学术报告第201424期

报告题目: Emerging Frontiers in Transportation: Connected Vehicles and  Autonomous Vehicles

报告人： Srinivas Peeta教授（美国普渡大学）

报告时间：10月7日下午3:30

报告地点：南一楼中311室

Abstract

Transportation is an inherently multidisciplinary field. Rapid  technological advances over the past two decades are serving to catalyze  innovations that leverage information communication and sensor technologies. Two  emerging developments in this context are connected vehicles and autonomous  vehicles. While connected vehicles seek information connectivity with the  ambient environment and beyond, autonomous vehicles aim for “driverless”  capabilities. This talk seeks to inform on connected vehicles and autonomous  vehicles, and identify some emerging research issues thereof from the broader  transportation perspective.

Biography

Dr.  Srinivas Peeta is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University and the  Director of the NEXTRANS Center, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Region  5 Regional University Transportation Center. He received his Masters and Ph.D.  degrees from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and University of  Texas at Austin, respectively. He was the immediate past Chair of the  Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies Committee on  Transportation Network Modeling. He has authored about 235 technical  publications, and has presented over 340 invited, keynote and international  conference talks/seminars in several countries. He serves on the editorial  boards of several journals including Transportation Research - Part B, Journal  of Intelligent Transportation Systems, the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering,  and Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics. He is the Area Editor for Transport  Telematics for the journal Networks and Spatial Economics. He  has received more than US $30 million in sponsored research funding.  Some of his awards include the  INFORMS Best Dissertation Award (1994), the NSF CAREER Award (1997), Wansik  Excellence in Research Award (2004), the Exceptional Paper Award from TRB’s  Traffic Signal Systems Committee (2007), Purdue’s Seed for Success Award  (2007-2013), Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation Best Paper  Award (2008), the ASCE Walter Huber Research Award (2009), Visiting  Distinguished Scholar, Taiwan (2009), UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award,  Australia (2010), Purdue College of Engineering Mentoring Award (2012), and the  TRB Blue Ribbon Committee Award (2013) as the chair of the Transportation  Network Modeling Committee.  Five  dissertations supervised by Dr. Peeta received best dissertation awards from  organizations such as the Council of University Transportation Centers and the  International Association for Travel Behavior Research. His  research interests are multidisciplinary and broadly span transportation and  infrastructure systems.