Traffic flow smoothing with level 1 automated vehicles

Date and Time: Monday, July 18: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pacific

Dan Work

Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

This talk will describe the potential for and challenges of traffic flow smoothing using automated vehicles. We highlight an approach to demonstrate traffic flow smoothing at scale using a fleet of up to 100 automated vehicles in live traffic, planned for fall 2022. The experiment will take place on the new I-24 Motion open freeway testbed being constructed near Nashville, TN.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Dan Work is a Chancellor Faculty Fellow and associate professor in civil and environmental engineering, computer science, and the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. He has held research appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010–17), Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (2015, 2020), Microsoft Research Redmond (2009), and Nokia Research Center Palo Alto (2007–09). Dr. Work pioneered methods for monitoring and controlling road traffic using vehicles, rather than fixed infrastructure, to sense and control road congestion. In 2015 he and his collaborators were the first to experimentally demonstrate that “phantom” traffic jams, which seemingly occur without an obvious cause but are due to human driving behavior, can be eliminated via control of a small fraction of automated vehicles in the flow. Dr. Work received a 2018 Gilbreth Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineering and a 2014 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. He earned a BS from Ohio State in 2006, and an MS (2007) and PhD (2010) from UC Berkeley, all in civil and environmental engineering.

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