General overview of D-STOP given at the April 2018 Business Advisory Council meeting

1. Business Advisory Council (BAC)
Meeting
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC)
2501 Speedway, Austin TX, 78712

2. Members - BAC
• Nader Ayoub, Iteris, Inc.
• Tom Bamonte, North Central Texas Council of Govts
• Gaurav Bansal, Toyota InfoTechnology Center
• Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research
• Jim Dale, City of Austin
• Kirk Fauver, FHWA Texas Division
• Todd Hemingson, Capital Metro
• Joe Iannello, Capital Metro

3. Members - BAC
• Kent Marquardt, Texas Dept of Transportation
• Meg Merritt, NelsonNygaard
• Arash Mirzaei, North Central Texas Council of Govts
• Murali Narasimha, Huawei
• J.D. Stanley, IoT/AI, Inc.
• Abhay Samant, Hiller Measurements
• Ian Wong, National Instruments
• Charlie Zhang, Samsung Research America

4. Education and Workforce
Development
• 2017 Summer Internship
• 78 PhD supported, 70 MS supported, 52
Undergraduates supported thus far
• Distinguished Lectures and Expert Panels
• 5G Network Architecture and 5G/Automotive
Systems

5. Technology Transfer
• 2017 CTR Annual Symposium
• 2017 Texas Wireless Summit
• Transportation Research Board
• Proving Ground Designation
• Media articles based on D-STOP research

6. Research
• Completed 30 research projects
• 18 research projects ongoing
• 10 new research projects proposed
• Substantial leveraging of funds through TxDOT,
Cintra, North Central Texas Council of
Governments, New York Metropolitan
Transportation Commission.

7. Bridging Barriers
• What makes a system good?
• Cross-disciplinary UT Institute
• Projects to last 7 years, proposed
to start Fall of 2018
• The work with UTSAVES cited by
our group as foundational
research
• Potential $10 million seed
funding to be leveraged with
other sources
Over the next 20 years of transportation, how will autonomous and connected
vehicles and other new developments in forms of transportation systems impact
society? How can we understand these changes ethically and holistically?

8. Real World Applications
Connected Corridors
North Texas
• Partnering with Managed Lanes/Toll Road Operator Cintra
• Engaging industry in a connected corridor deployment in
DFW for 2018
• Future deployment in Washington D.C. in 2022
• NCTCOG is willing to contribute
I-10
• Texas Freight Corridor
• Extends from Houston to California
• Federal and State Funding
• Specifics TBD

9. Proposed New Research
• Video Data Analytics for Safer and More Efficient
Mobility (Natalia Ruiz Juri)
• Data-Driven, Real-Time Traffic Signal Optimization:
A Distributed Approach (Stephen Boyles)
• Real-time, Targeted Incentives for Strategic Travelers
(Stephen Boyles)

10. Proposed New Research
• Tight-coupling of Vision, Radar, and Carrier-phase
Differential GNSS for Robust All-weather Positioning
(Todd Humphreys)
• Modeling Willingness-to-Share Trips in an Autonomous
Vehicle Future: A stochastic psychological latent
construct approach (Chandra Bhat)
• Emerging Transportation Mobility Options and
Technologies: A comprehensive analysis of consumer
preferences using survey and supplementary data
(Chandra Bhat)

11. Proposed New Research
• Sensing and Communications in V2V and V2I settings
(Sanjay Shakkottai)
• Online Matching, Black-box Optimization and Hyper-
parameter Tuning (Sanjay Shakkottai)
• Solving Perception Challenges for Autonomous
Vehicles Using SGD (Constantine Caramanis)
• Large Scale Optimization with Small Scale Data
(Constantine Caramanis)