ISTRC_2026: THE 6TH ISRAELI SMART TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER (ISTRC) ANNUAL & STUDENTS CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
Wednesday, January 28th

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10:30-11:30 Session 5A: Automation and Control
Chair:
10:30
Interpolating Control-Based Shared Control for Autonomous-to-Manual Transitions in Vehicle Platoons
PRESENTER: Omri Sternberg
10:45
Simulation-optimization framework for ride-pooling services
PRESENTER: Avital Shamir
11:00
From Automation to Autonomy in Smart Transportation
PRESENTER: Nathan Pinhas
11:15
From Google Routes to Fixed Road Segments: A Framework for Continuous Travel Time Monitoring
PRESENTER: Golan Ben-Dor
10:30-11:30 Session 5B: Transportation Safety
Location: Rabin 405
10:30
Deep Learning for Real-Time Detection of Vulnerable Pedestrians
PRESENTER: Esther David
10:45
E-Scooter Riders and Pedestrians: Road Safety Challenges and Solutions
PRESENTER: Itzhak Benenson
11:00
Analyses of automatically-generated data on e-scooter behaviours to characterize the safety level of urban sites and estimate safety-related interventions
11:15
Assessing the Real-World Effectiveness of Behavioral Nudges in Reducing Driver Phone Interaction
12:00-12:45 Session 6A: Transportation Planning
12:00
Understanding Commuters’ Willingness to Rideshare using Stated-Preference Data
PRESENTER: Einat Tenenboim
12:15
Mobility-as-a-Service Choice Behaviour: A Labelled and Unlabelled Bundle SP Survey Design in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area
PRESENTER: Samarth Ghoslya
12:30
On the Multi-Class Traffic User Equilibrium Model
PRESENTER: Lior Rozenzweig
12:00-12:45 Session 6B: Innovative Transportation Services
Chair:
Location: Rabin 405
12:00
Personalized Walking Apps: Developing HEXAD-Based Gamification for Urban Walking Promotion
PRESENTER: Omer Rake
12:15
From Data to Safer E-Scooter Rides: An Open Safety Dashboard for Tel Aviv
PRESENTER: Nina Garmash
12:30
Do non-ionizing radiation concerns affect people’s choice between hybrid and traditional cars?
PRESENTER: Anat Tchetchik
12:45-15:00 Session 7: Lunch & Posters Session (and Formula Student race car exhibition)
Effective Game-Theoretic Motion Planning via Nested Search
PRESENTER: Avishav Engle
Public Transport Use Cessation and Age-Related Functional Decline: a Quasi-Causal Analysis using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
PRESENTER: Omer Dilian
What’s Stopping You? Developing a Robust Measurement Tool for Mobility Problems
Perimeter Identification Of Traffic Congestion In Urban Networks Using Reinforcement Learning
Centrality based sampling design for traffic counts in strategic transport model validation
PRESENTER: Golan Ben-Dor
Global Traffic Management for Zero Transportation Externalities
PRESENTER: Hannah Yair
Hybrid XAI for Climate-Adaptive Traffic Operations: Integrating System Modeling and ML
Balancing Engineering Efficiency and Ethical Responsibility in Mega-Transport System Design: An Analytical Case Study of the Greater Tel Aviv Metro Project
The relationship between urban road design, perceived walkability, and walking behavior
Integrated Hybrid design Model for Smart mobility challenges in the era of AI
PRESENTER: Noam Katzir
High-Performance PGM-Free Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
Predicting Pedestrian Road-Crossing Behavior: Toward A Multivariate Psychological Model
PRESENTER: Yiska Amar
Click, Don’t Steer: A Quantitative Comparison of Tele-Driving and Tele-Assistance User Interfaces for Remote Operation of Autonomous Vehicles
PRESENTER: Felix Tener
Energy Consumption and Economics of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Systems
PRESENTER: David Gangur
A causality-based double machine learning method for capability-based transport equity analysis
PRESENTER: Zhengrong Li
Navigating Digital Cities: How Mobility and Spatial Context Mediate the Relationship Between Smartphone Fragmentation and Wellbeing
PRESENTER: Noam J. Gal
Designing Equitable and Low-Carbon Urban Future: A Study of Cities in the Tel Aviv Metropolis
PRESENTER: Alina Zukin
High-Performance Ultra Low PGM Loading Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
PRESENTER: John Douglin
H2-Ambient air Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Semi-Supervised Identification of Drivers Using Only GPS Trajectory Data
PRESENTER: Dor Bar
"Ethical Challenges in Planning and Developing Transportation and Civil Infrastructure in Peripheral Regions: The Golan Heights Case Study"
PRESENTER: Helal Shaalan
Statistical Runtime Verification for LLMs via Robustness Estimation
PRESENTER: Adiel Ashrov
Assessing sustainable transport systems across Indian Smart Cities: A size-class perspective
Risk-Taking Reduction Among Professional Drivers During Wartime: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Safe Driving and Emotional Regulation Workshop
PRESENTER: Gil Luria
Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments using Acceleration Obstacles
PRESENTER: Oz Ben Yosef
An Optimal Control Framework for Reliable and Sustainable Public Transport Operation
PRESENTER: Assaf Granot
Routing in Line Networks with Handling Times
PRESENTER: Gabriel Deza
VPRFormer: Lightweight Rotation-Invariant Vector-Neuron Transformer for Large-scale LiDAR Place Recognition and Localization
PRESENTER: Tian Zhang
Designing Teleoperation Command Menus for Last Mile Delivery Robots
PRESENTER: Avishag Boker
Optimizing Recharging Depot Location in a Robotic Delivery Service Extended by Public Transportation
PRESENTER: Yanir Zadickario
The Hidden Energy Demand of Automated Mobility: Onboard and Offboard Systems in Urban Fleet Simulations
PRESENTER: Gabriel Dadashev
A Model-Driven Approach to Risk Identification and Mitigation in Smart Transportation Systems
Towards Optimal Performance and Action Consistency Guarantees in Dec-POMDPs with Inconsistent Beliefs and Limited Communication
Wake Measurements of Heavy-Vehicle Rear-End Models with Custom-Designed Passive Flow-Control Devices
PRESENTER: Niv-Haim Mizrahi
Mixed Truck–Robot Last-Mile Delivery under Uncertain Handover Times
PRESENTER: Gil Sorani
Enhancing Smart Mobility via Capacity-Aware Multi-Agent Pathfinding in Traffic Networks
PRESENTER: Gad Gadi Hasson
Using Risk Homeostasis Theory for Examining Self-Regulated Driving of the Israeli Driver
PRESENTER: Tamar Wasserman
Dynamic Route Allocation via Online Combinatorial Auctions
PRESENTER: Chava Schweitzer
Optimization of Hybrid Traffic Laws for Mixed Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicle Environments Using Dynamic Control Methods
PRESENTER: Victor Freeman
Autonomous, Speed-Independent Truck Height Estimation Using 94-GHz Doppler Radar for Bridge-Strike Prevention
PRESENTER: Natan Steinmetz
Comparative Evaluation of Structured and Unstructured Urban Airspace Configurations for Low-Altitude Mobility
PRESENTER: Rami Sabbagh
15:00-16:00 Session 8A: Transportation Policy
15:00
Factors of digital mobility divide and its effect on accessibility, socio-spatial integration and equity
PRESENTER: Ravid Luria
15:15
Ethical values in smart transportation
15:30
The Impact of Tax Rebates on ADAS Adoption Dynamics: A Staggered Difference-in-Differences Analysis by Diffusion Stage, Technology, Market, and Equity Dimensions
PRESENTER: Sigal Kaplan
15:45
Pricing and queueing with heterogeneous users in mixed public–private facilities: Theory and an application to parking
PRESENTER: Amir Brudner
15:00-16:00 Session 8B: Road Users' Behaviour
Chair:
Location: Rabin 405
15:00
Perturbed utility Markovian choice model: choice probability generation function and estimation
15:15
Helping E-scooters Find Their Place in the City
PRESENTER: Aleksey Ogulenko
15:30
Walkability and walking in the city: a person-centered approach
15:45
The Gender Gap through the lens of dignity - A Case study in Paratransit
PRESENTER: Wambui Kariuki