ISTRC22: 2ND ISRAELI SMART TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER (ISTRC) ANNUAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, July 3rd Monday, July 4th

Sunday, July 3rd

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08:30-09:00 Session 1

Gathering and Registration

Location: Rabin 206
09:00-09:10 Session 2

Welcome by Prof. Yoram Shiftan, Technion - Israel Istitute of Technology, and Dalia Prashker on behalf of Yossie's family 

Location: Rabin 206
09:10-09:30 Session 3

Overview of Prof. Prashker's Research by Prof. Shlomo Bekhor, Dean of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Location: Rabin 206
09:30-10:30 Session 4

Reminiscences of Prof. Joseph (Yossie) Prashker

Location: Rabin 206
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Session 5

Xinyi Wang and Prof. Pat Mokhtarian, Georgia Tech. Is teleworking always a 'treatment' for reducing distance traveled? Investigating the roles of telework motivations and frequency using switching regression models

Location: Rabin 206
11:30-12:00 Session 6

Prof. Jay Jayakrishnan, University of California Irvine. Use of Path-Based Algorithms for Traffic Assignment in Static and Dynamic Transportation Networks

Location: Rabin 206
12:00-12:30 Session 7

Prof. Nikolas Geroliminis, EPFL.  Large scale monitoring and control of congested multimodal urban networks.

Location: Rabin 206
12:30-13:00 Session 8

Dr. Nir Sharav, Strategic transportation planning in Israel

Location: Rabin 206
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-14:30 Session 9

Prof. Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete. A new traffic paradigm in the connected and automated vehicle (CAV) era

Location: Rabin 206
14:30-15:00 Session 10

Prof. Amalia Polydoropoulou, University of the Aegean. Adoption of New Mobility Services.

Location: Rabin 206
15:00-15:30 Session 11

Prof. Kay Axhausen, ETH. E-bike city: An answer to the current dead end of transport policy?

Location: Rabin 206
15:30-16:15 Session 12

Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva, MIT. Network Management with Prediction, Optimization and Personalization

Location: Rabin 206
16:15-16:20 Session 13

Closing session

Location: Rabin 206
17:30-21:30Guided Tour and Dinner
Monday, July 4th

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09:00-09:15 Session 14

Opening and Welcome

Location: Rabin 206
09:15-09:30 Session 15

ISTRC announcement 

Location: Rabin 206
09:30-10:30 Session 16

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Paolo Falcone, "Safe-by-design motion planning. The role of prediction"

Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg, Sweden

and

Associate Professor at the Engineering Department “Enzo Ferrari” of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Location: Rabin 206
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:05 Session 17A

Shared Mobility Services

10:45
The Carrot and the Stick of Urban Transportation Policy: The Future of the Shared Automated Vehicles in Jerusalem
11:05
Applying Serious Games in Choice Models of Shared Automated Vehicles
11:25
Factors influencing young people’s behavioral intention of shared micro-mobility services
11:45
Management of Tourist Flow within Urban Destinations
10:45-12:05 Session 17B

Traffic Urban Control

Location: Rabin 407
10:45
Multi-Path Progression Optimization at an Urban Interchange: A Case Study
11:05
Two-layer adaptive signal control framework for large-scale networks combining efficient Max-Pressure and Perimeter Control
11:25
An advanced Max-Pressure traffic controller based on travel time delays
11:45
AirBay - Platform for trading space-time assets: The case of drone routes in urban area
12:05-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:50 Session 18A

Travel Behaviour Analysis in the COVID Era

13:30
The impact of COVID-19 on the incidence and severity of travel problems
13:50
Will COVID-19 Accelerate Telecommuting? A Cross-country Evaluation for Israel and Czechia
14:10
The effects of COVID-19 on the future of public transportation
14:30
COVID-19: Survey of European Transport Providers and their Financial Experience
13:30-14:50 Session 18B

Autonomous Traffic Management

Location: Rabin 407
13:30
Driver Transition from Autonomous to Manual Mode in a Vehicle Platoon
13:50
Geometric Sorting of Simple Agents on Grid Environments with applications to Autonomous Traffic Management
14:10
Planning with Performance Guarantees Under Budget Constraints in Ambiguous Environments
14:30
Differential game to evaluate the worst case influence of a varying disturbance on the minimal time solution for a small vehicle movement
PRESENTER: Ilya Ioslovich
14:50-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-16:20 Session 19A

Pedestrian and Older People with Advanced Technologies

15:00
Pedestrians Perceptions of Stress in Fully Automated Vehicle Transportation Systems
15:20
Pedestrians' road crossing and Fully Autonomous Vehicle's (FAVs) - Looking at intent to cross based on the FAVs' propositions and crossing complexity
15:40
The Effects of an In-Vehicle Collision Warning System on Older Drivers’ On-Road Head Movements at Intersections
16:00
Public Transportation Literacy – a new concept to boost elderly people's mobility
15:00-16:20 Session 19B

Safety

Location: Rabin 407
15:00
Examining safety impacts of high-occupancy vehicle lanes: international experience and an evaluation of first operation in Israel
15:20
Using spatial analysis to understand the impact of vision-zero on traffic accidents in New York city
15:40
Grip Force on Steering Wheel as a Measure of Stress in Remote-Driving
16:00
Speed Limits and Road Safety: Info-Gap Analysis of Deep Uncertainty
16:20-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Session 20A

Advanced Simulation Tools

16:30
Developing a Simulation Model for Emergency Evacuation, Considering Navigation Errors
16:50
Implications of de-carbonization policies using an innovative simulation tool
17:10
A Simulation Framework for EV Charging Stations and Networks
16:30-17:30 Session 20B

Transport Demand Modelling

Location: Rabin 407
16:30
A hynrid modelling framework for estimation of origin-destination flows
16:50
Route choice set generation using variational autoencoders
18:30-21:30Dinner