2016 - 2017) Director’S Letter
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Northwestern University Transportation Center 1 NUTC MISSION As Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC) looks to the future, we must retain the essential features of transportation research, outreach, and educational programming while recognizing the evolving industry focus in light of new technologies, markets and societal concerns . 63 YEARS OF This report reflects the reality of transformative change in the transportation TRANSPORTATION industry, as well as within NUTC . Further, the collaborations and initiatives NUTC RESEARCH continues to pursue will benefit the greater goal of maintaining global recognition as a primary hub for the generation, dissemination, and implementation of new transportation-related knowledge . IN THIS REPORT (2016 - 2017) Director’s Letter . 2 Highlights: By the Numbers . 3 Collaboration and Connections: Regional, National, Global . 4 Synergistic Institutes and Centers . 6. Transportation Library . 8 Appreciation: Diana Marek . 10 Faculty Affiliates and Researchers . 12 Research Emerging Challenges . 19 Core Research . 24 Industry Research . 32 Education Graduate, Undergraduate, Executive . 36 Outreach Business Advisory Council (BAC) . 46 Events: Lectures, Workshops, Seminars, Symposia . 60. Community . 77 2016–2017 Progress Report 3 Director’s Letter Highlights Hani S . Mahmassani By the Numbers There is never a dull moment at the 2016 - 2017 Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC), reflecting the considerable activity and dynamism characterizing our field and the NUTC Dissertation Year Fellows (DYF) transportation sector in general . A growing 9 economy means more demand for transport, PhD & MS Candidates enrolled in the and for mobility . Lack of past investment during Transportation Systems Planning & leaner times means stress throughout the 35 Analysis Degree Program transportation system, reflected in greater endemic congestion, and less resilience in the leading edge of developing tools for agencies the face of more frequent disruptions . Natural to evaluate and plan for the advent of these 33 NUTC Seminars disasters exacerbate these symptoms, paralyzing technologies, and guide their deployment . entire cities and regions of the country, and NUTC also provides a forum for discussion indeed the world . and exchange at all levels of stakeholders NUTC Faculty Affiliates and industry players to help understand and 60 Transportation companies in the business frame the intellectual questions and practical of moving freight and meeting the logistics implications of these technologies for business New Business Advisory Council (BAC) challenges of continuing customer expectations practice as well as public policy . members and representatives for near-immediate gratification, continue to 20 innovate in systems and processes to accompany This Progress Report is a double-header, covering retailers and shippers’ changing supply chain and two years in the life of our Center . We hope that Years of dedicated service to NUTC logistics practices . Technological advances loom through these pages, we are able to convey the celebrated (Assistant Director Diana 40 Marek retired January 2018) large, as both a source of opportunity for those sense of excitement and dynamism that who embrace and master them, and a threat characterize our programs, the diversity and for those who are left behind . After a session richness of our intellectual community, and the on automation at the Fall 2017 meeting of our range of activities and events to engage our Business Advisory Council (BAC), John Larkin, industry and agency partners . Through all these managing director of Stifel Transportation & we strive to remain the premier academic and Logistics Research Group, a Leadership Level research institution for transportation research, Member of the BAC, concluded in a note to enticing the best and the brightest to study clients: “Avoid technology at your own peril ”. transportation and dedicate their technical and leadership skills to the advancement of our NUTC’s research programs continue to reflect transportation, logistics and mobility systems . the strategic challenges and opportunities for the transportation industry, for both freight and passenger mobility . Automation and connectivity remain major game changers not only for transportation systems, but for cities and regions as well . Technologically, platforms Hani Mahmassani enabling greater automation also facilitate faster William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair adoption of electric and hybrid electric vehicles, in Transportation; Director, Transportation Center After 40 years of service and dedication to NUTC, Assistant with important implications for more sustainable Northwestern University Director Diana Marek, shown here at a 2016 BAC Reception, urban patterns and industry practices . NUTC is at retired in January 2018. See page 10 for a tribute to Diana. 2 Northwestern University Transportation Center 2016–2017 Progress Report 5 Collaboration and Connections Regional & National Governments & Agencies Symposia, Conferences, & Committees NUTC hosted and Hani Mahmassani moderated a pre-ISTTT22 workshop with USDOT: Getting There From Here: Traffic A Memorial Tribute for Aaron Gellman was held in April 2016 Modeling, Data Streams, & Prediction For Connected / Auto- at the Vail Chapel of Northwestern’s Alice Millar Chapel mated Vehicle Systems Planning & Operations (story p. 65) and attended by over eighty friends, colleagues and family. (story p. 61) NUTC completed a technical assistance project for the Chicago Department of Transportation for Red Light Camera Jeff Silver, Founder and CEO of Coyote Logistics, delivered Enforcement: Best Practices and Program Road Map. the 2016 Patterson Lecture in Transportation: No Excuses: Technology and Culture Meet a New Era of Expectation. Victor Mendez, former deputy secretary of the US (story p. 60) Department of Transportation, gave the keynote speech at “Mobility 2050: A Vision for Transportation Infrastructure Lance Fritz, Chairman, President and CEO of Union Pacific, and How We Can Get There,” a symposium co-hosted by delivered the 2017 Patterson Lecture in Trans- NUTC, the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied portation: Connecting People, Creating a Better Future— Why International Trade Benefits America. (story p. 60) Science, and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). (story p. 63) Gene Seroka, Executive Director, Port of Los Angeles, presented NUTC’s Fall 2016 Distinguished NUTC and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Lecture: Supply Chain Dynamics Impacting North America’s hosted a panel discussion: Have we reached peak driving? Containerized Trade. Planning for future travel in the Chicago region. Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Moskos Professor of Business Advisory Council member and Sandhouse Group Economics, Northwestern University, delivered the leader Norman Carlson unanimously elected as chairman of 2017 Moses Transportation Lecture: Outlook for the US Metra (commuter rail) board. Economy: Is This as Good as It Gets? (story p. 61) Hani Mahmassani has partnered with Leidos on the Federal Highway Administration project: Analysis Modeling Research Participation Simulation (AMS) Framework for Connected and Automated Hani Mahmassani Named the Recipient of the 2016 Thomas Vehicle (CAV) Applications. (story p. 25) B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship Award and to the 2016 • Beijing, Harbin and Xi’an, China Class of National Associates by National Research Council. Hani Mahmassani participated in a special roundtable International discussion, “The Road Ahead: Developing Technology and • Clayton, Australia Karen Smilowitz named the 2016 recipient of the Award for Policy to Accelerate the Safe Deployment of Connected and International Symposia • Delft, Groningen and Tilberg, The Netherlands the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and the • Dortmund, Germany Driverless Cars,” led by US Representative Dan Lipinski, NUTC hosted the 22nd International Symposium on Management Sciences by INFORMS. • Florianópolis, Brazil Member of Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT22) at Northwestern • Hong Kong, China Joseph Schofer received the S.S. Steinberg Award from the Science, Space, & Technology Committee. (story p. 62) University, July 24-26, 2017. American Road and Transportation Builders Association. • Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Joseph Schofer serves on the Freight Committee and Bret Learn more: sites.northwestern.edu/isttt22 • Kobe and Kyoto, Japan Ian Savage won the Transportation Research Forum’s prize Johnson serves on the Economic Development Committee Noshir Contractor delivered keynote addresses at: • La Rochelle, Lyon and Paris, France for Best Paper with Northwestern undergraduate Caroline of the Chicagoland Metropolitan Agency for Planning • Pretoria, South Africa Miller (WCAS, 2015) for “Does the income level of a (CMAP). • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social • Seoul and Incheon, South Korea neighborhood affect transit demand responsiveness?” Networks Analysis and Mining • Tainan and Taipei, Taiwan • NetSci Computational Social Science Conference Joseph Schofer gave the 10th Annual Martin Wachs Industry Collaboration • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Distinguished Lecture in Transportation: When Forecasting Kimberly Gray, Hani Mahmassani and Joseph Schofer Hani Mahmassani delivered keynote addresses at: • Singapore Fails: Making Infrastructure Decisions in an Uncertain World presented results