

Related Publications

Phd Dissertation | Jan 2011

An Analysis of the Impact of an Incident Management System on Secondary Incidents on Freeways - An Application to the I-5 in California

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Analysis of Large Truck Crashes in California: Factors Influencing Crash Frequency and Severity

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

July 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025

Principal Investigator

Stephen Ritchie

Project Team

Kevin Lee

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT/UTC // TRIP: Lee

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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