Data-driven Solutions to Transportation Problems

Data-Driven Solutions to Transportation Problems explores the fundamental principle of analyzing different types of transportation-related data using methodologies such as the data fusion model, the big data mining approach, computer vision-enabled traffic sensing data analysis, and machine learning. The book examines the state-of-the-art in data-enabled methodologies, technologies and applications in transportation. Readers will learn how to solve problems relating to energy efficiency under connected vehicle environments, urban travel behavior, trajectory data-based travel pattern identification, public transportation analysis, traffic signal control efficiency, optimizing traffic networks network, and much more.

• Synthesizes the newest developments in data-driven transportation science
• Includes case studies and examples in each chapter that illustrate the application of methodologies and technologies employed
• Useful for both theoretical and technically-oriented researchers

Yinhai Wang - Ph.D., P.E., Professor, Transportation Engineering, University of Washington, USA. Dr. Yinhai Wang is a fellow of both the IEEE and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He also serves as director for Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), USDOT University Transportation Center for Federal Region 10, and the Northwestern Tribal Technical Assistance Program (NW TTAP) Center. He earned his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of Tokyo (1998) and a Master in Computer
Science from the UW (2002). Dr. Wang’s research interests include traffic sensing, transportation data science, artificial intelligence methods and applications, edge computing, traffic operations and simulation, smart urban mobility, transportation safety, among others.

Ziqiang Zeng is a Research Associate in Transportation Engineering at the University of Washington. He is the co-author of Fuzzy-Like Multiple Objective Multistage Decision Making (Springer, 2015) and author of peer-reviewed papers in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management-ASCE, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering-ASCE, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Engineering Optimization. His research includes intelligent transportation systems, data-driven decision making, and transportation safety analysis.