TRANSIMS: Applications and Development Workshop

April 8–9, 2010
TRANSIMS Studies at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York

Adel W. Sadek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
233 Ketter Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645-4367
FAX: (716) 645-3733
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List of Authors
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Adel W. Sadek, Ph.D.
Shan Huang
Liya Guo
Yan Yang
Irene Casas, Ph.D.
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Abstract
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This presentation will focus on two recent research studies being performed by researchers at the University at Buffalo (UB), the State University of New York. The first study focuses on using TRANSIMS to model a university campus transportation system. From a transportation modeling standpoint, studying transportation systems of university campuses offers several research opportunities and challenges. While a university campus system can serve as an excellent, micro-scale example of regional transportation systems, it also has distinct features that do not receive adequate attention when modeling larger networks. The presentation will document our experience with the modeling, simulation, and analysis of the transportation system of UB's north campus using TRANSIMS. The processes of data preparation, network coding, and travel demand modeling will be described in detail. The results of travel demand validation and model simulation will then be presented and discussed. The second study, which has just started, involves assessing the feasibility of using TRANSIMS for on-line transportation system management during emergencies. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the objectives, the research plan and the different tasks envisioned for the project.

Biography
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Dr. Sadek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, and has more than 18 years experience in transportation systems engineering. He is the recipient of the 1998 Milton Pikarsky Award for the best dissertation in the field of Transportation Science and Technology awarded by the Council of University Transportation Centers, and of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. His research interests span a wide range of topics including transportation modeling and simulation, intelligent transportation systems, artificial intelligence applications in transportation, traffic engineering, transportation planning, and infrastructure management. Dr. Sadek is co-author of two Transportation textbooks, Fundamentals of Intelligent Transportation Systems Planning published by Artech House, and Transportation Infrastructure Engineering - A Multimodal Integration published by Cengage Learning. He is a member of the TRB committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (ABJ70), and the committee on Surface Transportation Weather. He is also a member of the Advanced Technologies committee of the Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).