The University Transportation Center at the Georgia Transportation Institute (UTC/GTI) is pleased to announce its 2010 Fall Seminar Luncheon Series. All talks begin at 11:00 AM. Location information will be posted on the GTI web site as soon as it becomes available at http://www.utc.gatech.edu/news/2010Seminar.html.
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Thursday, 09/02/10 |
Gary McVoy |
NYSDOT Director, Operations Div. |
Sustainability, Transportation & Perspective |
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Friday, 09/17/10 |
Lucio Soibelman |
Professor of CEE at Carnegie Mellon University |
Data mining in transportation |
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Friday, 09/24/10 |
Ardalan Avahidi |
Assistant Professor of ME at Clemson University |
Predictive Energy Management in Networked Vehicles: Exploiting Traffic and Terrain Preview for Fuel Saving |
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Friday, 10/29/10 |
David Boyce |
Professor of CEE at Northwestern University |
Unique User-equilibrium Road Traffic Flows for Two User Classes |
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Tuesday, 11/23/10 |
Robert Bertini |
Deputy Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration [RITA] at the U.S. DOT |
TBA |
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Friday, 12/10/10 |
Anthony Perl |
Professor and Director Simon Fraser University |
Urban Environmental Policy |
UTC/GTI is committed to developing into a Center of Excellence that provides high-quality leadership on research, education and technology transfer to address issues related to transportation system productivity (including both passenger travel and freight of all modes), economic growth, and finance.
UTC/GTI works with local, state and regional agencies to identify research problems that support their needs and identify opportunities for them to advance to the next level. The goals of UTC/GTI are to educate a new generation of students who well versed in art of multidisciplinary thinking and problem solution and can collaborate effectively in teams to tackle problems with systems dimensions; provide continuing education opportunities to keep practitioners at the cutting edge of systems methodologies and technologies with transportation applications; and provide technology transfer resources to disseminate knowledge.
For additional information regarding UTC/GTI, please visit http://www.utc.gatech.edu/index.html