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UC Irvine team “Traffic Flaw Theory” is the WINNER of TRANSFOR19. The team consisted Dr. Jared Sun (System Manager), Yiqiao Li (PhD Student), Pratiik Malik (PhD Student), Lu Xu (PhD student) and Dr. Qinglong Yan (Recent PhD graduate) at ITS-Irvine.

The international competition challenged the teams to develop short-term traffic forecasting models to predict the five-minute average speed on a road section along Chang’an North Road in Xi’an, China. The dataset is provided by DiDi Chuxing Technology Co., a Chinese ride-sharing company through Gaia Open Data Initiative. The submissions are evaluated based on prediction accuracy (50%), degree on novelty (25%), quality of the code (10%), and quality of the presentation (15%).

With the highest prediction accuracy, ITS-Irvine teams ranked #1 in the pre-selection stage and finished top after the final presentation at TRB 2019 Workshop 1058 “Big Data Without Machine Learning Is Just Lots of Data: A Guided Tour to Big Data and Machine Learning”.

The competition was organized by the TRB committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (ABJ70) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE’s) Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Technical Activities Sub-Committee “Smart Cities and Smart Mobility” and sponsored by DiDi Chuxing, a Chinese ride-sharing and technology firm.

The TRB paper “Individual Truck Speed Estimation from Advanced Single Inductive Loops” by Yiqiao Li, Dr. Andre Tok, Prof. Ritchie, was selected as the best paper submitted to Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability Subcommittee (ABJ30(3)) in the 2019 Annual Meeting. Fifty-four Papers were evaluated based on the quality and impact of the work on practice and the research profession, and both the poster and written paper were reviewed. A certificate will be presented to the winners at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting during ABJ30 subcommittee meeting.

The Institute of Transportation Studies-Irvine is hosting a reception for UC Irvine transportation alumni, students, and faculty during the 2019 Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting. A standing dinner will be provided.

Date & Time
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Location
Matchbox Chinatown
713 H Street NW
Washington D.C. 20001

RSVP by Dec. 20th: RSVP Form Link

We invite you to read the new issue of Transfers, a biannual digital magazine from the Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center produced and edited by ITS staff and students. With editorial leadership from UCLA professors Donald Shoup and Martin Wachs, Transfers distills expert knowledge on a wide range of transportation topics into tangible links to action.

The Fall 2018 issue is now available and includes an opinion piece by UCI’s own Cody Nehiba, a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics.

You can receive the spring issue of Transfers directly in your inbox by subscribing: Subscribe

All UCI faculty, staff, and students are invited to celebrate sustainability at uciRIDEtoberfest featuring ElectrifyUCI’s EV Showcase, a multi-day festival of bikes, zero emission vehicles, transit, food, and fun. Join us on Tuesday, October 9 and Wednesday, October 10, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the flagpoles near Aldrich Hall to:

• Explore zero-emission vehicles, including pre-owned options brought to you by Plug-In Auto
• Learn about Pump2Plug membership benefits
• Find a carpool match with Waze Carpool
• Receive hands-on guidance from certified League of American Bicyclists instructors
• Purchase a bike at the ReCycle Bike Fair
• Learn about transit programs from OC Bus and Metrolink team members
• Use your raffle tickets to win exciting prizes and eat delicious food
• Hablamos Espanol! Traductores de espanol estan disponibles para guiarle a traves del festival.

On Tuesday, join us for the launch of California Air Resources Board (CARB)’s zero-emission lawn and garden equipment roadshow and get a glimpse of ElectrifyUCI’s green fleet vehicles.

On Wednesday, compare side-by-side new and popular zero-emission vehicles, including all-electric motorcycles, on the market today.

For more information on this entertaining festival, please visit uciRIDEtoberfest’s webpage. We look forward to seeing you there!

Ron Fleming
Executive Director

ITE Southern California has elected Joshua McNeil as the president for the 2018/2019 year. As an ITS-Irvine Alumus, Joshua McNeil earned his bachelor and master degrees from UC Irvine in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Please see detail here.

During the recent Annual Western District ITE meeting in the week of July 25, 2018, ITS-Irvine alumna, Neelam Dorman, was elected into the Western District ITE president. She also served as the ITE SoCal President 2014-2015. Neelam Dorman received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UC Irvine in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

Please see details here.

The UCI Student Chapter of the Institution of Transportation Engineers (ITE) competed in the event of the year, the Annual ITE SoCal/OCTEC Student Presentation Night at the Knotts Berry Farm Hotel on May 16, 2018. Their presentation, entitled “Deployment Readiness of Current Connected Vehicle Technology,” was awarded 2nd place by the panel of judges, and the Chapter received $2200 in prize money for future Chapter activities. This year’s project was conducted in collaboration with the City of Anaheim, and in particular utilized the new UCI/Anaheim Connected Vehicle Testbed and 15 intersections instrumented with Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for V2I communication.
The winners were:

1. Cal Poly Pomona
2. UC Irvine
3. UCLA

Honorable Mentions: Cal State Long Beach, USC, Cal State Fullerton.
Congratulations to the whole UCI ITE Student Chapter and especially to tonight’s undergraduate presenters: Enrique Ortiz, Yana Loginova, Julia Milano, and Mareeya Tongkul.

The EU-funded competition TRA VISIONS 2018 has just awarded prizes to its young researcher winners at the end of the Opening Ceremony on Monday 16th April (12-12:30pm) of the 2018 Transport Research Arena (TRA 2018). Young researchers from all over Europe submitted innovative concepts in order to enhance smart, sustainable and integrated transport and mobility of people and goods.

Overall, 169 young researchers from 56 different European universities participated in the TRA VISIONS 2018 Student Competition and submitted 122 ideas for the transport modes road, rail, waterborne and cross-modal.

The TRA VISIONS 2018 Young Researchers Competition awarded prizes sponsored by industry (ALICE, ERTRAC, Meyer Werft, SHIFT2RAIL and UITP). In the road sector, the winners were Mareike Hedderich from Munich University of the Federal Armed Forces (Park Spot Routing), Irene Martinez from Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (Location of Variable Speed Limit application area to avoid capacity drop) and Federico Perrotta from University of Nottingham (Evaluation of road pavements fuel efficiency using truck sensors data).

E-Week at the Samueli School of Engineering kicked off with a splash on Monday, Feb. 12, when the Engineering Student Council (ESC) hosted a dunk tank. Presented by ESC, E-Week is an annual event aimed at increasing public awareness and appreciation for the engineering profession. This year’s theme was “Engineers: Inspiring Wonder.”

Festivities wrapped up with the Engineering Awards Banquet on Friday in the Student Center, recognizing outstanding students, faculty and engineering student organizations. UCI Engineering Student Council recognized ITS Ph.D. student Koti Reddy Allu “student of the year” reward for excellence in undergraduate teaching CEE121.