| FALL 2004 UMASS
Amherst Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series |
| Date:
Friday, December 3, 2004 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Isenberg School of Management, Room 112 |
| Speaker: Professor John
Collura Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| Biography: John Collura is a
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst and serves as the Associate Director of the
University of Massachusetts Transportation Center (UMTC). One of his
major UMTC responsibilities to to direct the MassSafe Program, the
technical arm of the Governor’s Highway Safety Bureau. Professor
Collura has been managing and conducting transportation research for
more than 25 years. His research and teaching activities have focused
on the areas of intermodal transportation systems and safety with an
emphasis on the use of advanced information technology applications. He
is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) and has taught courses in
transportation engineering, transportation systems analysis, public
transportation planning and operations, and intelligent transportation
systems. |
TITLE: Preferential Signal Control Strategies for Transit Vehicles |
| Abstract: Transit priority is one
form of preferential traffic signal
control strategies provided to facilitate the flow and passage of
transit vehicles including buses and rail cars. Transit priority
requests are often conditional and may, for example, be granted on one
or more conditions such as the absence of a pedestrian phase, the
presence of a green interval, and a prescribed level of bus occupancy
or degree of bus lateness. A trend taking place is to coordinate
the
planning and deployment of transit priority and other preferential
strategies for emergency vehicles for the purposes of developing a
single, integrated traffic signal control system. This presentation will focus on experiences and lessons learned in the U.S. and abroad in the planning and deployment of such preferential control strategies. The presentation will draw from research conducted on actual operational field tests as well as simulation analyses. |
| This series is organized by the
UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Support for this series is
provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of
Finance and Operations Management, and the John F. Smith Memorial Fund. For questions, please contact the INFORMS Student Chapter President, Ms. Tina Wakolbinger, wakolbinger@som.umass.edu |