The iTSS Lab was at the TRB Annual Meeting! (January 7-11, 2018 Washington, D.C) Thanks everyone who attended and presented in our sessions. Our research was featured in the following areas: Poster Session 251: Innovations in Adaptive Signal Control Monday 8:00 AM- 9:45 AM Topic: Adaptive Traffic Signal Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Exploratory Investigation Poster Session 386: Advanced Modeling, Recognition, and Classification Methods in Transportation Applications Monday 1:30 …Read More

Congratulations to Siyuan (Grace) Li who recently completed her Master’s seminar and thesis titled “Cycling in Toronto: Route Choice Behavior and Implications to Infrastructure Planning” under the supervision of Dr. Liping Fu. Grace’s work focused on cycling behaviour in the City of Toronto using GPS data. Her work has been presented at this year’s annual TRB meeting, and publication of the results of her research is pending in TRB’s journal, …Read More

Research done by members of the iTSS Lab were on display this past week at the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) 96th Annual Meeting. Our research covered a number of topics and was on display in the following sections: Winter Maintenance Development of Zonal-Specific Semivariograms for a Strategic Road Weather Information System Network Optimization: Case Study Authors: Tae J. Kwon, Matthew Muresan; Liping Fu; Taimur Usman Paper ID: 17-02754 Presented by: …Read More

Congratulations to Lalita Thakali who recently completed her Ph. D. defense on July 29, 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Liping Fu and Dr. Tao Chen. Defense committee members included Dr. Changbao Wu (Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo), Dr. Frank F. Saccomanno (Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo), Dr. Mahesh Pandey (Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo)  and Dr. Bhagwant Persaud (Civil Engineering, Ryerson University). Her thesis was titled …Read More