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SUMMARY:Large-scale and real-time transport simulation: from assessing the
  solution to becoming part of the solution
DTSTART:20140411T120000
DTEND:20140411T133000
DTSTAMP:20260511T062058Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Alex Torday is civil engineer and obtained his master degre
 e in 1999 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology\, Lausanne\, wher
 e he also completed his PhD thesis on dynamic route guidance assessment an
 d probe vehicles techniques in 2004. As part of his past research activiti
 es\, he developed strong links with Tokyo University where he spent 4 mont
 hs as invited researcher in 2006. Alex is currently the consulting directo
 r of the TSS Group\, a position he has held since 2005. In his role\, he o
 versees all TSS consulting project engagements and is an active contributo
 r to research and development for the Aimsun traffic simulation environmen
 t. Alex has given presentations and published papers on topics such as onl
 ine simulation\, dynamic route guidance\, simulation-based ITS application
 s and integrated macro-meso-micro simulation. He also heads the Spanish de
 legation for the ISO TC204 (ITS) standardization committee. In addition to
  his prior role\, since 2012 Alex is the managing director of the Asia-Pac
 ific branch of the TSS Group.\nMathematical models for evaluating the impa
 ct of new transportation development in urban and interurban networks have
  been widely used since the early seventies. With improvements in computat
 ional power over the years\, these tools have relied on a range of differe
 nt levels of complexity in the representation of the movement of people\, 
 vehicles and even goods. In the early years of traffic modelling\, enginee
 rs used a static macroscopic model that covered entire city networks for p
 lanning purposes\; with time\, microscopic simulators became available to 
 tackle detailed operational aspects of specific and limited areas\; the ar
 rival of mesoscopic modelling offered an additional option that allows bet
 ter assessment of congestion phenomena in large-scale and dynamic models..
  Nowadays\, these different techniques are used separately or in combinati
 on to answer a large range of questions about future impacts on transporta
 tion efficiency. However\, this means that decision makers need a minimum 
 level of consistency in the information provided by these tools. This need
  is leading to the adoption of integrated modelling frameworks\, a task th
 at is on the to-do-list of many transportation authorities round the world
  these days.\nThis tendency on the part of the modelling community also sh
 ows an inevitable closer relationship between planning and operations\; to
  such an extent that simulation models are nowadays part of the operationa
 l solutions. Indeed\, several cities have started to develop decision supp
 ort systems for real-time transportation management centres that use simul
 ation as prediction engines. This seminar will cover these different topic
 s\, explaining the scientific foundation behind these different models but
  also showcasing how they are used in current projects around the globe.
LOCATION:GCC 330
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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