Carlos F. Daganzo

Member, National Academy of Engineering
Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley, California, United States

Carlos F. Daganzo is a Chancellor’s Professor of the Graduate School in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he was a co-founder, chairperson of the board, and principal scientist of Via Analytics, a California benefit corporation devoted to improving mobility through technology. He has served as convenor of the oldest international symposium on transportation and traffic theory (the ISTTT) and as an associate editor of Transportation Research and Transportation Science. Daganzo’s former students hold faculty positions at top-ranked schools of engineering, business and management all over the world. Noted for his contributions to econometrics, logistics, freight operations, network theory, traffic flow, and transit operations, Daganzo has authored five internationally used and translated books. In particular, his latest book on public transit describes the blueprint for Barcelona’s new high-performance bus system, which Daganzo invented and co-designed. The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, bestowed on him an honorary doctorate, partly in recognition for this work. The ISTTT Symposium of 2011 was dedicated to him in recognition of his cumulative contributions to transportation science. In 2018, Daganzo was appointed Overseas High Talent Strategic Scientist to the city of Beijing with the charge of conceiving and overseeing the transit and transportation master plans for the city. In 2019, Daganzo was recognized as “the most remarkable author” in the 50-year history of the prestigious Transportation Research journal series.

Deb Niemeier

Member, National Academy of Engineering
Clark Distinguished Chair of Sustainability
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Affiliate Professor in the College of Information Studies
University of Maryland, Maryland, United States

Jonas Eliasson

Director, Transport Accessibility – Swedish National Transport Administration
Professor of Transport Systems at Linköping University
Chair of the Civil Engineering Committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences

Jonas Eliasson is director for transport accessibility at the Swedish National Transport Administration, professor of transport systems at Linköping University and chair of the Civil Engineering committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was director of the Stockholm City Transportation Administration 2016-2018 and professor of transport systems analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 2007-2016. Eliasson directed the design and evaluation of the Stockholm congestion pricing system, in operation since 2006, and has worked extensively with evaluation and redesign of it since then. He was also involved in designing and evaluating the Gothenburg congestion pricing system, in operation since 2013, and has been employed as an advisor on congestion pricing to a large number of other cities and national governments worldwide. He has published a large number of scientific publications on congestion pricing, covering a broad range of topics such as scheme design, modeling the effects, political economy and public acceptability. Eliasson has a broad experience in analyzing, developing and applying transport policies and appraisal methodologies, often acting as an expert advisor on strategic transportation issues to cities, regional and national governments. His research interests include cost-benefit analysis of transport projects and policies, decision making in the transport sector, transport pricing, transport modeling, public and political acceptability of transport policies, valuation of travel time and reliability, and railway capacity allocation.

ABSTRACT

Congestion pricing has been advocated by economists and planners for a long time, but still only a handful of cities have introduced it. This presentation summarizes lessons learned from research and practical experience, centered around the three most common questions decision makers ask – in order: Does it work? Is it possible to get public and political support? What are the main obstacles for introduction?

Xiaobo Qu

Member, Academia Europaea
Chair Professor of Urban Mobility Systems
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Xiaobo Qu is a chair professor (permanent basis) in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. His research is focused on improving large, complex and interrelated urban mobility systems by integrating with emerging technologies. More specifically, his research has been applied to the improvement of emergency services, and operations of electric vehicles and connected automated vehicles. He has authored or co-authored over 120 journal articles published in top-tier journals, many of which were journals with a broader impact than his own research community. Before his current appointment, he was a professor (permanent basis) at Chalmers (2018-2019), and a senior lecturer/lecturer (permanent basis, 2012-2017) in two Australian universities. He is an elected member of Academia Europaea–the Academy of Europe since August 2020.

ABSTRACT

In this talk, the speaker will review the revolution from traditional transportation engineering to intelligent transportation systems, which is triggered by rapid development of vehicular, tele-communications, data collection and processing technologies. Then three trends will be discussed: high-resolution big data (due to the paradigm change in data collection and processing), emerging mobility modes and their integration with existing systems (e.g., connected and automated vehicles, modular buses, flying cars, boring), and systems of multiple systems (e.g., interactions with electricity grid, tele-communications systems). These three trends will play important roles in the planning, design, operations and control of our next generation transportation systems. A series of case studies of these three trends will be introduced, and their benefit in relieving congestion reduction will be presented.