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Centrally Coordinated Schedules and Routes of Airport Shuttles with LAX Terminals as Application Area

Research Product Type

Research Report

In this project, the authors developed a centrally coordinated shuttle scheduling and routing management system for mixed fleets of diesel and electric shuttles using a digital twin of LAX to LA downtown traffic road network by optimizing the total combined cost of energy consumption and travel time.

Real-Time Large-Scale Ridesharing with Flexible Meeting Points

Principal Investigator Maged Dessouky, Ph.D.
University of Southern California

This project will develop a framework that will, in real-time, match drivers to passengers and route rideshare drivers that incorporates traffic data to provide improved solutions. The resulting solution framework will use commercial traffic simulation software to achieve this goal.

Project Status

In Progress

The impacts of automated vehicles on Center city parking

Research Product Type

Associated Publication

The potential for automated vehicles (AVs) to reduce parking in central cities has generated much excitement among urban planners. However, a reduction in parking could be accompanied by increased demand for curbside DO/PU space with related movements to enter and exit the flow of traffic.This study uses a microscopic road traffic model with local travel activity data to simulate personal AV parking scenarios in San Francisco’s downtown central business district (CBD).