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SUMMARY:Models and algorithms for transit centric urban mobility
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Samitha Samaranayake\nAbstract\nAffordable\, equitable a
 nd efficient access to personal mobility is a fundamental societal need---
 with broad implications for personal well-being\, economic mobility\, educ
 ation\, and public health. While shared mobility\, autonomy and electrific
 ation seem to be getting most of the attention in the research community a
 nd industry (at least in the US)\, it is hard to envision a transportation
  system that is sustainable\, equitable and scalable without a significan
 t mass-transit component. This raises many interesting questions on when a
 nd how new technologies (e.g.\, mobility-on-demand services) can be integr
 ated with mass transit to improve personal mobility. This talk will focus
  on some algorithmic and practical questions related to designing and oper
 ating such integrated multi-modal transit systems. We will discuss the pro
 blem setting at a high-level and talk about some specific algorithms for 
 (bus) line-planning in the multi-modal setting (including line generation)
 . We will also have some discussion on equity considerations if time permi
 ts.  \n\nShort bio \nSamitha Samaranayake is an Assistant Professor in 
 the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University wi
 th graduate field faculty affiliations in Operations Research and Informat
 ion Engineering\, the Center for Applied Mathematics\, and Systems Enginee
 ring. His primary research interest is in the modeling\, analysis and cont
 rol of transportation systems with a focus on societal considerations such
  as sustainability and equity\, and developing computationally efficient 
 solution techniques and algorithms that enable practical applications. He 
 received an NSF CAREER Award in 2021. Prior to joining Cornell he was a P
 ostdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Syste
 ms at MIT. He completed his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at the Universit
 y of California\, Berkeley in December 2014. He has worked in the server t
 echnologies group at Oracle\, the design for test (DFT) group at Synopsys
 \, the route planning/transit team at Google and the French National Ins
 titute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA). Samitha rec
 eived his Bachelors and M.Eng. in Computer Science from MIT and an M.Sc.
  in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.\n\nSand
 wiches are offered at the end of the seminar.\n 
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