A functioning transportation system requires active management over both short and long horizons. Day to day operational decisions—whether manually determined or through automatic controls—are critical to maintaining the capacity and performance of our transportation infrastructure. This might involve management of traffic incidents or monitoring of special events that shift travel patterns outside of the regimes that the automated systems are designed to handle. More broadly, the transportation infrastructure requires maintenance and renewal to meet longer term demand, shifting priorities, or adapting to the realities of an evolving climate and natural processes that degrade the infrastructure put in place in the last century.
UCI faculty and researchers tackle these issues using innovative methods to understand how the system is performing and proposing new approaches to help decision makers maximize safety and efficiency today while planning how to evolve the transportation system to meet the needs and challenges of the future. Subtopics in this area include:
- Traffic flow theory
- Traffic control and transportation management systems
- Transportation network security
- Emergency response and resilience
Lead Experts
Professor, Department of Economics • Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Professor, Urban Planning and Public Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
PhD Engineering (1986) • Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, ITS-Irvine • Chancellor's Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Recent Publications
SB1 Project Performance: Cost Overruns, Schedule Delays, and Cancellations
