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ITS is an important new component in surface transportation as introduced over the last several decades.
Under ITS, one of the research projects aims to conceive, organize and simulate the implementation of new smart transportation services and modes, such as congestion and parking pricing, incident detection and speed adaptation systems, car-sharing and one-way car rentals, etc.
The second, and intimately related, ITS project aims to develop several types of information technologies that could be deployed within the Portuguese transportation system in order to improve mobility services, provide new information for infrastructure and service design, and allow users to make better-informed decisions about their mobility via seamless integration of the necessary information (including prices and externalities) and convenient delivery of this information when and where it is needed.
Project 1: Smart Combination of passenger transport modes and services in Urban areas for maximum System Sustainability and Efficiency (SCUSSE)
(November 2007 – June 2010)
Description: The project aims to conceive, organize and simulate the implementation of new smart transport modes and services to optimize integration with lifestyles, and also with already existing individual and collective transport. For this, three levels of decision (strategic, tactic and operational) will be approached covering the institutional design required for the regulatory environment, network planning focusing on productive efficiency as well as efficiency in consumption, and enforcement and performance monitoring at the operational level. Performance assessment at the strategic level will also be developed.
Objectives: The project is organized around the following specific objectives:
- Understanding factors of preference and repulsion on choice of travel mode and developing proto-solutions for multiple market segments
- Conceptualizing and evaluating innovative services, modes, and congestion management initiatives (including pricing) with the aim of better fit to user requirements and the potential for greater sustainability and efficiency
- Developing incentives, marketing, acceptability, and business models for the innovative services and modes
- Analyzing the urban activity space and the implications of the innovative services
- Designing and simulating the new services, modes, and congestion management initiatives (including pricing)
- Analyzing the implications of new services and pricing paradigms on governance structures
- Assessing institutional, economic, and financial feasibility of new solutions found as well as their impact at tactical and strategic levels
- Developing a handbook on smart combination of passenger transport modes and services in urban areas.
Industry Involvement: Information will be obtained from a variety of sources including authorities and current operators of innovative services and mobility solutions in Portugal and elsewhere.
PT Faculty: João Abreu e Silva (IST), Rosário Macário (IST), José Viegas (IST), Álvaro Seco (Coimbra)
MIT Faculty: Moshe Ben-Akiva , William Mitchell , Joseph Sussman
Student Researchers on this Project: Rafaela Arriaga (IST), Carlos Azevedo (IST), Diana Carvalho (IST), Travis P Dunn (MIT), Andres Sevtsuk (MIT)
Working Papers:
 Happiness and Travel Behavior Modification by Maya Abou-Zeid & Moshe Ben-Akiva
Stated Preference Survey for New Smart Transport Modes and Services by By Lang Yang, Charisma F Choudhury, Moshe Ben-Akiva, João Abreu e Silva & Diana Carvalho
Strategy in Surface Transportation by Travis P. Dunn & Joseph Sussman
Role of Technology in Surface Transportation Strategy Development
Resources:
Alternative Strategy Development Frameworks for Surface Transportation Systems, poster, Travis Dunn, MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, July 7, 2009.
Fighting Parasite Circulation Through Parking Space Reservations, poster, Diana Carvalho, MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, July 7, 2009.
Innovation in Transport Modes and Services in Urban Areas and Their Potential to Fight Congestion by José Manuel Viegas, João de Abreu e Silva, Rafaela Arriaga
Location Choices, Accessibility & City Form, poster, Andres Sevtsuk, MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, July 7, 2009.
Long-Term Drivers of Cultural Shifts Within Generations in Favor of Sustainable Mobility, poster, Rafaela Arriaga, MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, July 7, 2009.
Safety Criteria for the Management of Variable Speed Limits, poster, Carlos Lima Azevedo, MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, July 7, 2009.
Smart Combination of passenger transport modes and services in Urban areas for maximum System Sustainability and Efficiency (SCUSSE), poster, MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, July 7, 2009.
SCUSSE Project Overview by José Manuel Viegas
A Structured Simulation-based Methodology for Carpooling Viability Assessment by Gonçalo Correia & José Manuel Viegas
Transportation Systems Research 2008 SCUSSE
Project 2: Data Fusion for Mobility Consumers, Providers, and Planners (CityMotion)
December 2007 – December 2010
Description: This project focuses on the development of a knowledge infrastructure, computational models, and user applications that allow access to real-time information about the state of transportation-related resources as well as predictions regarding their future state. A pilot service that exemplifies the usage potential of available data will be provided to citizens for making public transportation more efficient and pleasant to use and to policy-makers as a decision-support tool.
Objectives: The project is organized around the following specific objectives:
- Acquiring and parsing data that describe the state of transportation-related resources (e.g. bus and train locations, cell phone traces, road sensors, GPS tracking, weather, emergency events, and census data)
- Developing a data fusion engine that combines the data to extract from them additional information including predictions
- Developing a model-based data fusion engine (with simulation capabilities) that models a particular transportation network along with the behaviour of travellers within it
- Developing a web-based service that enables different applications to access the data collected
- Developing an interactive multi-modal, multi-criteria route-planning application that would exemplify the capabilities of the data fusion engine and provide support to the travelling decisions of the public
- Developing a geographical modelling and visualization module of city dynamics for use by planners and service providers
Industry Involvement: Mobile phone operators, ITS service suppliers, and public transport operators are the main targets for this project.
PT Faculty: João Abreu e Silva (IST), Carlos Lisboa Bento (Coimbra), Francisco C. Pereira (Coimbra), Teresa Galvão (Porto)
MIT Faculty: Moshe Ben-Akiva , Assaf Biderman , Carlo Ratti , P. Christopher Zegras
Student Researchers on this Project: Tiago Fernandes (Coimbra), Rui Gomes (Porto), Jorge Lopes (IST)
Working Papers:
Data Fusion for Real-Time Traffic Management by Enyang Huang, Constantinos Antoniou, Moshe Ben-Akiva (currently in review)
Multi-Sensor Data Fusion on Intelligent Transport Systems by Marco Veloso, Carlos Bento, and Francisco Câmara Pereira
State of the Practice Overview of Transportation Data Fusion by Andrew Amey, Liang Liu, Francisco Pereira, Christopher Zegras, Marco Veloso, Carlos Bento, Assaf Biderman
Resources:
CityMotion Overview by Carlos Bento
Data Fusion for TDM: State of the Practice & Prospects by Christopher Zegras, Francisco Pereira, Andrew Amey, Marco Veloso, Liang Liu, Carlos Bento, Assaf Biderman
Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Demand Responsive Transportation, poster, Rui Gomes, MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, July 7, 2009.
Perceiving City Dynamics Resorting to Data Fusion Mechanisms, poster, Marco Veloso, MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, July 7, 2009.
Transportation Systems Research 2008 CityMotion
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