R. Jayakrishnan, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of California, Irvine

Presentation Title:

Possibilities in Transportation System Operations with User Exchanges in a Shared-Connected-Autonomous Future.

Abstract:

Newer technologies and high market penetration of personal communication systems along with the advent of autonomous and connected vehicle systems bring up many new possibilities for different paradigms of operation in transportation systems. Facilitated by significantly more peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, users in the future can consume transportation supply with more complete information on individual heterogeneity in utility satisfaction. Several possibilities exist in such a world of shared economy, in using road and vehicle space in an efficient manner. This presentation focuses on the possibilities and discusses recent research into mechanisms for traffic signal and highway lane usage, and ride-matching in shared-ride systems. The associated pricing and behavioral issues are discussed and economic concepts such as envy-freeness are introduced.

Bio:

Prof. R. Jayakrishnan has been in the faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Irvine since 1991, after receiving his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in a variety of topics such as Traffic Flow Theory and Simulation, Transportation Systems Analysis, Network Modelling, Decision Theory, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Public Transit Design. He has been a member of several professional committees, has served in the editorial committees of journals such as the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering and Transportation Research Part-C, and has served in several professional committees and academic panels of the Federal Highway Administration, National Science Foundation, and the Transportation Research Board. A paper co-authored by him received the prestigious Pyke Johnson Award for the best paper in planning at the 2009 TRB meeting. 22 PhD students have graduated under his advice, with half of them in faculty positions in USA, S. Korea and around the world. He has over 120 refereed publications to his credit. He has been a visiting professor at institutions such as the Ajou University in South Korea and the Amrita University in India.