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Econometric Modelling for Intrametropolitan Transportation Analysis

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 1, 1996 - June 30, 2001

Principal Investigator

Marlon Boarnet

Sponsor, Program

USDOT/UTC // UCTC
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Real-time Adaptive Systemwide Ramp Metering and Signal Control

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

November 30, 1999 - June 30, 2001

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Sponsor, Program

Caltrans // PATH

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Freeway Safety as a Function of Traffic Flow: The FITS Tool for Evaluating ATMS Operations

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 1, 1900 - September 30, 2002

Principal Investigator

Thomas Golob

Project Team

Veronica Alvarez, Will Recker

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // PATH: TO 4117

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Related Publications

published journal article | Nov 2004

Freeway safety as a function of traffic flow
Accident Analysis & Prevention

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research report | Sep 2002

Freeway Safety as a Function of Traffic Flow: The FITS Tool for Evaluating ATMS Operations

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MS Thesis | Jan 2002

Safety implications of weaving sections in freeway design : a case study in Orange County

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published journal article | Jan 2004

Safety aspects of freeway weaving sections
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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published journal article | Mar 2004

Tool to Evaluate Safety Effects of Changes in Freeway Traffic Flow
Journal of Transportation Engineering

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working paper | Aug 2003

Safety Aspects of Freeway Weaving Sections

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Enhancements of ATMIS Using Artificial Intelligence

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 1, 1900 - September 30, 2002

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Project Team

Henry Liu

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // PATH: TO 4100

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Related Publications

research report | Sep 2002

Enhancements of ATMIS Using Artificial Intelligence

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Micro-simulation Modeling Approach to Applications of On-line Simulation and Data Fusion

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 1, 1900 - January 31, 2004

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Project Team

Lianyu Chu

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // PATH: TO 4143

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Related Publications

working paper | Jan 2004

Micro-simulation Modeling Approach to Applications of On-line Simulation and Data Fusion

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Autonet

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 30, 2003 - September 29, 2004

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Related Publications

published journal article | Jan 2009

Autonet: inter-vehicle communication and network vehicular traffic
International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems

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Strategies for Successful Implementation of Virtual Weigh and Compliance Systems in California

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 1, 1900 - October 31, 2006

Principal Investigator

Amelia Regan

Project Team

Minyoung Park, Srinivas Nandiraju, Choong Heon Yang

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

Caltrans // PATH: TO 5105

Team Departmental Affiliation

Computer Science

Related Publications

research report | Oct 2006

Strategies for Successful Implementation of Virtual Weigh and Compliance Systems in California

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UCTC Fellowships (SAFETEA-LU)

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

September 1, 2005 - July 1, 2012

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Project Team

Joseph Chow, Kent Hymel, Lima Kopitch, Mark Kutzbach, Lawrence Liu, Joseph Molinaro, Vivek Pai, J Paul Townley, Mei-Ting (May) Tsai, Daji Yuan, Janie Dullard, Sarah Hernandez, Ali Yavari, David Kim, Paul Harer

Sponsor, Program

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

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project Summary

Fellowships provided under UCTC (SAFETEA-LU)

Related Publications

Phd Dissertation | Jan 2010

Flexible management of transportation networks under uncertainty

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University of California Transportation Center

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

March 1, 2012 - October 31, 2016

Principal Investigator

Stephen Ritchie

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

USDOT // UTC: 7869
(Subcontract to UC Berkeley)

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Understanding the Cybersecurity Risks of HATS Autonomy Stack in Commercial Settings

Status

In Progress

Project Timeline

August 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024

Principal Investigator

Qi Alfred Chen

Project Team

Takami Sato, Chi Zhang

Team Departmental Affiliations

Computer Science, Information and Computer Science

Project Summary

The promises of highly automated transportation systems (HATS) are clear and compelling: a path to zero roadway fatalities, low-cost mobility of people and goods, broadening access to transportation services. But, HATS will fail to gain the public’s trust if they are seen as uniquely vulnerable to cyberattacks. Thus, it is imperative to proactively perform cybersecurity risk analysis for critical components in the latest HATS technology, especially the relatively new ones such as the AI-enabled vehicle autonomy, so that their potential cybersecurity problems can be sufficiently identified, understood, and ideally addressed before wide deployment. In this 1-year project period, our goal is to perform the first large-scale study of the cybersecurity risks to HATS autonomy stack from the commercial systems perspective. Specifically, while various prior works have studied the security vulnerabilities on the HATS autonomy stack (e.g., on critical HATS autonomy stack components such as perception, localization, prediction, planning, and control), almost all of them only focused on studying such security problems in academic settings, e.g., on open-source HATS autonomy models/systems released by and/or designed for academic research community. However, these models/systems are not directly used in any commercial products, which thus makes the impacts of these security problems on real-world commercial HATS systems unclear. A few recent works have considered performing evaluation against commercial HATS systems, but so far they are all limited to one single commercial product without systematically considering the representativeness of such a system, making the generalizability of their findings highly questionable. In this project, we thus aim at filling this critical research gap by performing the first large-scale study of existing security research in this problem space against real-world commercial HATS systems. In this 1-year period, we plan to target a few commercial HATS autonomy features that both have high accessibility in consumer products today (e.g., in common consumer vehicles) and also have high representativeness in the HATS autonomy stack security research area (e.g., those heavily studied by existing security research), for example the traffic sign recognition (TSR), automatic lane centering (ALC), and adaptive cruise control (ACC) features.

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