MFTS 2024: THE 5TH SYMPOSIUM ON MANAGEMENT OF FUTURE MOTORWAY AND URBAN TRAFFIC SYSTEMS, HERAKLION, CRETE, GREECE
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, September 4th Thursday, September 5th Friday, September 6th

Wednesday, September 4th

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10:40-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:40 Session 4A: Data-driven methods
Chair:
11:00
Generalizable Implicit Neural Representation As a Universal Spatiotemporal Traffic Data Learner (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tong Nie
11:20
Data-Driven Robust Optimization for Traffic Signal Timing Based on Connected Vehicles: Modeling Variability and Errors (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chaopeng Tan
11:40
Traffic accident prediction via three-dimensional convolution autoencoder and victim-party demographic data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Walden Ip
12:00
Activity Scheduling with Deep Generative Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fred Shone
12:20
NeuralMOVES: Extracting and Learning Surrogates for Diverse Vehicle Emission Models (abstract)
11:00-12:40 Session 4B: Behavior
Location: C. Concert Hall
11:00
Hybrid Simulator for Projecting Synthetic Households in Unforeseen Events (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marija Kukic
11:20
An Outer-Inner Approximation Method for the Generic Choice-based Optimization Problem
PRESENTER: Haoye Chen
11:40
Dynamic Motivation: Integrating Psychological Theories of Motivation in Pedestrian Modeling for Bottleneck Scenarios (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ezel Üsten
12:00
Does Behavioral Adaptation of Human Drivers Affect Traffic Efficiency of Mixed Traffic on Priority T-Intersections? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nagarjun Reddy
12:20
Where do Vulnerable Road Users Go at Automated Unsignalized Intersections? An Analysis of Interactions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ziye Qin
11:00-12:40 Session 4C: Human interactions and simulation
11:00
Spatial Differences in Pedestrian-AV Interactions in Future Urban Environments: A Large-Scale VR Study (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mohsen Nazemi
11:20
Exploring Eye Movement Patterns and Driver Cognitive State in Partially Autonomous Driving Simulation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yifan Wang
11:40
Towards Personalized Learning for Traffic Agents in the Driving Environment: Methodological Perspective (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wissam Kontar
12:00
Psychological Factors in Travel Behaviour Interpretation with Social Media Data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yanyan Xu
12:20
Causal Impact Inference for Traffic Networks with Graph-Integrated Transfer Entropy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Junji Ye
11:00-12:40 Session 4D: Traffic flow
11:00
Understanding Physics and AI Synergy in Car-following Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xinzhi Zhong
11:20
Empirical Verification that Traffic Flow is on the KPZ Universality Class: Implications for Traffic Congestion (abstract)
PRESENTER: Garyoung Lee
11:40
On numerical investigation of epidemics transport dynamics using a coupled PDE crowd flow - epidemics spreading dynamics model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Anargiros Delis
12:00
Nonlinear string stability analysis of car-following models: metastability thresholds and rear-end collisions (abstract)
12:20
Bi-level Model Predictive Control of Network-Wide Signal Timing Using Link Transmission Model with Queue Transmission (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lei Wei
12:40-14:40Lunch with Poster Session
14:40-16:20 Session 5A: Low altitude space economy (Part 2)
Chair:
14:40
A Study of UTM ConOps for Drone Delivery: Route Network Design & 4D Trajectory Planning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xinyu He
15:00
Evaluating UAM Route Feasibility in Terminal Airspace via Probabilistic Aircraft Trajectory Prediction (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jungwoo Cho
15:20
Sensing Testbed: Decentralized Drone Coordination with Swarm Intelligence and Collision Avoidance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chuhao Qin
15:40
Bayesian optimal UAV trajectory planning for minimising the uncertainty of traffic density estimations (abstract)
16:00
Path pool based transformer model in reinforcement framework for dynamic urban drone delivery problem
PRESENTER: Chuankai Xiang
14:40-16:20 Session 5B: Demand
Location: C. Concert Hall
14:40
KFI: A novel keyframe interpolation methodology for improving the efficiency of dynamic OD estimation on large urban networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Raghav Malhotra
15:00
Modeling Crowd-Sourced Spatio-Temporal Flexibility Insights in Origin-Destination Matrices Estimation (abstract)
15:20
Bayesian Inference of Time-varying Origin-Destination Matrices from Boarding/Alighting Counts for Transit Services (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xiaoxu Chen
15:40
Group Effect Enhanced Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for Urban Mobility Dynamics
PRESENTER: Yuanyuan Wu
16:00
ImputeFormer: Low Rankness-Induced Transformers for Spatiotemporal Traffic Data Imputation
PRESENTER: Tong Nie
14:40-16:20 Session 5C: MaaS (Part 3)
14:40
Dynamic capacity planning for demand-responsive multimodal transit (abstract)
15:00
Generating Practical Last-mile Delivery Routes using a Data-informed Insertion Heuristic (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hesam Rashidi
15:20
A Practical Approach to Transshipment in Collaborative and Crowdsourced Delivery Services
PRESENTER: Bekir Bartin
15:40
Multimodal traffic assignment considering heterogeneous demand and modular operation of shared autonomous vehicles
PRESENTER: Ting Wang
16:00
A Tradable Equity Credit (TEC) Scheme for Public Transit Services: Computational Graph-Based Framework for Equitable Mobility Management and Dynamic Pricing
PRESENTER: Chenfeng Xiong
14:40-16:20 Session 5D: Electric vehicles
14:40
Simultaneous Scheduling of Electric Vehicle Charging and Daily Activities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Senlei Wang
15:00
Online Prediction-Assisted Safe Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Recommendation in Dynamically Coupled Transportation-Power Systems
PRESENTER: Qionghua Liao
15:20
Real-time multi-depot dial-a-ride problem considering traffic dynamics and EV fleet (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cameron Davis
15:40
A Continuum Approximation Approach for Electric Vehicle Public Charging Infrastructure Planning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yichan An
16:00
EVs and Renewable Energy: Paving the Way for Greener Electromobility Networks (abstract)
16:20-16:40Coffee Break
16:40-18:00 Session 6A: Language model
16:40
The Effectiveness of Large Language Models for Textual Analysis in Air Transportation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gabriel Jarry
17:00
ChatATC: Large Language Model-Driven Agents for Strategic and Tactical Air Traffic Management and Control
PRESENTER: Sinan Abdulhak
17:20
Vision-language Fusion for Road Marking Detection in Autonomous Driving (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shaofan Sheng
17:40
Leveraging Video-LLMs for Crash Detection and Narrative Generation: Performance Analysis and Challenges (abstract)
16:40-18:00 Session 6B: Traffic data
Location: C. Concert Hall
16:40
Structured Tensor RPCA: Anomaly Detection in Traffic Data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xudong Wang
17:00
Enabling stop-and-go wave analysis for massive trajectory data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Junyi Ji
17:20
Map Matching of Location Data Trajectories: A Heterogeneous and Bayesian-Optimized Hidden Markov Approach
PRESENTER: Ruohan Li
17:40
Infrastructure-enabled Defense Methods against Data Poisoning Attacks on Traffic State Estimation and Prediction (abstract)
PRESENTER: Feilong Wang
16:40-18:00 Session 6C: Prediction
16:40
Short-term bike-sharing demand forecasting incorporating multiple sources of uncertainties (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jingyi Cheng
17:00
Multi-Channel Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network for bike demand prediction : considering public transport and weather (abstract)
PRESENTER: Linda Belkessa
17:20
Uncertainty-aware framework for real-time traffic incident prediction (abstract)
PRESENTER: Thanh Tran
17:40
Emerging from the dark cabin age: sensor-based prediction of passenger boarding times (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michael Schultz
16:40-18:00 Session 6D: Train operation
Chair:
16:40
Assessing the Conditional Value-at-Risk of a train schedule under fuzzy activity duration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Carlo Meloni
17:00
Train Delay Evolution Model Using Continuous Time Markov Processes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ismail Şahin
17:20
Exact numerical solution method for a train eco-driving problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zhuang Xiao
17:40
A Simulation-based Local Search Algorithm for Real-time Mitigation of Power Peaks in Railway Networks (abstract)
Thursday, September 5th

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08:45-09:00Coffee Break
09:00-10:40 Session 7A: Traffic state estimation
09:00
A Physics-informed Deep Learning Framework for Traffic State Estimation on Multi-ramp Freeways
PRESENTER: Hongxin Yu
09:20
A PHYSICS-INFORMED MULTI-CLASS LSTM MODEL FOR TRAFFIC STATE ESTIMATION
PRESENTER: Cecilia Pasquale
09:40
Traffic Queue Length Estimation and Prediction in Signalized Intersection using Sparse Vehicle Trajectory
PRESENTER: Hyejin Lee
10:00
Investigating Floating Car Observers for Traffic State Estimation through Co-Simulation
PRESENTER: Jeremias Gerner
10:20
Drone-Based Trajectory Data for an All-Traffic-State Inclusive Freeway with Ramps
09:00-10:40 Session 7B: Advanced control with connected technologies
09:00
A bus lanes sharing strategy closing to signalized intersections under the warrant of bus priority: A stochastic queueing-based approach
PRESENTER: Meng Xu
09:20
Examining Emergency Braking in Connected Autonomous Vehicle Platooning: Collision Risk and Severity Analysis
09:40
Macroscopic Modeling of Route-Based Network Traffic Flow with Robust Second-Order Phase Transition Model and Predictive Optimization at Junctions
10:00
A Constrained Differential Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Automated Vehicles in Lane-Free Traffic
10:20
Macroscopic Dynamic Lane Allocation for Ride-Sharing Vehicles: Incorporating Local Correction Factor
PRESENTER: Zhixiong Jin
10:40-11:00Coffee Break
12:00-13:00Lunch Break
13:00-14:40 Session 9A: Traffic prediction and identification
13:00
LLM-TP: Enhancing Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving with LLMs and Chain-of-Thought Prompting
PRESENTER: Zhenning Li
13:20
Quantifying the spatio-temporal propagation of disruptions through urban mass transit networks
PRESENTER: Ramandeep Singh
13:40
A Sequential Decision-Making Model for Perimeter Identification
14:00
Comparison of adjacency matrix construction methods for graph learning based traffic-flow prediction
PRESENTER: Alex Lewis
14:20
Growth Prediction of Spatio-temporal Congestion Cluster in Metropolitan
PRESENTER: Shaobo Sui
13:00-14:40 Session 9B: Management of future mobility systems
13:00
Congestion-aware charging management for electric ride-hailing systems with time-dependent energy prices
PRESENTER: Francesco Viti
13:20
Sustainable Freight Distribution Travel Demand Assessment – Empirical Agent-Based Spatial Infrastructure Modelling Methodology
PRESENTER: Helry Dias
13:40
Speed Control for Air Mobility Systems
PRESENTER: Yazan Safadi
14:00
Solving a collaborative passenger-parcel transport problem: A deep reinforcement learning based approach
PRESENTER: Yitong Yu
14:20
Microscopic modelling of E-Scooters: calibration through monitored trajectories
14:40-15:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:40 Session 11A: Multimodal traffic management
16:00
Multimodal Traffic Network Division under Disturbances Using A Joint Spectral Approach
PRESENTER: Ning Xie
16:20
Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Tolling in Tradable Credit Systems
PRESENTER: Xiaoyi Wu
16:40
Formulation of the Parallel Scheduling Vehicle Routing Problem
PRESENTER: Marcella Kaplan
17:00
Traffic Dynamics in the Presence of Abrupt or Planned Events
17:20
Detecting and Modelling the Interactions of Road Users in Shared Spaces
PRESENTER: Eleni Mantouka
16:00-17:40 Session 11B: Sustainable transport strategies
16:00
Feasibility study for deployment of mobile autonomous charging pods (MAPs) for charging operations
PRESENTER: Mohd Aiman Khan
16:20
Dynamic Operations of a Mobile Charging Crowdsourcing Platform
PRESENTER: Yiming Yan
16:40
Balancing congestion and emissions in urban networks via path-based incentives
17:00
The incidence of management systems for a comprehensive balance of GHG emissions from motorway transport
17:20
A Linear Model of Electric Vehicles Energy Demand in Urban Areas: Validation Case Study Using an Agent-Based Electromobility Simulator
PRESENTER: Paul Fermé
Friday, September 6th

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08:45-09:00Coffee Break
09:00-10:40 Session 12A: Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs)
09:00
A simulation model of system optimal motion planning for AVs in shared spaces
09:20
Using Connected and Automated Vehicles as Mobile Controllers in Single Lane Roundabouts
PRESENTER: Ali Hajbabaie
09:40
Coordinated Control for Lane-free Traffic of Connected Automated Vehicles on Freeways: Internal Boundary Control, Ramp Metering and Variable Speed Limit Control
PRESENTER: Fengyue Jin
10:00
Evaluation and Validation of Microscopic Models for CAVs in Lane-Free Roundabouts
10:20
Innovative Interventions for Transforming Road Capacity, Safety and Emissions on the England’s Strategic Road Network
PRESENTER: Yuxiang Feng
09:00-10:40 Session 12B: Intersection management
09:00
Needs-Based Signalized Intersection Management: Priority Pass
PRESENTER: Kevin Riehl
09:20
Network-level Adaptive Signal Control Optimization Under A Closed-loop Online Updating Framework
PRESENTER: Jiarong Yao
09:40
A Distributed Intersection Control Algorithm with Autonomous Vehicles
PRESENTER: Alireza Soltani
10:00
More Space for Vulnerable Road Users with Autonomous Intersection Management
10:20
An Experimental Study on Max-Pressure Traffic Controller based on Delays
PRESENTER: Razi Zoabi
10:40-11:00Coffee Break
12:00-13:20 Session 14A: Lane management
Chair:
12:00
Investigating the Impacts of Prudent Lane-changing Behavior of Autonomous Vehicles on Traffic Efficiency and Safety
12:20
How to Design an Automated Vehicle Lane-Changing Decision Model for Traffic Flow Benefit
PRESENTER: Yongju Kim
12:40
Integrating feedback control with reinforcement learning for lane-adaptive variable speed limits
PRESENTER: Yu Han
12:00-13:20 Session 14B: Mixed traffic
12:00
Optimization-based Urban Network Traffic Management with Mixed Autonomy Incorporating Dynamic Saturation Rates
PRESENTER: Muhammad Haris
12:20
A HYBRID TRAFFIC FLOW MODEL FOR MIXED TRAFFIC FLOW CONSIDERING CONNECTED AUTOMATED VEHICLES AND HUMAN-DRIVEN VEHICLES
PRESENTER: Facundo Storani
12:40
Optimal Dedicated Lane Planning for Mixed Traffic on Highways
PRESENTER: Jeongin Yun
13:00
Incorporating human factors in car-following models: a model credibility assessment framework
PRESENTER: Vincenzo Punzo
13:20-15:00Lunch & Closing Ceremony