Books

Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Software (with Jerry Z. Gao and Ye Wu) (2003)

Presenting the state of the art in component-based software testing, this cutting-edge resource offers you...

 
Entropy Optimization and Mathematical Programming (with Shu-Cherng Fang and J.R. Rajasekera) (1997)

Entropy optimization is a useful combination of classical engineering theory (entropy) with mathematical optimization. The...

 

Papers Published in Refereed Journals

ICT Leap-frogging Enabled by Cloud Computing for Emerging Economies: A Case on Streamlining India’s Grain Supply Chains (with S Venkatsubramanyan, S Parikh, and P Sarkar), International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (2012)
 

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A Maximum-Entropy Approach to Minimizing Resource Contention in Aircraft Routing for Optimization of Airport Surface Operations (with A Pratama), International Journal of information and Decision Sciences, Special Issue on Information Entropy (2011)
 

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Revisiting the Note on Supply Chain Integration in Vendor-Managed Inventory (with W. T. Wang and H. M. Wee), Decision Support Systems (2010)

This note investigates a recent paper by Yao et al. and a critique by van...

 

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Forward Apportionment of Censored Counts for Discrete Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Failure Probabilities (with N Patel), International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (2009)

Empirical cumulative lifetime distribution function is often required for selecting lifetime distribution. When some test...

 

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Operational Feasibility of One-dedicated-lane Bus Rapid Transit/Light-rail Systems (with Wenbin Wei and Agus Pratama), Transportation Planning and Technology (2009)

This paper proposes the concept of a bus rapid transit (BRT) or light rail system...

 

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Command Steering of Trailers and Command-steering-based Optimal Control of an Articulated System for Tractor-track Following (with K Rangavajhula), Journal of Automobile Engineering (2008)

First the effectiveness of command steering of trailers in reducing off-tracking during a 90° turn...

 

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Optimal Sequencing of Test Conditions in 2^k Factorial Experimental Design for Run-Size Minimization (with Hongrui Liu), Computers and Industrial Engineering (2008)

The exponential growth of the number of test conditions (i.e., the “run size”) of a...

 

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A Simulation Study of the Productivity of Large Trucks with Shorter Trailers (with Y Dessouky, M Patel, J B. Zeta, and L Zhou), International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2007)

The need for improving the productivity in freight transportation has become urgent in recent years...

 

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Active Trailer Steering Control of an Articulated System with a Tractor and Three Full Trailers for Tractor-track Following (with K Rangavajhula), International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems (2007)

We examine several control strategies to minimise off-tracking of a multi-axle steering system with a...

 

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Effect of Multi-Axle Steering on Off-Tracking and Dynamic Lateral Response of Articulated Tractor-Trailer Combinations (with K Rangavajhula), International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems (2007)

Multi-axle steering systems with a tractor and up to three full trailers are studied with...

 

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A Method for Identifying a Minimal Set of Test Conditions in 2^k Experimental Design (with Irene W. Wibowo), Computers and Industrial Engineering (2005)

A primary task of the analysis of a 2k factorial design is to estimate the...

 

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An Automated Highway System Dedicated To Inter-City Trucking: Design Options, Operating Concepts And Deployment (with Jan L. Botha), Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal (The ITS Journal) (2002)

The concept of automated highway systems (AHS) has been primarily motivated by the rapidly worsening...

 

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Entropic Perturbation Method for Solving Systems of Linear Inequalities (with Shyh-Huei Chen and Shu-Cherng Fang), Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2002)

The problem of finding an View the MathML source such that Ax⩽b and x⩾0 arises...

 

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A Framework for Evaluating Deployment Strategies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal (The ITS Journal) (2001)

Because Intelligeni Transportation Systems (ITS) R&D is performed for the ultimate depolyment in the real...

 

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Entrance Capacity of an Automated Highway System (with Randolph W. Hall and Ali Nowroozi), Transportation Science (2001)

This paper evaluates the entrance capacity and queueing delay for Automated Highway Systems through use...

 

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The Emergence of a Cognitive Car Following Driver Model with Application to Rear-End Crashes with a Stopped Lead Vehicle (with James A. Misener, Bongsob Song, and Aaron Steinfeld), Transportation Research Record 1724 (2000)

Rear-end crashes are a major roadway safety problem, and the potential of crash countermeasures to...

 

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An Axiomatic Approach to Developing Partial Automation Concepts for Deployment of Automated Highway Systems and Partial Invocation of Vision-Based Lane-Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control, Transportation Research Record (1998)

Discussions about the pros and cons of the automated highway system (AHS) visions are nothing...

 

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From the Guest Editor, Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal (The ITS Journal) on Automated Highway Systems (1998)
 

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Intermediate Automation Concepts for Evolution toward Automated Highway Systems (with M Al-Kadri and H Benouar), Transportation Research Record (1998)

Automated highway systems (AHS) are a promising concept whose implementation needs to take place in...

 

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Analytical Models for Vehicle/Gap Distribution on Automated Highway Systems (with Randolph W. Hall and Indrajit Chatterjee), Transportation Science (1997)

Highway congestion has in recent years become a pervasive problem for urban and suburban areas...

 

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Perturbing Dual Feasible Region for Solving Convex Quadratic Programs (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (1997)

A dual l p-norm perturbation approach is introduced for solving convex quadratic programming problems. The...

 

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Traffic Analysis for Highway-to-Highway Interchanges on Automated Highway Systems: Congestion in Absence of Dedicated Ramps (with B Ran, S Johnson, and S Leight), Transportation Research Record 1588: Planning and Administration; Highway Operations, Capacity, and Traffic Control (1997)

Special connector ramps linking the automated lanes at automated highway-to-automated highway interchanges may be needed...

 

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On the Entropic Perturbation and Exponential Penalty Methods for Linear Programming (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (1996)

This note points out that the recently proposed exponential penalty approach to linear programming is...

 

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A Dual Perturbation View of Linear Programming (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (1996)

Solving standard-form linear prograrns via perturbation of the primal objective function has received much attention...

 

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A Weak Law of Large Numbers for a Class of Non-Stationary Vector ARMA Processes with One Unit Root, Stochastic Analysis and Applications (1996)

This paper identifies a class of non-stationary vector ARMA processes with one unit characteristic root...

 

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An Efficient Computational Procedure for Solving Entropy Optimization Problems with Infinitely Many Linear Constraints (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (1996)

A cutting-plane type algorithm for solving entropy optimization problems with a finite number of variables...

 

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Linear Programming with Inequality Constraints via Entropic Perturbation (with Shu-Cherng Fang), International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (1996)

A dual convex programming approach to solving linear programs with inequality constraints through entropic perturbation...

 

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Solving Linear Programs with Inequality Constraints via Perturbation of Feasible Region (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Optimization (1996)

Solving a linear programming problem by perturbing its primal objective functiun with a barrier or...

 

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A Staggered-Diamond Design for Automated/Manual-HOV Highway-to-Highway Interchanges and Constraints on AHS Design for Accommodating Automated Highway Change, Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) (1995)

This paper consists of two components. The First component addresses a key AHS infrastructure support...

 

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An Unconstrained Dual Approach to Solving Karmarkar-Type Linear Programs Using Conventional Barrier Functions (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (1995)

This paper proposes an unconstrained dual approach and an efficient algorithm for solving Karmarkar-type linear...

 

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Linearly-Constrained Entropy Maximization Problem with Quadratic Costs and Its Applications to Transportation Planning Problems (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Transportation Science (1995)

Many transportation problems can be formulated as a linearly-constrained convex programming problem whose objective function...

 

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Stage Definition for AHS Deployment and an AHS Evolutionary Scenario, Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) (1995)

Pros and cons of various mature Automated Highway Systems (AHS) have been a subject of...

 

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The Shortest Path with at Most L nodes in Each of the Series/Parallel Clusters (with Wen-Jui Li and Osman Ulular), Networks (1995)

We study two related constrained shortest path problems in which the nodes are partitioned into...

 

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Traffic Control for Automated Highway Systems: A Conceptual Framework, Transportation Research, Part C (1995)

The task of traffic control for automated highway systems (AHS) is drastically different from and...

 

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A Probabilistic Model for AVCS Longitudinal Collision/Safety Analysis (with Randolph Hall), Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) (1994)

This paper develops a probabilistic model for analyzing longitudinal collision/safety between an abruptly decelerating vehicle...

 

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A Quadratically Convergent Global Algorithm for the Linearly-Constrained Minimum Cross-Entropy Problem (with Shu-Cherng Fang), European Journal of Operations Research (1994)

In this paper, we propose a curved-search algorithm for solving the cross-entropy minimization problem with...

 

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Constraints on Initial AHS Deployment and the Concept Definition of a Shuttle Service for AHS Debut, Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Journal (IVHS Journal) (1994)

Highway automation and its evolution involve a multitude of systems issues. Particularly important and difficult...

 

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A Bayesian Interpretation of the Linearly-Constrained Cross-Entropy Minimization Problem (with Shu-Cherng Fang and D N. Lee), Engineering Optimization (1993)

Both the linearly-constrained minimum cross-entropy (LCMXE) method and the Bayesian parameter estimation procedure have been...

 

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An Unconstrained Convex Programming Approach to Solving Convex Quadratic Programming Problems (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Optimization (1993)

In this paper, we derive an unconstrained convex programming approach to solving convex quadratic programming...

 

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Linear Programming with Entropic Perturbation (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Zeitschrift fur Operations Research (1993)

In this paper, we derive an unconstrained convex programming approach to solving standard form linear...

 

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On the Optimal Entropy Analysis (with Shu-Cherng Fang and D N. Lee), European Journal of Operations Research (1992)

In this technical note, we use Jensen's inequality to derive a dual approach to solving...

 

Book Chapters (Invited and Peer-Reviews)

Entropy Optimization: Interior Point Methods (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Encyclopedia of Optimization (2001)
 
Principle of Maximum Entropy: Image Reconstruction (with Shu-Cherng Fang), Encyclopedia of Optimization (2001)
 
Automated Highway System Deployment: A Preliminary Assessment of Uncertainties (with Randolph W. Hall), Automated Highway Systems (1997)
 

Peer-reviewed Papers Published in Recent Conference Proceedings

Dodge-Romig Acceptance Sampling Plans: Misuse and Modification for Practical Usefulness (with A Ganguly), 2011 Industrial Engineering Research Conference (2011)
 
Integer Programming for Student Program Design and Scheduling (with Minnie H. Patel and Zahra J. Abdollahi), 2011 Industrial Engineering Research Conference (2011)
 
Streamlining Grain Supply Chains of India: Cloud Computing and Distributed Hubbing for Wholesale-Retail Logistics (with S Parikh, A S. Ghosh, R Pal, M Ranalkar, H Tarapore, and S Venkatsubramanyan), 2010 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (IEEE-SOLI 2010) (2010)
 
An Optimization Architecture for Airport Surface Operations (with W Wei), Transportation Research Board 2009 Annual Meeting (2009)
 
Integrated Taxiing and Take-Off Scheduling for Optimization of Airport Surface Operations (with W Wei and A Pratama), 2nd Annual Conference of Indian Subcontinent Decision Science Institute (ISDSI 2009) (2009)
 
Launching Bus Rapid Transit with Only One Dedicated Lane for Two-Way Bus Traffic on Congested Corridors (with W Wei, A Pratama, and J R. Tsao), 2nd Annual Conference of Indian Subcontinent Decision Science Institute (ISDSI 2009) (2009)
 
Global Technology Initiative Study-Tour to Asia at San Jose State University (with Belle Wei), 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (2007)
 
Operational Feasibility of One-dedicated-lane Bus Rapid Transit/Light-rail Systems (with Wenbin Wei and Agus Pratama), 7th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals (2007)
 
Active Command-Steering Control of Tractor and Three Full Trailers for Tractor-track Following (with K Rangavajhula), International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2006)
 
Studying Offshoring Through a Study-Tour of Taiwan and China (with Belle Wei), 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (2005)
 
An Automated Bus System With Shuttle-Centered Convoying And Intra-Convoy Transfer: Operations And Evaluation (with Lan Zhang), Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 2005 Annual Meeting (2005)
 
Minimization of Test Conditions in Experimental Design (with I W. Wibowo), 31st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (2003)
 
An Automated Highway System Dedicated To Inter-City Trucking: Operating Concepts And Deployment (with Jan L. Botha), 2002 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (2002)
 
Operating Concepts for Urban Bus Automation and Inter-city Truck Automation (with Jan L. Botha), 2001 IEEE ITS Conference (2001)
 
Testing a Decision-Oriented Framework to Understand ITS Deployment Issues: Lessons Learned from the TravInfo ATIS Project (with M A. Miller), 6th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (1999)
 
Capacity of Automated Highway Systems: Merging Efficiency (with Randolph W. Hall), Proceedings of American Control Conference (1997)
 
Concept Definition of an Infrastructure-Supported Automated Highway System (with R Sengupta and D Godbole), Proceedings of The Third World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems (1996)
 
Driver Intelligence Replacement in a Decision-Oriented Deployment Framework for Driving Automation (with B Ran), Proceedings of The Third World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems (1996)
 
Leveraging Exogenous Events for the Deployment of Automated Highway Systems (with M Hanson), Proceedings of The Third World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems (1996)
 
Towards a Macroscopic Formulation Approach for Dynamic Traffic Flow on an AHS (with B Ran), Proceedings of IVHS America 5th Annual meeting (1994)
 
A Functional Architecture for Automated Highway Traffic Planning, 4th Annual Meeting of IVHS America (1994)
 
Entropy Optimization and Bayesian Parameter Estimation (with R W. Hall and S E. Shladover), Proceedings of Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems Conference (1993)
 
A Bayesian Analysis of Entropy Optimization for Uncertainty Modeling (with Shu-Cherng Fang and D N. Lee), The Second International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA '93) (1993)
 
Entropy Optimization and Bayesian Parameter Estimation (with Shu-Cherng Fang and D N. Lee), Conference Proceedings of Advances in Mathematics, Computations and Reactor Physics (1991)
 

Selected Recent Non-Refereed Reports

Efficient Space Dedication to Bus Rapid Transit or Light Rail Systems (with A Pratama), Journal of Transportation Engineering (2012)
 
Developing Operating Rules and Simulating Performance for One-Dedicated-Lane Bus Rapid Transit/Light Rail Systems (with Y Dessouky, K Ingham, R Ongkowidjojo, and J R. Tsao), PATH Research Report UCB-ITS-PRR-2010-01, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Berkeley (2010)
 
Annual Report for the Research Project of Integrated Approach for Airport Surface Traffic Optimization Under Uncertainties (with W Wei, J Poage, D Davis, V Cheng, J Martin, A Seo, C Fu, A Pratama, K Corker, Z Fan, and L Ho), submitted to NASA by San Jose State University Human Automation Interaction Laboratory (HAIL) (2009)
 
Integrated Taxiing and Take-Off Scheduling with Reordering at Runway Holding Points for Optimization of Airport Operations (with W Wei and A Pratama), Integrated Approaches for Surface Traffic Optimization in the Presence of Uncertainties,” and presented at the 2009 Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Annual Meeting held in San Diego, USA (2009)
 
Annual Report for the Research Project of Integrated Approach for Airport Surface Traffic Optimization Under Uncertainties (with W Wei, J Poage, D Davis, V Cheng, J Martin, A Seo, C Fu, A Pratama, K Corker, and L Ho), submitted to NASA by San Jose State University Human Automation Interaction Laboratory (HAIL) (2008)
 
Statistical Process Control for Within-Piece and Lot-To-Lot Variability (with Mujde Uysal), portions presented at the 2008 Annual Conference of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Vancouver, Canada (2008)
 
Feasibility of One-Dedicated-Lane Bus Rapid Transit/Light-Rail Systems and Their Expansion to Two-Dedicated-Lane Systems: A Focus on Geometric Configuration and Performance Planning (with W Wei and A Pratama), MTI Report 08-01, Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, U.S.A. (2008)
 
Automatic Steering For Conventional Truck Trailers: Development And Assessment Of Operating Concepts For Improving Safety, Productivity And Pavement Durability - Final Report (with Y Dessouky, K Rangavajhula, J B. Zeta, and L Zhou), PATH Research Report UCB-ITS-PRR-2006-8, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2006)
 
Evaluation of Bus and Truck Automation Operations Concepts (with Lan Zhang and Lin Lin), California PATH Research Report UCB-ITS-PRR-2004-45 (283 pages), California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highway (PATH), University of California, Berkeley (2004)
 
Identification of Minimal Sets of Test Conditions in Experimental Design (with I Wibowo), presented at INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) Fall 2002 National Meeting, San Jose, California (2002)
 
The Performance of R and S Control Charts for Mixtures of Two Normal Distributions (with A Berrado), presented at INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) Fall 2002 National Meeting, held in San Jose, California (2002)
 
Definition and Evaluation of Bus and Truck Automation Operations Concepts (with Jan Botha), California PATH Research Report, UCB-ITS-PRR-2002-8, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2002)
 
The Role Of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) In Intermodal Air Cargo Operations (with A Rizwan), Research Report UCB-ITS-RR-2000-5, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2000)
 
The Role Of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) In Intermodal Air Cargo Operations (with A Rizwan), Research Report UCB-ITS-RR-2000-5, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2000)
 
Empirical Analysis of Airport Capacity Enhancement Impacts: A Case Study of DFW Airport (with M Hansen, A Huang, and W Wei), presented at the 1999 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., (1999)
 
The Role of Air Cargo in California's Goods Movement, UCB-ITS Research Report UCB-ITS-RR-98-7, University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies (1998)
 
A Comparison of Traffic Models: Part II, Results (with H K. Lo, W H. Lin, L C. Liao, and E Chang), PATH Research Report UCB-ITS-PRR-97-15, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1997)
 
Dynamic Traffic Assignment for Automated Highway Systems: Final Report for MOU 162 (with B Hongola), California PATH Reports to Caltrans 97-C14, PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1997)
 
A Comparison of Traffic Models: Part I, Framework (with H K. Lo, W H. Lin, L C. Liao, and E Chang), PATH Research Report UCB-ITS-PRR-96-22, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1996)
 
Dynamic Traffic Assignment for Automated Highway Systems: A Two-Lane Highway with Speed Constancy, Working Paper UCB-ITS-PWP-96-12, PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1996)
 
Traffic Flow Analysis for an Automated Highway System (with B Ran), presented at the Transportation Research Board 1996 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (1996)
 
Estimating Dynamic O-D Matrices Using Advanced Technologies (with B Ran and C C. Liao), 7th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Sydney, Australia (1995)
 
Human Factors Design for Automated Highway Systems: Second Generation Scenarios (with T A. Plocher, W B. Zhang, and S E. Shladover), draft US-DOT FHWA Report, under FHWA Contract No. DTFH61-91-C-00100 (1994)
 
Human Factors Design of Automated Highway Systems: First Generation Scenarios (with R W. Hall, S E. Shladover, T A. Plocher, and L J. Levitan), US-DOT FHWA Report FHWA-RD-93-123 (1993)
 
Two-Point and Multi-Point Routing Algorithms for Private-Network Circuit Layout (with W J. Li and O Ulular), Bell Laboratory Technical Memorandum 51253-910811-01TM (1991)
 

Recent Presentations Made at International Conferences (without a Paper)

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A Decision-Oriented Framework for Evaluating Deployment Strategies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) (1999)

Because Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) R&D is performed for the ultimate deployment in the real...

 

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A Comparison Of Traffic Models: Part 1, Framework (with Hong K. Lo, Wei-hua Lin, Lawrence C. Liao, and Elbert Chang), California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) (1996)

This report defines a framework for comparing dynamic traffic models. It emphasizes four dimensions: functionality,...

 

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A Staggered-diamond Design For Automated/manual - Hov Highway-to-highway Interchange, California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) (1995)

This paper proposes a staggered-diamond design for automated connector ramps for an Automated Highway System...

 

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Traffic Control For Automated Highway Systems: A Conceptual Framework, California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) (1995)

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for designing a traffic control scheme. It adopts a...