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Jorge A. Laval

Associate Professor

Articles

  1. S. Ahn, S Vadlamani and J. Laval. A method to account for non-steady state conditions in measuring traffic hysteresis. Transportation Research Part C, 2011, In Press.
  2. Chilukuri, B. R and Laval, J. A. Traffic Signal Volume Warrants – A Delay Perspective. Forthcoming in ITE Journal, 2011.
  3. Zheng, Z., Ahn, S., Chen, D., Laval, J. Freeway Traffic Oscillations: Microscopic Analysis of Formations and Propagations using Wavelet Transform. Transportation Research Part B, 45 (9), 1378-1388, 2011. (Also in the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Transportation and Traffic Theory.)
  4. L Leclercq, J Laval, N Chiabaut. Capacity Drops at Merges: an endogenous model. Forthcoming Transportation Research Part B, 2011.
  5. Zheng, Z., Ahn, S., Chen, D., Laval, J., Applications of wavelet transform for analysis of freeway traffic: bottlenecks, transient traffic, and traffic oscillations, Transportation Research Part B, 45(2): 372-384, 2011.
  6. J A Laval. Hysteresis in traffic flow revisited: an improved measurement method. Transportation Research Part B, 45(2): 385–391, 2011.
  7. Yin, Y., Lou, Y. and Laval, J. A. Optimal Dynamic Pricing Strategies for High-Occupancy/Toll Lanes. Transportation Research Part C, 19 (1): 64-74, 2011.
  8. Laval, J. A. and Leclercq, L. Mechanism to describe stop-and-go waves: A mechanism to describe the formation and propagation of stop-and-go waves in congested freeway traffic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368(1928): 4519-4541, 2010.
  9. Ahn, S., J. A. Laval and Cassidy, M. Effects of Merging and Diverging on Freeway Traffic Oscillations: Theory and Observation. Transportation Research Record 2188: 1-8, 2010.
  10. Laval, J. A. and Leclercq, L. Continuum Approximation for Congestion Dynamics Along Freeway Corridors. Transportation Science, 44(1): 87 – 97, 2010.
  11. Laval, J. A., Chen, D., Ben Amer, K., Guin, A and Ahn, S. Evolution of Oscillations in Congested Traffic: Improved Estimation Method and Additional Empirical Evidences. Transportation Research Record 2124:194-202, 2009.
  12. J. A. Laval. Effects of Geometric Design on Freeway Capacity: Impacts of Truck Lane Restrictions. Transportation Research Part B, 43 (6): 720-728, 2009.
  13. J A Laval. Graphical Solution and Continuum Approximation for the Single Destination Dynamic User Equilibrium Problem. Transportation Research Part B, 43 (1): 108-118, 2009.
  14. J A Laval and L Leclercq. Microscopic modeling of the relaxation phenomenon using a macroscopic lane-changing model. Transportation Research Part B, 42 (6):511-522, 2008.
  15. L Leclercq, N Chiabaut, J Laval, and C Buisson. Relaxation phenomenon after changing lanes: Experimental validation with NGSIM data set. Transportation Research Record 1999: 79-85, 2007.
  16. J A Laval. A macroscopic theory of two-lane rural roads. Transportation Research Part B, 40 (10): 937-944, 2006.
  17. J A Laval. Stochastic processes of moving bottlenecks: Approximate formulas for highway capacity. Transportation Research Record, 1988: 86-91, 2006.
  18. J A Laval and C F Daganzo. Lane-changing in traffic streams. Transportation Research Part B, 40 (3): 251-264, 2006.
  19. J C Muñoz and J A Laval. System optimum dynamic traffic assignment graphical solution method for a congested freeway and one destination. Transportation Research Part B, 40 (1): 1-15, 2006.
  20. C F Daganzo and J A Laval. On the numerical treatment of moving bottlenecks. Transportation Research Part B, 39 (1): 31-46, 2005.
  21. C F Daganzo and J A Laval. Moving bottlenecks: A numerical method that converges in flows. Transportation Research Part B, 39 (9): 855-863, 2005.
  22. S Ahn, M Cassidy, and J A Laval. Verification of a simplified car-following theory. Transportation Research Part B, 38 (5): 431-440, 2004.
  23. C F Daganzo, J A Laval, and JC Muñoz. Some ideas for freeway congestion mitigation with advanced technologies. Traffic Engineering and control, 10 (43): 397-403, 2002.

Proceedings

  1. M. Mallick, S. Rubin and J. A. Laval. N-body Filtering for Road Tracking using a Car Following Model. In Proceedings: 14th International Conference on Information Fusion. Chicago, July 2011.
  2. Laval, J. A. Hysteresis in the fundamental diagram: impact of measurement methods. In Proceedings: International Workshop on Traffic data Collection & its Standardization. Barcelona, Spain, September 2008.
  3. L Leclercq, J Laval, and E Chevallier. The Lagrangian coordinate system and what it means for first order traffic flow models. In B Heydecker, M Bell, and R Allsop, editors, 17th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), pages 735-753. Elsevier, New York, 2007.
  4. L Leclercq and J A Laval. A multiclass car-following rule based on the LWR model. In Traffic and Granular Flow '07 Part I, pages 151-160. Springer, 2009.
  5. J A Laval. Linking synchronized flow and kinematic wave theory. In T. Schadschneider, A.and Poschel, R. Kuhne, M. Schreckenberg, and D. Wolf, editors, Traffic and Granular Flow '05, pages 521-526. Springer, 2005.
  6. J A Laval, M J Cassidy, and C F Daganzo. Impacts of lane changes at on-ramp bottlenecks: A theory and strategies to maximize capacity. In T. Schadschneider, A.and Poschel, R. Kuhne, M. Schreckenberg, and D. Wolf, editors, Traffic and Granular Flow '05, pages 577-586. Springer, 2005.
  7. J A Laval. Some properties of a multi-lane extension of the kinematic wave model. TRB 2003 Annual Meeting CD-ROM. Also ITS Tech. Report UCB-ITS-WP-2003-1, 2003.
  8. J A Laval. A proposal on flow-delay curves. In IX Latin Am. Tr. Eng. Cong. Santiago, Chile, 1999.