Dynamic Route Guidance and Coordinated Traffic Control Workshop

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的。这个项目的目标是组织一个研讨会，为展示动态路线引导和协调交通控制领域的最新技术提供机会。研讨会的范围是确定该领域最杰出的研究人员最重要的理论和实施挑战和机遇。这个为期两天的活动将于2010年6月7日和8日在新泽西州皮斯卡塔韦市罗格斯大学布希校区举行。动态路线引导和协调交通控制及其基础技术，如动态交通分配，是智能交通系统的关键。尽管在运筹学和交通学界，人们对动态路线引导和交通控制问题的理论和算法的发展非常感兴趣，但最近还没有由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）赞助的专门讨论这一重要主题的研讨会。考虑到该领域涉及的方法和研究人员的多样性，很明显，这些来自不同背景的研究人员之间的合作将是推进最新技术的最佳平台。关于挑战和机遇以及未来研究方向的讨论将是本次研讨会的一个非常重要的部分，同时也有望解决这一问题中一些最令人生畏的方面。鉴于日益严重的交通堵塞问题和我们无力增加新的运力，提高交通基础设施系统的效率和可靠性的必要性是显而易见的。本次研讨会的成果将使我们有可能制定变革性的解决方案，以利用新兴的数据收集和信息传播技术，这些技术已经彻底改变了我们生活的几乎每一个方面。然后，这个研讨会可以确定关键的研究和教育问题，以改善我们的交通系统的运作。在这一领域的研究所获得的效率和可靠性的提高将对通勤和商业交通产生重大影响，进而对整个社会产生重大影响。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The objective of this project is to organize a workshop that will provide an opportunity to present the state-of-the-art in the area of Dynamic Route Guidance and Coordinated Traffic Control. The workshop scope is to determine the most important theoretical and implementation challenges and opportunities by the most prominent researchers in this area. This two-day event will be held on June 7th and 8th, 2010 at Rutgers University Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ. Dynamic route guidance and coordinated traffic control and underlying techniques, such as dynamic traffic assignment, are key to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Although there has been considerable interest in the development of theories and algorithms dealing with dynamic route guidance and traffic control problems, both in the operations research and transportation communities, there has not been a recent National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored workshop dedicated to this important topic. Given the diversity of approaches and researchers involved in this area, it has become clear that collaboration between these researchers from different backgrounds will be the best platform to advance the state-of-the art. Discussions about challenges and opportunities as well as directions for future research will be a very important part of this workshop along with the promise of solving some of the most daunting aspects of this problem. Given the ever increasing congestion problem and our inability of building new capacity, the need for improving the efficiency and reliability of our transportation infrastructure system is obvious. The findings of this workshop will make it possible to develop transformational solutions to take advantage of the emerging data collection and information dissemination technologies that are already revolutionizing almost every aspect of our lives. This workshop can then identify key research and educational issues to improve the operations of our transportation system. The efficiency and reliability gains that can be acquired as a result of the research in this area will have major impacts on both commuter and commercial traffic, which will in turn have a major society-wide impact.