IGERT: Graduate Program in Computational Transportation Science

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖项设立了交通科学信息技术方面的研究生培训计划。计算交通科学家将开发下一代智能交通系统，旨在解决导致过度环境污染、燃料消耗、公共安全风险和拥堵的低效率问题。IGERT学员将研究传感器、PDA等旅行设备、车载计算机和静态基础设施中的计算机集成到协作环境中的技术。学员还将调查这些技术是如何被采用的及其影响。设想的交通环境将融入这些技术，使动态拼车、实时路线选择和导航等问题能够得到解决。将利用信息管理、通信、软件体系结构、建模工具、人为因素、交通预测和交通规划方面的基础研究，建立一门新的学科，将数百万台高度移动的计算机和传感器集成到一个协作系统中。IGERT受训人员将使用一个原型试验台应用程序，该应用程序将整合他们的研究结果。这个原型是一个运行在手持计算机上的软件系统，它使用多种交通方式(例如，先是公共汽车，然后是火车)为旅行者规划最佳轨迹。学员的教育将通过师生合作教学、学生共享工作空间、学生合作和实习要求来促进。这笔赠款的更广泛影响包括交通规划专业人员，他们可以为国家节省过度石油产品消费、环境污染、拥堵和交通死亡的成本。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award establishes a graduate training program in the Information Technology aspects of Transportation Science. Computational transportation scientists will develop the next generation of intelligent transportation systems, aimed at addressing inefficiencies that cause excessive environmental pollution, fuel consumption, risk to public safety, and congestion. IGERT trainees will investigate technologies in which sensors, traveler-devices such as PDAs, in-vehicle computers, and computers in the static infrastructure are integrated into a collaborative environment. Trainees will also investigate both how these technologies are adopted and their impacts. The envisioned transportation environment will incorporate the technologies, enabling solutions to problems such as dynamic ride-sharing, real-time routing, and navigation. Basic research in information management, communications, software architectures, modeling tools, human factors, traffic prediction, and transportation planning will be utilized to found a new discipline that will integrate millions of highly mobile computers and sensors into a collaborative system. IGERT trainees will use a prototype test-bed application that will integrate the results of their research. This prototype is a software system that runs on hand-held computers, and plans optimal trajectories for a traveler using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., bus and then train). The education of trainees will be facilitated by student-faculty co-teaching, student shared workspace, student collaboration, and the requirement for an internship. The broader impacts of this grant include transportation planning professionals who can save the country the costs of excessive petroleum products consumption, environmental pollution, congestion, and traffic fatalities. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.