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William Barbour

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arXiv2023

The Interstate-24 3D Dataset: a new benchmark for 3D multi-camera vehicle tracking

This work presents a novel video dataset recorded from overlapping highway traffic cameras along an urban interstate, enabling multi-camera 3D object tracking in a traffic monitoring context. Data is released from 3 scenes containing video from at least 16 cameras each, totaling 57 minutes in length. 877,000 3D bounding boxes and corresponding object tracklets are fully and accurately annotated for each camera field of view and are combined into a spatially and temporally continuous set of vehicle trajectories for each scene. Lastly, existing algorithms are combined to benchmark a number of 3D multi-camera tracking pipelines on the dataset, with results indicating that the dataset is challenging due to the difficulty of matching objects traveling at high speeds across cameras and heavy object occlusion, potentially for hundreds of frames, during congested traffic. This work aims to enable the development of accurate and automatic vehicle trajectory extraction algorithms, which will play a vital role in understanding impacts of autonomous vehicle technologies on the safety and efficiency of traffic.

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arXiv2023

Impacts of Covid-19 mode shift on road traffic

This work considers the sensitivity of commute travel times in US metro areas due to potential changes in commute patterns, for example caused by events such as pandemics. Permanent shifts away from transit and carpooling can add vehicles to congested road networks, increasing travel times. Growth in the number of workers who avoid commuting and work from home instead can offset travel time increases. To estimate these potential impacts, 6-9 years of American Community Survey commute data for 118 metropolitan statistical areas are investigated. For 74 of the metro areas, the average commute travel time is shown to be explainable using only the number of passenger vehicles used for commuting. A universal Bureau of Public Roads model characterizes the sensitivity of each metro area with respect to additional vehicles. The resulting models are then used to determine the change in average travel time for each metro area in scenarios when 25\% or 50\% of transit and carpool users switch to single occupancy vehicles. Under a 25\% mode shift, areas such as San Francisco and New York that are already congested and have high transit ridership may experience round trip travel time increases of 12 minutes (New York) to 20 minutes (San Francisco), costing individual commuters \$1065 and \$1601 annually in lost time. The travel time increases and corresponding costs can be avoided with an increase in working from home. The main contribution of this work is to provide a model to quantify the potential increase in commute travel times under various behavior changes, that can aid policy making for more efficient commuting.

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arXiv2022

Optimization of vaccination for COVID-19 in the midst of a pandemic

During the Covid-19 pandemic a key role is played by vaccination to combat the virus. There are many possible policies for prioritizing vaccines, and different criteria for optimization: minimize death, time to herd immunity, functioning of the health system. Using an age-structured population compartmental finite-dimensional optimal control model, our results suggest that the eldest to youngest vaccination policy is optimal to minimize deaths. Our model includes the possible infection of vaccinated populations. We apply our model to real-life data from the US Census for New Jersey and Florida, which have a significantly different population structure. We also provide various estimates of the number of lives saved by optimizing the vaccine schedule and compared to no vaccination.

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arXiv2021

Integrated Framework of Vehicle Dynamics, Instabilities, Energy Models, and Sparse Flow Smoothing Controllers

This work presents an integrated framework of: vehicle dynamics models, with a particular attention to instabilities and traffic waves; vehicle energy models, with particular attention to accurate energy values for strongly unsteady driving profiles; and sparse Lagrangian controls via automated vehicles, with a focus on controls that can be executed via existing technology such as adaptive cruise control systems. This framework serves as a key building block in developing control strategies for human-in-the-loop traffic flow smoothing on real highways. In this contribution, we outline the fundamental merits of integrating vehicle dynamics and energy modeling into a single framework, and we demonstrate the energy impact of sparse flow smoothing controllers via simulation results.

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arXiv2019

Model based string stability of adaptive cruise control systems using field data

This article is motivated by the lack of empirical data on the performance of commercially available Society of Automotive Engineers level one automated driving systems. To address this, a set of car following experiments are conducted to collect data from a 2015 luxury electric vehicle equipped with a commercial adaptive cruise control (ACC) system. Velocity, relative velocity, and spacing data collected during the experiments are used to calibrate an optimal velocity relative velocity car following model for both the minimum and maximum following settings. The string stability of both calibrated models is assessed, and it is determined that the best-fit models are string unstable, indicating they are not able to prevent all traffic disturbances from amplifying into phantom jams. Based on the calibrated models, we identify the consequences of the string unstable ACC system on synthetic and empirical lead vehicle disturbances, highlighting that some disturbances can be dampened even with string unstable commercial ACC platoons of moderate size.

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