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SUMMARY:A Dynamic Environmentally-friendly Planning and Operation Platform
  (DEPOT) for Chinese Medium-size Cities
DTSTART:20140926T121500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof Dr Meng Li\, University of Tsinghua\, China\nIn recent ye
 ars\, China has been in the high-speed urbanization process. Under the rap
 id growth of economy\, car ownership and drivers\, together with massive p
 opulation movement toward urban areas\, the traffic congestions and safety
  are steadily worsening\, not only in major cites but also in the medium-s
 ize cities. A national ITS R&D project started with the analysis of the un
 ique traffic characteristics of such Chinese medium-size cities. Three com
 mon characteristics are: 1) sharp increase in traffic demands\; 2) signifi
 cant tidal phenomena during peak times on the major corridors\; 3) land-us
 e and demand pattern can vary significantly during the development period.
 \nIn this study\, a dynamic environmentally-friendly planning and operatio
 n platform (DEPOT) is being developed to evaluate and optimize comprehensi
 ve strategies\, e.g. traffic management\, policy and planning strategies. 
 The simulation-based optimization approach is applied on DEPOT. Some resea
 rch modules under this project are: 1) the agent-based behavior model for 
 mode shift\; 2) the redistribution operation model for bicycle-sharing sys
 tem\; 3) the cooperated VMS guidance and signal control system\; and 4) th
 e coordination of dynamic parking pricing and transit service.\nBio : Dr. 
 Meng Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering a
 t Tsinghua University\, and Deputy Director\, Tsinghua – Daimler Center 
 for Sustainable Transportation. His main research areas are transportation
  system analysis and modeling\, intelligent transportation systems\, trave
 l behavior analysis and data mining. As the principle researcher\, Dr. Li 
 has been undertaking the National High Technology Research and Development
  Program of China\, National Natural Science Foundation of China key proje
 ct\, and the World Bank and the global environment facility (GEF) supporte
 d research and development projects. Dr. Li is a scientific committee memb
 er of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS)\, a member of
  traffic signal system committee (AHB25) of Transportation Research Board\
 , a member of Intelligent Transportation Signal Operation (ITSO) Committee
  of Institute of Transportation Engineering (ITE) and a member of American
  Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE). Prior to his current appointment at 
 Tsinghua University\, he worked as an R&D engineer at University of Califo
 rnia at Berkeley between 2004 and 2010. Dr. Li received his National Scien
 ce & Technology Progress Award Grade 2 in 2011.
LOCATION:GC C330 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=GCC330
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