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Thesis topic proposal
 
Tamás Tettamanti
Multi-level modeling approach for urban road traffic network and related traffic control issues

THESIS TOPIC PROPOSAL

Institute: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
transportation and vehicle engineering
Kálmán Kandó Doctoral School of Transportation and Vehicle Engineering

Thesis supervisor: Tamás Tettamanti
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Dept. of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems
Abbreviation of location of studies: KJIT


Description of the research topic:

Detailed description of the research:

a) Background:
The road traffic modeling and control has great tradition in science. At the same time, due to the spreading development of information technology the topic became again very important. Big data information are also relevant concerning the transportation processes. Accordingly, the proper use of data opens new ways for traffic modeling.

b) Goal of research:
The goal of research is to create advanced modeling by applying multi-level approach for urban road traffic network. Accordingly, the analysis of advanced measurement and estimation methods (e.g. Kalman Filter, data fusion, pattern recognition ) is needed during the research, which van be potentially used for multi-level modeling.
Moreover, the research will consist of advanced traffic control algorithms with focus on intelligent transport systems based on the developed multi-level traffic model.

c) Main tasks of research:
• State-of-the-art research.
• Traffic modeling theory.
• Urban road traffic modeling and simulation.
• Research about advanced traffic measurement technologies
• Research about advanced traffic estimation.
• Development of advanced modeling applying multi-level approach
for urban road traffic network.
• Testing and validation of the developed models an algorithms.

d) HW/SW tools provided for research:
• road traffic controllers,
• PC,
• MATLAB, VISSIM, VISUM SW licenses

e) Minimum expected scientific results:
• two articles in refereed international journal with SCI index,
• three articles in international conference proceedings.

f) Bibliography:
• Luspay T., Tettamanti T., Varga I.: Forgalomirányítás, Közúti járműforgalom modellezése és irányítása, ISBN 978-963-279-665-9, Typotex Kiadó Budapest, 2011
• T. Tettamanti, I. Varga, B. Kulcsár, T. Péni, and T. Luspay. Robust control for urban road traffic networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 15(1), pp. 385-398 doi: 10.1109/TITS.2013.2281666, 2014
• A. Csikós, T. Tettamanti, I. Varga: Nonlinear gating control for urban road traffic network using the network fundamental diagram, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2014

Required language skills: English (min. medium level)
Further requirements: 
proper knowledge of control theory and informatics (basic programming)

Number of students who can be accepted: 1

Deadline for application: 2017-05-03

 
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