Xuegang (Jeff) |
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Phone: 518-276-8043 Email: banx@rpi.edu |
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Dr. Ban's research interests are in the areas of transportation modeling and simulation, sensor-aided modeling, traffic operations, and ITS. Before joining Rensselaer, Ban had been working for 3 years at California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT) under the University of California, Berkeley. At CCIT, Ban lead the research efforts of Caltrans-sponsored Corridor Management Plan Demonstration, which integrated operational analysis and simulation to the traditional corridor planning process, with the purpose to facilitate planners for short-, medium-, or long-term capital investment or operational improvement. Dr. Ban was involved in the FHWA-sponsored Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) for I-880 in the San Francisco Bay Area (Phase I), which focused on multi-modal transportation planning. He especially led the development of Data Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation for I-880 ICM. Ban also led the development of mathematical models to determine optimal sensor deployment strategies for various traffic applications such as freeway travel time estimation and ramp metering. Dr. Ban's current research interestes include modeling mobile sensors (e.g. GPS-enabled cellular phones) as traffic probes for arterial intersection delay pattern estimation and performance evaluation. He is collaborating with Nokia and UC-Berkeley on testing this new concept in New York City. Ban is studying robust congestion pricing schemes by considering toll designer's risk taking behaviors and the non-uniqueness of drivers' responses to pricing. He is also interested in developing models and algorithms for dynamic network modeling problems such as dynamic user equilibrium. |
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