ICON Seminar in Autonomy: Prof. Jane Lin (UIC)
| Author: | Tho Le |
|---|---|
| Event Date: | October 6, 2023 |
| Speaker: | Jane Lin |
| Speaker Affiliation: | UIC |
| Time: | 3:00-5:00pm |
| Location: | MSEE 180
Zoom Link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/98798335169?pwd=ZFNMdmZXendoQ1RCRDczM2dTR1RIdz09 |
| Contact Name: | Tho Le |
| Contact Email: | thovle@purdue.edu |
| Priority: | No |
| School or Program: | College of Engineering |
| College Calendar: | Show |
An Autonomous Modular Public Transit Service
Time: 3:00-5:00 pm Eastern Time, October 6 (Friday), 2023
Location: MSEE 112
Zoom Link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/98798335169?pwd=ZFNMdmZXendoQ1RCRDczM2dTR1RIdz09
Free coffee and snacks will be provided.
An Autonomous Modular Public Transit Service
Abstract:
In this work, we present a proof-of-concept investigation of Autonomous Modular Public Transit (AMPT) at a network scale and compare it with the traditional fixed-route, fixed capacity transit service in terms of total cost, which consists of both agency’s capital and operational cost, including energy cost, and passenger time cost. We formulate and solve stylized design models for AMPT on a grid network in a range of demand density scenarios with both homogenous and heterogeneous distributions. The AMPT models explicitly account for pod joining and disjoining (and therefore en-route transfers of passengers) and potential energy savings due to pod train formation (pod platooning), which represent major departures from the traditional transit models in the literature. Numerical results find that AMPT, if designed properly, may save the total cost compared to traditional transit systems thanks to demand responsive pod train capacity, particularly in the low demand scenarios. In addition, the load factor of AMPT generally improves over the traditional transit service. We also study how dispatching schedule may affect pod train joining and disjoining.
Speaker:
Dr. Jane Lin is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, with a joint appointment at the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at UIC. Her research focuses on sustainable transportation design, analysis, and optimization in both passenger and goods transportation. Lin is an appointed member of the Board of the Scientific Counsellors at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She chairs the Sustainability & Resilience Group (AM000) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Lin is editor of Transport Policy, and associate editor of Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and the Environment. Lin received her MS and PhD in civil & environmental engineering from University of California, Davis, and BS in structural engineering (minor in computer science) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for the Environment at Harvard University before joining UIC.
Recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXr2Gm4UxU&ab_channel=ICONPurdue
Organizers: Ziran Wang (ziran@purdue.edu), Patrick Hyun (nhyun@purdue.edu), & Tho Le (thovle@purdue.edu)
2023-10-06 15:00:00 2023-10-06 17:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis ICON Seminar in Autonomy: Prof. Jane Lin (UIC) An Autonomous Modular Public Transit Service MSEE 180 Zoom Link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/98798335169?pwd=ZFNMdmZXendoQ1RCRDczM2dTR1RIdz09