CEE Dept. Transportation Engineering Faculty Candidate Seminar
<p> <strong>Recent Advances in Choice Modeling: Applications to Travel Behavior & Traffic Safety Research</strong></p> <p> <em>Presented by Dr. Rajesh Paleti, Ph.D.</em></p> <p> Where: ECSB Building, Room 1310<br /> When: 11:00 AM on Friday, March 7, 2014</p> <p> <strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p> Within the transportation sector, on-road vehicular travel on roadways accounts for a substantial portion of greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, increasing urban populations, combined with the continued use of the car as the primary means of travel, has led to increased delay, decreased travel time reliability, and increased fuel consumption. The number of fatalities due to road accidents, although on the decline, is very large and road accidents remain the leading cause of death among young teenage drivers according to the most recent data available on mortality rates. Given the nature of these problems and the multitude of factors involved, transportation research has become truly interdisciplinary cutting across the fields of urban planning, environmental sciences, safety, and sociology. Also, complicated problems necessitate using rigorous mathematical and statistical techniques. Thus, a good statistical and econometric background has become an essential and integral element of transportation research. In this talk, Rajesh will discuss some of the recent methodological advances in choice modeling and their practical application to travel behavior and traffic safety research.</p>
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Date: Mon Mar 03 01:30:38 EST 2014