When
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 2:00 p.m.
Wei Hua Lin
Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering
University of Arizona
"Towards a Self-Organizing Traffic Control System: the Role of AI"
Harvill Building, Room 102
Abstract: Over the past three decades or so, numerous transportation initiatives have been launched, from smart roads to automated highway systems (AHS) and self-driving vehicles. In this talk, we identify the similarities and differences of those initiatives and draw lessons from them to evaluate the new opportunities in utilizing the cutting-edge technology in information and communication to make our transportation system more efficient. With the rapid development in artificial intelligence, "interaction” has become a key feature of AI which has been incorporated into many systems. We discuss from the system’s perspective how the interaction between individual vehicles and system control can be realized in a self-organizing system to improve the efficiency of a transportation system in terms of cost reduction and increased system throughput while ensuring privacy and fairness/equality.
Bio: Wei Hua Lin is a professor of systems and industrial engineering at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD in civil engineering from University of California at Berkeley. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the PATH program of the University of California at Berkeley. Lin is the past paper review coordinator for the Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee of Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, and is currently the associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is the author/coauthor of over 70 papers and his research areas cover traffic control, logistics systems analysis and network optimization.