Pravin
Varaiya
Title
Measurement, monitoring, and management of urban traffic
Abstract
Advances in wireless fixed and
mobile sensors permit a comprehensive measurement of the state of the
urban traffic network—ranging from urban streets to freeways and
parking. These measurements can be fed to a real-time database network
to monitor the performance of the traffic network and to archive
historical data. The database can be used to implement real-time signal
control strategies to improve performance.
Biography
Pravin
Varaiya is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of
California, Berkeley. From 1975 to 1992 he was also Professor of Economics
at Berkeley. From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the California PATH
program, a multi-university research program dedicated to the solution of
California’s transportation problems. His current research is concerned
with communication networks, transportation, and hybrid systems. He has
taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Varaiya has held
a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He received
Honorary Doctorates from L’Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse and
L’Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, and the Field Medal and Bode
Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE,
a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is on the editorial board of
"Discrete Event Dynamical Systems" and "Transportation Research---C". He has
co-authored three books and 300 technical papers. The second edition of
“High-Performance Communication Networks” (with Jean Walrand and Andrea
Goldsmith) was published by Morgan-Kaufmann in 2000. “Structure and
interpretation of signals and systems” (with Edward Lee) was published by
Addison-Wesley in 2003. Varaiya is a member of the Board of Directors of
Sensys Networks.
