Urban Transportation Systems

News

2020

• We are hiring! Research Positions opened in V2X Network-Enabled Traffic Analysis and Smart Traffic Signal Control for Large Traffic Networks

2019

• [Dec 2019] We will present our paper “A Hybrid Traffic Light Control Strategy Based on Branching Ratio Estimation and Congestion Identification” at CDC’19.

• [Dec 2019] Prof Su will deliver a talk on “Real-time V2X-based Traffic Signal Control for Large Traffic Networks” during CDC 2019 Workshop: Systems and Control for Smart Society and Cyber-Physical & Human Systems.

• [Oct 2019] We will present our research during Cooperative and Automated Driving Workshop at ITSC’19.

• [Jul 2019] Our paper “A Hybrid Traffic Light Control Strategy Based on Branching Ratio Estimation and Congestion Identification” has been accepted by The 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’19).

• [Jun 2019] Our paper “Pedestrian-Safety-Aware Traffic Light Control Strategy for Urban Traffic Congestion Alleviation” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• [Apr 2019] Our paper “Traffic Light Scheduling for Pedestrian-Vehicle Mixed-Flow Networks” is now available on-line.

• [Feb 2019] Our paper “Optimization of vehicle delay and drivers’ unhappiness at a signalized network: a multi-objective approach” has been accepted by the 15th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA’19).

2018

• [Oct 2018] We present our work during the NTU-NXP Smart Mobility Technology Showcase (SMTB2018). The posters can be found here.

• [Sep 2018] Our paper titled “Solving Traffic Signal Scheduling Problems in Heterogeneous Traffic Network by Using Meta-Heuristics” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• [Aug 2018] Our paper titled “Management of traffic congestion in adaptive traffic signals using a novel classification-based approach” has been accepted by Engineering Optimization.

• [Aug 2018] Our paper titled “Meta-heuristics for Bi-objective Urban Traffic Light Scheduling Problems” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• [Aug 2018] Our paper “Pedestrian phase pattern investigation in a trafficlight scheduling problem for signalized network” will be presented by Yi Zhang during IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications in Copenhagen.

• [Jun 2018] Our paper titled “Traffic Light Scheduling for Pedestrian-Vehicle Mixed-Flow Networks” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• [Jun 2018] A Workshop on Smart buildings organized by Prof Su Rong will be held during IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Dec 2018.

• [Jun 2018] An invited session on Regulating Traffic in Smart Cities organized by Prof Su Rong will be held during CCTA’18 on 23 Aug 2018.

• [May 2018] The 2018 Smart Cities Summer School organized by Prof. Jonas Martensson, Prof. Karl Henrik Johansson, Prof. Su Rong and Dr. Mohammad Pirani will be held in KTH 2-6 Jul 2018.

• [Apr 2018] Our paper “Pedestrian phase pattern investigation in a trafficlight scheduling problem for signalized network” has been accepted by 2018 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications.

• [Mar 2018] We attend the NTU-NXP Smart Mobility Testbed Workshop in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

• [Jan 2018] Dr Wang Bohui joins our group as a research fellow.

• [Jan 2018] Our paper “Regional-based prescriptive route guidance for travelers of multiple classes” has been published in Transportation Research Part C.

2017

• [Dec 2017] We present our paper “A macroscopic propagation model for bidirectional pedestrian flows on signalized crosswalks” at the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Melbourne, Victoria.

• [Nov 2017] Our paper “Regional-based prescriptive route guidance for travelers of multiple classes” has been accepted by Transportation Research Part C.

• [Aug 2017] We present our two papers (“Traffic Light Scheduling for Pedestrians and Vehicles”, “Modelling and traffic signal control of a heterogeneous traffic network with signalized and non-signalized intersections”) at the 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications in Hawaii.

• [Aug 2017] We present our work during the NTU-NXP Workshop. The posters can be found here and some photos can be found here.

• [Jul 2017] Our paper “A macroscopic propagation model for bidirectional pedestrian flows on signalized crosswalks” has been accepted by 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

• [Jun 2017] Prof Christos Cassandras from Boston University visits our group.

• [Jun 2017] Technical Committee Activities for Smart Cities by Prof Rong Su will appear in IEEE Control Systems Magazine in Jun 2017.

• [Jun 2017] Prof Bengt Lennartson from Chalmers University of Technology visits our group.

• [Jun 2017] We present our paper titled “Improved artificial bee colony algorithm for solving urban traffic light scheduling problem” at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation in Donostia/San Sebastian.

• [May 2017] Prof Jan van Schuppen from TU Delft visits our group.

• [May 2017] Our paper “Jaya, harmony search and water cycle algorithms for solving large-scale real-life urban traffic light scheduling problem” has been accepted by Swarm and Evolutionary Computation.

• [May 2017] Our two papers on traffic system modelling and traffic signal scheduling with pedestrain has been accepted by IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications.

• [Jan 2017] Prof Rong Su has organized a winter school on intelligent transportation in NTU.

2016

• [Dec 2016] Prof Rong Su has organized a workshop “Rich Data Backed Control and Optimization for Smart Cities” at CDC’16 in Las Vegas.

• [Nov 2016] We present two papers on traffic signal scheduling at ICARCV’16 in Phuket.