Date: Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Time: 12:00 -- 13:00
Location: CiTG 2.62
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Optimization and Behavioral Modeling for Transportation
Innovations in transportation systems are changing the way passengers and freight are moving across the planet significantly. Automation, demand-responsiveness, sustainability are the concepts transportation researchers are looking into extensively. In this talk, the focus is the use of optimization and behavioral modeling for achieving personalized and efficient transport solutions. For this matter two studies will be presented. First is about a Flexible Mobility on Demand (FMOD) system where taxi-like services are combined with public transport in order to provide a personalized menu of options to travelers in real-time. The second one is Tripod, which is an app-based trip planner where travelers are provided optimized incentives for their sustainable choices of route, departure time, mode, trip making and driving style.

Bilge Atasoy
Bilge started an assistant professor in the Transport Engineering and Logistics section of the Department of Maritime and Transport Technology, in April 2018. Prior to joining TU Delft, Bilge worked first as a postdoctoral associate and then as a research scientist at MIT, with Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva in the ITS Lab. At MIT she managed research projects in the areas of real-time optimization, travel behavior and choice-based optimization. She received her PhD from EPFL in 2013 where she was working with Prof. Michel Bierlaire on choice-based airline optimization models. Her major is in Industrial Engineering with BSc and MSc degrees from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 2007 and 2009 respectively. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of optimization and behavioral modeling for achieving more efficient, customized and demand-responsive transportation systems.

Smart Public Transport Lab seminar
The PT Lab Seminar is a bi-monthly event that provides PT researchers a platform to share and discuss their work. We typically alternate between internal and external speakers. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Guests are welcome. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..