Collaborative Research: CIF: Small: Toward a Science of Vehicular Epidemiology: Computing, Control, and Security

车到一切通信是一项变革性的新兴技术，旨在加强交通安全和交通管理，从而通过缓解交通拥堵来挽救生命并产生重大经济效益。这项技术将使车辆能够相互通信，以及与交通信号、路边装置、自行车、轮椅和行人进行通信，以增强所有这些组成部分对道路状况的态势感知。该项目旨在通过跨学科的研究工作，通过提供工具来建模、设计、优化和保护其集成组件，从而促进车辆到一切通信技术的部署。该研究需要开发新颖且计算易于处理的数学模型，用于(1)表征不同道路成分之间的信息传播；(2)共同优化交通运输目标；(3)挫败安全威胁。该教育计划包括培养具备交通工程与管理、电气工程和网络安全等跨领域知识的劳动力。该项目还包括与交通部门决策者的联系，以及旨在扩大在科学和工程领域代表性不足的少数民族，特别是妇女的代表性的项目。车到一切的通信将无线通信和交通基础设施交织在一起。这在基础设施之间产生了交叉依赖，既提出了独特的挑战，又提供了项目通过基础贡献解决的新机会。具体而言，该项目旨在建立一门结合流行病学、最优控制、博弈论以及车辆和无线通信领域并从中汲取和贡献的车辆流行病学科学。为此，该项目旨在推进理论方法，包括聚类流行病学微分方程，基于庞特里亚金最大原理的最优控制，以及流行病学公式的动态博弈，所有这些在车辆到一切的通信环境中都是创新的。该项目还包括对理论发现的数据驱动验证，包括将与更广泛的研究界共享的计算和模拟软件。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Vehicle-to-everything communication is a transformational emerging technology that is poised to enhance transportation safety and traffic management, thereby saving lives and yielding major economic gains by alleviating traffic congestion. This technology will enable vehicles to communicate with each other, as well as with traffic signals, road side units, bikes, wheelchairs, and pedestrians to augment situational awareness of all these constituents about road conditions. This project seeks to facilitate the deployment of the vehicle-to-everything communication technology by providing tools to model, design, optimize and secure its integral components, through a cross-disciplinary research effort. The research entails developing novel and computationally tractable mathematical models for (1) characterizing message propagation between the diverse road constituents; (2) jointly optimizing transportation and communication objectives; and (3) thwarting security threats. The educational plan involves fostering a workforce equipped with cross-domain knowledge in transportation engineering and management, electrical engineering, and cyber-security. The project also includes outreach to decision makers in transportation authorities and programs aimed at broadening the representation of under-represented minorities in the science and engineering field, particularly women.Vehicle-to-everything communication intertwines the wireless communications and transportation infrastructures. This creates cross-dependencies between the infrastructures that both raise unique challenges and offer new opportunities which the project addresses through fundamental contributions. Specifically, the project seeks to establish a science of vehicular epidemiology, which combines, draws from and contributes to the epidemiology, optimal control, game theory, and vehicular and wireless communication domains. Towards that end, the project aims to advance theoretical methods, including clustered epidemiological differential equations, optimal control based on Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, and dynamic games over epidemiological formulations, all of which are innovative in the vehicle-to-everything communication context. The project further includes data-driven verification of the theoretical findings, including computation and simulation software that will be shared with the broader research community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.