The Use of Large Scale Geo-Location Data for Traffic Analytics
A/Prof. Satish V. Ukkusuri (Purdue University)
NICTA SML SEMINARDATE: 2012-10-09
TIME: 11:00:00 - 12:00:00
LOCATION: NICTA - 7 London Circuit
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ABSTRACT:
Over the last several years many private and public sector agencies have been interested in how data, social media, mobile technologies, and data visualization can help us manage our urban environments. IBM has coined the term aSmart Citiesa to describe the recent development in this area, while CISCO calls it aIntelligent Citiesa. This talk with present ongoing research on how very large scale social media data can be used for solving urban congestion issues. Specifically, this study will discuss how geo-location data from Foursquare and Twitter can be used to characterize and predict activity patterns in an urban area. In addition, other data sets such as taxi cab GPS data will be discussed to demonstrate the potential for predicting network state and travel time using sample data sets collected at the Interdisciplinary Network Modeling Research group at Purdue University. Key methodological issues related to dynamic games and machine learning approaches will be briefly discussed.
BIO:
Guest Speaker: Dr. Satish V. Ukkusuri is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue where he teaches courses in transportation systems and freight and logistics planning. Dr. Ukkusuri is recognized nationally and internationally in the area of transportation network modeling and disaster management. He leads the Interdisciplinary Transportation Modeling and Analytics Lab at Purdue. Dr. Ukkusuri received the 2005 SWUTC Robert Herman Award given for outstanding research and leadership in transportation. He also received the Blitman Endowed Chair Professorship during his tenure at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from August 2005 - August 2009. He received the 2007 CP-STIO Award from Government of India to conduct collaborative research with IIT Bombay and the 2007 Emerging Scholars Grant from UTRC. In 2011, Dr. Ukkusuri received the CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award given for aoutstanding research and leadership by a new faculty member in the United Statesa. Dr. Ukkusuri is a member of the Transportation Network Modeling committee at Transportation Research Board (National Academies). He is the Chair of the ITS Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). Dr. Ukkusuri is an Area Editor for the journal, Networks and Spatial Economics, is on the Editorial Advisor Board of Transportation Research Part-B and was the Editor of overview papers for the journal of Transportation Research Part-C (Emerging Technologies) from January 2008-December 2011. He reviews papers and proposals for various journals and conferences and funding agencies in the US and abroad. Dr. Ukkusuri has chaired many sessions at national and international conferences. He was the co-Chair of the Network Resiliency conference in April 2011. He was the Chair of the 4th International Symposium on Dynamic Traffic Assignment at Martha's Vineyard in June 2012 and the co-chair of the 2012 NSF Workshop on Applications of Complexity Science to Coupled Infrastructure Systems. He serves as an advisory board member for Cooperative Research Centre in Low Carbon Living funded by the Australian Federal Government.
